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Conan O'Brien says improv is like surfing

Conan O'Brien says improv is like surfing

Conan O'Brien says Improvising is like surfing in this Fast Company article on the top...

Cindy Tonkin May 28, 2011
Improvising is not just for comedy

Improvising is not just for comedy

https://youtu.be/PZttwFLymJY Go see Kate Koppett talk at Ted.Her theory is that improvising is not...

Cindy Tonkin May 23, 2011
Improvising: self-aware but not self-monitored

Improvising: self-aware but not self-monitored

Everyone who adopts the improvising mindset knows that it does something to your head.It...

Cindy Tonkin April 27, 2011
The hero's journey: bringing creative to corporate

The hero's journey: bringing creative to corporate

The corporate audience needs our creative message. One of our biggest strengths is our...

Cindy Tonkin March 1, 2011
Sailors, Outward Bound and Confidence

Sailors, Outward Bound and Confidence

It seems that British Sailors in WWII were often stranded in the icy waters of...

Cindy Tonkin July 25, 2009
The surfer story

The surfer story

At lunch today with Glen, he told me the story about one of his...

Cindy Tonkin July 23, 2009
Playing makes you smarter

Playing makes you smarter

Listen to Stuart Brown, an expert on play, speaking at TED. His research says...

Cindy Tonkin April 16, 2009
It's all in the debrief

It's all in the debrief

Back in November 08 I ran a 3 hour improvising session for facilitators. Here's...

Cindy Tonkin March 12, 2009
Wisdom and improvisation

Wisdom and improvisation

I have just watched Barry Schwartz speaking on wisdom. Larry asserts that a wise person...

Cindy Tonkin February 18, 2009
Charles Darwin the improviser

Charles Darwin the improviser

Hey, Charles Darwin said: "in the long history of humankind (and animalkind too), those...

Cindy Tonkin February 4, 2009