Improve Your Conversations

the workshop left me with a strong impression of how to consciously ignore all

You have to observe, listen, be present, react, and adapt to find the flow. In finding the flow, you create something that both parties are happy with.

the workshop left me with a strong impression of how to consciously ignore all the chatter in the world and focus on the person in front of me.

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This is not insignificant: it instantly frames what you see on stage as a collaborative effort where everyone is supporting everyone else for the common good.

If any of the players sense that someone needs support, they will instantly give it. They understand that the performance isn’t about any one person in particular – it’s about how the entire team does! The weakest link of the chain will never be allowed to falter, as everyone will pitch in the moment they sense trouble.

The players are extremely flexible and adaptable because they have no pre-set agenda or real purpose other than to work together with the other players successfully. What has been unspoken thus far is the absence of an ego, as an ego can completely sabotage and destroy what is being carefully created.

on stage as a collaborative effort where everyone is supporting everyone else for the common good.

If any of the players sense that someone needs support, they will instantly give it. They understand that the performance isn’t about any one person in particular – it’s about how the entire team does! The weakest link of the chain will never be allowed to falter, as everyone will pitch in the moment they sense trouble.

The players are extremely flexible and adaptable because they have no pre-set agenda or real purpose other than to work together with the other players successfully. What has been unspoken thus far is the absence of an ego, as an ego can completely sabotage and destroy what is being carefully created.

Eliminate awkward silences and make conversation flow smoothly?

second method is to play free association with words and phrases. Free association is when you hear a word, then you come up with another word that the first word makes you think of. The second word can be anything, and the goal is to do this instantaneously.
For example, cat:dog, dog:puppy, puppy:paws, paws:fur, fur:allergies, allergies:medicine, medicine:nurses, nurses:doctors, doctors:plastic surgeon, plastic surgeon:fake lips, and so on. That was a free association word chain that began simply with the word cat.
How do you train this? Pick a word at random from a dictionary, and list out fifteen words in a free association word chain as quickly as possible. Then, do it again and again – verbally, because that will require the quickest thinking.