improvisation, thrivability and saving the world while
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Improvisation, thrivability and saving the world while having a good time
By Belina Raffy
Where are you from?
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Where are you from?
Image from https://www.pexels.com/search/earth/
covered under CCO license
Made in Paris, France, born in Baltimore, USA 5 states in US
9 different parts of Mexico Quebec Canada recently, but also when I was little
1 semester in Hong Kong 15 years in England
4 months in 12 countries 2 years in Berlin, Germany
Simple question, complex answer
and
A need to be on a treasure hunt
Brains - moving our response from the amygdala to the direct experience
network
Photo from https://pixabay.com/en/photos/alzheimer%27s/
Where on the U is more uplifting?
UKübler-Ross Grief Model
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
UAcceptance
Where on the U is more uplifting?
Kübler-Ross Grief Model
Denial
Anger
Depression
Bargaining
1-2-3
The core capabilities of improvisation
By Robert Poynton
Yes, and
Let go
Notice more
Use everything
Improvisation is fractal,
Universal, and a secret love technology
The problem with iterative design
By Shubhamsherman1010 on http://imgur.com/gallery/fDllYqz
What is Planned vs what is Really needed
P
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My secret way to teach people improvisation around the world while inviting them to re-imagine organisations as
places for thrivability, all while having a great time
Oops!
Thrivability: The intention and practice of aligning organisations with how nature and
people thrive
(Working definition for the Thrivable World Quest based on Michelle Holliday’s original definition and our work together)
What did we achieve?
• 9 global events
• 12 cities around the world Amsterdam, Baltimore, Berlin, Johannesburg, Ljubljana, London, Manila, Montreal, Olympia, Stellenbosch, Tehran, Tokyo
• Prototype of useful questions and experiential methods to bring these issues to life
• Data - universal vs local
• Hundreds of people to have this conversation and share information
Some of the questions we explored
When did you feel that an organisation really connected with you in an alive way?
What can I do to help others feel that they belong?
How can an organisation keep evolving so that life on the planet can thrive?
www.thrivableworld.org
Photo from http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Carbonite
• www.maffick.com, @Maffick
• Using Improv to Save the World (and me) https://www.facebook.com/UsingImprovtoSavetheWorld/
• Michelle Holliday, The Age of Thrivability