The high wire

One of the main things that holds people back from taking an improvisation class, and a more improvisational approach to life, is fear and anxiety. As learning designers and facilitators we are SUPER tuned in to this. Cultivating trust and safety is the essential first step in everything we do. We all know the feelings […]

Who can I be?

Liz Allen is a wonderful teacher (one of the best in my view) and I was very lucky to take some improv classes with her recently when she came to London. One of the things I picked up from Liz was this idea: When you’re improvising, just ask: ‘Who can I be?’ Liz put it […]

I know.

Jill Bernard’s Cute Little Book of Improv has a memorable idea: that we all walk around with imaginary placards that say ‘Perpetual self-doubt.’ This was true for me for a long time and cost me in quite a few opportunities not taken, relationships that didn’t grow and roads left untravelled. Doubt has it’s value of […]

Momentum matters most

Improv connects ideas and feelings to create momentum. Momentum is something we can choose to increase or decrease, and we have skills and tools for that. Yes helps to create momentum. It can take some effort to keep on connecting ideas and feelings with ‘Yes, and’ x 100 but the payoff is exponential. You get […]

Improvising in flow

Improvisation is about flow. What is all this about flow then? According to flow researcher and author Stephen Kotler: “Flow is a state of rapt attention where action and awareness merge. Time speeds up or slows down. You feel and perform your best. You are present in the moment without reference to a separate sense […]

What’s in your backpack?

George Schaller is an American conservationist and writer and is recognised as one of the world’s preeminent field biologists. In 1959 he travelled to Central Africa to study and live with the mountain gorillas and his groundbreaking research was continued by Dian Fossey who wrote Gorillas In The Mist. George was renowned for being able […]

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