yes Archives - Miranda van den Heuvel

Miranda2022-12-31T12:28:03+02:00December 10th, 2022|

Day 10 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was YES 2022 has been a year of saying no to a lot of things. My health and my energy didn’t allow me to do many things I did before and used to love. It has made me prioritise and look at what needed to be eliminated so that I could concentrate on what was possible. A lot of energy went into self care. And so there was little time left for other things. Because self care is a [...]

Life is one big improvisation

Miranda2022-06-01T11:12:14+02:00April 10th, 2020|

If you have ever watched improvisational comedy, or have done creative brainstorming, you might know what the 'Yes, and...' principle is. "Yes, and...", also referred to as "Yes, and..." thinking is a rule-of-thumb in improvisational comedy that suggests that a participant should accept what another participant has stated ("yes") and then expand on that line of thinking ("and"). It is also used in business and other organizations as a principle that improves the effectiveness of the brainstormi [...]