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Start being more playful
You can learn to be spontaneous just as you would learn a golf swing, or dance step.
Meet Your Playful Self gives you the paths. Follow the guide to your intutive/playful self with 47 detailed, specific exercises for teachers,managers, actors, improvisers, or ...Anyone!
Read excerpts from the book!
...and other playful posts
See the list of posts by clicking this oraange thingy
Here is a link to the video series "Thanks For Taking My Call"
A feed of fun videos taking a satircal look at the people who call into "open lines" on shows like C Span's Washington Week. Just "click" "veiw" and "enjoy yourself".
You can learn to be playful right now.
Just go to the Virtual Workshop page.
Six students of Independence High School - Wisconsin demonstrate steps to be playful.
My Playful Self
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Meet Your Playful Self - The Book
Buy the book for Amazon Kindle reader or Adobe Reader $9.99 / €7.31
Teachers, Coaches, Youth LeadersIf you are a teacher, coach, or youth leader, you can lift segments to practice with your students. Whether you teach History, Math, Phys ed, or Soccer; you can use the workshop to explore listening as a skill and offer your students a guide to understand when they are listening and when they are not listening. Managers, Business LeadersIf you are a manager, you can use the workshop paths "Talking Fast", "Yes...and...", or "Counting and Listening"; and I
promise you will be far ahead in building the "team" spirit that will lift the morale in a department, erase
petty conflicts, and as a result, increase productivity, profit, and performance.
ParentsIf you are a parent, you can use the workshop like you might play the game of charades with your children and their friends. You can play the interactive games like "being", "Zip, Zap, Zoop", "Clap Around", or "Playing with an Object" to enjoy the intuitive, playful nature of your own children. As Plato says, "You can learn more about a person in one hour of play than a year of conversation." What's more - it works! Improvisers, Directors, ActorsIf you are an improviser, you know to well how easily the magical intuitive moment escapes you in your work. We don't even know the why or how, but before we know it we find ourselves in a conceptual, unproductive trap. The exercises in the Workshop offer the best conceptual routes like "The Three Levels of Acceptance" or "Push to 10" to keep your group in the intuitive groove, grind, and gristle. Read the links to the book excerpts below Meet Your Playful Self |
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Meet Your Playful Self engages people in a playful
practice for living everyday life. We can learn to reawaken the joyful playfulness which is already within us
just begging to get out. What better time than now?
The book premise is simple. It finds the joy of being playful in a most obvious place. We can communicate playfully by
practicing the skills artists, actors, and improvisers have employed since the 15th century. In fact, the skills
offer a spiritual connection to our creative source and can be practiced just as we might learn to play on a
court, a course, or a gym.
The practices for play are presented through 8 personal experiments and 47 powerful group exercises, which
help overcome unconscious blocks to realizing our goals: resistance to listening, reacting defensively, and
evading and questioning. With awareness and practice, we can find our funny to rise above nagging negativity and
become light, intuitive, happier, and more effective in our interactions with co-workers, family, and friends. This work is the culmination of 40 years of leading workshops, creating Web tutorials, and being blessed with
the coincidences of my creative life that allowed me to lead the late Chris Farley, Joan Cusack, Bonnie Hunt,
various writers for The Tonight Show and The Onion, and hundreds of other adventurous souls into a circle of
experience I lovingly call the collective we. The excerpts are linked to the "playful blog" under the category of "bookberry Road". Forty-seven Paths to Play In thirty years of observing hundreds of people working as improvisers I held one question in mind - How do we bridge the gap from the conceptual to the intuitive? Read more...Collective WE 
You know the names and have seen the work of a few of the collective we. The late Chris Farley was present twenty-five years ago at this very first improvisaton in front of an audience in Madison, Wisconsin. Read more... |
Can You Come Out and Play?  Come join the collective we. No matter who you are or where your live, you can fit right in with people from all over the world and in all stations of life; people who are discovering... Read more... Take the Ball  The "playing with an idea like a ball" expression really comes closest to what this book is about - Meeting Your Playful Self; developing your awareness to treat and idea like a ball, a concept like a ... Read more... Ann's Transformation  You want to be more playful and spontaneous in your daily communication and conversations. Yet, most of the resistances and barriers that prevent you from doing so are not conscious. You are not aware of them. They just crop up and move you... Read more... ARK  One such most unremarkable meeting was with a man who would become one of the most successful and famous members to walk through the doors. He arrived late one night; the new face of Chris Farley. It was after a show one summer night and I was cleaning... Read more... |
These experiments are excerpts from the book Meet Your Playful Self
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Personal Experiment #1 Watching Yourself Listening 
Now you can begin to practice the paths to your playful self in your own social circle by playing with yes...and... in your daily life. Below are some fun and simple experiments you can practice to experience the effect of yes...and... in your perception of the world around you. You are about to make a discovery. You may think of yourself as a glass-half-full sort of person, and that you react positively in most situations of your life. Now is your chance to put your reactions to a test. Try this little experiment. Experiment # 1 Go over to the radio or TV and switch it on and listen to a news report. As you listen... Read more... |
Personal Experiment #2 Yes...and...Conversing Playing with Yes...and... Once you become an observer of your self-listening by practicing with the radio or TV, you may begin to wonder, what would happen if I began doing yes...and... in a conversation in my daily life? What if I choose to respond with yes...and... to my family, friends, and co-workers? Try it. What have you got to lose? It is really very simple. Personal Experiment # 2 Yes...and...conversing When someone makes a statement, experiment by saying yes, and then agreeing.Just set yourself up with an experiment and decide that the next time you walk into the house, room or office; you are going to experiment to responding to your mate, mother, or friend with yes...and.... I have encouraged people in my workshops to try this and the stories that have evolved from the practice are truly amazing and often funny. The advantage of practicing yes...and...in a workshop is that the whole group has agreed to play in objectifying life. In a workshop if one player says; "Hey, baby you wanna come home with me?" The yes...and...result is much safer than real life. Fortunately, there are many common places in your everyday conversation where playing with yes...and... will not affect your morals and safety. You can have fun doing this with your family or a friends; you can agree to play yes...and... together just by setting up the rules that when one person makes a statement the other will say yes and add to it. Next time you are having a conversation with a friend or co-worker, try keeping yes in your mind as you listen. As you move into agreement with what you are hearing, you are hearing the details of the message, just as you did in the first exercise, before it becomes clouded with judgment and analysis. Try to follow up by responding with agreement. You are moving through doors of listening... Read more... |