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An improv workshop is a classic in the world of team building. TIM Theater / Inspinazie itself has thirty years of experience guiding team building events with improvisational theater.
Within no time after starting such a workshop, a fresh wind blows through the group, it bubbles with cocreativity and sparks with newfound connections being made.
Improvisation exercises during a team building focus on improvisational interacting, not acting skills. Everyone can do it. The question, however, is what holds us back in it, and that's what we actively explore during the workshop. An improvisation workshop is essentially about shedding what hinders us from interacting more spontaneously with each other, and to fully see and appreciate each person's unique place in a group. Through all differences.
A boost to group dynamics!
The power of improvisation, for people and organizations
Studies on burnout are increasingly exposing the importance of colleagues at work for staying healthy and active in a work environment. It's not just about task load and managerial appreciation. Mutual relationships in a team are fundamental. Improvising together is a fun and effective way to strengthen the relational fabric and repair wear and tear.*
Being improvisational in interaction helps to move the energy from our brain to our body and thus to the space between us. Throughout a day, people waste masses of time dialoguing with themselves. These are often dialogues based on vague interpretations, assumptions and sometimes outright prejudices. The barriers to speaking up, discussing and agreeing sometimes become sky-high, and people see each other through certain spectacles. An often heard statement after an improvisation workshop is therefore:
"Amai, I have seen colleagues from a very different side in such a short time!"
Others then notice how they dare to show themselves more than they had thought.
"I always thought I was the only one who was so doubtful about certain things, liberating to see that I'm not alone in that. I feel more at ease again."
An improv workshop is also very discharging.
"It had been so long since we all laughed so exuberantly and wholeheartedly!"
That discharge is a real reset, in the team then comes back room for conversations and actions that may have been put off for too long.
Formulas
Improvisation Workshop 2 to 3.5 hours
Max 16 people in 1 group
(If more than 1 group: plenary start and conclusion possible)
Focus on the overall improvisational cycle and letting go of judgment, resistance and fear.
Deepening Team Day with Improvisation
Workshop with improvisation exercises and in-depth reflections and exchange on one or more specific team themes of your choice. Space for mutual expression, addressing and discussion.
- Responsibility: collaborative leadership and collaborative leadership
- Feeling: attention to what is happening in yourself, in others and around you
- Trust: how to assume the other person's good intentions
- Imagination: possibility thinking instead of obstacle thinking, collaboration and co creation
- Slowing down: to dive deeper into what is going on, to get on the table what is really going on
- Connection: surrender and engagement, with each other and with the story you are building together
- Freedom: awareness of blocking, stereotyping, limiting thoughts and releasing them. Space for mistakes and learning.
- Difference tolerance: inclusive thinking and action, connecting with and through the differences in the team
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max 16 people in 1 group
(If more than 1 group: plenary start and conclusion possible)
Improvisation day for large group
Would you like to immerse an entire (department of) organization in an improv bath for an entire day? Then you can opt for a combination of the Deepening Team Day with the performance SWERM / Without Prescription as the start of the day and a plenary theatrical Wrap-Up as a finisher.
An absolute success formula that we ourselves are big fans of!
Contact us for a customized quote.
- Are you looking for an offer for which you individual can enroll? To dive into a bath of improvisational wisdom with others? Then be sure to check out the website of Living Impro.
- Listed prices are excluding VAT.
- We have custom pricing for mini-workshops, for schools and for small non-profits. Contact us!
Book Improvising, communicating without prescription
If you subscribe to any of the above formula, you will anyway receive as a gift the book on improvisation written by Nathalie Van Renterghem and published by Pelckmans in Spring 2024.
If you want to provide each employee with a copy, you can do so at a discount ranging from 15 to 30 % off the retail price (€32 incl VAT). A proposal based on the number of participants is optionally included in the offer.
Info, preview and reviews can be found here.
* Is there a firm tear in your relational fabric? Are the tensions of a conflictual nature? Then you don't need team building more (first) conflict intervention. We have several licensed mediators and team coaches in house, contact us so equally!