 Hello, lovely humans. This is Ginny Lambin coming to you from the Human Imagination Project. And I am here today to talk to you about an upcoming workshop for the Applied Improvisation Network Annual Conference. And that is the ordinary, extraordinary, the Applied Improvisation Life Kit. In this short video, I'm going to talk a little bit about the background of the workshop, tell you a bit about what will happen during it, and then provide a link just in case you have any questions. Now, astute observers might have noticed that I have a small monkey on my shoulder. And I want you to know that I am not the only one with a small monkey on my shoulder. Indeed, we all have a monkey on our shoulder and that monkey is called distraction. Yes, our attention is increasingly a finite resource. And indeed, our attention is at the heart of the ordinary, extraordinary, because our attention is the source material of our life. And so if we are not paying attention to our attention, we are missing out on a lot of our life. And this is where Applied Improvisation can come and play a role, because if we connect our attention to our intention, that in itself is what I consider to be at the heart of Applied Improvisation. And that intention is what invokes that improvisational, that open-minded, that experiential, that deeply present way of experiencing the world that can transform our experience of life. Because when we don't pay attention, not only do we miss important things because we're distracted, but we also miss the opportunities to engage with the ordinary awe and wonder already present in our lives. And not only do we miss those opportunities to engage with that ordinary awe and wonder, but then we also might miss those extraordinary things that happen when we are paying attention. So what's going to happen with the workshop, now that we've covered a little background on the overarching idea of it, is that we're going to look at the research about some of the collective degradation of our intention. So if you feel distracted, if you feel that this little monkey is always present and it's hard for you to pay attention, you're not alone. This is a collective problem that we are all experiencing. And so we won't do a deep dive into the research, but we will do a nice skim across the surface of it, perhaps, and look at what is happening to our collective attention. And part of that is so that we can then explore what to do about it. And the role that applied improvisation can play in healing our attention. And then what we're going to do is we are going to dig in and we are going to play with an array of creative interventions that will help us reclaim our attention, connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in between. And one of those creative interventions will take the form of a handy dandy workbook that you see here. There will be a few paper copies, but there will also be a digital copy available, less to pack and take home. And in that workshop will be a veritable treasure trove of Swiss army knife-like tools that can be used to open all sorts of areas of our attention and intention, and that can be applied to help transform our experience so that we can be present for the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in between. So that is it. So short version, if you have been feeling distracted and that your attention is fragmented, applied improvisation and really digging into the intentionality of bringing that improvisational mindset to your life can be a great way to heal your attention and once again reclaim that source material of your life. So that you can be present for your own life, the lives of others and connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in between. Hope to see you there and I will see you all in person soon, yay. Take care everybody, bye.