Event

Serious Fun: Applied Improvisation For Personal & Professional Development

Every human interaction involves some degree of emotional risk. Buyer and seller, employee and employer, teacher and student, therapist and client and every other combination of roles are most likely to succeed when the risk - e.g., of rejection, being misunderstood, failing to communicate is managed with a combination of competence and good will. Self-awareness is something we can spend our entire lives improving.
Improvisation master and Stanford University professor Patricia Ryan Madson describes improv as a training ground for acting with generosity, awareness of the needs of others, and willingness to jump in and share the struggle with others on the stage of life.
Improvisers at every level recognize the physical, emotional, psychological and social connections occurring through these laugh-intensive, emotionally rich creative experiences, which are to learning and growth what oil is to complex machinery - the agent of smooth gear-shifting, of fluid movement among intersecting parts.

In this workshop you will:
Understand the ways improvisation games and exercises develop greater self-awareness, one of the primary competencies associated with emotional intelligence;

Strengthen interpersonal skills through creative experiences that foster social-emotional learning;

Learn techniques for strengthening emotional self- regulation when the stress response is activated;

Learn techniques that can be immediately applied in group, training or classroom settings;

FACILITATOR: Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, RMT, CGP, a consultant/trainer and writer/performer. Check out her blog: livesinprogressnewsletter.blogspot.com for articles, links and resources on creativity and how to cultivate it for personal and professional development, or website: www.lifestage.org