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How do you make sure that people learn improvisational skills in one day workshop?
At gunpoint.
Or, if you want a little less drama, I think there are plenty of good exercises that can introduce improv to people in a one-day workshop. (I’m going to assume the question is essentially “How do you teach people improv if you only have a one-day workshop?”)
I’d break it down into the following steps:
- Get people to enjoy playing
- Get people to enjoy making mistakes
- Introduce the terms of improv
- Introduce storytelling
- Introduce listening, cooperation and sharing control
- Do some scenes and games
That would take me about 6 hours to cover though I could squeeze it into 4 and stretch it out to 8 if I had to. There are plenty of sample exercises out there on the web for each of these steps. That’s what I would do.
-fv
