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Jeff Katzman, Dan O’Connor – Life Unscripted: Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your LifeLearn to collaborate with others, think on your feet, and celebrate mistakes using the skills of improv theater.So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves – scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. Using practical self-help skills rooted in improv principles and depth psychology, we can live more authentic, fulfilled, and empowered lives. JEFF KATZMAN, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He received his BA at Stanford University and went to medical school at the University of California, San Diego before going to UCLA for his psychiatry residency. He is currently the vice chair for clinical services and academic affairs at the University of New Mexico and the chair of the Education Committee of the American Association of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. Jeff has studied improvisational theater for thirty years. He has used the techniques of improvisational theater to teach collaboration, spontaneity, access to the imagination, and the importance of play and a good time to patients, scientists, psychiatry residents, psychotherapists, and leadership teams. His novel The Storymaker was a quarter finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. He lectures at conferences across the country each year on psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment, and applied improvisation.DAN O’CONNOR is a multifaceted actor, improviser, writer, and director. Dan is the founder and producing artistic director of the critically acclaimed Impro Theatre. He is a cofounder of BATS Improv in San Francisco and LA Theatresports. Dan is one of the world’s most foremost innovators in unscripted theatre. He is the on the advisory board of the International Theatresports Institute (ITI), which includes more than three hundred theatre companies and festivals globally. Dan is also an officially recommended ITI teacher and performer and is a member of the Applied Improvisation Network.He was an adjunct professor for USC ‘s BFA program. He has taught at DUKE, Pepperdine, UCSB, UCLA extension, the MBA Program at UT Austin, Cirque du Soleil, and for improvisational theatre companies and festivals around the world. He has written and directed television and is currently teaching and developing the Living Story Board” with Disney Animation. He consults with corporations and non-profits around the world on using improvisation to create a better world.