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…
Eighteen-plus months in to the pandemic and I still get that feeling of shock when I tune in to NPR first thing in the morning and hear a newscaster say something like “today marks 700,000…
It’s like frozen strawberries. Someone I met in the virtual green room “backstage” before an online improv show gave me this analogy and I’ve been using it ever since. Teaching and performing improv online is…
This year has been tough–in different ways for different people. Zoom has turned us into zombies. We’ve sent a million emails, slacks, and messages, but we seem less connected than ever. As we re-enter our…
Join improviser and practicing therapist Lacy Alana, LCSW/RSW with Merlin Works Founder Shana Merlin in this engaging and practical session. Improv offers both concrete tools and activities for sessions AND unique frameworks for understanding co-regulation,…
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