I’m taking an improv class.
I did the class on a whim with two other friends. I had looked at it before then when they mentioned it, I decided to take the plunge. I felt myself finally start to loosen up this evening. It’s harder than it looks to whip stuff out in the moment.
We talked about different approaches to building a character, building a scene and developing rapport w/ other players. I’m enjoying it quite a bit and the class itself is a lot of fun. It’s very different than the energy I have the rest of the day for the most part. I don’t have enough levity in my life, so this adds quite a bit of that.
It was a good way to end a day and the start of a week that’s had way too much parent-type errands and tasks in it. It was beginning to get me down, and I did yoga and improv and that helped a lot. It sort of slipped my mind as it should. It’s dominated too much of my life for too long. Some of that is because of how I’ve handled it. Some of it is it just sucks regardless of how I’d handle it.
So far, the best way to handle it has been to just get away from it. Get away and not take it personal. Not try and fix it all. Remember I didn’t make the mess. Repeat.
I am slowly making headway with some of these career interests and separating things from hobbies and potential for career and income earning.
Also one of the friends I’m going to class with is taking another class that discusses narrative coaching. It’s a unique approach to coaching, one that asks you to envision where and who you are now and what you wish you could be or where you wish you were. It then helps you envision what would it take for you to get to that place or person and you backmap from there, work through obstacles and take a different approach to it all.
That’s pretty interesting to me, especially as it reminds me of Lifespan Integration.
Maybe in the future…