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		<title>Good Girls Don&#8217;t Improvise: Seeing and Sticking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the women&#8217;s improv class I&#8217;ve been teaching now for almost a year, we have made some incredible progress.  New women can now join in the class and get swept up in the unity and positivity that is the foundation &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/good-girls-dont-improvise-seeing-and-sticking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=236&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Girls Don&#8217;t Improvise: You should smile.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last Saturday I gave my GOOD GIRLS AREN&#8217;T FUNNY talk to a great group of women at The Barrow Group School in Midtown Manhattan. It was a lively discussion and we went about an hour over the published time, &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/you-should-smile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=186&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Girl&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Improvise: History is Our Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember taking history classes in school&#8230;I certainly got a lot from some of them but in general and don&#8217;t think I ever felt connected to history as how it connects to my life, my choices, or my future.  It &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/good-girls-dont-improvise-history-is-our-friend/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=173&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Girls Don&#8217;t Improvise: Having Each Other&#8217;s Backs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Girls Don&#8217;t Improvise Post #4 Last night may seem to have been just any Thursday night, but in New York City it was the debut of our all-woman&#8217;s improv troupe. We are calling the troupe &#8220;13 degrees&#8221; because of &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/good-girls-dont-improvise-having-each-others-backs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=157&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Girls Don’t Improvise: Universal versus Personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD GIRLS DON’T IMPROVISE: POST #3 We are in our third cycle of classes in our women’s improv class at my school in NYC, Improvolution! There are now 12 and counting.  I also gave a talk (the first of many &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/good-girls-don%e2%80%99t-improvise-universal-versus-personal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=144&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Mean to be Post-Modern: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POST #1 I know when I first started hearing “postmodern” all I really had as a reference was “that art movement” but couldn’t say much more about it. I see now that to understand and engage with my own values &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/what-does-it-mean-to-be-post-modern-introduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=92&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POST #2 It may look like an innocent work meeting: men and women smiling, listening and nodding, some scribbling notes. But it&#8217;s there, running through the veins of most of the women present. Perhaps the most powerful drug around &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/she-force-the-affirmation-reformation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=89&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POST #3 If you haven’t seen the series MAD MEN on AMC you should. It’s pretty fantastic and on top of everything else, it’s really showing what it was like for women in1960 (set in New York). It brilliantly exposes &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/she-force-mad-men-and-pussycat-dolls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=86&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POST #1 SHE-FORCE How can women work together in a new way that’s based on genuine trust, support, and integrity? I am 39 years old and have grown up, like probably most of you, assuming that I am a free &#8230; <a href="http://hollymandel.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/she-force-introduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hollymandel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6929218&amp;post=83&amp;subd=hollymandel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction: A new option</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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