About The Workshop

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” - Victor Borges.

This workshop is intended for people with some improvisation experience (at least six months is recommended) who are interested in facilitating either Actor's Improvisation (improvisation intended for a public audience) or Applied Improvisation (improvisation in therapeutic or organisational contexts). This includes improv teachers, jam/team facilitators, improv coaches, and improvisers who facilitate in their professional or personal lives.

We’ll explore a few key elements of great facilitation:

Creating, maintaining, and negotiating boundaries.
Balancing safety and risk with a group (as well as your own).
Balancing freedom and form (moving between hands-on coaching and free play).
Balancing your expertise and their experience (moving between telling and asking).
Managing relationships of power and privilege which might exist in the room.

We will use roleplay and real-life scenarios to explore the workshops main outcomes. There will be a lot of space created for debrief and application to your own context.

The Details

Date: Saturday, 18th January
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Place: Birak - First Summer (99 Loftus St, Leederville)
Teacher: Aden Date