http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/04/10/play-creativity-improvisation/ A Vision and a Road Map Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/04/10/play-creativity-improvisation/#comment-4936 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:02:04 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=805#comment-4936 So their salary won’t go up by 1.4% next year. They still have jobs. The middle class won’t see their taxes go up by an average of $3000 either because that’s what the GOP would have stood by and watched happen in order to protect their precious top 2% of earners. Millions across this country will also have heat and food due to the extension of unemployment benefits that the GOP would have let run out.

]]> http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/04/10/play-creativity-improvisation/#comment-1154 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:10:58 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=805#comment-1154 Toni Halleen is a wonderful lawyer/improv artist here in the Twin Cities who runs a program called “Fun With Law”. Here’s her website: http://www.funwithlaw.com. I have her do a workshop with my clinic students every semester focused on “the Art of Listening” in which she engages all of us in all sorts of group improv exercises. The students, who moan and groan and pull their baseball caps lower over their eyes in the beginning, invariably come away from the session with smiles on their faces and an appreciation for the lessons learned — about thinking on their feet, trusting themselves (“saying yes”), being comfortable with uncertainty. It’s a great way to connect right and left brain functioning, and I find that both I and my students refer back to the improv language and ideas repeatedly throughout the semester.

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