The Grow Zone: Real Time Adventures

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THE GROW ZONE - Pause for now

Greetings dear listeners!

We wanted to drop in as it’s been a while since you’ve heard from us. We have decided to press pause on The Grow Zone for now to dedicate time to other exciting projects - together and on our own. We will keep you up-to-date here. If you want more regular updates from us, then feel free to follow us on our own channels:

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THANK YOU to all of you who have been part of our adventures to date- for your support, insightful and generous contributions and lending us your ears - podcasting has been a fabulous and inspiring adventure for us both!

Good bye for now- we’re both waving 😉

🎙️ New Podcast Alert! 🎧 Chaos: a crisis or an opportunity? 🌀

Join us in this thought-provoking episode as we dive into the multifaceted nature of chaos. 💭

We take you on a journey through diverse perspectives on chaos and explore real-life examples to unravel its mysteries.

🌐 From personal experiences to global events, we try to make sense of chaos and the profound impact it can have on our lives.

Discover how chaos can be a catalyst for growth and development, and gain insights into honing your skills to navigate through turbulent times successfully. 💪

Tune in now wherever you get your podcast 🎧 and let's embrace the chaos together! 🤝

What does FLOW mean to you?
When do you experience FLOW?
How does it help you?

Welcome to our fourth series of the Grow Zone. In this series, Sarah Hübner and Ceri Temple return to the challenges and rewards of our real time adventures.

We head straight into the zone investigating the topic of flow and explore what it means to us, others and its benefits. Listen in, as the conversation flows around this inspiring topic.



Thank you to our episode contributors:

Brett Macdonald www.brettmacdonald.ca
Dima Pak
Michael Basel
Caroline Floritz www.carolinefloritz.de
Aischa Hübner
Christina McFadden www.bluedoorpartners.com
Andrea Wodniok www.switch-impulse.de
Steffi Mrosk
Steffi Tielemann

Would you like to breathe fresh air into your company lungs?

Tune in to our final episode of our third series, as we take you on a journey into our brand new collaboration. Combining our skill-set and experience, we are taking leadership teams on a real time adventure getaway. Listen in to find out what and where this adventure is, and how it will benefit you and your team.



For further details and booking our Leadership (Re-Treat) email: [email protected]

Stay up to date with The Grow Zone - Real Time Adventures:
Website: thegrowzone.de
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To connect with Sarah and Ceri you can find and follow them here:

Sarah Hübner
Website: www.improverin.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/improverin/
E-Mail: [email protected]

Ceri Temple
Website: www.4elements.eu
Facebook: .eu
Instagram: .eu or
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ceridwentemple
E-Mail: [email protected]

Empowering Schools through Theatre With Sarah

✨ In our final episode of 2022, Sarah takes us backstage into her work by sharing techniques and talking about the impact this work can have across school communities.

💗 Using applied improvisation and applied theatre strategies Sarah is passionate about fostering creativity, empathy and growth to build greater communication and learning experiences.

🤩 We also get to play an improv game again!

🌍 “No one will protect what they don’t care about and no one will care about what they’ve never experienced” - David Attenborough

🗺 From the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award to geography field trips and class retreats, Ceri coordinates, designs and leads a range of outdoor education programmes in Germany and Austria. She also provides training for teachers who lead outdoor education activities in Germany.

🌱 Ceri discusses the benefits of these programmes, the challenges setting them up in an international setting and the sense of accomplishment that they bring.



Ceri Temple 4elements

Sarah, the communications adventurer, is a skilled event organiser combining a multitude of techniques, platforms and methods to create exciting and innovative ways to create connection, nurture trust and develop all manner of team work and communication skills and more.

In this conversation we explore how she creates these unique events, the differences between online and offline, as well as how she keeps them inclusive and engages all involved.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to hike across the Alps? Where do you start? What do you need to take into consideration? What do you need to pack. In this episode Sarah and Ceri discuss the joy of Transalp hiking and Ceri, hiking guide and adventure organiser, takes you step by step through organising these inspiring journeys by foot.

Covid has not only transformed the way we work, but the way we also connect socially through technology. It has opened up ways to bring people together across the world both professionally and privately.

Sarah, the Communications adventurer is at the forefront of these changes, and alongside her in-person events, designs innovative, fun and entertaining online celebrations - from birthday parties and anniversaries to Christmas and farewell parties. Sarah discusses the advantages of such gatherings and the elements that make a successful and special online celebration.

And just like that we're into Series 3. In this series, we are excited to open up our toolkit and give you an insight into our realtime adventures and share tools to help you to go on similar adventures.

Our first episode is perfect timing for the hiking season. What are the essentials for a day hike in the Bavarian Alps? Ceri, the Outdoor Adventurer and mountain hiking guide, reveals her top tips for packing for day hiking in the Bavarian Alps.

“Happiness, imagination, creativity, connection, friendship, art, stories, heart, magic- so much what I love about humanity and so much that I love about theatre, all put into one delicious package with a bowl of play” is how Patti Stiles, our latest podcast guest, describes improvisational theatre. ⁣
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An actor, director, author, playwright, writer and teacher who specialises in improvisational theatre, Patti has adventured through the most renowned of theatre circles, training and performing across the globe and founding well-known theatre companies internationally along the way. ⁣
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In this episode Patti shares with us the passion for her cause and the fire within her to strive for growth and nurture it in others. She also lets us in on the fear she overcame to write her new book “Improvise Freely”.⁣
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An inspiring conversation where we discuss the powerful energy that comes from trust, vulnerability, open-mindedness, compassion and extraordinary adventures when embarking into the unknown with others. ⁣

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Website: www.pattistiles.com⁣
Book: https://www.pattistiles.com/IF_book⁣
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Podcast #19 Nora Suarez - Curiosity, Compassion and Play

Nora Suarez is Mexican American and moved from Seattle to Germany in 2020 with her partner. Nora is an Interdisciplinary Visual Artist currently focusing on how Colonialism influenced the loss of her mother tongue and how this impacts identity.

Nora began her career as an artist later in life, having previously worked in healthcare- managing critically-ill babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units for 20 years.

Nora discusses her appreciation of the richness and diversity of life and lifelong curiosity to learn and discover more. She shares how she discovered the key to happiness at a young age and her journey through balancing the demands of work in a highly intense and stressful environment with play. This self-awareness led her to eventually pursue a new real time adventure in fashion and art.



Connect with Nora:
Instagram: .art
Website: https://noramatildasuarez.art/

Podcast #18 Bárbara Santos On Theatre Of The Oppressed

“We are all connected. This is globalisation. We need to have a more contextual approach. Even when we make a little play, we cannot talk about the individual topic without thinking about which kind of society this individual is living in.”

Bárbara Santos is a Brazilian director, author, performer, activist and the artistic director of KURINGA in Berlin, where she is currently based. For twenty years, Bárbara worked alongside Augusto Boal, who the creator of Theatre of the Oppressed.

Through adventuring in theatre and performance, Bárbara accompanies her participants on voyages that uncover the connection between personal experiences and societal structures in a globalised world. This process empowers people who are disadvantaged to find ways to act and improve their situations.

Today, we meet virtually with Bárbara in her home city, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. We hope that you enjoy this inspiring and fascinating conversation as much as we did.

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Instagram: .kuringa⁣⁣
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Website: thegrowzone.de⁣⁣
Instagram: .growzone⁣⁣
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A year into our podcast we decided to take a break in our current series to explore the topic of taking stock. In this episode we explore the value of reflection, experimenting in real-time with tools to process and review experiences. As we travel back along the last year’s journey, we invite you to try out these tools yourself.

❓What would your museum look like? What would you give the thumbs up or middle finger to?⁣

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🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ikVxo1eAtnFBtfytD3uU0?si=Ds_8ZcoOSNeiHSXGu-92qQ

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And we're back... after our summer break we are diving back into our interview series. This month chatting with Alaskan-Californian John Garteiz.

John discovered his passion for travel and adventure after university. He shares how it brought him outside of his comfort zone- from cultural encounters that broadened his mindset to an appreciation of the world around us.

At times a lone adventurer, pursuing challenges out of the ordinary, John is also a real people person. He shares tales from his experiences of connection and communication adventures in diverse environments.

Now in his 70s, he also let’s us into how he maintains his fitness and positive life outlook.

“𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.” ⁣
– Anne Wilson Schaef⁣
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You may have noticed we have had no August Episode of The Grow Zone. Even TGZ podcasters need a break, so we have taken the summer months to rest, re-energise and come back with new ideas for The Grow Zone and beyond. We look forward to continuing on the Adventure with you again in September.⁣
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In the meantime why not listen to some of our previous episodes?⁣
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You can find the full library here: www.thegrowzone.de⁣
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Until then wishing you happy and healthy summer days!⁣