I saw and reviewed a play at the Edinburgh Fringe 2008 called Weights. We also gave it an award. You can read the review here. Weights is a scripted, performed one man show written and performed by Lynn Manning, telling the story of his blindness and his arrival in the theatre world as a writer and actor. It's uplifting and real. What's of interest is that Lynn, in my view, improvises an already told story, an already existin… Continue

Just wanted to share a recent rewarding experience, where I took an 'improv' risk with a group that was not expecting to interact. A few weeks ago I presented at Seattle Bizjam on "Building Rich Online Communities". After each of the first few sessions, I kept hearing attendees sharing how they were feeling info-overloaded, tired of Powerpoint presentations, e… Continue

Now that the wonderful session has ended, I've reorganized my blog entries into chronological class notes for easier reference. Cheers, =Daniel

The course is over yet the learning has just begun. I was entranced. I was altered. AGAIN I was entranced. I was altered. What comes next?

Today, Keith's class made me think of Carol Dweck's work on the fixed versus growth mindset. A good improvisor or a good learner lives the growth mindset. Carol Dweck is an intriguing psychologist who gave an interesting overview of a mindset that can paralyze an improvisor (please fix me). Please take a minute to look at the best one page summary I have ever seen of this view of mindsets. Click this link to see the one page PDF of the mindsets:… Continue