Your Natural Presence (In Person)

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

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

• Practice playing fearlessly
• Access your natural presence
• Discover your default presence and how it changes based on situations
• How to change your presence at will
• How to use body language and your presence to embody characters that you play or that you write.
• Trust your imagination, your body and your spontaneous impulses.
• Practice kindness to yourself and others.
• Celebrate and enjoy mistakes as gifts

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!

• Fun games that you play with friends, family and colleagues!
• Listening, noticing, being present
• Being kinder to ourselves and letting go of self judgement
• Celebrating mistakes and embracing a mindset of curiosity and discovery
• Being in the moment
• Access your natural presence
• Discover your presence default presence in life and in certain situations
• How to change your presence at will
• How to use body language and presence to inform characters that you play or that you write.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

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