Do Y’all Ever Get Nervous On Stage? The Merlin Works Newsletter
I met Colin Mochrie at the AIN Conference in Vancouver! Talk about being nervous!
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Am I A Corporate Shill? The Merlin Works June 2023 Newsletter
I was slowly getting more and more creeped out as I sat through the presentation. I had just delivered a tight 60 minutes on Improv Skills for Work and Life for 600 people who worked for Oklahoma…
Don’t Read The Comments: Newsletter January 2023
Never read the comments. Life Kit came out a few weeks ago with a fantastic 22 minute piece on the value of improv for making you more fun and confident. It is full of interviews,…
Teaching Empathy Through Improv: The Merlin Works Newsletter
Something interesting happens when you teach something for 25 years. Activities that seem timeless, solid, crowd-pleasers can suddenly feel clunky and old. This semester I had the pleasure and honor of teaching 15 weeks of…
The Merlin Works Newsletter: How Can You Be Better at Rainbow Thinking?
I’m the slowest at making style choices. It once took me six months to pick a color to paint my room. Spoiler alert: l chose light purple. So it’s not surprising that picking out new…
Can You Emotionally Prepare for Something? The Merlin Works Newsletter October 2021
Eighteen-plus months in to the pandemic and I still get that feeling of shock when I tune in to NPR first thing in the morning and hear a newscaster say something like “today marks 700,000…
3 Predictions For The Training Industry In 2021: Merlin Works Newsletter
It’s like frozen strawberries. Someone I met in the virtual green room “backstage” before an online improv show gave me this analogy and I’ve been using it ever since. Teaching and performing improv online is…