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NEWS Power Point presentations for Lifestage trainings are available on Slideshare. Click on the title to read or download the Power Point for these recent workshops: 
This workshop is offered to groups of people coping with sudden change or adversity or for anyone interested in developing the resilience that helps to get through stressful circumstances. Read or download on Slideshare. These slides are from the power point for the presentation: "Words & Music: Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Through Creative Experiences" at The Examined Life Conference: Writing, Humanities and The Art of Medicine, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, April 11-13, 2013. 
Power Point presentations for recent Lifestage seminars 
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This Power Point was used in a Lifestage presentation at the annual conference of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse in Bethesda, MD in November.
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Tweet ABOUT US Lifestage, Inc designs and facilitates training seminars, classes, and workshops for professional and personal development on a wide range of topics. Our mission is to utilize cutting edge, evidence-based methods to help individuals and groups engage with their creative capacities to make positive change. Workshops and classes that are designed for a company or organization and offered onsite are customized according to their needs and concerns. Lifestage also partners with not-for-profit organizations in the community to do arts-based fund-raising, and publishes books and e-books as part of training programs which are also for sale to the public.
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Crazytown: my first psychopath has been selected for the MidTown International Theatre Festival which runs at the Abingdon Theater in midtown Manhattan from July 16th to August 3rd, 2013.
Crazytown: my first psychopath is real-life creative arts therapist Jude Treder-Wolff's comic take - and true story underscored by original songs- about a shocking encounter with a deceptive, dangerous person - the nicest guy you never want to meet. Musical Director: Wells Hanley 55% funnier than any other show with the word "psychopath" in the the title, according to research we just made up. An official choices of the Chicago and San Francisco Fringe Festivals PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Jewel Box Theater WorkShop Theater Company 312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor East Between 8th and 9th Avenues New York, NY 10018 Wed July 17 at 7:30 pm Buy tickets for this performance Saturday July 20 at 3 pm Buy tickets for this performance Monday July 22 at 6 pm Buy ticketsfor this performance Thursday July 25 at 7:30 pm Buy tickets for this performance Tuesday July 30 at 8:30 pm Buy tickets for this performance Watch the first 10 minutes of Crazytown on Vimeo  The Midtown International Theatre Festival's 2013 Season runs from July 15 - August 4, 2013 at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Main Stage Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor; and the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor.
John Chatterton created the MITF in 2000, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, as a way to present the finest Off-Off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. In 2003, the MITF moved its activities to their current location, the Theatre Building on W. 36th St., where it has been successfully ensconced since. In 2008 the Festival expanded from two theatres in that building to four, at the WorkShop Theater Company and Abingdon Theatre Company spaces. The MITF's artistic emphasis is on the script itself, and therefore the Festival focuses on effective but minimal production values. For more information, visit www.midtownfestival.org. Audience reviewers say: "Crazytown is crazy good. Jude Treder-Wolff's show is brilliant, poignant, and thought-provoking that somehow intertwines hilarious insights. Side splitting funny, not to mention her wonderful voice and the brilliant original music." Debbie Zelizer, PhD "So real. So honest. Better than most things Off-Broadway!" Gale Citron, MA "I loved this show. It made me feel appreciated for what I do for a living. Illustrated with warmth and humor the conundrums 'helpers' come up against and that we are human beings too. " Annemarie Corangelo, LCSW "Fascinating tale of her own transformation during a stressful time in her life. It is touching and humorous and musical. A great combination and totally unique." Written and performed by Jude Treder-Wolff, Musical direction and songs co-written by Wells Hanley.
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Lessons can be learned from improvisation, both in theater and music, for application to business. In addition, training exercises from the performing arts can be used to convey the principles of improvisation in corporate settings.
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Dr. Mary Crossan, Organizational Dynamics, Spring 1996.
" The world is changing so quickly that promoting the ability for creative thinking and promoting cultural adaptability is essential. Remember that kids starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. We don't have a clue about what the world will be like then. "
Sir Ken Robinson, quoted in "Reading, Writing and Creativity" Business Week February 23, 2006
"Coping with the complexity of today's business environment is not about predicting the future or reducing risk. It's about building the capacity, in yourself, your people, and the organization to adapt continuously and learn speedily, in order to maximize the chances of seizing fleeting opportunities."
Coping With Complexity Ivey Business Journal May/June 2010.
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There are countless ways to apply the tenets of improv beyond the stage. They form a foundational mindset and way of looking at the world that opens up possibilities and collaboration - two things the world really needs now. Every cause gets stronger when people accept that the world has more options than they can come up with on their own. "
Zohar Adner, author of The Gift of Stress
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IMPROV YOURSELF - Learn To Respond To Uncertainty With a Creative Mind by Jude Treder-Wolff
At the Applied Improvisation Conference in Portland, Oregon in 2009, Mike Bonifer, author of GameChangers: Improvisation For Business In The Networked World and co-founder of GameChangers, LLC led an exercise that involved listing the differences between a manual typewriter and a laptop - a deceptively simple, brilliant technique through which integrated levels of learning occur through the experience itself. I used an adaptation of the exercise in a training seminar with educators recently, in which we explored specific differences between a rotary phone and an Iphone. This group of tech-savvy professionals quickly grasped that the enormous leap in capability between these devices expressed not only advances in technology but resultant shifts in thinking and social organization to which the education system has yet to catch up.
Institutions are like rotary phones - clunky, mechanical, and limited in terms of connectivity and adaptability, just as mechanical thinking is concrete and rigid, slow and steady. The exercise illustrates the emerging, increasingly urgent need for new models of training and education adapted to the ever-changing dynamics of the networked world. Which brings us to the Way Of The Improviser - a set of techniques and a way of thinking. Or a set of games and exercises that, by engaging in them, invoke a way of thinking. It trains us to: Think Relationally.
Think relationally. Conventional education prepares us fit into the fairly rigid structures that used to mirror the world of work, with lines of authority clearly defined along what we thought of as the ladder of success. With all the emphasis on right answers and learning the right way to do a thing, our intuitive capacity to recognize subtle connections between existing things or ideas and tolerate the tension of seeing things that others miss are gradually eroded. Improv games provide structures that engage the pattern-seeking functions of the right brain and a frame within which to express them. The spirit of community fostered by improvisation is a safety net that allows the open-ended exploration of themes that emerge through interaction, much like surfing the web reveals links to people, information and opportunities we might never otherwise discover.
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Group psychotherapy, improvisation workshops, journaling and other types of creativity-enhancing group experiences are to our mind and brain what vitamin-rich but also delicious food is to the body. Research in Interpersonal Neurobiology shows the importance of positive social connections to health, and the added value of engaging in creative experiences with supportive groups for navigating 21st century life.
Dr. Dan Siegel and his colleagues have created a HEALTH MIND PLATTER to demonstrate the optimal balance of brain activity: Learn more about Interpersonal Neurobiology at www.mindsight.com 
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