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Team Building Improv Workshop: How to bring improv into your work
Boost Creativity
Improv changes the brain. In a series of studies, Charles Limb and his team found that during improv, a brain region associated with self-judgment “quiets down,” and a creative and language brain center “speaks up.”
Increases Connection
Another study found that it could be a helpful treatment for people with complex trauma since it may help them connect better with others and help brain regions work better together.
Reduces Social Anxiety
Peter Felsman found that improv was generally helpful in lowering people’s social anxiety, even after just 20 minutes of an improv intervention.
Get comfortable with uncertainty
Improv helps reduce people’s uncertainty intolerance, and this decrease is linked with a reduction in social anxiety, which means that improv makes many people more comfortable with uncertainty, making them more likely to face social situations.
Build Confidence
Practicing improv aids people with lower confidence by practicing interpersonal skills, and participants in studies reported feeling more confident a year after implementing improvisation.
Decrease Stress
Improv has also been shown to decrease stress before a performance task. People who participated in a seven-week improv course were generally more relaxed.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to try out improv? If your answer was Yes! And…. you are going to enjoy a new FREE workshop.
Join us on October 11th at 11 AM Eastern for an interactive virtual workshop that teaches you the foundations of improv, including how to implement practices into your daily life.
Employees within companies, organizations, and even self-employed people can learn from improv, which helps them to be more agile and flexible in times of stress or challenges.
One of the most critical factors in a workplace is feeling a sense of psychological safety.
According to an article from the International Journal of Management Education, “…it is crucial that team members can freely voice and experiment with new ideas without fear of rejection or failure.”
Creating a safe space might sound cliche, and while the term has been overused, it still is vital to offer management and employees a sense of psychological safety to foster a growth mindset.
Improv involves games played between participants that help employees build relationships with each other, and it allows each individual to accept uncertainty. The workshop will be held virtually on Zoom, and all participants must have a camera on and be able to communicate without distractions.
David Papa and Deb Schell will facilitate the hour-long workshop.
David Papa has been hosting and performing improv comedy shows in Prague, Czech Republic, for over five years. He is also the Chief Strategist at The Change Tribe, a coaching and consulting firm he is building that helps leaders create joyful work and use their business as a force for good.
For over ten years, he has lived an improvised life, moving countries, changing relationships, working for himself, and starting collaborations by following his intuition, which can be honed and accessed through improv. He runs improv workshops to help leaders release their blocks to their emotions, beliefs, listening abilities, presence, and inspiring leadership capabilities.
Based in Central Pennsylvania, Deb Schell is a Community Strategist who works globally with business owners to help them feel confident launching their online courses, programs, or memberships. She’s a certified YouMap® Coach assisting clients to leverage their strengths, values, skills, and talents.
In 2015, Deb became involved with the Harrisburg Improv Theatre to learn how to feel confident and connect with others. The practice of Yes and….is specifically designed to encourage brave and bold actions. Opening to uncertainty is the first step to collaboration; the second is adding your ideas.
Deb is also a Laughter Yoga Leader, sharing laughter with others virtually and in person. Laughter yoga transforms depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and other challenging emotions instantly. The key is that we aren’t laughing “at each other” but “with each other” in the spirit of community and shared joy.
You are welcome to invite others to sign up via our Eventbrite page. Please register before October 5th so that we know how many people to expect.
The workshop will include a few improv games with time for sharing experiences and asking questions. The event will conclude with a short laughter yoga session.
A recent participant of David’s improv workshop said: “David, your event was surprising in all ways. Moments of insight, reflection, healing, discovery. One of the participants wrote to me afterward, just raving about how extraordinary it was. Thank you for being you and doing such a strangely singularly awesome job.” – Krista B.
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