Looking for a wellness-focused group experience rooted in laughter and connection?

Improv Connect offers corporate and team workshops in partnership with our star counselor Dr. Alison Sheesley. Dr. Sheesley, founder of Comedy is Therapy, is a play therapist, group therapist and counseling professor who collaborates with Stephanie, an iO-trained improviser and improv coach, to bolster your team’s emotional well-being using improv and mindfulness games and exercises.

We playfully teach skills that help to reduce feelings of stress, anxiety, and disconnection that contribute to burnout.

The Improv Connect Team will work together to create a meaningful and engaging comedy therapy workshop tailored to the wellness needs of your organization.

Contact us for more information.

Company culture can determine the success or failure of your organization.

Improv Connect’s Culture Building Workshops foster best-practices in organizational culture. Your team will learn experientially through fun improv games and exercises as well as collaborative activities that target areas such as:

• Encouraging diverse perspectives, identities and personalities within the workplace

• Helping everyone feel valued, heard, respected and included

• Engaging employees to promote cohesion, creativity, and personal growth

• Recognizing and rewarding risk-taking, innovation, and efforts to support and unify the team

• Building trust and transparency, accepting mistakes, embracing change, AND MUCH MORE!

What does improv have to do with company culture?

• Why You Should Build Your Organization's Improv Skills, According to Science

• How the Rules of Improv Can Improv Your Culture and Business

Foster your team’s cohesion and shared sense of fun with Improv Connect’s Culture Building Workshops.

Book a workshop, request more information, or get a quote by clicking the Build my team culture. button below.

Other questions? Contact us at steph@improvconnect.com.

Enrich your team’s Design Thinking Process with Improv Connect’s Design Thinking Improv Training.

From ‘Empathy’ to ‘Prototype’ and ‘Test’, Improv Connect guides your team through hands-on exercises, games, and activities that will help your team build their Design Thinking skills. Your team will be able to immediately apply the tools and strategies acquired during this training to your Design Thinking Process - or any creative problem solving your team needs to tackle!

Description:

Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that transforms the way you develop products, services, and organizational processes. It is a process that requires you to push past the obvious to come up with creative, imaginative ideas and solutions, both individually and as a team.

This is where improv comes in…

What do great improvisers and great design thinkers have in common?

They’re good at…

• Fast thinking in a high-pressure environment

• Knowing how to build on ideas rather than shutting them down

• Deferring self- and group-judgement to facilitate creative thinking

• Empathizing deeply and understanding perspectives outside of their own

• Creating a positive, open-minded collaborative environment most conducive to team creativity

• Listening actively and without judgement

How does improv help Design Thinking?

Improv theater tenets and techniques strengthen design thinkers’:

• Divergent and outside-of-the-box thinking

• Collaborative team dynamics

• Active listening and wholistic communication skills

• Willingness to take risks

• Open mindedness

• Empathy for teammates and users

• Comfort, trust, and confidence to share ideas

What does the research say?

Improv + Your Brain

Practicing improv trains your brain to stop judging your thoughts and actions so you can maximize outside-the-box and in-the-moment thinking.

Design Thinking

According to Dartmouth Engineering Professor, Peter Robbie, “the quickest and smartest folks at the brainstorming phase of design have been those who do stand up and improv”. His impression is backed by an MIT study that concluded:

• Improv comedians produced 20% more product ideas and 25% more creative product ideas than product designers familiar with traditional ideation methods

• Putting participants through just one improv comedy workshop increased idea output on average by 37%

• The ability to quickly generate many ideas (quantity) is correlated with being able to come up with a single, promising, creative idea (quality)

Single workshops or multi-workshop series available depending on your team’s needs and desired Design Thinking focus.

So get your creative juices flowing, have some good laughs, and learn why improv is a proven and effective tool for your team’s Design Thinking Process.

Click the Boost my design thinking skills. button below to schedule or get more information about Improv Connect’s Design Thinking trainings.

Other questions? Contact us at steph@improvconnect.com.

Team bonding through lighthearted improv games that will have everyone laughing and feeling connected!

Improv Connect will lead a workshop or come to any company event to inject an element of in-the-moment fun, creativity and team connection by leading improv games. As a bonus, these games intrinsically build trust, teamwork, mutual support, as well as good communication and active listening practices.

Book a workshop, request more information, or get a quote by clicking the Bring the fun! button below.

Other questions? Contact us at steph@improvconnect.com.

Be engaging. Be expressive. Be responsive to your audience.

Whether you’re pitching an idea to your team, making a sale to a client, or speaking at a conference, Improv Connect has what you need. Rooted in improv performance principles and techniques, our Public Speaking workshops train you to communicate clearly and effectively in the moment, let go, and have fun!

Book a workshop, request more information, or get a quote by clicking the Up my public speaking game. button below.

Other questions? Contact us at steph@improvconnect.com.

Let us know what you’re looking for and we will customize a training, individualized to the specific needs of you and your team!

Improv Connect will meet with you, discuss your goals and preferences as well as the makeup of your team, then create a customized training to meet your specific needs.

To schedule a customized training or to request more information, click the Customize for my team. button below.

Other questions? Contact us at steph@improvconnect.com.