Improv isn’t just for the stage. It’s showing up in hospitals, clinics, and memory care centers. In this episode, Jude speaks with medical improv trailblazer Beth Boynton, who shares how principles like “yes, and” are helping caregivers build connection, reduce stress, and bring more humanity to people with cognitive decline.

*Connect with Beth - website, Facebook, LinkedIn, free workshop, more about Medical Improv. Purchase her book The Medical Improv Toolkit.

To learn more about these concepts, check out:

• “Just Join Them”: Improv and Dementia Care
• Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using Improvisational Techniques
• Effects of Improv Training on Older Adults in a Long Term Care Facility

This podcast is brought to you by Lifestage. Lifestage designs and facilitates experiential workshops, classes, and presentations for professional and personal development. For more information, visit lifestage.me.

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Emotional intelligence is learning how to be responsive, not reactive. In this episode, Jude speaks with Elana Fishbein, professional improviser and facilitator, about how improv can help us develop the self-awareness and flexibility we need to handle those tougher life moments.

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To learn more about these concepts, check out:

• Intelligent play: How improv can improve clinician's emotional intelligence
• Be real, open, and creative: How openness to experience and to change mediate the authenticity-creativity association

This podcast is brought to you by Lifestage. Lifestage designs and facilitates experiential workshops, classes, and presentations for professional and personal development. For more information, visit lifestage.me.

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Positive emotions aren’t just pleasant, they’re powerful. In this episode, host Jude Treder-Wolff speaks with facilitator and improviser Gary Ware about how improv-based play can build resilience, ease stress, and strengthen our sense of self.

*Connect with Gary - website, Instagram, LinkedIn. Purchase his book Playful Rebellion.

To learn more about these concepts, check out:

• Progress in Brain Research
• Failure With A Side Of Funny: How Improv Helps Us Deal With The Messy Unknown

This podcast is brought to you by Lifestage. Lifestage designs and facilitates experiential workshops, classes, and presentations for professional and personal development. For more information, visit lifestage.me.

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