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When: Saturday, December 5th, 12-3pm
Where: TBD - Manhattan NYC
Facilitated by: Mark Beauregard, LCAT
What becomes possible when we turn down the volume on self-judgment and make a little more room for play?
Most of us have an inner critical voice, the part that second-guesses, analyzes, compares, or tells us to get it “right.” While that voice may sometimes be trying to protect us, it can also keep us stuck in our heads, hesitant to take up space, make choices, try something new, or trust our own creative impulses.
This experiential workshop explores the interplay between our critical self and playful self, and how improvisation can help us loosen patterns of self-monitoring and access greater spontaneity, creativity, and freedom.
Through accessible improv games, creative exercises, reflection, and group play, we’ll practice responding before overthinking, making choices without knowing whether they’re “right,” and staying present with ourselves and others. We’ll get curious about our inner critics, not with the goal of getting rid of them, but of discovering what can happen when they don’t always get to run the show.
The workshop will invite you to:
Notice patterns of self-criticism and overthinking that can interfere with creativity, choice, and self-expression
Reconnect with your playful, spontaneous self
Practice taking up space and making choices without needing to get them “right”
Build comfort with uncertainty, mistakes, and the unexpected
Explore ways to bring a more playful, empowered stance into everyday life
No improv or performance experience is necessary. This is a supportive, judgment-free space to experiment, play, and perhaps surprise yourself. Your inner critic can come along. It just doesn’t have to direct the scene.
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.