Hello everyone I've been thinking about spontaneity and improvisation - two aspects of my life I'm keen on developing (in myself and with others). We practice spontaneity and improvisation every day - even though we may not recognise it. We have no idea when we wake up each morning what the day holds or what conversations we may have. Yet many people are wary and declare they are not interested in improvisation in particular.
(This interest has been reignited by forming an 'instant' playback theatre troup at a professional development workshop last weekend. Only two of us had any experience of playback previously - yet the others learnt the techniques and willingly did a 'public' performance to close the workshop. We had great fun, and learnt a lot about ourselves, especially about stretching those self-imposed boundaries we build for ourselves.) I've been aware that writing to a list like this one requires a far more measured and considered approach. Once something is committed to an e-mail it's done, and there is a significant time lag if someone misinterprets what I say. It's a dialogue in slow motion I suppose, without the advantages of seeing someone's body language. I participate in three on-line discussion groups: Action Learning, Open Space and Hawkesbury Agriculture and Rural Development Post-Graduates. I'm sending this same e-mail to each one and will be very interested in your thoughts. Maybe we can learn how to encourage spontaneity and improvisation in the virtual world - and maybe something about ourselves as well. Cheers Viv Viv McWaters Integra Pty Ltd 45 Valentine Street, Ivanhoe 3079 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 9499 9300 "Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer
