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Search Results for: "lessons from improv"

Lessons From Improv: Seeing the Gifts in People and Events

July 16, 2018February 25, 2025 Adrian SegarLearning

When things don’t go according to plan at your events, the improv and gratitude practice of “waking up to the gifts” can transform your response.

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Lessons From Improv: Make Sure Your Meeting Messages Are Received

October 17, 2016March 4, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

Want to improve the learning at your meetings? Here’s what I learned from playing the delightful improv game “You”.

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 2

July 5, 2016February 28, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

I have learned so many lessons from improv. Here are more of my experiences and takeaways for event professionals from the wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful Mind, held June 8-13 2016, at Mere Point on the beautiful Maine coast […]

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 1

June 27, 2016August 20, 2023 Adrian SegarEvent design

Here are some improv and mindfulness lessons from a five-day improv and mindfulness workshop I attended in Maine in 2016. You had to be there. In this case, “there” was a wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful […]

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Lessons From Improv: Giving Appreciations at Conferences

March 28, 2010August 10, 2023 Adrian SegarUncategorized

We can and should be giving appreciations at meetings. Thoughts triggered while rereading Patricia Ryan Madson’s delightful, straightforward, and yet profound improv wisdom. “…once we become aware of the level of support involved to sustain our lives we quickly realize […]

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Lessons from improv: Be Average!

March 17, 2010August 21, 2023 Adrian SegarUncategorized

Be average! Thoughts triggered while rereading Patricia Ryan Madson’s delightful, straightforward, and yet profound improv wisdom. “The poet William Stafford used to rise every morning at four and write a poem. Somebody said to him, “But surely you can’t write […]

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Conference facilitation lessons from improv: Say Yes!

March 12, 2010February 6, 2025 Adrian SegarUncategorized

Say Yes! Thoughts triggered while rereading Patricia Ryan Madson’s delightful, straightforward, and yet profound improv wisdom. Patricia Madson’s first improv maxim is “Say Yes!” This reminds me of a harrowing incident not so long ago… Will this closing session achieve […]

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