“You need to respect my boundaries” is a very common yet misleading statement. Boundaries are extremely popular these days and a highly important, but often misunderstood tool. Boundaries are not expectations for other people’s behavior.…
I had an insight at a lecture about insights. I was in the auditorium of the Allen Institute, having just wrapped up delivering a training on creativity for laboratory scientists (more on that later.) I was…
I think a lot about what would be fun. When I’m onstage as an improviser I’m focused on what would be a fun choice in the scene I am in. When I’m teaching or training,…
“I’m going to get bad grades and then I can’t ever have screens!” my eleven-year-old yells, tears coming to his eyes. I could see Sebastian was already far up his mental ladder. “Hold on! Hold…
I met Colin Mochrie at the AIN Conference in Vancouver! Talk about being nervous!
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…
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…