What can improv teach us about being human?

This week, our neighbor Kimber Innecken joins Carly and Dani at the HeART Space table. Kimber is a trauma-informed life coach, founder of Fish for Life Coaching, and facilitator at The Restoration Room, where she leads Intro to Improv.

We talk about why you don’t have to be funny to do improv, what happens when we stop trying to get it right, and how practicing “yes, and” can help us become a little more comfortable with mistakes, pauses, uncertainty, and whatever happens next.

But our conversation goes well beyond improv. We talk about play, getting stuck, trusting ourselves, expanding our comfort zones, accepting what is, and why we need places where we can practice all of that together.

And somewhere in the middle of it all, Kimber says three words that stay with us:

“I pick you.”

Because maybe we don’t have to figure everything out alone. Maybe sometimes we just need someone to say, “Come play. Be on my team. I pick you.”

Learn more about Kimber and her coaching at Fish for Life Coaching:
fishforlifecoaching.com

Find Kimber’s Intro to Improv and other community offerings at The Restoration Room in Tucson:
restorationroom.org

This month at HeART Space, we’re exploring Beginning. In this episode, Carly and Dani turn the questions toward themselves. They talk about their own creative beginnings, the experiences that shaped them, how HeART Space came to be, and some of the beginnings they only recognized after they were already underway.

It’s a chance to get to know the voices behind the podcast—and to wonder about the beginnings that have brought each of us to where we are now.

For our very first episode, we’re starting with "Beginning." The September theme at HeART Space. Carly and Dani talk about what it means to be creative, where our ideas about creativity come from, what gets in the way of making and playing, and why beginning can sometimes be the hardest part. We also wonder what changes when we stop worrying about being “good” at creativity and simply give ourselves permission to begin.