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Change 3 things
Goal: • Practice awareness skills. • Practice creativity. • Ice breaker. Overview: In Pairs participants observe each other then turn around and change 3 things about their appearance. When they turn back to each other they must try to identify everything that their partner has changed. Time: 10 min Number of participants: 2 – 200 ...
Yes and story
Goals: • Practice listening and awareness • Practice accepting offers and building on them • Practice focusing and reincorporating. Overview: Participants tell a story in a circle, each participant contributing one sentence at a time. Time: 20 min Number of participants: 4-12 Game flow: Have everyone sit in a circle. Get a name for an ...
Yes lets
Goals: • Build positive energy. • Practice acceptance and appreciation. Overview: Participants suggest random activities to be done by the group. The rest of the participants support these suggestions by responding enthusiastically with the words “Yes lets!” and then mime the suggested activities eagerly. Time: 15 min Number of participants: 6 – 20 Game flow: ...
Gifts
Goal: • Building energy. • Accepting offers. • Practice appreciation. • Practice creativity. Overview: Participants hand each other imaginary gifts. The giving participant only makes a physical offer, while the receiving participant names the gift and accepts it with enthusiasm. Time: 15 min Number of participants: 2 – 200 Game flow: Have the participants stand ...
Walking exercise
Goals: • Illustrates the art of creative leadership. • Practices giving and taking control. • Practices awareness and focus. • Practices collaboration. Overview:. Participants walk around in the space. In the first round everyone stops and starts walking when the facilitator claps their hands. In the last round everyone stops and starts at the same ...
Mirror mirror
Goals: • Illustrates the art of creative leadership. • Practices giving and taking control. • Practices awareness and focus. • Practices collaboration. Overview: In pairs participants mirror each other’s movement. First only one player leads while the other follows. In the last round they give and take control. Time: 15 min Number of participants: 2 ...
Circus bow
Goal: • Illustrates the improv practise of accepting mistakes. • Building trust • Encourages risk taking and creating a safe climate. Overview: In a circle participants each get a chance to step forward, say “I failed” and bow. After each bow the rest of the participants give a warm round of applause. Time: 10 min ...
Improvisation class 1 – The power of vulnerability
Basic human contact – the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words – is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Martha Beck – oh Mrs Beck, how wise you are. For it is in human interaction where life happens. This ...
Improvisation class 5 – Stories
By Luci and Burgert The focus of last nights class was story. As the participants trickled in and we moved our chairs into the habitual circle De Wet shed a little natural light on his story by telling us about his drumming days with a band called Jesse Jordan. I googled “Jesse Jordan Band” this ...
Improvisation class 4 – Characters
Class 4 was about characters – how they walk talk and feel. We started with gibberish games (Emotion gibberish, Gibberish switch and Gibberish Insults). Gibberish helps one to focus more on how a character talks than what they say. How a character talks is just as important if not more important than what the character ...
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