Improvising Your Way to Conscious Leadership with Megan Mack

[1:15] Megan's path to from Conan O'Brien to improv training at Second City

[3:45] How comedy writing and improv reinforce each other

[4:45] How an improv mindset helps Megan as a producer and occasional host of Connections on WXXI (Tune in on AM 1370 in Rochester on weekdays from 12-2 or listen to the podcast "Connections with Evan Dawson")
https://www.wxxinews.org/programs/connections

[7:00] Practicing improv as a way to be a better listener

[11:00] What does it mean to "Yes, And..."

[13:20] Bringing "Yes, And" to leadership, life and business

[17:00] Using improv to build trust, vulnerability and emotional intelligence on a team - "Just have fun and the funny comes."

[26:00] Developing an interest in becoming a teacher

[28:00] Megan's current performing groups and how to build chemistry as a team

[37:30] Building trust in yourself through improv - "It's the art form. When you're preaching 'Yes, And' you're preaching acceptance. When you practice that in scenes, it carries on into life."

[40:50] The "Don't Think" principle
Alan Alda's book "If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face"
https://www.amazon.com/Understood-Would-Have-This-Look/dp/1524781924
Alda Center for Communicating Science:
https://www.aldacenter.org/

Improvise by Mick Napier with at home exercises:
https://www.amazon.com/Improvise-Scene-Inside-Mick-Napier/dp/156608198X

[43:00] The intersection of the Improv and Mindfulness movements

[44:45] Building emotional intelligence and "group mind"

[47:00] Being intentional about creating physical space for trust

Contact Megan at [email protected] or on twitter at @mmackmedia, see her upcoming classes at the Rochester Brainery here: https://rochesterbrainery.com/collections/theatrical-classes/

Learn more about Second City Improv here: https://www.secondcity.com/