Let’s Play: Improv for the Boardroom 

Not sure where to start? Let’s Play is the perfect introductory course into our methods! It teaches the basics of improvisation in an effort to get your team out of their shells, on their feet, and building confidence in themselves and each other! With a focus on creativity, expression, and collaboration, Let’s Play, is the perfect way to spend an afternoon learning unique and valuable skills while doing something many of us haven’t done since we were kids: having fun! 

If you’re interested in a more detailed description of how theatre and improv skills transfer to your boardroom, take a look at Brielle’s articles, Why your executive should be consulting a theatre kid_and Improv-ing your business relationships. 

The Voice: Explore the Sound You Never Knew You Had 

We are all storytellers. Our instrument? The body and, maybe even more importantly, the voice. There are several key elements to the voice, and control of all them is essential. Volume, speed, pitch, inflection, and diction are all necessary tools of communicators and all of these begin in the body itself.
Non-semantic cues such as pauses and inflection are crucial in engaging your audience but especially so when both presenters and audiences are operating in a second, third, or even fourth language. When you’re working outside your mother language, you have a lot working against you, don’t let intelligibility get in your way! Learning to tell a story with not just words, but with voice, will enhance any presenter’s ability to tell their story in front of a crowd.

I Feel…the art of Giving and Receiving Feedback 

Sometimes we swing and we miss. But that’s okay! Everybody makes mistakes and everybody could use some (constructive!) feedback. But in a culture void of civil debate and teeming with cancel culture, sometimes it can be hard to truly speak our minds. Well, lucky for you, actors do this all the time – and they’re great at it! – using the invaluable phrase, “I feel.” When we’re talking about art, the outside interpretation can vary greatly from the artist’s original intent. For this reason, we’re constantly asking for feedback and we’re constantly receiving that feedback. But there is a right way and a wrong way to go about this; in this workshop we’ll work on giving pleasant yet constructive feedback without hurting feelings or playing with egos.