January 25, 2021 | Clay Drinko
How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout the Day
Meditation and mindfulness are not one and the same. After two decades of improvising and then literally writing the book on how improv affects ... Read more
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December 7, 2020 | Clay Drinko
12 Lessons for Life Inspired by Improv
In grad school, I realized that my experience as an improviser held the key to understanding my own brain. Eventually, I realized that it also ... Read more
December 3, 2020 | Clay Drinko
Benefits of Improvisation in the Classroom
If you're a teacher struggling with students who aren't writing enough, don't listen to each other, or are disengaged, bored, or even ... Read more
November 27, 2020 | Clay Drinko
Advantages of Improvisation
Someone once described the moment that he took the stage to perform a totally improvised show as his "threshold of anxiety." Before he took the ... Read more
October 30, 2020 | Clay Drinko
7 Ways to Rediscover your Childlike Wonder
I have a two-year-old daughter. On a typical day, she might pick up a leaf and marvel, "Star! Leaf look like star!" She points across the lawn ... Read more
October 29, 2020 | Clay Drinko
How to be more Playful: Gamify your Life
Let's continue our pursuit toward becoming more playful, shall we? Last week, I talked about how you can use improv's concept of finding the ... Read more
October 28, 2020 | Clay Drinko
Benefits of Play: 7 Reasons to Start Playing Today
Yes, psychologists are now linking the rise in children’s anxiety and depression to a lack of free play. Kids aren't experiencing the benefits ... Read more
October 14, 2020 | Clay Drinko
How to be More Playful: Finding the Game
You might hear an improviser mention "finding the game" of a scene. They're really just talking about discovering a fun moment in the scene ... Read more
October 9, 2020 | Clay Drinko
How to be more Playful (and why you should be)
I still remember stories of my great grandmother waking up every morning to run barefoot in the early morning dew. When she showed us ... Read more
October 8, 2020 | Clay Drinko
Play for Adults (Why You Need It and How To Do It)
When you think of the characteristics of an adult, what do you think of? Responsible, boring, mature, serious, tired? That’s a problem. Sure, ... Read more