The Improviser’s Mindset

Improvisational theater is the art of getting onstage in front of a live audience and making up a story. The creative skills required to accomplish this – to think on your feet, to adapt to the needs of the moment, to work collaboratively with your team, and to inspire your audience – are invaluable offstage as well.

In this online class series, you will learn and practice improv skills that can develop resilience, resourcefulness, agile thinking, and imagination. These four 90-minute experiential workshops will explore the core concepts of applied improvisation – including accepting offers, building on ideas, embracing mistakes, and inspiring your partners.

By practicing with a cohort, you will also gain skills in forming bonds and making connections. Every session will be framed with theory and principles, yet filled with dynamic, engaging, playful and safe exercises. And yes – this class will be fun!

This is a highly interactive class. Please be prepared to actively participate in activities, breakout rooms, and class discussions.

This class will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points – at least 80% of 3 of the 4 sessions.

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Instructor: Jessia Hoffman is the founder of On Deck Workshops – a creative consultancy that improves team culture in real time. She designs and delivers improv-based leadership programs to organizations like Google, Bloomberg, Intuit, Morrison Foerster, Kaiser, and Cisco and is a guest lecturer at Stanford’s GSB, Berkeley Haas, MIT Sloan, and the Knight Hennessy Program. Jessia holds a BA from Stanford.

Class details are subject to change.