{"id":243,"date":"2011-03-21T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2011-03-21T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:05:50","slug":"trusting-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Trusting the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book review about a newly released book , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustingthemoment.com\/\">Trusting the Moment:&#160; Unlocking your creativity and imagination<\/a>: a handbook for individual and group work. As you know, I\u2019m all for promoting improvisation, and this book of warm-ups is rich in ideas about how to develop these skills. A number of such books have been published over the last many years&#8212;I can\u2019t keep up with them. This one is very good; it has a fair number of principles laid out that can supplement the exercises. It\u2019s not merely a listing of techniques or improv or theatre games. (I write about this topic also in my anthology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactiveimprov.com\">Interactive &amp; Improvisational Drama<\/a>, in a chapter on warm-ups. Further references are noted on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactiveimprov.com\/apxbwarmups.html\">supplementary webpage<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The idea of promoting the capacity to make up stuff, to improvise, is very close to my heart and my everyday life. Helping others to re-discover this innate element in their heritage&#8212;healthy kids do it all the time&#8212;is one of my goals. So I appreciate Ms. Lindheim\u2019s pursuing this along several channels, as may be noted on her website, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.center4creativity.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.center4creativity.org\/\">http:\/\/www.center4creativity.org\/<\/a>.&#160; She also has written about hospital clowning, which again resonates with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactiveimprov.com\/clownwb.html\">one of the chapters in the Interactive &amp; Improvisational Drama book.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book review about a newly released book , Trusting the Moment:&#160; Unlocking your creativity and imagination: a handbook for individual and group work. As you know, I\u2019m all for promoting improvisation, and this book of warm-ups is rich in ideas about how to develop these skills. A number of such books have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-psychodrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}