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How do you know that nice, helpful guy in the next cubicle is a psychopath? You don't. Some people can lie better than the rest of us can tell the truth. In Crazytown, real-life therapist/performer Jude Treder-Wolff takes you down the rabbit hole of belief that led to her being blind-sided by reality. It's a comic take on an over-eager therapist getting over herself (when nothing else seemed to be working). And these days - when our phones are smarter than we are - we can meet, fall in love, shop for a ring and get some counseling with someone and never meet them in person - it's a cautionary tale about how authentic a completely fake person can be. If you've ever wondered "how could things go so wrong when I thought I was so right?" welcome to Crazytown. Written and performed by Jude Treder-Wolff, Musical direction and songs co-written by Wells Hanley. 2012 Crazytown Performance Schedule: April 20, 2012, The Examined Life Conference: Writing, Humanities and The Art of Medicine Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA April 28, 2012 7 p.m., Charles B. Wang Center, Stonybrook University, Stonybrook NY Tickets: $10 or by phone at 212-868-4444 August 30 - Sept. 4,2012 Chicago Fringe Festival Sept. 5-16, 2012 EXIT on Taylor Theater, San Francisco Fringe Festival Watch videos of Crazytown: my first psychopath and other shows scheduled to perform at the San Francisco Fringe on the San Francisco Fringe YouTube Channel "Self-medicate with real-life therapist Jude Treder-Wolff. Expect the unexpected! And without the hourly rates." New York Daily News. "A touch of therapy with a lot of laughs and music seems exactly what the world needs now." Cabaret Scenes 'Well-written and funny." BackStage Listen to Jude Treder-Wolff on Dr. Annie Abrams Blogtalkradio program, discussing the healing power of storytelling on November 7, 2011 Jude Treder-Wolff writes about Interpersonal Relationships for Examiner.com Tweet ABOUT US Lifestage, Inc designs and facilitates creativity-based training seminars, classes, and workshops for professional and personal development on a wide range of topics, including: Working With Groups, Experiential/Action Methods In Group Work, Communicating Effectively and Creatively in the Workplace, How To Give and Receive Feedback in the Workplace, Creative Strategies for Managing Change, Creative Strategies for Managing Uncertainty, Stress-Resilience, Burn-Out Prevention, The Improviser's Tool Kit, Skills for Navigating the Networked World, Navigating Transitions, Smoking Cessation, and Making Conflict Matter. Workshops and classes are often customized to meet an organization's needs and new topics are added as situations demand. 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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WHEN A DOOR CLOSES, OPEN YOUR MIND by Nicholas Wolff"When a paradigm shifts, everything goes back to zero," writes Joel Barker, author of Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future, in which he mentions the telephone and movies with sound as inventions that were disparaged and passed over by corporate giants. Digital Equipment (never heard of them? That's my point) went out of business because they could not let go of an old idea about who could use or understand computers. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates changed history by re-imagining the computer as something anyone could own and use. What's true in business, science and technology is also true in the way we think and live. When events beyond our control force us onto an entirely different course, letting go of the old is about the most important - and for many of us most difficult - aspect of thriving in the "new normal." A famous example of this - and the subject of the recent New York Times essay "Leadership Lessons From The ShackletonExpedition" by Harvard research historian Nancy Koehn - is the story of the Antarctic-bound ship appropriately-named The Endurance which became trapped in thick Arctic ice for 2 years. Ernest Shackleton took his ship and crew on what began as a bold, history-making vision to be the first men to walk across the continent but within a year life-threatening conditions upended those plans completely. "A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground," he wrote in his diary, and the record shows that his ability to quickly and completely let go of the original plan and create a new one in real time led to his entire crew's survival against overwhelming odds. READ MORE 
EXPERIENTIAL ACTION METHODS IN GROUP WORK 
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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.
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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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Applied improv helps us look at the process of communication, not just the content, which has helped me enormously when in conflicts of my own. Because I have some tools with which to constructively engage in conflict, I have more courage to address a difficult situation rather than sweep it under the carpet. Improv has also heightened my awareness to how interdependent I am. I am keenly aware that it takes a village to get me out of bed in the morning!
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Caitlin McClure, MA
" 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 |
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SATURDAY MAY 5, 2012 noon - 5 p.m. Fee: $65
Location: Lifestage, Inc. 496 Smithtown Bypass Suite 202 Smithtown NY 11787
This workshop will explore the ways that our own stories about our past impact the way we tell the story of our present, define our roles with others and feel about the possibilities for our lives. We will use storytelling techniques to explore the narratives we learned from family, society and our own experiences, and role-playing to explore creative choices for expanded narratives that make it possible to express our inner self through the roles we play in daily life. To find out more about this workshop contact Jude -Treder-Wolff by phone at 631-366-4265 or email: lifestage_2000@yahoo.com.
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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 
"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.
"Scientific understanding of creativity is far from complete, but one lesson already seems plain: originality is not a gift doled out sparingly by the gods. We can call it up from within us through training and encouragement. Not every man, woman or child is a potential genius, but we can get the most out of our abilities by performing certain kinds of exercises and by optimizing our attitudes and environment-the same factors that help us maximize other cognitive powers. Some of the steps are deceptively simple, such as reminding ourselves to stay curious about the world around us and to have the courage to tear down mental preconceptions.
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Ulrich Kraft, quoted in Unleashing Creativity" Scientific American Volume 16 Number 1 (2005).
" First, the core human reality that "heart and soul" language points to has been given many names by diverse traditions. Hasidic Jews call it the spark of the divine in every being. Christians may call it spirit, though some (e.g., the Quakers) call it the inner teacher, and Thomas Merton (a Trappist monk) called it true self. Secular humanists call it identity and integrity. Depth psychologists call it the outcome of individuation.
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Parker Palmer, quoted in "Teaching With Heart and Soul: Reflections on Spirituality in Teacher Education" Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 54, No. 5, (2003) |
