by teddydmz | Jul 27, 2017 | Digging deeper, Girl Scouts, Glacier National Park, Improv, life choices, Manhattan, Mindfulness, Moments, Patsy Rodenburg, poetry, Thought-Provokers
Lisa and Ted reach across the country to dig deeper into life’s offerings. Lisa shares some perspective from her time at Girl Scout camp and Ted relays a story or two from his trip across country on his way to a training program in Manhattan (1:56) and then the pair...
by teddydmz | Jun 5, 2017 | accepting, Advance-Color-Emotion, Beautiful Anonymous, Chris Gethard, curiosity, Improv, Improv games, limericks, Mindfulness, noticing, Thought-Provokers
Ted and Lisa get curious about curiosity in Monster Baby Episode #26! They laugh their way through the opening challenge of a few Line-at-a-Time Limericks (1:48) and then enter their topic in earnest around the five-minute mark (5:29). They ask whether curiosity is...
by teddydmz | Mar 9, 2017 | Courage, dating, Improv, Mindfulness, practice, tenderness, Thought-Provokers
In Episode #22, Ted and Lisa share a conversational cup of courage. A brief and playful check-in (1:59) leads to defining what they mean by courage (4:27) and together, they wonder if Lisa’s courageous to do improv (8:52). Ted considers the last time he felt...
by teddydmz | Nov 10, 2016 | Improv, improv wisdom, Keith Johnstone, Mindfulness, Patricia Ryan Madson, Stanford Improvisors, Stanford University, Thought-Provokers
Chillin’ with Patricia in El Granada. Lisa and Ted continue their conversation with teacher and mentor, Patricia Ryan Madson, drama teacher and author of the acclaimed Improv Wisdom. In this segment, Patricia explained how she first learned to say “Yes,...
by teddydmz | Oct 3, 2016 | Buddhism, change, grief, impermanence, Improv, loss, Mindfulness, non-self, relationship, Thought-Provokers
A recent loss gets Ted and Lisa reflecting on how best to relate to change. They start with a playful word-at-a-time school announcement (1:45) and some early reflections on change in general (3:54). From there, they consider what improv has to say about change (7:15)...
by teddydmz | Sep 14, 2016 | Applied Improvisation Network, Blues Traveler, Da Vinci's Notebook, David Wilcox, Europe, Improv, meta perspective, Mindfulness, Thought-Provokers, Wales
Lisa and Ted return from their most recent retreat to share a few meta-level insights. After a storytelling warm-up game (1:27) and a check-in about Ted’s trip to Europe (7:51), the duo introduce the perspective of the Observer in meditation and improv (19:25). They...
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