Improvisation builds our communication muscle!

 The other day I was chatting to a mum and she was telling me how she struggled with communicating her whole life, she'd get panic attacks.  She wondered if improv would hep her kid, she felt that her child might need some extra nudging into being a stronger communicator.   Yes! I assured her you've come to the right place!

Improv is not only for actors, in fact some of the people who play improvisation and perform for an audience were never actors but discovered a love for the art from and are brilliant improvisers who've had zero actor training.  And on the flip side... many actors feel traumatized at the thought of stepping into the action and making it all up on the spot.

But making it all up on the spot on your own, is not what it's about!  The reason why improv is a brilliant communication tool is that you're never alone and the whole point is to create together!  The rule of thumb is to be in service to the scene and to your scene partner.  This means listening for what the scene needs and being the solution.

The games we play are often about tricking the brain.  The other day Willow and Nha-Nha were playing PREOCCUPATION.  A game that tricks us into talking while our focus is on something else. The preoccupation is with the space objects.  In this case a school science project in space substance, which means that the science project is not real but imaginary.  While keeping the focus on making the science project real they have to hold a discussion at the same time!  Their chat was on a farewell party for the last day of school.  While putting their attention into giving the objects their real weight in space they managed to have a lively conversation, it just seemed to flow out of them.  They had to be reminded to keep the preoccupation and the chat going at the same time, that 's the trick...."AND, scene!"

Afterwards Nha-Nha said "it was like the farewell party was a real plan, like we knew what we were talking about!"

If you feel on shaky ground when you have to talk to people, after some time in improv class the muscle memory will kick in and you'll know you can chat to anyone about anything, because you've done it before!

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