Beyond the basement

By Chris Kenworthy

Join Chris for unscripted reflections on the wild, tender and playful experience of being human. Each episode is like an intimate voice-note to you, with lively insight from the edge of discovery. Peo... more

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The podcast currently has 275 episodes available.

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April 25, 2023 Follow your feet
How this simple principle in improvisation might help us out of a tight spot, when we don't know what to do next. We'll be playing with this theme at improv Co-lab this coming Thursday, my open event for improvisers in Leeds https://www.tickettailor.com/events/chriskenworthy

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11min
April 23, 2023 Women who wa*k (fooling & improv)
Joanne Tremarco's improvised performance of a show by this name inspires Chris, almost to the point of complete emotional dysfunction, late night at the Liverpool improvisation festival. To the point he even gets her name wrong. Here I'm very excited by fooling, a performance technique I did in a workshop earlier in the day with JOANNE

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25min
April 17, 2023 Improv dairies: a weekend of fables, folk and fun
Dragons, giants, magic, castles and gophers. This weekend's improv intensive on storytelling and movement had it all. Here comes the feels and reflections on everything that went down. Link to information about Chris Mead, who led the weekend: https://chrismead.co/

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40min
April 12, 2023 Are humans essentially selfish?
Today's emergency question that we're playing with, from Richard Herring's book of the same name. Do we instinctively act out of self interest? Are we just animals? Is there such a thing as a truly selfless act? Naturally, you'll discover all the answers to life's big questions, here in a windy park in Leeds.

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14min
April 06, 2023 Let reality decide if an idea is good enough
Hoot! Yesterday we launched Leeds' first improv Co-lab event. Here's the story of the universe calling me out on an idea through to making a real thing, and everything I learned along the way.

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15min
April 04, 2023 What tragedy and loss taught me about emotions
Most emotions felt elusive to me, once. Then life went thermonuclear… Here’s what we can learn about a more open way of life.

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12min
March 30, 2023 Welcome everything (for improvisers)
Next Monday I launch my first drop-in improv event. And this is our theme: welcoming everything. I pinched it from my second love, Authentic Relating. But what does it mean? How does welcoming everything make life better?

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17min
March 28, 2023 Which celebrity would you want stroking your hair while you die?
Playing with another of Richard Herring's emergency questions before I write about it on LinkedIn later. Somehow I turned this into an awkward dance around gender inequality, arousal and death - all natural bedfellows.

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12min
March 12, 2023 On wintering
Rest and retreat is a tricky one if you prefer to be doing and getting on with life. Here we explore what it is to take a winter, and deliberately permit yourself a period of slowing down and reflecting.

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25min
March 07, 2023 What’s under your onion skin(s)?
I came face-to-face with anger this weekend. I met what's really going on in us, what we avoid, and the darker side of what drives us. Here's what happened, and what might be happening for you - under all those layers of protection. Reflections from my recent retreat all about personality, trauma and freedom from both.

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27min

FAQs about Beyond the basement:

How many episodes does Beyond the basement have?

The podcast currently has 275 episodes available.