Category: Collaboration

What change looks like

21 August 2012 0

This TEDxHarlem talk by Jake Barton describes how we can move beyond the traditional (and mostly dysfunctional) public meeting and mobilise the community to be involved in creating a better future. As well as the messages about “re-imagining public participation” this talk highlights a few other things as well. Jake Barton uses story-telling to good…

By Viv McWaters

Tom Salinsky’s improv wisdom

2 July 2012 1

I’m at Improvention in Canberra – a festival of improvisers from all over Australasia, and a smattering from elsewhere. There’s shows, and competitions, and workshops, and serious discussions, and partying, and lots of coffee and other beverages. I feel like an imposter. There, glad I got that off my chest. And that’s all I’m going…

By Viv McWaters

Postcards provide a window to the world

13 June 2012 1

Probably not the sort of postcards you’re thinking of. These postcards are made of people, creating a scene from nothing but a suggestion. We started with Southern Cross Station (Melbourne’s main train station) – people posed themselves as commuters, trains, signs, rubbish, ticket machines, aimless people, newspapers. Ian David, from Melbourne Playback Theatre Company, was…

By Viv McWaters

I need help

28 March 2012 0

Recently I received a great little gift from my friends at On Your Feet. It was a reminder about asking for help, and the rewards that often go beyond the help itself. So, here I am, asking for your help to let others know about a conference I’m organising. It’s called Thriving in Uncertainty and…

By Viv McWaters

Believing it’s possible

24 March 2012 0

Maybe this will be my new motto. Last week, through  a series of quite unexpected circumstances, I found myself co-facilitating with someone I’d never met face-to-face, and with me arriving a day into the gig with a group where I knew some of them quite well and many whom  I was meeting for the first…

By Viv McWaters

Practicing to perform

22 March 2012 0

Those of us who have seen an improv group perform are sometimes in awe of the skills and teamwork a group of players can demonstrate when performing – in front of a paying audience, and with no script.  It’s no secret that they can do this because of the way they approach a performance, the…

By Viv McWaters