The fact that Applied Improvisation can have a great impact on organisations is no longer in question. There has been a huge amount of research done by universities, business schools, and independent academics, and the findings are unassailable. Applied Improv…
Last week I was lucky enough to be at the AIN Conference 2016 – the Applied Improvisation Network’s fantastic conference at Keble College in Oxford. There were 250 practitioners from around the world sharing their experience of the extraordinary power…
There is a tenet that is used throughout the Improv world that goes “Your skill level is average – your fellow players are all geniuses!” It is useful for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it takes the pressure off you…
Could Improv be an answer to the modern diseases of Information Overload and Stress? Mindfulness is the buzzword of our times. And not without good reason. Those of us with busy working lives spend a lot of our mental energy rehashing the recent…
There is an Applied Improv exercise I use quite a lot, called “Strawberry/Vanilla”. People mill randomly around the room, and every time two people pass each other, they make eye contact and simultaneously they say out loud either the word…
Apart from being hugely successful that is? The answer is that they have all embraced Improv into their culture. They have all brought in Applied Improvisation specialists to help them create agile, collaborative and creative companies. Perhaps that is why…