Whether or not attendees are there of their own volition, a facilitator has an uphill battle Having been a corporate trainer for 14 years, I can safely say my best advice is this: don’t bother with the “theatre-y” exercises. Most likely the attendees are not theatre people, and will only find them boring and pretentious. […]
Extroversion for the Introvert As professional improvisers, Karen and I work with groups of kids from kindergarten through high school. Many are at-risk, and many have never experienced live theatre in any of its diverse forms. We take particular delight in seeing those children who are timid, hovering just beyond the threshold of participation, become
If you want to know someone’s true personality, play a game with them. Related to the well-known (and wrongly-attributed-to-Plato) quote, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation,” we have found one of the best ways to see inside a person’s personality: play with them.
