{"id":2646,"date":"2010-02-16T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:15:31","slug":"entering-an-improv-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/entering-an-improv-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering, an improv lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Improv again last night here on Bowen Island.  \u00a0It is such a rich learning space for me in many ways.  \u00a0Last night, one of our group kept bringing scenes back to the Olympics, and especially the luge.  \u00a0At times it was funny but it became tiresome in other cases, and in an extended game of freeze tag, when he stepped in, everyone knew where the scene was going.  \u00a0My learning from that is what it looks like when we come to a situation prepared, with a pre-conceived idea of what will work, being attached to an offering, but insensitive to what is going on or worse, unable to co-create something new.  \u00a0In aikido the art of entering is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidojournal.com\/article?articleID=686\">irimi<\/a>, and it is a powerful thing to learn. It is about entering from a place of essence rather than a place of having a desired effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improv again last night here on Bowen Island. \u00a0It is such a rich learning space for me in many ways. \u00a0Last night, one of our group kept bringing scenes back to the Olympics, and especially the luge. \u00a0At times it was funny but it became tiresome in other cases, and in an extended game of freeze tag, when he stepped in, everyone knew where the scene was going. \u00a0My learning from that is what it looks like when we come to a situation prepared, with a pre-conceived idea of what will work, being attached to an offering, but insensitive to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[47,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improv","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-GG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}