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Winter Quarterly Training
Practiced Spontaneity (Domains: PRG / EL: Comm)
We all need to be nimble, confident and creative these days in order to personally thrive while inspiring others. Interestingly, the same is true of Improv Theater performers. In fact, the skills that make improvisers so successful are the same ones that make non-performers successfully creative.
Improvisation theater games are deceptively powerful tools for enhancing our creativity. The games invite participants to enter and embrace the unknown, relate to others without assumption or judgment, exist in a state of absolute and unconditional acceptance of what is offered, relish process as much as focusing on outcome and enjoy and value working with others.
In this entertaining, informative and immediately applicable program we’ll go behind the curtain and into the mind of improvisers and leave with ways to be more confident, spontaneous, and creative.
About the Speaker:
Izzy Gesell M.ED, CSP is an “organizational alchemist” who helps people navigate their internal logjams and emerge more confident, spontaneous and effective. Through keynotes, breakouts, coaching and facilitated sessions, Izzy offers imaginative, intuitive and immediately useful insights and programs. He delivers meaningful material in an enjoyable way.
Among the first to use Improv Theater concepts as tools for personal and organizational learning, he is the author of Playing Along: Group Learning Activities Borrowed From Improvisation Theater, a co-author of Humor Me: America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter, a co-author of Cancer and the Healing Power of Play and a contributor of a chapter on improvisation as a facilitation tool in the IAF Group Facilitators Handbook.
Clients include NASA, American Institute of Architects, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Cargill and many regional and national associations.
Izzy was raised in Brooklyn NY. A former stand-up comic and special education teacher, he has earned a BA in Psychology, an MS in Education and a P…. that’s 1/3 of a PhD and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts
Winter Quarterly Training
Practiced Spontaneity
January 25th 2012
Groton Senior Center
$35 members /$45 non members
102 Newtown road, Groton CT
TimeTable:
8:45-9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30-12:00— Practiced Spontaneity
(0.2 Ceu’s)
12:00– 12:45– Lunch
1:00-2:00– Facility of Merit Tour
(0.1 Ceu’s)
(Total 0.3 Ceu’s Pending Approval)
