re impeding group effort;

Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your

The signals to raise the bar on personal and professional skills are increasing in frequency:

• The need to assist managers coming from a technical skill base to move to an interpersonal skill base in order to facilitate a healthy working environment for productivity and innovation.
• The need for smooth succession between outgoing leader and emerging leaders.
• The need to utilize the limited window of opportunity to benefit from the extensive experience of long standing employees mixed effectively with the energy and insight of youth in working teams and relationships.
• The need for old ways of doing the work to expand into new territory with a red carpet pathway of least resistance.
• The opportunity to apply an expanded way of seeing and deeper level of sensitivity to facilitating natural innovation at all moments.

The skills required to create a workplace where people want to work and where the organization can achieve its purpose are parallel, portable, overt and covert as are career paths. For example, the capacity to be fully present and engaged in the task at hand is as relevant to the improv actor as it is to the project manager. Trust in interpersonal wisdom and group leadership is as pertinent to theatre as it is to teams. The practice of channeling skills into exclusive silos of application is dead.

The skills and talents you use in your personal life are equally applicable to professional life. As obvious as that seems the cultural context may not be receptive so blocking, a term used in improv for denying a reality. By day you are a working professional; by night an actor or work with horses, for example. Your day job will most likely engage predominantly linear analytical thinking. Your night's creative practice, in theatre or working with horses, is the place where leadership skills are being practiced in a team setting. The opportunity is to bridge the application between night and day to expand the benefit of the learning to leadership performance.

To successfully build the bridge across gaps in communication, generation, and leadership demands that covert skills become overt, deepened and heightened to a level of awareness where they can apply to:

• Absorb and understand different cultural perspectives regardless of how you define or see culture;
• Strengthen clarity of purpose, support and attunement to the subtle knowing that informs decision making and effective communication;
• Intentionally support team performance versus unintentionally sabotaging it;
• Strengthen your relationship with yourself so you can see and sense opportunities that lie outside of your peripheral vision;
• Eliminate the need to control others and step into the opportunity to co-collaborate and co-create.
• Readily identify the systems and processes that are impeding group effort;
• Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your m

The opportunity to apply an expanded way of seeing and deeper level of sensitivity to facilitating natural innovation at all moments.

The skills required to create a workplace where people want to work and where the organization can achieve its purpose are parallel, portable, overt and covert as are career paths. For example, the capacity to be fully present and engaged in the task at hand is as relevant to the improv actor as it is to the project manager. Trust in interpersonal wisdom and group leadership is as pertinent to theatre as it is to teams. The practice of channeling skills into exclusive silos of application is dead.

The skills and talents you use in your personal life are equally applicable to professional life. As obvious as that seems the cultural context may not be receptive so blocking, a term used in improv for denying a reality. By day you are a working professional; by night an actor or work with horses, for example. Your day job will most likely engage predominantly linear analytical thinking. Your night's creative practice, in theatre or working with horses, is the place where leadership skills are being practiced in a team setting. The opportunity is to bridge the application between night and day to expand the benefit of the learning to leadership performance.

To successfully build the bridge across gaps in communication, generation, and leadership demands that covert skills become overt, deepened and heightened to a level of awareness where they can apply to:

• Absorb and understand different cultural perspectives regardless of how you define or see culture;
• Strengthen clarity of purpose, support and attunement to the subtle knowing that informs decision making and effective communication;
• Intentionally support team performance versus unintentionally sabotaging it;
• Strengthen your relationship with yourself so you can see and sense opportunities that lie outside of your peripheral vision;
• Eliminate the need to control others and step into the opportunity to co-collaborate and co-create.
• Readily identify the systems and processes that are impeding group effort;
• Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your

applicable to professional life. As obvious as that seems the cultural context may not be receptive so blocking, a term used in improv for denying a reality. By day you are a working professional; by night an actor or work with horses, for example. Your day job will most likely engage predominantly linear analytical thinking. Your night's creative practice, in theatre or working with horses, is the place where leadership skills are being practiced in a team setting. The opportunity is to bridge the application between night and day to expand the benefit of the learning to leadership performance.

To successfully build the bridge across gaps in communication, generation, and leadership demands that covert skills become overt, deepened and heightened to a level of awareness where they can apply to:

• Absorb and understand different cultural perspectives regardless of how you define or see culture;
• Strengthen clarity of purpose, support and attunement to the subtle knowing that informs decision making and effective communication;
• Intentionally support team performance versus unintentionally sabotaging it;
• Strengthen your relationship with yourself so you can see and sense opportunities that lie outside of your peripheral vision;
• Eliminate the need to control others and step into the opportunity to co-collaborate and co-create.
• Readily identify the systems and processes that are impeding group effort;
• Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your

become overt, deepened and heightened to a level of awareness where they can apply to:

• Absorb and understand different cultural perspectives regardless of how you define or see culture;
• Strengthen clarity of purpose, support and attunement to the subtle knowing that informs decision making and effective communication;
• Intentionally support team performance versus unintentionally sabotaging it;
• Strengthen your relationship with yourself so you can see and sense opportunities that lie outside of your peripheral vision;
• Eliminate the need to control others and step into the opportunity to co-collaborate and co-create.
• Readily identify the systems and processes that are impeding group effort;
• Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your

re impeding group effort;

Readily identify the currents of thinking that block or support innovation.

Theatrical improvisation techniques and equine facilitated learning are both portals for experiencing the process of deepening and integrating learning. Both serve to amplify the deeper skills required to navigate the diversity of thinking and perspectives, situations, and the need for a wide angle lens to see the big picture and its component parts.

Over use of the analytical mind has separated and isolated the parts of the big picture so that the focus is limited and often rigid. This directly impedes achievement at all levels. To reveal the natural skill set and you have to get out of your mind to do it. That is where non-traditional sources of learning come into the scene.

Skill Set Required for Theatre - Equine Learning and Application to Working Life

1. Being in the moment: Often judgments are made before the communication starts. Being present demands sensitivity and suspension of judgment allowing different options to enter perception. Relevant to apparent performance gaps and generational communication chasms.
2. Each activity is purposeful: Reaction precedes instinctive knowing on how to best contribute especially in organizations predisposed to doing before looking. Being purposeful requires shared or at least clear intent. Effort is focused on creating results.
3. Team members support each other: Frequently, people make decisions and take action without considering others or consequence undermining rather than support trust and team.
4. Understanding of the subtle signals in body language, energy that inform when and where to step in: Whole body listening is essential to hear what is not being said by customers, employees and co-workers to sense the underlying values that impact an individual's performance.
5. The systematic evolution of self-knowledge and awareness of your expression and what it contributes to the whole: Whether you are aware or not, your energy has an impact on everything you do. A person whose energy is like a bull in the china shop will not hear the sound of crashing glass unless he/she develops awareness of how to use their energy to greater benefit. No one wants to brighten the room by leaving it.

Improvisation in theatre is a touchstone for improvisation in the workplace. By knowingly instilling the skills and practice you also instill the practices of organizational learning as mastery in action. Similarly, equine-facilitated learning offers a totally different opportunity to learn how to communicate on a deeper level and is being used effectively in leadership development, therapeutic rehab and inmate rehab. The constant connector between the two avenues of learning is the desire to deepen and connect with your own personal capacity to see and sense on a deeper level. The resulting level of self-knowledge is transformational in nature and expansive in its benefit to interpersonal communications and strengthened relationships.