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Ensemble!

Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

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Ensemble!

Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

Drawing on a combined expertise in improvisational theatre and psychiatry, author team Dan O'Connor and Dr. Jeff Katzman show readers how improv skills are the perfect antidote to loneliness and isolation. I know what you're thinking: Hold on...improv? Like getting on a stage in front of an audience? What if that's not my thing? Don't worry: this isn't a book about becoming an improv theater expert, and it's not really a book about performing. It's a book about loneliness--about our feelings of disconnection and isolation, ones that we may have been experiencing since long before the pandemic. More importantly, it's a book about becoming unlonely--by borrowing from the collaborative and creative tools of improv. Authors of Life Unscripted Jeff Katzman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, and Dan O'Connor, multifaceted actor, writer, and director, have created a process they call Ensembling that helps us build an ensemble of relationships in our lives and more deeply enjoy the groups we already belong to. This is a process of becoming a little vulnerable with each other, and of embracing the moment in which we find ourselves. Drawing on concepts from narrative improvisational theatre and depth psychology, the authors present us with the skills we need to connect with each other more actively and meaningfully. To ensemble or not to ensemble--that is not a question. With the rise of loneliness and isolation in an increasingly virtually connected society, we must find ways to come together. We must ensemble!

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North Atlantic Books

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1623176301

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Life Unscripted

Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

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Life Unscripted

Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life

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1623172713

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Life Unscripted

Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

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Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

Learn to collaborate with others, think on your feet, and celebrate mistakes using the skills of improv theater So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves—scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. But the script that worked when we were younger can impact us in different ways as adults and make it tough to get along in the world. Drawing from contemporary understandings in neuroscience and psychology, psychologist Jeff Katzman and Dan O'Connor, cofounder of TheaterSports LA, explore the nature of our personal capacities and limitations. Through an application of ideas from improvisational theater, we can all learn to collaborate with those around us, to think on our feet, and to celebrate our mistakes. Life Unscripted offers the reader critical tools to enrich relationships, unleash the imagination, and build a more personally meaningful life. Using exercises like “Yes, And,”, “Mistakes as Gifts,” and “No Waffling,” the authors convey practical take-aways for every chapter.

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Ensemble!

Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World

By: Jeff Katzman, M.D.,Dan O'Connor

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Using the Power of Improv and Play to Forge Connections in a Lonely World

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Healing Healthcare

How Doctors and Patients Can Heal Our Sick System

By: Jeff Kane

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Healing Healthcare

How Doctors and Patients Can Heal Our Sick System

By: Jeff Kane

Not long ago, “bedside manner” was a physician’s most potent medicine. Now that skill has dwindled to bland, generic amiability, and has been all but lost behind today’s compelling healthcare technology. The bedside manner’s shrinkage would be tolerable if medical high tech could cure everything, but these amazing tools are alarmingly cost-ineffective in treating most patients—those who suffer from chronic, incurable illnesses and the effects of detrimental lifestyles. Paying far too much for too little return, Americans are understandably demanding healthcare reform, which we’re told lies in rearranging national finances. But beyond financial adjustment, authentic reform will have to come from reinstating ancient, intimate healing relationships between patient and doctor. Healing Healthcare describes how we arrived at this sorry impasse and where we need to go with a system that is as damaging to its doctors as it is to patients. Dr. Jeff Kane pinpoints and examines America’s love affair with medical technology, insistence on evading death at any cost, and practice of enabling unhealthy lifestyles. At its heart, Healing Healthcare shows that healing can begin only once doctors see patients clearly as individuals, and that through intimate contact, suffering can be productively treated.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621534723

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