#improv therapy

[playitthroughdramatherapy]

Using improvisation and role within dramatherapy to allow a group of homeless people to remember who they are beyond the homeless label, and imagine who they could be.

[earth-to-lindsay]

So proud of my friend @astuteandkind for her show @improvtherapy heading to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh!! So good! 👏🏻💗 #ImprovTherapy (at Fred Stone Theatre)

[astuteandkind]

I am so happy. (And it’s not just because that’s my job.) I am so happy because these beautiful people have supported my dream of a year of creating an original improv format that takes the best things about Playback Theatre and psychological theory and mashes them together. I am so happy because we created an empathetic show that listens to people and tells their stories and that our entire preview audience had an amazing time. I am so happy that I get to do something I love with my friends and create art that means something alongside them.  I am so happy that I’m writing absolutely endless run-on sentences. 

I am so happy.

Next stop, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. 

[ghostplants2000]

Often times, improvisers will try to override their so-called “negative” emotions of fear, sadness , and anger with that bullshit, pumped-up, fake improviser energy. More skilled improvisers learn how to just accept their negative energy and use it.

Jimmy Carrane (Improv Therapy)

[playingmyself]

Improv comedy frees some Alzheimer's patients

At a recent improv session, skits progressed unexpectedly: A pair of lovers morphed into a mushroom hunting expedition; an ice skating adventure became a camping trip.

"I don't know what I'm doing," one of the performers confided, "but it's freeing."

HT: Minnie Tao