by teddydmz | Dec 13, 2023 | blindness, exploration, eye contact, eyes, Improv, Mindfulness, observation, power, silent retreat, vision, vulnerability
Image created with Dall-E. What do you think? How often do YOU hold eye contact? Why or why not? If you’re like Ted and Lisa of the Monster Baby Podcast, there’s a lot there—for both mindfulness and improv—within the world and practice of eye contact. After a short...
by teddydmz | Nov 14, 2023 | change, Haiku, Improv, jigsaw puzzles, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, parenting, predictability, speed puzzling, Wordle
Photo courtesy of Marco Verch Professional https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/51596599927 What’s been cooking in Ted and Lisa’s improv and mindfulness kitchen over this last while? It’s been a few months since the Monster Baby crew gathered for an episode so...
by teddydmz | Feb 8, 2023 | @dionfly, @joshradnor, Clanging, Dion Flynn, Etch-A-Sketch, How I Met Your Mother, Humor, Improv, Jazz, Josh Radnor, Meditation, Mindfulness, monogamy, rummage party, sand mandala, spiritual practice, Tonight Show
TV personalities and “Clanging” creators, Dion Flynn and Josh Radnor. How does a “silly verbal tennis match” become a profound spiritual practice? Inspired by the intro “Clanging” game they played on the immediately previous Monster Baby episode #103, Ted...
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...
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