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
The vulnerability hangover
Ever had one of these? After a big event, a risk taken, a tough conversation or being in front of a group. You get a sort of fragile, sad, hyper-sensitive feeling in the hours or days afterwards that…
00:13:51 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Black/white thinking & polarities
It's another lesson I'm doomed to learn over and over again, or people like me. This week it's seeing things as either wholly bad/wrong or wholly good/right, with no room for the colourful nuance in …
00:15:23 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
Last night's foray into being-in-the moment improv
A quick reflection on how last night's play session at Leeds Improv Co-Lab went. It was all about feeling into the here-and-now, and noticing who's right alongside us. Basically feeling safe and comf…
00:15:46 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
F*ck invention, choose discovery
I'd never heard of this improv principle until a recent workshop. Here I'm puzzling how it might help when it comes to uncertainty, and being vulnerable about what we don't know in the face of new ch…
00:10:20 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Oi! Who are all these new voices on the podcast, Chris?
A quick explanation and apology for why you might have noticed guests appearing in episodes, when you thought it was just you and I playing here.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discus…
This is a public episode. If you would like to discus…
00:04:09 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
That time I died (and lived) on-stage
Two (mis)adventures in stand-up comedy for you here: what, how and why it went disastrously wrong for me. But also what, how and why it goes really well. Juicy learnz here for anyone who performs or …
00:33:33 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Feel safe, feel authentic
Marianne Powell and I play with authenticity - really being you in the here-and-now. To me this seems to have become one of those highly-desired, yet elusive states like happiness - the more we chase…
00:32:02 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
When the body won't stop
When you get going it's really hard to stop, especially on focused tasks you enjoy. For me it's DIY. And the lesson I'm doomed to repeat here is not stopping and putting healthy boundaries on what en…
00:09:55 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
Will you be my guinea pig?
Just running an idea by you, if that's ok? I'm cooking up a new product - a special workshop to help you enjoy the here-and-now more. It'll be lots of fun. Just wondering how it lands and if you want…
00:22:48 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Do something, anything
Another lesson some of us are doomed to learn over and over again. This time it's about procrastinating, avoiding doing or otherwise being perennially indecisive about that thing you keep putting off…
00:10:36 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
Everything non-weather
Are you one of those people affected by the weather? Does it seem like your mood tracks the sky? Chris is ranting at the clouds for his melancholy, wanting the grey damp duvet above to be anything ot…
00:14:09 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
Rest and reflection - a frivolous luxury?
My friend and fellow coach Ellie and I explore what goes on for us 'usually productive doers' when we're feeling under the weather. We talk about how to manage our energy levels, moods and motivation…
00:33:39 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Pushing & trying harder won't get us there any faster
Anything worthwhile should be HARD WORK and worth SUFFERING for, right? And you must PUSH FORWARDS with urgency to get there. I’m beginning to wonder how helpful these beliefs are. And whether the op…
00:11:36 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Euphoric reckoning
A strong, evocative emotional experience can leave a residue in your system, one that lingers and is tricky to get through. Some reflections here on elation, grief, sadness and hope in the aftermath …
00:12:14 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Full permission to get ANGRY
Chris is angry at his sat nav in a service station car park and decides to improvise a live experiment in the theory that the only way out with strong emotions is through. What will we learn? Trigger…
00:18:39 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Superfun Lovebath 2
If my experience at Happy Start-up School's Summercamp this year were a film, this would be the title. My reflections on how I spent three days in the sticks, playing with other business hippies.
Thi…
Thi…
00:28:00 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Let's talk about sex
What turns you on? No not like that... I'm talking about our instinctual drives: social, sexual and self-preservation. How they play us, if we don't know what they're up to, and how to become more aw…
00:24:59 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Something for when you're shaken: humility and dignity
I suppose you could call this a talking meditation, a kindly lament on what it is to be a fallible human, when things don't go well. While at the same time remembering that's what makes you an inhere…
00:14:05 |
Sat 09 Sep 2023
Into your body, out of your head
If you don't get out the house, are you a bit like a dog who hasn't been walked? Climbing the walls. Going out of your mind. If so, you could be like Ellie and I, for whom movement, nature and connec…
00:34:39 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
Why can't I worry less and enjoy the here and now more?
This issue is the scourge of our modern age. The way we zone out, live on autopilot or spend all our time lamenting either the future or the past, instead of what's unfolding right before our eyes. H…
00:14:38 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
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