Description

Event Description: 

Collaborative Creation: Improvisation Workshop. This workshop will teach the skills of successful improvisation -- fearlessly taking risks, withholding judgment, and engaging enthusiastically with every idea -- and apply them to your work environment. 

Participants will take away actionable tools for expressing oneself more confidently and creating more effectively as a team -- and have fun doing so in a safe, fast-paced, and low-pressure environment. BCC Workshops are Experiential Learning. 

We apply tools from improv, theater, & stand-up to teach communication, innovation, and leadership skills, and build trust among teams.

Event Itinerary: 

1. The workshop begins with all participants gathering together for an introduction
2. We'll then split off into groups (up to 25 participants per instructor) for a 90 minute or longer improvisation workshop that provides concrete skills for how to approach creativity and team-building through fun games and exercises. 
3. The workshop ends with all guests gathering for a 'final exercise' that ties everything together and a recap of what we covered and/or a professionally improvised show by our professional improvisers at the BCC.

What You Will Make / Go Home With: 

Each guest will go home with:

A thorough understanding of:

• Saying ""Yes, And"" to every idea.
• Listening to and making what the other person said important.
• Creating and supporting an ensemble (everyone acting as both leader and follower).
• Storytelling and creating a Narrative.
• Gift-giving, empowering, and making your partners look good.
• Having the courage to not waste time and create expeditiously and efficiently.
• Accepting and building with offers (both overt and subtle ones).
• Influencing and getting people to be ""on receive"" to your offers.
• Getting everyone the same page with clear communication (understanding different methods of communication via ethos / pathos / logos).
• Disarming difficult conversations and making sure your partner is on receive to hear what you are communicating.
• Assuming competence: having the courage to become something you are not yet. 
• Getting out of how you're "typecast" by "faking it till you make it"
• There is no right or wrong, only weak or strong choices.
• Transforming fear of the unknown into an opportunity for learning.
• Developing presence and positive state of mind (reframing your nerves so they help you).
• Trusting your intuition and following your gut.
• How to offer feedback, direction, and coaching.
• Responding with curiosity when it comes to difficult situations vs. reacting emotionally.

About the Instructor: 

Our instructors are veteran improvisers, with experience.

Welcoming and facilitating teams of all shapes and sizes (from small-start up companies to Google). Workshops are high energy, fully participatory, and fun, with real world takeaways and tools your team can rely on when they get back to work.

About the Venue: 

We currently produce shows in Williamsburg Brooklyn at the Brick Theater, a state-of-the-art, beautiful theater space right off the Metropolitan/Lorimer subway stop - and host our classes at a space called Vital Joint - which has a very hip, DIY, underground feel to it. We can also come to you in your space.