Comedy

A Rope Course for the Mind: Building Teams and Communication One Improv Game at a Time

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  Why Improv? Improvisation theater games are wonderful resources because they call for participants to respond to an experience as it happens. This moment of involvement and spontaneity sparks discovery, creative expression, shared laughter, and behavior change. Improv is exciting, scary, challenging, immensely enjoyable, and paradoxical. In my experience, very few people are indifferent to … Read more

The Art of Attraction: Developing Authentic Platform Presence

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  Among the many hats a speaker wears is one that reads “Energy Manager”. We know, as do the planners who hire us, that the attendees at a program experience one of two energy flow states. At just about any moment, they’re either being energized or they are being drained of their liveliness. Whether or … Read more

Innovation as Improvisation

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  What would you call a person who can take something with a known use and employ it in an entirely new way? How about someone who recognizes a need and designs an effective solution? Most would say “inventor,” “originator,” “innovator,” or “creator”. But how about “improviser”? The skills that make Improv Theater participants successful … Read more