Workshop
Improv
This workshop uses improv games and exercises to build the core skills behind strong collaboration: listening, reading non-verbal cues, building on others' ideas, and staying comfortable with uncertainty. Participants practice the "Yes-And" principle to accept and build on ideas rather than block them, work through exercises in active and embodied listening, and train their awareness of tone, facial expression, and gesture. Other exercises push participants to generate ideas collaboratively under constraints or ambiguity. Several games are adapted directly to workplace contexts like virtual meetings and agile software work, showing participants how to carry these same instincts back into their daily jobs.
1 module · 36 exercises · ~10 min
What you'll practise
- Office Absurdity
- Solution Mapping
- Filling Negative Space
- Simplifying the Process
- Last Word Response
- Journal Entry
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Improv Games
105 exercises · ~35 minThis module uses a large library of improv games and exercises to build core communication skills: listening, non-verbal awareness, collaborative idea-building, and comfort with uncertainty. Participants practice skills like "yes, and" acceptance versus blocking (Party Planning, Counting Blocks I & II, Accepting/Blocking in Micro Expressions & Gesturing), active and embodied listening (Active Story Listening, Story Exchange, Filling Negative Space), reading and using non-verbal cues (Micro Expressions I-III, Personal SWOT, Tone Over the Phone), and generating ideas under constraints (Structured Ideation, Nonsensical Solutions, Uncertain Decision). Several exercises adapt these same improv principles to workplace scenarios such as virtual meetings and agile software work, showing how the underlying skills generalize beyond the game itself.
Bad Ideas
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Office Absurdity
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Solution Mapping
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Room Awareness
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Accepting/Blocking in Facial Expressions
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Character Doodle
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Observation Feedback
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Filling Negative Space
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Simplifying the Process
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Last Word Response
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Journal Entry
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Gibberish
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Sell an Impossible Product
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Personal Appearance Changing
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Structured Ideation
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Opposite Side Speech
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Superheroes
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Active Story Listening
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Stories on the Wall
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Setting the Scene
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I see you
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Classroom Status
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How to ruin the day
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Radiators & Drains
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New Choice
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Count to Three
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Room Naming
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Imaginary Soccer Game
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Pass the sound and motion
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Statues
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Status on camera?
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Object Work Pass
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Story Exchange
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Hearing a Smile
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Pass the Energy
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Power Posing
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Emotion Roulette
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Pattern game with pointing
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Pass Name & Motion
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Counting Blocks
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Accepting/Blocking in Movement
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Accepting/Blocking in Micro Expressions & Gesturing
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The Important Aside
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Charts & Graphs Storytelling
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Party Quirks
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Observation Based Drawing
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Create The Job Description
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Micro Expressions III
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Six Sigma Belt
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Do the Test
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Virtual Story Exchange
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Open Source
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Silly Handshakes
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No name game!~10 min
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Building a Machine
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Questions Only
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List Attack
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Personal SWOT
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Room Awarness
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Micro Expressions II
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Red Ball
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Silly Handshake
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Word at a Time Storytelling
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Uncertain Decision
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ZipZapZop
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Performance of a lifetime
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What’s your URL?
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Sora Ten Minute Movie Trailer~20 min
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Matching Opposites
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Abstraction
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Half Life
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Three Favorites
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60 Second Life
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Rock/Paper/Scissors Tournament
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Walking Workshop
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Counting Blocks II
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Robots
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User Stories
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Counting Blocks I
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Anything But/”What are you doing?”
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Shake Out~5 min
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What Are My Options?
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Unexpected DIfficulty
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True Story Origin
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Culture Cards
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Overwhelming Process
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Problem Statement
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Traffic vs. Sales
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Presents!
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Party Planning
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Tone Over the Phone
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Anything But
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Nonsensical Solutions
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Ugly Dance
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Follow the leader
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Cluster, Context, Congruence
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Challenge Assumptions
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Swedish Story
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Stand Up Meeting
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Product Selling Game
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Virtual Meeting Nightmare
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Dolphin Training
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Who’s the Leader?
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Micro Expressions I
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Follow the Follower
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