This episode highlights improviser Margaret Stretch, who is also a Licensed Family Therapist. She speaks about improv as a therapeutic activity, holding boundaries as an improviser, and also, why a therapist would make a great improviser!
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(0:00) Introducing Margaret
(1:34) Margaret's 5 Slashes
(2:48) Surprising adventures
(6:16) Margaret's path to becoming a therapist
(8:16) Margaret's reframe when plans went astray
(10:17) On "holding space" for others as a therapist
(10:58) Improv as therapeutic, but not therapy; boundaries
(15:35) Self-care
(16:46) Why a therapist would make a great improviser
(18:42) What improv teaches us: connection, social cues, letting go