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9 Improvisation Keys from Keith Johnstone: Applied To Employee Engagement

This blog post is a one year reflection from taking 10 Days with Keith in Calgary during July of 2008.

A version of this blog post will appear on my own site on July 21. www.davidzinger.com All links will be active… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 20, 2009 at 10:00am — 8 Comments

What comes Next...Thanks Keith

I have embraced "what comes next" in so many areas of my life and work. Thank you Keith:

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Added by David Zinger on January 7, 2009 at 5:13pm — 2 Comments

Zingers #12: I was altered...what comes next? (Thanks Keith Johnstone)

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? Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 30, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Zingers #11: Carol Dweck - Fixed versus Growth Mindset

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

Added by David Zinger on July 30, 2008 at 2:15am — 2 Comments

Zingers #10: The Confidence of Not Knowing and Turkey Magic

I am slowly slowly getting some development in not knowing. But even in writing about this the not knowing slips away like a brand new ice cream cone from the hand of a 2 year old child. So let's be 2. Keith talked about Mr. Bean and the Turkey. If you have not watched it --- take the time go gobble up this 3 minute scene: Click here to see the video if it does not open in this window.
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Added by David Zinger on July 29, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Zingers #9: 10 Days with Keith Johnstone

The simple is not so simple yet why do we make it so complex. We know what comes next when we are somewhat detached in the audience but when we perform we make things so complex. The power of a teacher is the ability to strip away not to add on. If you can't tell, and I know you can, I have become quite enamoured with the perspective of what comes next. I know it is the quintessential theme I will take away and manufacture after the workshop.

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Added by David Zinger on July 29, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Zingers #8: Connections between Virginia Satir's Family Therapy Model and Improvisation

I found myself thinking of Virginia Satir while watching Keith Johnstone work. I had the opportunity of doing some work with Virginia in the 1980's. Virginia Satir was a very well-known family therapist.

Before ma… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 27, 2008 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Zingers #7: Being There and Other Questions Surrounding 10 Days with Keith?

When is a gardner just a gardner? Are we Being There? Can we be simple or do we strive for complexity to look clever or smart?

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Added by David Zinger on July 26, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Zinger #6: Being trance-ported and trance-formed by Keith Johnstone

I belive Keith is a master of teaching through trace. It is not my intent to analyze it or articulate it but to acknowledge it. I am being trance-formed. Thank you Keith. Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 25, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Zingers #5 with Keith Johnstone: The Best Participant

I don't intend to talk much about the course today but share a couple of idiosyncratic impressions. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? How many time can you answer that for someone else and keep them engaged in the story or how many times can you answer the question yourself to look at the remoter consequences of your behavior. If you are about to have a cigarette, I would love to be able to pause before puffing and keep asking yourself: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? I conciously decided I would not share… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 25, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Zingers #4: Masks and More

Who was that masked man/woman?

Taken from the caption with this photo from Flickr: When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask an… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 24, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Zingers #3: 10 Days with Keith Day 2 - Golfing Improvisation

Rather than try to capture the 6 hours today. I decided to explore just a couple of splices or because I will write about golf perhaps I should say slices. I experienced the morning as a fusion of zen and sports psychology. Thoughts can come after the movement. Do you have to be good? Do you have to think? Keith offered some athletic examples of thinking and performance. It made me think (a touch of a paradox when thinking about non-thinking) about golfing. I enjoy golfing, don't do it often, b… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 23, 2008 at 12:30am — No Comments

Employee Engagement and Improvisation

I created this slide share presentation a few weeks ago. As I look at it today in Calgary, I can see a lot fo improvisation in the ideas. I would appreciate your comments. Do you see improvisation embedded in these slides or in employee engagement?
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Added by David Zinger on July 22, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Zingers #2: 10 Days with Keith Johnstone - Day 1

Here are some of the ideas I took away from Day 1. This was my personal learning - the 22 other participants may have taken away some of these ideas or other ideas. Here are my splices of the day (some are in Keith's words and some are in my own):
  • Remain happy in adversity
  • Make a relationship
  • Don't be funny
  • Work on operant conditioning
  • Screw up and stay happy
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Added by David Zinger on July 21, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Zingers #1: 10 Days with Keith Johnstone...the evening before

This is a running blog while I participate in the 10 Days with Keith Johnstone workshop. I have not had a day with Keith but the evening was interesting. James Faulkner, the manager for Keith Johnstone workshops made sure we were fed and informed. I have not often started a learning event with a lot of good Alberta beer (Big Rock Ale) and fabulous steaks, fish, chicken, corn, salad, etc. etc. etc. William Hall sent me the following picture (I don't know the significance of the ghostly hand to t… Continue

Added by David Zinger on July 20, 2008 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

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