by teddydmz | Mar 25, 2020 | Care Bears, Contemplation, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Creativity, Improv, isolation, Mindfulness, Mindset, Miscellaneous, pivot, quarantine, shelter in place, Three Things, Virtual Reality, Wild West
How do you make sense of living under lockdown? As citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ted and Lisa have been holed up in their respective homes as the coronavirus crisis continues to unfold. Recorded over Zoom, they start this episode by considering their usual...
by teddydmz | Feb 2, 2020 | atheism, Contemplation, Improv, Joseph Chilton Pearce, listening, Mindfulness, Spirituality, St. Theresa, yes, yes to life
What if your spiritual practice meant simply saying “Yes!” to life itself? In anticipation of this March’s “Yes to Life! The Improvisation and Spirituality Weekend,” Ted and Lisa welcome the retreat’s co-facilitators, Angelo John Lewis and Cindy Franklin, on to the...
by teddydmz | Oct 17, 2019 | best day ever, BJ Fogg, bricolage, Contemplation, Convergence, Country Music, discipline, Improv, Ken Burns, Mindfulness, Steven Nachmanovich, Thought-Provokers, Tiny Habits
Lisa Rowland and Ted DesMaisons What if this (and every day) were the best day ever? Finding inspiration from their everyday interactions with others, Ted and Lisa offer up a Monster Baby grab bag of musings and insights. After opening up with a rousing game of...
by teddydmz | Sep 11, 2019 | AIN Applied Improvisation Network, Applied Improvisation, Contemplation, facilitation, Improv, IPSI, Mad Scientist, mango, Mindfulness, NASAGA, OD, organizational development, Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Teaching, Thiagi, Thought-Provokers
Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, renowned facilitator, game maker, and general wizard. “You don’t solve problems in life. You keep reconciling paradoxes.” –Thiagi Every now and then—if you’re lucky—you get to spend time “under a mango tree” in the presence...
by teddydmz | Aug 10, 2018 | Alan Alda, Bobby McFerrin, class clown, Contemplation, Humor, Improv, Martin deMott, Mindfulness, therapy, Thought-Provokers
The conversation with Joe Bill goes wider and deeper. When legendary improvisor Joe Bill arrived in San Francisco to teach and perform, Ted and Lisa seized the opportunity and wrangled up a whirring, stirring conversation about improv, psychology, surviving...
by teddydmz | Aug 9, 2018 | artist, Contemplation, Del Close, engineer, Humor, Improv, Jill Bernard, Keith Johnstone, LSD, Mindfulness, Patti Stiles, psychoactive drugs, Thought-Provokers, Viola Spolin
Joe Bill’s an improv luminary with a brilliant mind that careens joyfully between gutter-level explicitness and spiritual truth—oh wait, are they different? When Joe came to San Francisco to teach and perform, Ted and Lisa cranked up the podcast for a two-part...
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