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 Professor Madson has taught workshops on communications, creativity and team building for Apple Computers; Adobe Systems; the Banff Centre for Leadership; Digital Impact; Hewlett Packard; the Gap, Inc., Executive Leadership team; IDEO; Price Waterhouse; and Sun Microsystems Japan Division, as well as the California Institute of Integral Studies, Esalen Institute, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, National Association of Drama Therapists, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, the Western Psychological Association, the International Society for Performance Improvement, and the Center and the Meaningful Life Therapy Association in Japan.
She is professor emeritus at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1977. In the Stanford Drama Department she served as the head of the undergraduate acting program and developed the Stanford Improvisation Program. In 1998 she was the winner of the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Innovation in Undergraduate Education. She founded and coached the Stanford Improvisors and taught beginning and advanced level courses in Improvisation for undergraduate as well as adults in Stanford's Continuing Studies Program. In 1996 she founded the Creativity Initiative at Stanford, an interdisciplinary alliance of faculty who share the belief that creativity can be taught. Patricia has taught Design Improv for the School of Engineering, and is a guest lecturer for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and for the Mayfield Fellows Program.
Professor Madson combines her teaching of improvisation with work as a counselor using an Eastern approach to problem solving known as Constructive Living™. Additionally, she has been the American Coordinator of the Oomoto School of Traditional Japanese Arts in Kameoka, Japan. She was also one of the founding Board members of Bay Area TheatreSports,TM and has been a long time student of improvisation pioneer Keith Johnstone.
Professor Madson is the author of Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up (Bell Tower, 2005).
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