Improv

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Improv is an effective tool for collaboration and is used often in ISKME's workshops to help participants to connect, listen and work together.

Improv Goals:

To give participants tools to collaborate during the conference—new ways of being together.
To help them see that they individually don’t have to have “The Amazing Idea”, that that can be discovered.
To have them experience “Yes, And…” as a technique to achieve this.
To build trust within their groups

Tenets of Improv:

Suspend judgment (Stay present—evaluate later)
Let go of your agenda/be flexible (Be open, see your partner as brilliant)
Listen in order to receive (Listen for where you agree or can support)
Build on what you receive (Connect and move forward WITH your partner)
Make your partner look brilliant (Focus outward. Build on what they say.)
Look for connection/what you can accept
Serve the scene. (Serve the bigger picture)

Improv is NOT about being cleaver, funny, witty or fast. It’s about listening, connecting, and collaborating. It’s a “state of acute cooperation.”

Focus for the facilitator: to have participants experience equality; how a short simple offer engages their partner; suspending judgment to support their partner.