Several years ago, I participated in my first (and only, so far) immersive theatre experience. Called “Sleep No More,” it involved wandering around the McKittrick Hotel in New York, exploring various floors and rooms where sets had been constructed and actors were occasionally found. As we went up the elevator for the first time and stopped at a floor, the attendant ushered me out and the door closed behind me, leaving me alone and separated from my family members. I was thus left to investigate unexpectedly alone, until we found each other at the end.
Continue reading “Hell in the Hallway”When Your Metronome is Broken
If you ever took piano lessons as a child, maybe you can relate to my aversion to metronomes. These are the timekeeping devices (now apps) that keep a steady beat. If my teacher said, “Perhaps you should practice this with the metronome,” it meant that my tempo was either too slow, too fast or, more often, very uneven. (This was not helped by the fact that my antique metronome actually kept time inconsistently, as it turned out. Not to be trusted!) Continue reading “When Your Metronome is Broken”
We Get to Do It This Way Now
Starting Year Two of pandemic life has hit a bit hard.
So, in the spirit of “what we feed grows,” I decided to build a quick list of what I’m very much enjoying about my facilitation practice — not just “under the circumstances” but “period.” I’ll miss these things enough that they may just have to stay, even in the after times. Continue reading “We Get to Do It This Way Now”
When your mojo is down, level up
I know we’re weary. When we’re weary, it’s hard to find the capacity to do anything extra. But what if when we’re weary is exactly the time to do those extra things? Not just any extra things, but ones carefully chosen to energize us.
Part of why we’re weary right now is not because we’re doing too much but because we’re doing too little. Not enough of the things that bring us joy. We may even be doing less than we could do, within the admittedly constrained range of possibilities before us one year into a pandemic. Continue reading “When your mojo is down, level up”
To-Do Lists or To-Know Lists
With gratitude to my friend and colleague Deborah Grayson Riegel for the above quote arriving in my feed on a Monday morning…
We can easily confuse knowing something for doing it.
Exercise. Meditation. Letting go of unnecessary tasks. Staying connected with people important to us. Being kind to ourselves. Pivoting…
The list is familiar. But we’re at the point in the pandemic where it likely incites some eye rolling, right? (Oh yes…eye yoga…add that to the list). As a colleague said to me recently, “I know all the things. They aren’t helping.” Continue reading “To-Do Lists or To-Know Lists”