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 [...]
Home Town Video – Meet Your Playful Self
Posted: 9th August 2010 by cord in Book Berry Road, UncategorizedTags: acting, improvisation, playful, self help
The City Hall in my home town – Independence, Wisconsin. Returning to the place of one’s birth is somewhat haunting. The first eighteen years of my life played, tried, and cried within a mile of the steeple clock. I returned to do a “Meet Your Playful Self” workshop with some really impressive high school students, [...]
The Book – Meet Your Playful Self
Posted: 5th January 2010 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, improvisation, self help, spiritual
Meet Your Playful Self Meet Your Playful Self is the title of my book. Meet Your Playful Self engages people in a playful practice for living everyday life. The approach is similar to The Artist’s Way, which was published when the cover of Time magazine read “The Economy: Is There Light at the End of [...]
Meet Your Playful Self – Yes…and,,,
Posted: 26th June 2009 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, excerpt, manuscript, self help, spiritual
Excerpt from -Meet Your Playful Self YES….and… The video demonstrates one of the exercises in the “Workshop” section of the book – Meet Your Playful Self Yes…And… The concept of yes…and… is often the spring board into improvisation and creating a spontaneous and engaging dialogue for the players as well as the audience. People working [...]
People at Play – *Zoom *Schwartz*……
Posted: 22nd June 2009 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: book, improvisation, self help, spiritual, video
Excerpt from -Meet Your Playful Self I spent one year teaching in the conservatory at Second City in Chicago where I revisited and reread the work and teachings of Viola Spolin in her book “Improvisation for the Theatre”. Viola Spolin was one of the first great teachers to snatch the word “improvisation” from the hands [...]