The final video of the Meet Your Playful Self Workshop series with the students of Independence High School demonstrates the almighty commandment, the precept, the basic rule of improvisation – Yes…And…. The narrative about Yes…And…is lifted from the book; Meet Your Playful Self The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in [...]
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The Commandments in two words – Yes…And…
Posted: 4th September 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: communication, improvisation, playful, self help, yes...and...
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Ann’s Transformation
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, improvisation, playful, self help, transformation
This post was lifted directly from the book, “Meet Your Playful Self”. The transformation described was repeated many times over the years and months and weeks. The picture of Ann is a complete fantasy created on the software at my web face. You want to be more playful and spontaneous in your daily communication and [...]
Forty-seven Paths to Play
Posted: 2nd September 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: 47, book, improvisation, playful, self help, spiritual
The 47 Society is an international interest-group that follows the occurence and recurrence of the quintessential random number: 47. Many suspect that the coincidental nature of 47 carries some mystical, metaphysical and/or scientific significance. I had no knowledge of this fact before I posted this… In thirty years of observing hundreds of people working as [...]
Meditation On Your Feet
Posted: 30th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: being, improvisation, presence, self help, spiritual
In the fourth video shot in the hills of Trempealeau County Wisconsin the students of Independence High School demonstrate the third exercise of the day: “BEING”; an exercise I like to call meditation on your feet because it bridges the gap from finding being or presence and sharing it outward into the world.
Play?~ Eckart Tolle – Humming birds ~Play!
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: Eckhart Tolle, improvisation, playfulness, self help
Eckhart Tolle has been a powerful voice for many people who seek to practice the quieting of the mind and to experience the peaceful presence of their deep, and eternal self. The excerpts on the video where delivered at the Findhorn Retereat in Scotland in the Spring of 2004 and the full DVD is available [...]
Meet Your Playful Self – Talking Fast
Posted: 20th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: improvisation, Meet Your Playful Self, talking fast
Watch the second video of the Meet Your Playful Self workshop video series produced at the Temepealeau County TV studio working with students from Independence High School. The first video of the series: The Introduction to Meet Your Playful Self can be found HERE @@@
The playful…..play!
Posted: 19th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, improvisation, play, stephane grappelli
_¸,.»¬=椺²°`¯¯`°²º¤æ- _¸,.»¬=椺²°`¯¯`°²º¤æ- Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end on one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I’m in good form, I’m like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are [...]
NOW spiritual NOW improvisational NOW playful
Posted: 13th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: improvisation, Meet Your Playful Self, playful, Spirtual
“The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.” – Steven Nachmanovitch From “Meet Your Playful Self”. The Function of – Yes….and… As we look at practicing the yes…and…statement as a means to become a more playful person, it is a good time [...]
Comedy & Vulnerability-1
Posted: 11th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, comedy, improvisation
Pronunciation: \ˈvəl-n(ə-)rə-bəl, ˈvəl-nər-bəl\ Function: adjective Etymology: Late Latin vulnerabilis, from Latin vulnerare to wound, from vulner-, vulnus wound; probably akin to Latin vellere to pluck, Greek oulē wound Date: 1605* ________ from Merriam Webster online dictionary 1 : capable of being physically or emotionally wounded 2 : open to attack or damage : assailable 3 [...]