Beyond the basement

Join Chris for unscripted reflections on the wild, tender and playful experience of being human. Each episode is like an intimate voice-note to you, with lively insight from the edge of discovery. People say you’ll recognise yourself in these adventures and encounters. And hear clarity, perspective and truth - with deep appreciation for life’s messy magic as it’s really lived through your body. Chris Kenworthy is an improviser, facilitator and embodiment coach. https://linktr.ee/chriskenworthy chriskenworthy.substack.com

Beyond the basement is a education podcast hosted by Chris Kenworthy, with 305 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Chris Kenworthy hosts Beyond the basement, a education show with 305 episodes published.

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  Beyond the basement

  Let yourself be misunderstood

  Jun 18, 202650 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m exploring why certain kinds of conflict feel especially painful for perfectionists - especially when someone projects something onto you that doesn’t feel true.</p><p>I look at what happens when another person’s fear, history or trauma gets laid at your door, and why that can hit so hard if you’re already wired to question yourself, defend yourself, and try to make everything fair, right and repairable. I talk about projection, conflict, inner authority, the urge to explain yourself, and the trap of taking responsibility for something that was never yours to carry...

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  You’ll be OK - healthy masculine presence in a chaotic world

  Jun 16, 202659 minS0

  <p>I’m back from my first men’s retreat in Sweden - a deep, embodied exploration of masculinity, sensitivity, self-leadership, and love.</p><p>I share what struck me most: that healthy masculinity is about grounded presence and love. It’s steadiness in uncertainty. It’s the capacity to hold tension, to protect what matters, to stay open-hearted, and to bring clarity and care to yourself and others.</p><p>I explore what it felt like to be in safe male company, what masculine play and strength awakened in me, how hope and self-trust showed up on a difficult journey...

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  Holding things lightly

  Jun 8, 202628 minS0

  <p>When I’m under pressure, I tend to contract. I want to get things right, map everything out, stay in control and avoid mistakes. </p><p>I take things seriously.</p><p>But improvisation keeps reminding me that life often feels lighter (or less costly) another way - through play, experimentation, small offers, and seeing what comes back.</p><p>Fresh out of an improv intensive in London, join me for an exploration the difference between perfectionism and playfulness, between trying to force the “right” answer and letting something emerge through curiosity, responsiveness and trust. This lands especially strongly for me...

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  The practice of being with yourself & what happens next

  Jun 2, 202643 minS0

  <p>After months of rebuilding structure and steadiness in my life, I find myself on a new exploration: what does it really mean to be with my experience, rather than fix it, analyse it, distract from it, or turn it into a story - now I feel safe enough to truly feel it?</p><p>In this episode, I explore the feminine quality of “being with” - the soft, receptive, relational capacity to stay present with feelings as they move through us. Not becoming the grief, ecstasy, loneliness or fear. Not trying to solve it. Just being with it.</p><p>I...

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  Single in middle-age: Truth, grief & freedom

  May 26, 202636 minS0

  <p>Come along for an improvised exploration of this strange, unexpected chapter of life: the grief of not being where I once expected to be, the freedom (and loneliness) of living outside the conventional script, and the quiet reality of building an unconventional life while many people around me are immersed in marriage, children, careers and family life.</p><p>We’ll talk about the emotional texture of this experience - the sense that life is not supposed to look like this, the loss of structures I once assumed would hold me, and the way middle age seems to bring ol...

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