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Ignite no. 1

Mike Subelsky

Undoing Your Social Training and Creative Inhibitions in Five Minutes

Our culture inculcates several behaviors that harm creative, entrepreneurial people: we're taught to avoid conflict and real, open honesty with one another, and we're taught to fear failure. This may work for creating a polite, civil society, but it doesn't serve the individual who is trying to make a difference. But there's hope! Improv theater actors have devised many techniques for overcoming these tendencies which enables them to create inventive stories extemporaneously. Mike will share ways to combat creative inhibitions gleaned from six years of teaching and performing improv theater,

About Mike Subelsky:

Mike Subelsky is a hacker and improvisor, and a founding member of the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG). He has performed all over the country with BIG, has taught improv classes to hundreds of students, and was a member of the National Comedy Theater in San Diego. He is the co-founder of the Internet startup company OtherInbox and is the co-organizer of Ignite Baltimore