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 "The power of improv as a training tool resides in its experiential nature or the ability to connect people to their intuition, their bodies, their intellect and each other. The links to the bottom line become clearer and clearer"
- Thiagi, from Training to Imagine.
In this program you will learn and experience a variety of improvisational theater principles and practices designed to enliven your workshops and accelerate participant learning. Effectively getting groups to open up to experiential creative approaches begins with increasing your own comfort and flexibility with the techniques you facilitate. This workshop will focus on two levels at the same time - you as a professional facilitator and you as a creative individual. The paradox of improv: practice being spontaneous.
 In this high-energy session, you will learn and experience the core improv principles, key improv interaction skills, improv training design guidelines, and practical applications of using improv to design and facilitate dynamic learning environments. We will using improv-based practices to help you think on your feet when you facilitate this for others.You will leave with exciting improv activities for icebreakers, energizers, creativity, and team building.
Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence (www.creativeemergence.com), is a seasoned creativity consultant, facilitator and coach who works with anyone from solopreneurs to large corporations. She helps leaders, teams and organizations navigate the unknown. She has designed and delivered hundreds of programs to help groups unleash and focus their creativity toward next-level solutions and business bottom line results. Michelle performs full-length improvised play with Precipice Improv. One of the pioneers in the rapidly emerging field of Applied Improvisation, Michelle is a charter member of the Applied Improvisation Network and has been featured on the radio and in print for her innovative improv programs. She also established Quantum Leap Business Improv - improv-based training for organizational clients such as GEICO Insurance, NIH, World Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Inova Health System, Search for Common Ground and the Center for Non-Profit Advancement among others. She performs full-length improvised plays with Precipice Improv (www.precipiceimprov.com), who can be heard regularly improvising story-vignettes on WBIG (100.3 FM) radio station.
Michelle came to this work through several years of working in marketing, media, advertising, organizational development and years of study, practice and experience with creative process including creative problem solving methods, creative thinking techniques, ritual, improvisational theater, corporate storytelling, accelerated learning, complexity sciences, consciousness and the expressive arts. She is a CoreSomatics® Movement and Bodywork Master Practitioner and integrates movement-centered practices into her trainings. Passionate about "mainstreaming" applied creativity, Michelle founded and runs the Capitol Creativity Network (www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com) in DC. All CCN events are open to the public.
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Earlybird Registration ends with the workshop held one month before this workshop. Payment must be made in advance and received before the earlybird period ends. Advanced online payment via credit card is our preferred method of registration. However, payment can be made via check in advance by mail to:
Mid-Atlantic Faciltiator's Network
7926 Edinburgh Drive
Springfield, VA 22153
Sorry we are unable to accept credit cards at the door.
Workshops are hosted by:
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
441 G St NW Room 2N30
Washington, DC 20548
Get a Map & Directions. Wayne Vick, CPF is the Creator and Director of the DC Facilitator's Workshop Series. He can be reached at 703-913-6513 (Office), 202-498-2310 (Cell), or at Wayne@facilitationCenter.com.
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