Applied Improv for Coaches, Facilitators, and OD professionals on Thursdays

Designing interactive, meaningful and engaging interventions is no small task. In the age of COVID, with Zoom fatigue and other barriers, fun and playfulness are needed now more than ever. This 8 week Applied Improv class designed specifically for coaches, OD professionals, and facilitators will liven up both your online and in person facilitation with a fun interactive toolkit and coaching on an applied improvisational design approach.

Improv builds resilience, flexibility, creativity and capacity for joy. And we will start this work with you, the coach/professional/facilitator. We will spend the first 4 weeks learning the basics of improv, including Yes, And, physical expressions, character development and basic scene work. By playfully engaging in improv for 4 weeks, you, yourself will see increased flexibility in thinking, creativity, capacity for joy, ability to manage the unexpected and resilience.

In 2nd 4 weeks of this 8 week course will focus on your facilitation skills. You will learn an approach to facilitation that is grounded in saying yes, experiential learning, bring play and vulnerability into the work place, and being flexible in design. Improv games will continue to be played, building your own skills. However the focus will move to how and where you might use these games or adapt them to the challenges you as a coach, OD professional or Facilitator have been brought in to help move through.

The schedule for this course if 7:00-9:00 PM EST on Thursdays Jan 14 - March 4