Deborah Kimmett
Wit..Wisdom..Wonderful!!
"She made 100 psychiatrists laugh."
Christina Raposa, Mental Health,
Scarborough Hospital
The Roles We Play
December 3, 2009
To paraphrase Shakespeare “Work is but a stage and we are merely players.”
In my case this is not just a metaphor. I am in the theatre business so this story
involves an actress called Elizabeth Ashby. Many years ago she won the lead role in the Broadway play, Tennessee Williams, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. She played the love-starved Maggie who moved through life like a hungry cat. To prepare herself for the role Ashby went to the streets of New York City to study alley cats behaviours. She imitated the way they moved; they way they pounced when confronted
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Energy Vaccuums
September 30, 2009
Do you have energy vacuums in your life? You know those people that suck all the lifeblood out of you. The type of people that defeat you with inertia and unhelpful questions when you put your good ideas out there? When I was a young girl, my mother would make me vacuum the basement. I would do it in ten minutes and she would say no, no, it takes twenty so I would finish the vacuuming in ten minutes and leave the vacuum turned on, sucking
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Talking to Sick People Video Launched!
September 16, 2009
Talking to Sick People
Do sick people make you uncomfortable? Do you have a difficult time knowing what to say? Do you have a hard time shutting up and just listening?
If you feel like you always put your foot in your mouth with someone who is sick. Second City comic Deborah Kimmett has created a wonderful Dvd that teaches you how to stop offering advice, listen intuitively and connect in a more human heart felt way.
A humorous and compassionate guide for Personal or
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Camping - Right Up There With A Root Canal
June 26, 2009
It’s that time of year when people start enjoying their long-awaited summer holidays.
Some will take a leisurely boat cruise of the magnificent 1000 Islands. Among these seafarers, some will find it necessary to videotape the entire four-hour experience. Maybe they aren’t able to take in the beauty of it all, or maybe they’re counting to make sure there really are a thousand islands. I actually heard one man say to his wife as he videotaped, “We really should come here some day.”
Some tourists are nostalgic for days of yore, and plan a visit to Fort Henry. I’ve been to the Fort
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Change: Fight it now, praise it later
March 21, 2009
I am a humorist. I was a comic but I found that calling myself a humorist pays better. Of course if I were a humorist consultant I would be rich.
For years I worked at the Second City Theatre and my training was in the art of improvisation. We had no set, no script, and so things changed nightly. We had to be very flexible and use the cardinal rule: say “yes, and†to new ideas, rather than “yes, but.â€
But as I moved into speaking in the corporate and public sector, pedaling this idea of “yes, and†became my job. I told
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A Diamond in the Buff
January 26, 2009
For years I’ve gone from pillar to post trying to improve myself. I was in a starter home. A fixer upper. I was under construction so much I needed a building permit. Always in search of the next book, the next DVD, class or teacher because I thought it took a village to raise a neurotic.
I did everything. I envisioned prosperity, got my colours done. I found out what colour my parachute was. I pushed the envelope; I thought “outside the boxâ€, explored the power of positive thinking until I was suicidal. I saw Anthony Robbins so many times he got
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