FUNdamental Skills – Improv for Health and Well-Being

We constantly hear about the importance of interpersonal skills, calling on us to be “compassionate, flexible, resilient, communicative,” to name a few. These sound great, but how do we actually put those skills into practice to collaborate and connect more effectively, and what does that look and feel like in our work and in our lives?

Join us for a highly interactive virtual workshop, where you will learn through direct experience how improvisation skills and exercises can apply to your professional and personal life, supported by groundbreaking research connecting these activities with enhanced resilience, communication skills, and flexibility.

We will highlight almost three decades of research supporting applied improv as a highly effective methodology for health promotion, teaching, and more. Our group will then transition into playing (that’s right, playing!) improv games to practice thinking quickly on our feet and working as a team to enhance our connections, build new worlds together, and collaboratively solve problems in a fun, low-stakes environment.

This is an opportunity to share your unique and authentic contributions with a group of individuals looking to do the same. You will be asked to participate in the activities, but you are certainly welcome to attend the event and simply watch, listen and laugh. No experience necessary – all you need to bring is your lived experience, growth mindset, and desire to learn from others.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance at the live session is required to receive incentive points.

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Instructor: Jesse Greenfield, MPH, CHES is a public health educator and improviser who loves using storytelling as a tool to empower individuals and communities to live their fullest and healthiest lives. Jesse facilitates applied improvisation workshops to support people in improving their spoken and unspoken communication with others, creating joyful connections, and being effective advocates for themselves and their communities.

Class details are subject to change.