I'm interested in exploring how techniques and practises from Mindfulness could help with improv and vice versa...They seem to share a number of goals, such as finding an authentic spontaneous presence and response to arising phenomenon... Next year I'd like to attend the Impro festival in Berlin, so I'm particularly interested in researchers and artists from Germany, am hoping to begin a book project about this.
If we define improvisation as the act (or art) of making, inventing, or arranging without preparation, using whatever is at hand, and mindfulness as the maintenance of a purposely nonjudgmental state of heightened awareness of thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis, then some "intersections" (or commonalities) between improvisation and mindfulness might lie in being present, starting anywhere, eschewing distractions and anxieties, embracing uncertainty, and sensing and responding.
yes! thanks, i agree...also, i think both draw on qualities such as spontaneity, non-judgement, allowing things to come and go with open acceptance (not holding on to "good" ideas or rejecting the "bad" ones), also something to do with one's attitude to one's "self", such as - getting out of the way, or allowing the self to be there or not without too much self consciousness or attachment or identification with it as an immovable essence, or something...
Article On Knowledge Behaviors
may be of tangential interest: the article refers to composite habits of mind that attend to value, inclination, sensitivity, capability, and commitment—all defined toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems.- Badges
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