Being Specific & Using Your Senses (In Person)

This class is for all skill levels. No prior experience necessary.

This is an on-your feet workshop where you will:

• Play fun games and tell stories
• Improvise stories and characters
• Practice being specific and clear in your dialogue
• Use your senses and imagination to discover detail instead of forcing it
• Use space object work to ground you in the moment and discover details

Pixar, Stanford, IDEO, Forbes, the New York Times, Harvard Business Review and many other organizations have advocated for improv in a variety of contexts: increases creativity, improves communication, increases productivity for team collaboration, is amazing business training, helps reduce anxiety and stress and be more resilient in the face of uncertainty and rapid change. But what’s the deal? How does practicing improv and imaginative play help us?

• Listen and be present
• Be better communicators and stronger storytellers
• Tap into creativity
• Relieve anxiety and release tension
• Increase their empathy
• Celebrate mistakes and be more resilient
• Gracefully deal with uncertainty
• Make your partners look good and
• Collaborate on teams more effectively
• YES AND in addition to being useful, improv is fun!

• Playing fun games that you can share with colleagues, friends and family
• Play fun games and tell stories
• Improvise stories and characters
• Practice being specific and clear in your dialogue
• Use your senses and imagination to discover detail instead of forcing it
• Use space object work to ground you in the moment and discover details

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Classroom provided by Seydways Acting Studios, 4949 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States