by teddydmz | Dec 21, 2022 | Buddhism, Clanging, Dion Flynn, Family Systems, How I Met Your Mother, Humor, identity ball, Improv, Josh Radnor, Mindfulness, New Choice, non-self, priorities, Thich Nhat Hanh, Walt Whitman
“We Contain Multitudes”–image courtesy of Whiskey Monday on Flickr Who are you? Answering that question well may require more angles than we usually think of. After starting with a delightful new game (“Clanging”, introduced by Dion Flynn and Josh...
by teddydmz | Nov 1, 2022 | d.school, Dan Klein, Design School, Dungeons and Dragons, Graduate School of Buisiness, GSB, imagination, Improv, Mindfulness, punk rock, Stanford, Star Wars
It’s so fun to make stuff up together! That’s one of the truths that Ted and Lisa uncover in conversation with their dear friend, Dan Klein, master teacher of improvisation in the drama, Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Platner Institute for Design...
by teddydmz | May 18, 2022 | baby, buddha, celebration, Improv, Mindfulness, monster baby, retrospective, statistics
Time for a celebration and retrospective—Monster Baby reaches 1oo episodes! Welcome to the party, people—Monster Baby has reached a milestone! In honor of this, the 100th episode of Ted and Lisa’s “curious romp through the worlds of mindfulness and improvisation,” the...
by teddydmz | Mar 6, 2022 | African spirituality, attention, Diversity, fame, forgiveness, freestyle, Freestyle Love Supreme, Improv, Inclusion and Social Justice, Mindfulness, redemption, Shakespeare
Rhythm and improvised poetry can lift the highs and heal the lows. For Monster Baby Podcast episode #99, Ted and Lisa link up with San Francisco freestyler, improvisor, music-maker, comedian, actor, Larry martial artist, activist, spiritual practitioner, and...
by teddydmz | Dec 22, 2021 | A or B, apartment, cozy, ex-pat, home, Improv, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, moving in, nest, new shell
What makes a home “home”? Sparked by Lisa’s move into a new apartment, she and Ted consider the many elements that go into feeling at home. The two warm up with a playful new spontaneity game called “A or B” that you can play right along with (1:35) and then explore...
by teddydmz | Oct 30, 2021 | Applied Improvisation, Contemplation, Dion Flynn, Humor, Improv, inner voices, Inside Out, Insight Meditation Society, Kat Koppett, Mindfulness, Mindset, Mopco, puppet strings, silent retreat, Thought-Provokers
Making friends with inner voices can be fun—and healing. For Monster Baby episode #97, Ted and Lisa are joined by fellow Applied Improvisor Kat Koppett to discuss (and play!) her mindfulness-and-improv-blending exercise, “Inside Out.” Lisa starts by asking about Kat’s...
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