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Suggestions for Protecting Your Mind While Doing Comedy - Ep #22
Ten suggestions to help you protect yourself while doing comedy and participating in our communities. YOU deserve compassion & respect no matter where…
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Jen deHaan
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(Announcement) New Podcast Name for One Year Neurodiversity & Improv Anniversary - Ep #21
This marks one year of making podcast episodes! There are some changes happening next week, and here's what those changes are. And the things not…
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Jen deHaan
Inclusive, beneficial icebreakers for performers - Ep #20
Icebreakers. They're common in an improv class, at the top of a jam, or maybe when a team is just getting to know each other. Some people love 'em, some…
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Jen deHaan
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Alexithymia and Improv (part 2) - Ep #19
If you improvise with or teach, more than 10 people you've probably done improv with someone that experiences alexithymia. Learn to support yourself or…
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Jen deHaan
30:46
Alexithymia and Improv (part 1) - Ep #18
If you improvise with, or teach, more than 10 people then you've probably done improv with someone who experiences alexithymia, which involves…
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Jen deHaan
28:51
Giving Notes to Students (part 3) - Ep #17
It can be a challenge to help everyone with feedback in a diverse class or team setting. But a few simple things can help a wider range of improvisers.
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Jen deHaan
30:14
Bonus: The Improv Practice of Verbal Processors
Listen now | Verbal processors do so to learn and understand new concepts and idea. But what about when they're improvisers.
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Jen deHaan
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Getting Notes You Don't Understand (part 2) - Ep #16
If you're a student, it can be hard to figure out what to do when you get a note that you don't understand or is unexpected. Just asking for…
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Jen deHaan
29:31
Getting & Giving Notes (part 1) - Ep #15
Getting notes and giving notes - and having them understood by everyone - can be difficult when there is a communication gap between neurotypes
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Jen deHaan
30:36
Episode 14: Visual Imagery and Improv - Memory and Recall
Using visual imagination can help your improv scenes, but also help you remember details better. Part 2 of Ep. 10: Hyperphantasia, Visual Imagination …
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Jen deHaan
31:38
Episode 13: Improv and Being Misunderstood, Part 1.
Learn about the social communication style differences between humans that can affect how you are understood or misunderstood in and outside of scenes…
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Jen deHaan
32:35
Episode 12: Finding the unusual thing (and communicating better in scenes)
Noticing the unusual at the top of an improv scene can be hard. Learn when and how to do it, especially if you're unusual too. And for everyone: this is…
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