Improvisation trains the brain to reach for a range of effective responses to the unexpected, unfamiliar, and unpredictable. Research shows that properly designed experiences involving improvisation, storytelling and other creativity-generating activities makes learning "stick" and provides a real-time opportunity for people in groups to develop the skills in creative thinking and collaboration that are needed to deal with complex problems.

5. Improvisation trains the brain
to reach for a range of
effective responses to the
unexpected, unfamiliar, and
unpredictable. ble.
Improvisation/storytelling
workshops combine music,
theater games and creativity-
generating exercises.
Each group experience is a
dynamic, unique, unrepeatable
real-time creative
collaboration.

8. Learn to think
relationally
and make
connections
between
ideas,

12. The integration
of
creativity, conne
“Neurons that ctivity and group
fire together collaboration
wire enhances social
together” bonds within the
Dr. Dan Siegel
www.Mindsight.com
group as well as
individuals’
neural patterns
for creative
thinking

14. “Creative experiences – putting a
concept into action, improvisatory
role-playing, music, theater games –
enhances the integration of new
information by producing new
neuronal connections in the brain
and expanding the relationship
between those connections.”
Kenneth Wesson, “What Everyone Should Know About the Latest Brain
Research,” para. 16. 28 Feb 2008
www.sciencemaster.com/columns/wesson/wesson_2000.php)

15. Improvisation is a negotiation

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