Blog #2 on my first marathon training One of the things I really enjoy about long runs (anything over six miles starts feeling long to me...

I came across the phrase, "the story I'm telling myself" in Brene Brown's "Rising Strong". She operationalizes it to identify her...

Whenever I mention what I call “The YAX Factor” to people who have played improvisation with Robert Cochrane, they all know what I mean....

One of the power phrases of improvisation is “trust the unknown”. While this sounds exciting to me, as someone who adventures into the...

Who doesn’t like to smile and laugh? Who doesn’t like to belong to a group of people that you know you will enjoy spending time with? ...

You’ve probably heard the saying that laughter is the best medicine. There’s some evidence for it (see: laughter prescription). Laughter...

Imagine a black hole slowing sucking you in… With each second, you go further in, to the point where your reality becomes a broken...

In the world of improv, as I am beginning to understand from my improv to improve Parkinson’s disease (i2ipd) class, saying or hearing...

I was introduced to my first improv experience a few years ago when a librarian friend learned of a free trial class in town. She wanted...

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I began a recent session of YAX by asking my brave participants, what a superhero looks like. They said, "Strong, genuine, passsionate."...

Improv is a unique challenge, a unique joy and a unique intervention. I’ve experienced the challenges and joys of it for over 25 years as...

Improv is about “yes, and”. Yes accepts the reality. And is the power to do what we will with that truth. Dr. Kelly Papesh of the Lou...

It’s not fun being sick or diagnosed with a chronic illness. It’s hard to think of it as funny, either. But does laughter have a place in...

Scenario One: 14 kids, ages ranging between 8-10 years old, were running around the football field. In theory, they were playing...

The headline is a direct quote from Jodi Cianci, a woman from Philadelphia who has been diagnosed for 12 years. She said that in our...