THE POWER OF PLAY

Through 'playing' (achieving focus as in a game) an energy source opens up between people. Attending to the demands of a game or simple exercise erases self-doubt, self-consciousness and promotes true contact with the self, others and the immediate environment. Improv fosters successful collaboration.

In order to succeed, participants must attend to their partners' communication and accept and build upon each other's actions while remaining as flexible as possible. As a result, everyone is empowered to interactively discover his or her inherent creative potential.

FUN means TOTAL INVOLVEMENT

Improv is fun. A common "side effect" of most Improv experiences is laughter. It is widely accepted that introducing humor into the training process enhances learning and improves retention. More importantly, Improv allows you to acquire skills inherent in the exercise, intuitively. Skills are acquired while having fun. This can be contrasted to the type of education that lectures to individuals or groups using rote learning. This slows learning in the workplace, because the individual is not fully engaged.

The best learning takes place at an intuitive level when the players are fully involved (physically and mentally). Having no time to waste in opinion or criticism because they are too busy grappling with a problem they go beyond their 'perceived' limitations.

We call that having fun. It is a powerful state and the ideal way to acquire and integrate new skills. At the conclusion of an ILS training, participants feel lighter, healthier, and more productive.

My Keynotes are fun, informative and hightly interactive. Using humor and the profound philosophical ideas about group interaction developed by Viola Spolin, I illustrate and get your group to experience why fun is the highest state of learning.

Training to focus on the NOW - I get everyone involved in active listening, trying out new techniques with their table-mates or just the person next to them in the auditorium. Eveyrone comes away enlightened, energised and ready to try new things.