The offer includes:
• 1 half-day workshop per organisation
• 1 Hour consultation before the workshop to understand your story and specific needs
• Transport is not included.
• This offer is only valid for 2010.

If you are interested in our offer please contact us at connect@playingmantis.net

More about Playing Mantis

We use improvisation theatre for action learning, and story-making for metaphoric experiences to develop organisations, individuals and communities to play their roles more meaningfully in a changing world. F

Possible workshop topics:

Team innovation
Whose idea is it anyway?
Collaborative creativity skills to develop an innovative team climate

Change leadership
Think on your feet.
Skills to help you lead through change and uncertainty

Values based leadership
Follow your own flute
Making decisions based on your values and the values of your team

Conflict leadership
Taking the lead role
Choosing which role to play in a conflict so that you and your team can grow.

Transformational leadership
Designing journeys
Using story to design events and processes to ensure transformation of all involved

Customer interaction
Sell with soul
Communication skills to help build better customer relationships

In the uncertain ever-changing world of today you need the ability to adjust quickly, think on your feet and come up with creative solutions. Often you are required to do this in a group without the luxury of time or individual authority to move forward.

This workshop will help you:

• Cope better in uncertain times.
• Work better in a team with diverse ideas.
• Create an atmosphere in which innovation can thrive.
• Be more aware of changes in your environment.
• Be more adaptable.

These skills are the same as those employed by improvisation actors who respond to ideas from their audience, fellow actors or the scenario quickly and creatively and in collaboration with one another.  Yet, these skills are not based on talent; they are learnt and can be practiced and honed.

In the words of best selling author Clem Sunter, you need The Mind of a Fox or according to acclaimed writer Daniel Pink, you need a Whole New Mind. You must develop right brain capacities not just to cope with, but to excel in the world of today.

Playing Mantis specializes in the teaching of these skills and can equip you for an unpredictable world.

We will teach you how to play using your right brain, reflect on the experience and apply it to your real life situation.

Who should attend:

Individuals who want to learn skills to thrive in spite of change and uncertainty.

Leaders who want to inspire their team members to be more innovative as a group.

Can you afford it?

With an economic recession causing avalanches of worry to surge over you, can you afford not to align with your passion and cultivate foxy skills? Consider the time and money you spend on keeping your body physically flexed and ready for action – gym fees, hairdressers, clothing bills, healthy food. Can you afford to spend some time and money on getting your heart, mind and spirit flexed and ready for action?

Free follow up consultation

To ensure that you get your money’s worth; we offer you the option of receiving a free 1 hour consultation after the workshop. This is to make sure you get the help you need to apply the new knowledge in your unique context. The ability to apply the skills we teach is part of our promise and we will do what is necessary to assist you in this step

What people say:

The methods that you use have the extraordinary ability of getting people thinking on their feet, out of “the box” and more creatively than they imagined possible while pushing them to become more adaptable. If improving your team’s creativity, adaptability and unity is what you are after, Playing Mantis is who you are looking for. – Mark Baker, Industrial Psychologist, Excelebrate

I feel that I have tangible skills to use in order to cope with the changes in my life. - Nadia Jappie, Marketing Manager, Symphonia

Workshop details

This is a 6 hour workshop that includes 5 hours contact time
with a 15 min tea break and 45 min lunch break.

Date:

Follow your own flute: Sat 3 Oct
Improv your foxy skills : Sat 10 Oct

Time: 8h30 – 16h00

Venue: Melville Junction Church, cnr of Seventh Avenue and
Fifth Street

Cost: For our first time in Jozi you get these exclusive workshops at the highly reduced price of R650 for 1 / R1100 for both.

We like to keep our workshops small and exclusive, so BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

For bookings e-mail us at connect@playingmantis.net or call Burgert on 0822559625

To read more about Playing Mantis and our Facilitators click here

In our interaction with companies and individuals we meet an increasing number of highly talented yet intensely frustrated individuals who feel a deep need for new inspiration. Many express the desire to rekindle their passion and reshape their professional careers to express that passion.

This workshop will help you to:

• grow in self esteem
• get a framework of what drives you and the values that guide your choices
• Acquire confidence in aligning your life to reflect these values.
• Know the sound of your own voice and the feeling of listening to it.

Join us on a journey back to your unique self, the source of real joy, inspiration, creativity and motivation. Rediscover your passion, feel great about being you and reshape your career to mirror who you really are.

Playing Mantis specializes in helping you grow through connection with yourself, your passion and your relationships.

We use storytelling and improvisation to play with new ideas and perspectives, reflect on the discoveries you make about who you are and apply the new found knowledge to reshape your professional life.

Who should attend:

Individuals who are looking for the security of knowing whether or not they’re in the right place and the ability to trust their own voice.

Leaders who want to lead with self confidence and make clear decisions in spite of uncertainty.

Can you afford it?

In these times of economic uncertainty, can you afford not to align with your passion?

Your passion and unique motivators are the only things that truly distinguish you from others. We would like to help you align your external context with your internal life so that you are more productive and more effective.

Consider the time and money you spend on keeping your body physically flexed and ready for action – gym fees, hairdressers, clothing bills, healthy food. Can you afford to spend some time and money on getting your heart, mind and spirit flexed and ready for action?

Free follow up consultation

To ensure that you get your money’s worth, we offer you the option of receiving a free 1 hour consultation after the workshop. This is to make sure you get the help you need to apply the new knowledge in your unique context. Too many workshops leave people excited and ready for action, but without a practical plan to make it work for them.

The ability to apply the skills we teach is part of our promise and we will do what is necessary to assist you in this step.

What people say:

It was as if a flashlight was shining through my muddy waters. It showed me a way out and that there is more for me in life than mud. - Amanda Jooste, PRO for artists

I enjoyed the creativity – this is the most fun I have had in ages. – British American Tobacco HR team member

Your unique way with stories and characters opened a fresh perspective on my own character and story. I was moved by the way in which the stories brought the participants straight to the heart of their search for meaning. Dr Jeanette de Klerk, Philosophy of Education, University of Stellenbosc

Workshop details

This is a 6 hour workshop that includes 5 hours contact time with a 15 min tea break and 45 min lunch break.

Date:

Follow your own flute: Sat 3 Oct
Improv your foxy skills : Sat 10 Oct

Time: 8h30 – 16h00

Venue: Melville Junction Church, cnr of Seventh Avenue and
Fifth Street

Cost: For our first time in Jozi you get these exclusive
workshops at the highly reduced price of R650 for 1 / R1100 for
both.

We like to keep our workshops small and exclusive, so BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

For bookings e-mail us at connect@playingmantis.net or call Burgert on 0822559625

To read more about Playing Mantis and our Facilitators click here