Medical Improv: A New Way to Improve Communication Applied improvisors have critical knowledge and skills that are needed in healthcare. Many want to help make our hospitals, doctor’s offices, and clinics safer and more compassionate. AND, the medical/nursing world desperately needs the ‘soft’ skills that applied improv can help us with. In order to most effectively apply improv in healthcare settings, it is important to understand common c...

Children with strong social-emotional skills are better able to cope with everyday challenges and benefit academically, professionally, and socially. But the benefits that can be derived from these skills can only be seen if children are given the opportunity to develop them.This accessible guide helps teach children to participate in social-emotional learning. Offering fun group activities including social skill-based improv games, participant w...

Improv to Improve Your Leadership Team: Tear Down Walls and Build Bridges You’re a leader with a problem. There’s a fungus-like growth in your organizational culture you can no longer ignore. It starts slowly with a few people feeling maligned and/or excluded, spreads resentment, leads to disengagement, and finally…resignations. What a nightmare! But WAIT! You have stumbled onto the exact solution you need! With this book, you can QUICKLY d...

Improv to Improve Healthcare: A System for Creative Problem-Solving Healthcare organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv t...

You Can’t Learn Improv From a Book is a guidebook of creativity and exploration. In this insightful manual, you will embark on the exciting adventure of teaching improvisation to high school students. Improv isn’t just about laughter and quick thinking; it’s a powerful tool for fostering teamwork, boosting confidence, and unlocking the untapped potential within each student. Get ready to watch your students not only embrace the ...

An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity. This accessible resource reveals and interrogates the inherited wisdoms contained in the very words we use to describe modern improv. Each detail...

A solid theoretical basis, tested in the daily practice of its authors and the groups to which they belong. A clear, structured and defined system for use by both experienced and novice people....

The Improv IllusionistUsing Object Work, Environment, and Physicality in Performance Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre. Skilled improvisers can draw audiences into the performance by helping them see things that aren’t there. The Improv Illusionist is the first book dedicated to physical improv. It reveals why these skills are so important, how to fix bad habits that develop over time and pra...

Nick Mataragas has opinions on improv. Lots of opinions. You may not agree with them. But then again, you might. Improv: A Rant is Nick’s unfiltered view on the state of improv today, what makes for good scenes, and how you should treat the profession. Whether you agree with the thoughts or not, this book will make you think about what you are doing on stage....

Fifty Key Improv Performers: Actors, Troupes, and Schools from Theatre, Film, and TV Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen. The book features the luminaries of improv, like Viola Spolin, Keith Joh...