And heres another offer: SPIT will do a show for your company, heck we will do 2 shows for you, if you get us a Washington DC - Manila - Washington DC plane ticket for Dr. Mary Tyszkiewicz whom we are partnering with to roll our a disaster preparedness program. She has generously volunteered to spend a month here in the Philippines starting in mid January to help us pilot our program. From the article about her - Dr. Mary Tyszkiewicz brings improv to disaster preparedness with Heroic Improv, a method found in her upcoming book and workshop series. Things happen fast during a disaster and that means officials must respond even faster. Traditionally, emergency professionals relied on “playbooks” to inform their choices. These scripts provide step-by-step instructions on how to respond to a variety of scenarios from chemical accidents to nuclear bombs. The problem: “Disasters are dynamic, not linear,” according to Mary Tyszkiewicz, PhD. Knowing catastrophes rarely play out neatly she has devised a solution: Heroic Improv. This technique uses improvisation to both train responders and respond to situations. Tyszkiewicz, who holds a PhD in public administration and studies American Emergency Management, tried improv over 20 years ago and found it frustrating. “My analytic mind wanted to make the ‘perfect’ choice so I mostly ended up frozen in place,” she says. “It wasn’t much fun so I gave it up.” Yet she remained curious. Inspired by her mother, who participates in community theater, Tyszkiewicz gave improv a second try. Not only did she find herself enjoying it more, she realized its worth in training the gamut of emergency responders, from private citizens to professional responders to elected officials. appliedimprovthinking.wordpress/tag/mary-tyszkiewicz/ If you are interested in making her trip possible AND having SPIT entertain you at your party as our way of thanking you, just DM me.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:34:17 +0000
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