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When: Sunday, November 15th, 12-3pm
Where: Balance Arts Center - 151 W 30th St, NY, NY 10001
Facilitated by: Mark Beauregard, LCAT
What might open up if we met ourselves, each other, and the unexpected with a little more curiosity, and a little more “yes, and…”?
This playful, experiential workshop explores some of the central principles of improvisation: yes-and, co-creation, spontaneity, presence, listening, and play.
Through accessible improv games, creative exercises, and reflection, we’ll practice stepping outside familiar patterns, responding to the unexpected, and discovering new possibilities in the moment. Together, we’ll create a supportive, judgment-free space where there’s no pressure to be clever, funny, or “good at improv”—just an invitation to be curious, take some playful risks, and see what emerges.
The workshop is designed to help participants:
Reconnect with play and curiosity and access creativity that can get lost in the routines and responsibilities of adulthood.
Practice spontaneity and presence, becoming more comfortable responding to what is happening rather than needing to know what comes next.
Explore flexibility and resilience through playful experiences of uncertainty, mistakes, and the unexpected.
Strengthen connection and communication by practicing listening, collaboration, and building on the ideas of others.
Bring “yes, and” into everyday life, identifying concrete ways to carry more openness, play, curiosity, and co-creation beyond the workshop.
No improv or performance experience is necessary. Come as you are, with whatever amount of curiosity, nervousness, playfulness, or uncertainty you’re bringing that day. You don’t have to know what happens next. That’s kind of the point.
Our groups are inclusive spaces. Participation is a commitment to welcoming and valuing the unique contributions fellow group members bring in terms of their life experience, age, education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.