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
Your ever expanding sphere of influence
It's quite natural for folk like us to drift through life accumulating responsibility, commitments and obligations. They fall into what I'm calling your sphere of influence (bit of nostalgia for GCSE…
00:10:50 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Feeling sluggish and unmotivated?
Usually you're so up and on it, productive, because you love getting things done. But for some reason, today you just can't get going. You're forcing yourself to get through the day. Here's what migh…
00:10:14 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Something to help when you're overwhelmed or need motivation
Here’s a guided technique to get to the core of what’s really bothering you, and then soothe yourself. Practiced frequently, it gets you clear on who you are and what you need.
It’s a technique for pe…
00:20:40 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
The cost of doing
I have a theory about people like us. It's that how intensely we 'go at' something - how productive we are, correlates with the ensuing period of retreat. Or winter as I now call it. After a period o…
00:15:33 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Are you overburdened?
If you're a superhuman doer, someone who likes to get on and progress, maybe you're prone to slumps? Perhaps you find yourself staring into space, unable to get motivated. It could be that you're ove…
00:14:36 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Fake it 'til you make it
When we're not sure what's going on, or what to do next, pretending that you do is often enough to nudge in that direction. It can give you and the people around you, the confidence to get started, a…
00:13:06 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
Mistakes and failing in improv
What does it mean to mess up, get things wrong, or for things to otherwise not quite work out as we'd planned? Happy little accidents is the theme of our next improv Co-lab session in Leeds. Yet ther…
00:09:55 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Where do you float between masculine and feminine?
The more I coach, the more I think gender isn't a helpful distinction between human beings. Even the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ make me nervous. Here's a deconstruction and (perhaps) a more hel…
00:19:58 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Temporary chaos zones and stuffed kitchen drawers
This wonderful metaphor for what happens when we don't healthily process our thoughts and feelings, came from a client recently. Sooner or later the drawer will overflow, or worse, burst...
This is a…
This is a…
00:18:00 |
Wed 17 May 2023
No, coaches don't have it all sussed
Like all humans, us coaches can be messy, fallible contradictions too. Just in case we give the impression we're always living a best life. Would you want it any other way?
This is a public episode. …
This is a public episode. …
00:12:45 |
Mon 15 May 2023
Imperfect progress, imperfect “goals”
How do you set realistic, meaningful goals as a perfectionist?
How do you prioritise the process over the outcome?
Fellow coach and friend Vix Anderton and I talk about imperfect action, reframing goal…
How do you prioritise the process over the outcome?
Fellow coach and friend Vix Anderton and I talk about imperfect action, reframing goal…
00:30:24 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Play it big
This principle of improv invites us to reveal more of our inner world, to make more of a scene of ourselves. Not just in pursuit of more watchable performance, but so other people know what's going o…
00:10:00 |
Tue 09 May 2023
A singular cause of most misery: feeling bad for feeling bad
Last night I did a duff improv performance. Rather than languish in pity, here I volunteer the experience, diving into some of the helpful tricks the head and heart play when you're emotionally activ…
00:16:18 |
Mon 08 May 2023
What you want, what you need. What's the difference?
This month, Ellie Lloyd-Jones (another big hearted, talented, smart, beautiful coach) and I are taking a bunch of purposeful business folk out into Derbyshire for a half-day of immersive conversation…
00:18:07 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Ever been judgey?
Right or wrong, good or bad. Does your inner critic run the show; noticing, categorising and criticising? Here's a new way of looking at judgement and being judgemental. It could just be the greatest…
00:22:02 |
Thu 27 Apr 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…
00:10:22 |
Tue 25 Apr 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…
00:24:16 |
Sun 23 Apr 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 inform…
00:39:21 |
Mon 17 Apr 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 s…
00:13:01 |
Wed 12 Apr 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.
This i…
This i…
00:14:02 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
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