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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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00:15:33

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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00:13:05

Fake it 'til you make it

Beyond the basement ·

2023/06/05

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, and make sense of the situation. This is another principle from improvised comedy and drama that can help in life too. We'll be exploring it at the next Leeds improv Co-Lab play session on June 6th. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/chriskenworthy?

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00:09:54

Mistakes and failing in improv

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/25

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 there's something for everyone on how we relate to our inevitable mistakes.

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00:19:58

Where do you float between masculine and feminine?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/25

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 helpful way of making sense of who we are in the world.

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00:17:59

Temporary chaos zones and stuffed kitchen drawers

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/17

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...

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00:12:45

No, coaches don't have it all sussed

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/15

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?

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00:30:23

Imperfect progress, imperfect “goals”

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/11

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 goals as something more inspiring, living your goals in the present and more. In this short yet juicy conversation we shared laughter and joy on a topic that can sometimes leave us feeling like failures. We covered: play and movement 🙃the power of asking why ❓embodying your goals 💛 and the

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00:10:00

Play it big

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/09

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 on for us, in life. Why leave it all to guesswork? Play it big. Link to event: bit.ly/improvleeds

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00:16:17

A singular cause of most misery: feeling bad for...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/08

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 activated by a tricky situation.

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00:18:07

What you want, what you need. What's the difference?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/05/02

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 and connection in nature. Here's what hosting NetWalking Leeds (a mini version of this) taught me so far about humans when they give themselves just this. Link to the event, if you're curious to join: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/elevate-with-ellie-57510010673#events

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00:22:02

Ever been judgey?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/27

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 gift you never knew you had...

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00:10:22

Follow your feet

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/25

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 for improvisers in Leeds https://www.tickettailor.com/events/chriskenworthy

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00:24:15

Women who wa*k (fooling & improv)

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/23

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 he even gets her name wrong. Here I'm very excited by fooling, a performance technique I did in a workshop earlier in the day with JOANNE

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00:39:21

Improv dairies: a weekend of fables, folk and fun

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/17

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 information about Chris Mead, who led the weekend: https://chrismead.co/

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00:13:01

Are humans essentially selfish?

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/12

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 selfless act? Naturally, you'll discover all the answers to life's big questions, here in a windy park in Leeds.

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00:14:01

Let reality decide if an idea is good enough

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/06

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.

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00:11:25

What tragedy and loss taught me about emotions

Beyond the basement ·

2023/04/04

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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00:16:15

Welcome everything (for improvisers)

Beyond the basement ·

2023/03/30

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 everything make life better?

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00:11:42

Which celebrity would you want stroking your hair...

Beyond the basement ·

2023/03/28

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 natural bedfellows.

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