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		<title>The Positive Principle:  Building Your Capacity for Improvisation and Appreciative Inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity involves living in the question—Improvising involves a living inquiry into what is. When our conditioned knowledge and theories no longer serve us, we need to inquire more deeply into things as they are. This creates a space for more subtle insights to emerge. ]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Playspace for a New Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email from a former student, Tim Odom, from my creativity class at DePaul University in Chicago. He shared his success creating playspace for himself during the job search process and gave me permission to share it with you here:]]></description>
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		<title>From Workplace to Playspace in High-Pressure Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we make room for engagement, fresh ideas, and open communication when the stakes are literally life and death and there are never enough hours in the day?]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Make Space for People to Play with New Ideas and Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As often as I balk at prescriptive approaches to creating playspace, I am asked for examples of how others are doing it in their organizations. Below is a short list of innovative approaches from a wide range of organizations. Some are from “From Workplace to Playspace,” others I have heard from workshop participants and readers around the country. I hope that you will be inspired and “get permission” from them to experiment with approaches that fit for your organization.]]></description>
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		<title>Four Learning Trends &amp; Reflections from ASTD 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week after this year’s ASTD International Conference &#038; Exhibition  I thought I would take a moment for a little reflective learning and lessons learned.

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		<title>Improvisation Capacity &amp; Playspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dynamics of playspace come to life as they are enacted each day in the real-time spaces we create.]]></description>
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		<title>Purposeful Play</title>
		<link>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2010/02/purposeful-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2010/02/purposeful-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the common misconception about play is that it is necessarily purposeless, and therefore can’t possibly have any place in business. Harvard scholar and jazz pianist (and mentor) Frank Barrett calls improvised play a form of “disciplined imagination” reminding us that play can also be wildly productive and innovative. ]]></description>
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		<title>What was the best thing about . . . ?</title>
		<link>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/what-was-the-best-thing-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/what-was-the-best-thing-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appreciation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Playspace Dimensions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day after Thanksgiving. Despite the blare of television commercials and media reports from area shopping malls, we are choosing a quiet day of puttering around the house with vague plans for an afternoon movie. I am enjoying this calm and thinking about our dinner last night with friends. At some point in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginative Variations</title>
		<link>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/imaginative-variations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/imaginative-variations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provocative Space]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past fall DePaul’s Center to Advance Education for Adults invited Meg Wheatley to keynote and lead an afternoon workshop at a conference we titled “Thriving in Transition.” (You can download Wheatley’s keynote for free at the CAEA itunesU site in the itunes store. See instructions here). What stayed with me most from Wheatley’s talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tryanny of the Task</title>
		<link>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/the-tryanny-of-the-task/</link>
		<comments>http://www.playspace.biz/livingquestions/2009/11/the-tryanny-of-the-task/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day at the start of a meeting with my Playspace colleagues I noticed an interesting impulse. I knew we had a lot on the agenda and a relatively short time to move through it all. I had the impulse to abandon our few minute ritual of taking some Be. Here. Now. Time to [...]]]></description>
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