Jenna Baddeley, a recent Hideout student, has an article up in the Psychology Today blog entitled “Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Improv”.
Here are a couple of choice quotes:
“Want to get along better with life? I think of ‘yes, and’ in the broadest sense as saying ‘yes’ to what life brings you – the good, the bad, the indifferent – and building on what’s already there.”
We couldn’t agree more. For some reason, our natural tendency in life is to say “no” to opportunities that arise, out of some some sort of misplaced fear or sense of self-defense. If there’s one thing we try to teach in level 1, it’s to say “yes.”
“In a way, though, improv is just like play therapy for adults.”
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