- The Incredibly Exciting History Of Improvisation As A Tool For Social Change - Jeanne Lambin
A rollicking romp through the oft-overlooked the history of improvisation as a tool for social change. We will cartwheel through centuries, dance through decades, yawp through the years, and ponder how a better understanding of this facet of improvisations past can help us change our collective future.
- Inclusive Leadership: Status, Power, and Bureaucracy - Brad Fortier
How can the leaders of large organizations collaborate on transforming towards a more inclusive culture? What can be done to shift the perspective of people who are "privileged"? Where do the tools of improv and theater fit in transforming culture? This talk explores these questions and provides insight from the lens of an ongoing effort in Oregon state government.
- ACTing Resilient: Aware. Commit. Take ACTION. - Mary Curtis
This AIN talk focuses on:
1. Defining Resilience---emotional, physical, mental, social needs
2. Acceptance of true-self
3. Practical daily-activities to develop resilience
4. Blocks to resilience
5. Personal strength-based assets to develop resilience
6. Willingness--are you willing to do what it takes to achieve what you want to achieve--emotional and physical resilience. - A.I.: Just a good time? Or truly transformative? - Ella Gabriele Amann and Roland Trescher
We are in the middle of a big paradigm shift. Drivers include the digital revolution, agile methods, the need for self organization, and the need for a life long learning culture. These all create the necessity of a new mindset. This is where applied improv becomes more and more important as a transformative approach for training, coaching and consulting. We will share how the improv live! Train the Trainer program has evolved over the last decade to address the changing needs in the marketplace. We will cover what changes are coming in the world of work and how we need to adapt our applied improvisation training to meet these changes. We will give insights on how we use applied improvisation in business development, therapy and work. We will show our latest innovation of how we use applied improvisation, in combination with personality assessments, to increase the value and impact for organizations, teams and individuals so A.I. is both a good time & truly transformative.
- Co-creating adaptive futures within complexity and change - Johanna de Ruyter and Jules Livingstone
We are a playback theatre and corporate improvisation expert and an organisational change management and strategy specialist, one all emotion, story and movement the other all structure, analysis and plans. We were bought together through our deep appreciation of Improvisation, change processes and self-development - combining our skillsets to create a common approach.
In this case study, we worked with an international creative business finding itself at a crossroads in its 27th year. The client needed a new strategic direction, an updated energy and purpose and concrete steps to move into this new phase. We applied a model for solving complex problems in new ways – Learn Change Adapt
- which uses change management methods, alloyed with an improvisation mindset.
We share and explore:
· How can applied improv be deployed within a program for managing change and creating a new strategic direction ?
· What synergies emerge when an improv person combines talents with a corporate strategist and change manager ?
· What special outcomes resulted from this kind of collaboration ?
· What personal mindset and behavioural practices fostered our collaboration’s success?
· How did we generate them ?
· What roles and dynamics enabled us each to leverage the best from our working partner across the stages of program design, client facilitation and the final recommendations and plan?
