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Here is a complete list of all TED WORDS posts, going from most recent to oldest. Thanks for reading!
- Monster Baby #106 The Eyes Have It
- Monster Baby #105 Kickin’ It Back Up!
- Monster Baby #104 Clanging! (A Conversation with Dion Flynn and Josh Radnor)
- Monster Baby #103 You Contain Multitudes (Considering Identity)
- Monster Baby #102 The Joy of Collective Imagination: A Conversation with Dan Klein
- Monster Baby #101 RE: Relaxation
- Monster Baby #100 Celebrating the 100th Episode!
- Monster Baby #99 Freestyle Life Supreme (A Conversation with Larry Dorsey, Jr.)
- Monster Baby #98 Coming Home
- Monster Baby #97 Inner Voices (a conversation with Kat Koppett)
- Monster Baby #96 Ensemble! A Conversation with Dan O’Connor, Part Two
- Monster Baby #95 Ensemble! A Conversation with Dan O’Connor, Part One
- Monster Baby #94 Your Story, Well Told: A Conversation with Corey Rosen, Part Two
- Monster Baby #93 Your Story, Well-Told: A Conversation with Corey Rosen, Part One
- Monster Baby #92 Lisa Had a Baby!
- Monster Baby #91 The Joy of Little Things
- Monster Baby #90 Gettin’ Comfortable with Discomfort
- Monster Baby #89 Talkin’ ‘Bout a Resolution
- Monster Baby #88 Hello Humility
- Monster Baby #87 November 2020 Grab Bag: Election Day, Lisa’s Big News, and Memory Issues
- Monster Baby #86 What’s Your Strawberry?
- Monster Baby #85 All in the Timing
- Monster Baby #84 Oh, Those COVID Doldrums!
- Monster Baby #83 Find Your Focus
- Monster Baby #82 Elements of Effective Collaboration (Part 2 of a Conversation with Matt Abrahams and Adam Tobin)
- Monster Baby #81 Improvisationally Speaking (Part 1 of a Conversation with Matt Abrahams and Adam Tobin)
- Monster Baby #80 Let go. Appreciate more. Use everything. (And happy birthday, Monster Baby!)
- Monster Baby #79 Half-Baked Ideas
- Who Goes First on Zoom? Some Playful Tips for Facilitators, Trainers and Teachers
- Monster Baby #78 Extroversion Introversion
- Monster Baby #77 Living Under Lockdown
- Monster Baby #76 Coronavirus Takes Hold
- Monster Baby #75 Sorting Through Super Tuesday
- Monster Baby #74 Yes to Life! A Conversation on Improvisation and Spirituality with Cindy Franklin and Angelo John Lewis
- Monster Baby #73 Thunderbolt Moments
- Monster Baby #72 Waking Up to the Gifts
- Monster Baby #71 Attention to Tension
- Monster Baby #70 What’s Your Story?
- Monster Baby #69 The Dish–Insights from Improv at Stanford (and other goodies)!
- Monster Baby #68: Best Day Ever (A Monster Baby Grab Bag)
- Monster Baby #67 Under a Mango Tree: A Conversation with Thiagi
- Monster Baby #66 Accountability Buddies
- Other than that, Mrs. Hamilton, how was the show? An “essentially American” evening for these panicky times
- Monster Baby #65 Joy Conspiracy
- Monster Baby #64 Yes and No
- Monster Baby #63 Simmer Down, Inner Critic (A Conversation with Denise Jacobs)
- Monster Baby #62 The Uniqueness Paradox
- Monster Baby #61 Parenthood without Partnership? Lisa considers motherhood on her own
- Monster Baby #60 “Congrats…it’s a BOOK!”
- Monster Baby #59 Redefine the Ding: Playing with Positive Reinforcement
- Monster Baby #58 Ted’s Harrowing Tale
- Monster Baby #57 Filter-ama
- Monster Baby #56 V is for Vulnerability
- Monster Baby #55 A Grand Experiment
- Monster Baby #54 Life Unscripted: A Conversation with Dan O’Connor, Part 2
- Monster Baby #53 Life Unscripted: A Conversation with Dan O’Connor, Part 1
- Monster Baby #52 Lisa Goes to Clown Camp
- Monster Baby #51 Insights On- and Off-Stage: A Conversation with Joe Bill, Part 2
- Monster Baby #50 A Buddhist Atheist: A Conversation with Joe Bill, Part 1
- Monster Baby #49 Speak Up!
- Monster Baby #48: Be Specific!
- Monster Baby #47 Why Are You So Emotional?
- Monster Baby #46 Playing with Creativity
- Monster Baby #45 Gettin’ Some Action
- Monster Baby #44 What’s Your Status?
- Monster Baby #43 Let’s Get Physical
- Monster Baby #42 Beyond Beliefs
- Facilitating Like a Boss: 10 Playful Tips for Mixing Groups, Smoothing Transitions, Choosing Partners, and Breaking Patterns
- Monster Baby #41 What’s Love Got to Do With It?
- Monster Baby #40 Great Expectations
- Monster Baby #39: Facebook Fasting Results
- Monster Baby #38: What’s on Your Mind?
- Monster Baby #37: A New Start
- Monster Baby #36: Less is More
- Monster Baby #35: On Aging
- Monster Baby #34: Listen Up!
- Monster Baby #33: 10 Days of Insight
- Backstage at Hamilton!
- Monster Baby #32: Press Play
- Monster Baby #31: Find the Flow
- Monster Baby #30: Handling Heartbreak: A True Story
- Monster Baby #29: It’s Not About You
- How I Fell in Love with Hamilton—and Why the Broadway Version Broke My Heart
- Monster Baby #28: Dig Deeper
- Monster Baby #27 Speaking of Spirituality or Why Lisa Might Be Going to Hell
- Monster Baby #26 Isn’t That Curious?
- Monster Baby #25 Be Average
- Monster Baby #24: Get Presence
- Monster Baby #23: Attitude of Gratitude
- Monster Baby #22: A Cup of Courage
- Monster Baby #21: Puzzle Nuzzle
- Monster Baby #20: Adventure Time!
- Monster Baby #19: The Monster Baby Mailbag!
- Monster Baby #18: Harmony
- Monster Baby #17: Post-Election Reflections
- Monster Baby #16: A Conversation with Patricia Ryan Madson (Part 2)
- Monster Baby #15: A Conversation with Patricia Ryan Madson (Part 1)
- Monster Baby #14: Silence, Please
- Monster Baby #13: Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Monster Baby #12: Meta-tation: This is a Subtitle
- Monster Baby #11: Passing the Bechdel Test: On Gender in Improv and Facing Old Demons
- Barrett the Barber, or the Value of Clearing Stuff Out
- Thanks, Harry Potter College (or 10 Reasons to be Thankful for the 2016 Applied Improvisation Network Conference)
- Monster Baby #10: Chaos Theory
- Monster Baby #9: The Monster Baby Retreat–An Interview
- Monster Baby #8: How About Healing?
- Monster Baby #7: Playing with Rules
- Monster Baby #6: The Power of Positivity
- Monster Baby #5: Aspiration and Acceptance
- Monster Baby #4: Shared Control
- Why I’m Not Looking Forward to the Future Anymore
- Monster Baby #3: Do Mindfulness and Improv Breed Community?
- Monster Baby #2: Defining Mindfulness and Impulse vs. Pause
- Monster Baby Podcast #1: Intro and Relationship to Failure
- Peace or Privilege? The Paradox of Mindfulness and Social Change
- Fifty Nifty Swifties
- Improvisation as Spiritual Practice: A Deepening Path
- Judgment vs. Discernment (Part 2 of 2 in a series on How to Evaluate Choices Without Shutting Down the Creative Muse)
- Unleash the Hounds!!! (Part 1 of 2 in a series on How to Evaluate Choices Without Shutting Down the Creative Muse)
- Return of Spontaneity School: A Third Set of Improv Games for the Classroom and Work Environment
- Who Needs the Title? Wakesurfing, TAGteaching and the Sweet Spot of Skilled Instruction
- Pause (a new poem)
- AI-AI-AI!!!: The Applied Improvisation Definition Generator
- From Fad to Fact: Bringing Mindfulness to Wider Circles
- Lighthouse–A new poem
- AAAACCKK!!! Here’s a Wince-Worthy Example of How NOT to Use a Clicker
- More Spontaneity School: Another 10 Improv Games to Enliven the Classroom or Workplace
- Improv Wisdom Musings, Vol. 3: Make Bold Offers!
- 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Mindfulness into Your Classroom
- Improv Wisdom Musings, Vol. 2: Make Emotional Noises
- Improv Wisdom Musings, Vol. 1: Let Yourself Be Changed
- Walking at Omega, 2014
- 9 Reasons Why Every Conference Needs More Introverted Experiences
- This year’s Improv Wisdom workshop!!
- A Visionary Victory for Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks: How a New Way of Thinking Bonded a Team and Brought Home a Championship
- Under Pressure (The Wisdom of Mistakes Follow-Up Interview)
- The Wisdom of Mistakes
- Stillness at Summer’s End: Reflections from a Silent Retreat
- Calling Our World Into Being (Part 3 in a 3-part series on Improvisation and Spirituality)
- Paths in Parallel (Part 2 in a 3-part series on Improvisation and Spirituality)
- Defining the Undefinable (Part 1 in a 3-part series on Improvisation and Spirituality)
- Hey Jude: A Purr-tial Cat-a-log of a Year’s Learning
- Little Purple Church: Still Building Community in the Castro
- A Deeper Kind of Play—Three New Exercises to Link Improv and Spirituality
- Another Iteration of the Failure Bow
- Mindfulness Momentum: 7 Reasons to Start (or Boost) Your Practice Now
- Improv Wisdom for a Meaningful Life
- The Diversity-Unity Double Helix
- Improvisation and Spirituality: A Personal and Collaborative Inquiry
- Cruising Toward Community
- A Curious Resolution
- A Positive-Minded Primer on Punishment and Reinforcement–with a Buddhist Twist (Part 2 of 2)
- A Positive-Minded Primer on Punishment and Reinforcement–with a Buddhist Twist (Part 1 of 2)
- 4 Reasons We Avoid Our Inner Knowing–and 7 Things We Can Do About It
- Kohn of Uncertainty: Raising Questions About How to Raise Kids (or Why Positive Reinforcement Might Not Be All It’s Cracked Up to Be)
- The Death Show: A Perspective-Giving Production
- Queen of the Hill: Punishment or Principled Practice?
- Chicken Sexers, Plane Spotters, and the Elegance of TAGteaching
- Why I Love BATS (Ode to an Improv Community)
- 100 Funny Names: A Shabbat Brainstorm
- The Spinning Dancer Paradox: An Argument for Humility
- Improv and Contemplation: Partners on the Path
- The Bay School Model of Mindfulness
- I Want to Sing!
- Mindset 101
- The Transformative Failure Bow (Part 2 of 2)
- The Transformative Failure Bow (Part 1 of 2)
- Confidentiality vs. Privacy (Continued)
- Confidentiality vs. Privacy
- An Invocation for Silence
- First Idea: Forego or Follow?
- Some Questions About Praise, Performance, and Privilege
- Helping Goldilocks Grow
- Spontaneity School: 10 Improv Games to Develop Courage, Compassion and Creativity
- Three Faces of V (as in Venice)
- Some good news!
- Pathos Behind the Pounce
- Green Oasis
- The Past a la Veronese
- Smaller Than A Baguette Box
- 7 Things I Didn’t Anticipate About Paris
- Building a Mystery
- Best. Burger. Ever.
- Here’s Lookin’ at Kew, Kids
- Faster, Higher, Stronger
- This is General Tom
- Dolphin Training (part 2 of 2)
- Dolphin Training (part 1 of 2)
- Teachings of the Elf Buddha
- Leading Beyond Dualisms
- Shaking Hands With Findhorn
- When Wrong Becomes Right
- Sweet Edinburgh Welcome
- Horse Your Sabbatical Going?
- You Had Me at “ævinlega sæl og blessud” (or Why I Now Love IcelandAir)
- The Magic of Early Morning
- Don’t Treat My Daughter Like a Dog!
- Why We Do Things We Don’t Want to Do
- Whose Improv Is it Anyway?
- Positively Tricky
- Easy to Preach, Tough to Practice
- Ticket to Blue Skies
- Saying goodbye to Piper
- Group Wisdom: Strong Like Ox
- The OmPhone: Technology of Meditation
- Shamu’s Golden Ratio
- Self-Reinforcement
- Host with the Most
- Slide 7
- Slide 6
- Slide 5
- Slide 4
- Playful Mindfulness
- Monster Baby
- Positive Reinforcement
- Applied Improvisation
- Contemplative Practice
- Growth Mindset
- Home Intro Text
- Slide 2
- Slide 1 (Anima definition)
- Slide 3 Anima: life-affirming way to learn