Written on
August 11, 2009 by
Cath
In recent posts (here and here), I’ve been sharing about some of the powerful life skills and lessons I’ve been gleaning from impro story-telling. Impro is a form of theatre where the story is made up by the team of actors as they act it out. Nobody knows where the story will go, because they’re creating it together on the spot, often in collaboration with the audience. The context of uncertainty that’s created within the impro games and story-telling sessions is in many ways similar to the fast-paced, high-change, unpredictable environments that many of us are living and working in these days, so I’ve found a lot of the impro perspectives and skills are highly relevant to thriving in this era – particularly the perspectives on embracing, rather than resisting, uncertainty and change.
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Written on
August 6, 2009 by
Cath
A few weeks ago, I participated in a weekend introduction to impro workshop with the Sponteneity Shop in London. Impro is a form of theatre where the story is made up by the team of actors as they act it out. Nobody knows where the story will go, because they’re creating it together on the spot, often in collaboration with the audience. Andy had done a workshop with them and it gave him some serious shifts in his thinking and he came home energized and alive after each session. So I was inspired to check it out. I was not prepared for the mind-and-personality-altering experience that it turned out to be (which was appropriate, I guess, since it was impro!) I’d encourage anyone wanting to learn more about their own habitual patterns and stucknesses, learn how to think on their feet, get better at working in a team, develop confidence and become more flexible and resilient to sign up for an impro class – especially Tom Salinsky’s impro class, since he’s an excellent facilitator.
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