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Beyond the basement

Chris Kenworthy

Join Chris for unscripted reflections on the wild, tender and playful experience of being human. Each episode is like an intimate voice-note to you, with lively insight from the edge of discovery. People say you’ll recognise yourself in these adventures and encounters. And hear clarity, perspective and truth - with deep appreciation for life’s messy magic as it’s really lived through your body. Chris Kenworthy is an improviser, facilitator and embodiment coach. Find me at chriskenworthy.co.uk or

comedy improv

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00:13:15

Recipe for a deeply unfulfilling day

Beyond the basement ·

2023/08/08

When you're neither in nor out on the day ahead, it's possible to kind of halfheartedly do all the things, instead of committing your attention to one thing deserving of it, or checking out altogether because you need some R&R.

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00:13:36

Please can we talk about the inner critic?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/08/03

It could be a faceless voice, all cynical and nit-picky about everything that’s wrong. Maybe it’s a fully fleshed out character in your mind’s eye - a haughty, enthroned judge sat above everyone and everything, passing its uninvited verdicts. Do you have one? Or two? Three?

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00:14:04

Cave Mondays

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/31

Some days, events, arbitrary points in time come with emotional baggage. For me it's Mondays, a heaviness, a melancholic sigh, and the dread of expectation. Which is totally at odds with reality. This one's all about the emotional undercurrents that, if we're not aware of, can rule us. Here's how I'm working with Mondays, after years of resistance.

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00:14:57

Knowing when to quit

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/29

When a DIY job begins to turn sour, Chris gets his 1000th lesson in knowing when to back away because he's hungry/angry/lonely/tired. This one's all about feeling into our tendency to get swept along with the relentless, forward motion of productivity.

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00:13:38

Relentlessness & 'experiential fatigue'

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/28

I've landed home after ALL the adventures during June and July. Yet fun and joy and can bleed into one long conveyor belt of stuff coming at you, much like the obligations and responsibilities of day-to-day life. Even when you're supposed to be having fun, it can be tricky to savour the here-and-now.

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00:16:51

What the world needs more of

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/25

Love? Kindness? Hugs? Well they'd certainly help but I think there's a more pragmatic option too - human connection. What does that even mean though? And how do you get more of it when so much seems to get in the way?

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00:16:00

Procrastination Vs your instincts

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/24

"When we fail to prioritise the things we should, it is often because the dominant instinct takes more than its fair share." - this quote from Cicci Lyckow Bäckman might just explain why we sometimes avoid or distract ourselves from getting round to those things we should do, and would probably enjoy doing or which would make our lives easier. But what are our core instinctive drives? What is going on? Join me on a wander through the countryside as I too try to make sense of this perennial human

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00:21:08

Why can't I enjoy the here and now?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/22

Here's a timeless struggle I hear in coaching - what gets in the way of just being content with the way things are instead of feeling tense and irritated by it (or how things COULD be different). Join me on a ramble through the French countryside as we ponder the paradoxes of the human condition. How tres Français.

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00:15:38

Ever abandoned yourself?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/21

We've all got behaviours, habits, characteristics about ourselves we'd like to change. How do you react when they show up? With regret, shame, anger? What if that's like abandoning yourself...

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00:15:35

When something's a LOT of effort so you avoid doing it

Beyond the basement ·

2023/07/21

Ever avoid or distract yourself from complicated, seemingly huge jobs because there's too many unknowns? Here's what could be going on.

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00:11:00

What to do when you don't know what to do and...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/30

This morning I woke up with a start. To a memory of one of the scariest scenes I've ever played. And it wasn't even improv. Here are some reflections from the front line of terror.

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00:19:19

Ending gracefully (or not)

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/27

Do you wave longingly as guests depart, or shut the door and get on with life? Do you race from one thing without finishing the other?After a long weekend's improv retreat, I chew over our tricky emotional relationship with transitions, thresholds and change. All while feeling a little tender myself.

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00:16:20

When a bad thing happens, what's the story you tell...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/26

In all of us, there's a part forever scanning for evidence to confirm all our worst fears. And when it finds evidence, a story begins to play. What's yours? Here's mine and how I'm trying a different, kinder response...

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00:16:25

What if you don't need to learn anything? Only...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/26

A late night improv experience of being in a slug cult reminds me - that the big themes we wrestle with as humans; like confidence, creativity, resilience, honesty isn't stuff we can learn or be taught. Fundamental stuff like this is often innate, so perhaps it just needs to be remembered, unconditioned back to the surface, or whatever block it unlearned.

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00:24:32

Improv dairies: truth and honesty

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/24

Why revealing a little of what's really going on for you might be a smart move in tricky situations. Fresh from day one of the Maria Peters Improv retreat.

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00:10:50

Your ever expanding sphere of influence

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/20

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 Geography fans). Once they lad, each one of these 'things to do' becomes one more burden, for us doers, prone to feeling overburdened.

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00:10:14

Feeling sluggish and unmotivated?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/16

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 might be going on.

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00:20:39

Something to help when you're overwhelmed or need...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/14

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 personifying or imagining your emotions as parts within you - inner characters, influences, voices of authority that we accumulate throughout our life. Through this process we become aware of them, so they no longer secretly run the show behind the scenes. The idea is we become more mindful of who they

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00:15:33

The cost of doing

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/12

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 of steady DIY and growing my business, winter came and then lingered. The frost was harder than I expected. Yet that's no bad thing. We can learn a lot, if only we can resist the temptation to get back on it and doing again.

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00:14:36

Are you overburdened?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/08

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 overburdened.

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