Product Description

Set the stage for learning and growth with these innovative, playful activities borrowed from a classic art form: improvisational theater. Developed for group leaders who have no improvisational theater experience, these easy, step-by-step proven techniques-originally designed to help actors solve problems on stage-build an optimal learning environment by fostering understanding, reducing resistance, creating cohesiveness, and promoting active participation in the learning process.

Whatever your topic, these brief (5-10 minute) exercises activate the all-important learning skills of listening, accepting, affirming, imagining, and trusting-and pave the way for personal growth or organizational change.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #648921 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Izzy Gesell is the founder of Wide Angle Humor Consultants, a Northampton, Massachusetts-based organization dedicated to helping employees become healthier and more productive by using humor in their lives. As a workshop leader, teacher, stand-up comedian, and improvisational troupe member, Izzy has more than fifteen years of experience helping others reap the benefits of an active sense of humor.

Customer Reviews

excellent book for the novice improviser to the instructor
Izzy does a great job of making the format of the book simple yet engaging. His explaination of the games with goals, group size, time, process and variations for each of the games is very helpful. It is written so that a sales team leader could pick it up and have some great games to get his/her team thinking creatively, working on teamwork and self confidence. My only complaint as a past performer and current instructor is that it isn't long enough. Write another.

A resource I come back to again and again
I met Izzy at a workshop he led several years ago. As a professional facilitator, I'm any trainer's worst nightmare: the professional in the audience.

Well, Izzy and his workshop were awesome, and his book is a MUST HAVE for trainers and facilitators. Absolutely valuable in helping me re-think how I engage people in workshops I lead and develop.

This book has helped me take chances, and by leaning into my discomfort, I've lead the way for people I work with in a team setting.