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
How to escape the 9-to-5
You lot asked for it, here it is. Collected stories and reflections on ways to navigate the profound discomfort of job dissatisfaction, and the uncertainty of what lurks on the other side. Includes i…
00:29:49 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Pain and what it can tell us
Our bodies do everything they can to protect us from emotional (and physical) pain. And what a marvellous job it does of that. Yet inside pain, in the shadows, lurk valuable lessons and uncomfortable…
00:27:58 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
When I'm lonely I make things
Relentless doing and making can be a way to avoid tricky feelings like disconnection. But it's also an expression of creativity and love. What is healthy doing and making? How might we let ourselves …
00:24:01 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Improv diaries: mischief, inspiration and possibility
Everyone remembers a great teacher, right? One of my favourite teachers (Andêl Sudik) ran a workshop for my improv community last week, which left me inspired, hopeful and mischievous... Some reflect…
00:23:59 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Anger and 5 ways to process it
Anger wants to move. If it can't, we suffer. But what even is it? How do we move it in a healthy way? I share some reflections and insight from my own experiences with anger - like waking up in a rig…
00:27:44 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
Abundance of silliness
A chance conversation at last night's improv for newcomers event led to this reflection all about being a grown-up, seriousness, play, and what it is to be a 'whole' human. And why we might need more…
00:15:33 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Undefended improv (for newcomers)
I didn't have a very gentle introduction to improv. In fact, it was pretty brutal. I didn't sleep for 4 days. So here's what I'd do differently. What I will do differently, as today I host my first b…
00:13:52 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
Contact improv
My friend Lody is a contact improviser in Holland. We have a late night chat about what it is and how it relates to the usual kind of improv I bang on about here.
This is a public episode. If you wou…
This is a public episode. If you wou…
00:18:08 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Judgement and the inner critic
Do you have unrelentingly high standards? Ever beat yourself up because nothing's ever quite good enough? Can you spot flaws and mistakes in everything? It could be that you have a particularly vocal…
00:31:33 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Anger gets a rebrand
What is anger? How do you feel about it? Classic BtB territory here as I process some recent triggers that provoked my own unique flavour of anger. There's also reflections on how we might express it…
00:19:15 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Tender connection
I wonder out-loud if there's an appetite for more human-to-human tenderness. By that I mean vulnerable moments where we're both answering the question "what's it like being you" openly, without fear …
00:17:35 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
What my dog taught me about being human
Even if you're not a dog person, these furry, stripped-back mammals hold the wisdom of the universe in their tiny minds, if we're open to listening. Here's everything (so far) I'm learning about peac…
00:30:36 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
When a day is a good day
I accidentally-on-purpose crafted a really productive day, even though what came out of it was 'wrong'. Here are some reflections on what we might do to affect our state (energy, motivation, moods), …
00:31:15 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
Social ectoplasm and psychogeography
A fruitful first wander in the wintry French countryside reminds me how people and memories leave a spooky kind of residue.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subs…
00:16:02 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
Are you stuck up in your head?
Here's how to tell if your beautiful mind isn't serving you as well as it could be at the moment. We'll explore five common symptoms of 'being up in your head' as we call it in improv - not enjoying …
00:23:45 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Feel safe, synched and at your best: Improv diaries
Here's what happens when we put a little effort into feeling good about where we are and who we're with. These are my reflections from a recent Leeds improv Co-Lab play session I hosted, exploring th…
00:34:40 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Your curious inner observer
Before, during and after a tricky experience - how do you support yourself, if at all? When the panic, fear, shame, anger arrives, do you distract yourself or sit with it? Or like many people I expec…
00:21:42 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
The most dangerous thing you ever tell yourself
I hear this phrase a LOT in the change work I do with individuals. People usually say it when we come up against the very value or belief you have that's at the root of some behaviour that's unhelpfu…
00:18:44 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
A swim at dawn
What links a chilly dawn swim and improv? Let's find out shall we... I've just emerged from a very cold lake. I can barely feel my hands. Yet my still frozen body has all manner of juicy reflections …
00:36:10 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Soothe not solve
Chris gets spooked at the dentist, feels a bit sensitive, then talks all about how we might all do well to become better listeners and communicators alongside each other. Instead of fixers and solver…
00:20:21 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
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