The unexpected, the unscripted, the unplanned –- they often call for improvisation. Improv performers take the stage without a script, co-creating content and meaning in the moment. We also practice on a regular basis. Practice improvising and creating in the moment? Yes! Participants will learn how to adopt and adapt the principles, practices and mindsets of improv to their own creative work, life, or play.
This highly interactive, experiential session will center on improv-based activities and exercises, allowing participants to explore how to navigate and thrive through the unexpected. Through improv, one can actually practice how to play, communicate, take risks, support one another, boost their resiliency and confidence, and even have a few laughs in the midst of life's unscripted moments.
What? What will participants learn or experience as a result of this program or session?
- Enhance your own creative confidence and ability to respond purposefully and playfully with the unexpected
- Experience how improv principles and practices like “yes, and” promotes creative thinking in groups and teams.
- Learn how and when to integrate improvisation-based activities into your next facilitation or training session.
So What? How might the content of this session change your perceptions, habits, ways of working, or view on the world?
- Actively engage in activities based in improvisation, allowing you to feel the emotional and physiological responses to the unexpected
- Through real activities, experience examples of responding to the unexpected with positivity and playfulness
- Improv-based activities will allow you to have both individual and collective experiences to the unexpected - what is it like to face the unexpected WITH someone else?
Now What? How might you apply what you learn or experience in this session?
- Through experiencing the activities, become better able to integrate them into your own work
- Rich debriefing and exploration of the activities will inform your own debriefing and application in your own setting
- Experiencing the emotional and physical responses to the unexpected will give you insight into your own responses and others' responses, building confidence, self-awareness, and empathy
