Beyond the basement
Beyond the Basement podcast is the playground of Chris Kenworthy - an improviser, facilitator and coach, who’s exploring a broader range of what it is to be human.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 270
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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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00:11:26 |
Tue 04 Apr 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 everyt…
00:16:15 |
Thu 30 Mar 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 …
00:11:43 |
Tue 28 Mar 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 reflect…
00:24:13 |
Sun 12 Mar 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 - unde…
00:26:42 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Who are(n't) you?
If you aren't your thoughts, which come and go. Who are you? Same with emotions, how you relate to yourself, they change too, right? So who are you? And if you aren't the same person you were when yo…
00:20:11 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
How change happens (smooth and painlessly)
An epic exploration of the quirks, patterns, and character of change. Plus what seems to help the process or make it smoother and more painless. These are collected observations during periods of cha…
00:34:25 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Push the button
You, the REAL you, are your imagination, apparently. And the best way to meet real you is to push that button, without thinking too much.
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00:13:15 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
What's the worst thing you've ever eaten for a bet?
Emergency questions! Each week we play with a couple of provocations from Richard Herring's book over on LinkedIn. Edgy questions that I improvise responses too. Now I'm mashing it up with this audio…
00:13:26 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
When the universe makes you an offer you can't refuse
Looks like nature heard my previous episode and called me out on my plan to get more regular improv into my daily practice.
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00:12:15 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
An improv challenge idea for you...
Just playing out loud with an idea to transpose improv principles into daily life, in a set of weekly challenges and reflections. Maybe you'd like to join me...
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00:11:16 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
Hopes to habits
But of an update after that anti-goal rant a few weeks back. What if, like me, you're one of those people who don't go in for 'mindset' and the intrinsic motivation of some future target? How the hel…
00:11:50 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
How to human, day 2
The juiciest bits from my recent Berlin adventure - probing the deeper parts of human connection on an Authentic Relating level 2 course. We explore eye contact, vibes, arguments, pride, and being we…
00:23:05 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
How to human, day 1
Feel the desire to go beyond everyday chitchat? Long to feel more deeply connected to other humans? Live from Berlin, here's my diary of the first day of a level two authentic relating course; on thi…
00:27:09 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
The perils of speaking up (or not)
This one's all about how we relate to people. What might be going on when you withdraw, go quiet, or get all sorts of mixed thoughts and feelings during conversations with others.
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This is a public ep…
00:18:57 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Annual reviews: f*ck 'em?
Plans, goals, new year's resolutions and reflections. Got 'em sussed? I certainly haven't.
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00:16:27 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
What's your story of doing?
Eating stale pain au chocolat in a damp car, we're wondering about our relationship with getting things done.
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00:13:34 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
A companion so companionable as solitude
What if extricating ourselves from the bustle of civilisation, family, work is the only way to find paths to joy?
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00:12:20 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
Are you waiting for the 'right' way or right time?
This one might be lurking behind indecision or second guessing yourself.
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00:13:53 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
Improv diaries: hivemind and groupthink
Chris thinks about Nazis after a lesson in doing big, messy improv scenes with lots of people.
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00:12:54 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
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