Learning Methods and Approaches

Creating positive and engaging learning experiences means thinking differently and using methods that enable collaboration, creativity and specific results.



!mprov at work collaborates directly with people to uncover the solutions that are likely to work for them instead of using overly complicated or merely academic models or theories. Solutions and learning is incredibly dynamic for our students and is based on the actual contexts that they are in.

Improvisational Techniques

Improvisation exercises and group work stimulate creative thinking and work directly high yield skills such as listening, appreciating, and acknowledging the views of others. Improvisation is also and excellent way to create an atmosphere conducive to cooperation and creative output.

The Applied Improvisation Network

Thinking from the End Facilitation

Thinking from where you want to be instead of where you are is the quick way to positive change. !mprov at work uses a set of easy to use tools that focus energy and time on the causes for solutions and away from the causes of problems. A Thinking from the End focus facilitates the working through of team challenges, vague goals, and processes like change management, problem solving, communication as well as specific problems teams and organizations face.

SOL World

Improv.org.uk

Appreciative Inquiry

The appreciative inquiry approach is based on the premise that ‘organisations change in the direction in which they inquire.’ So a group or team of people which inquires into problems will keep finding problems but a team which attempts to appreciate what is best in itself will discover more and more that is good. It can then to use these discoveries to build a new future where the best becomes more common.

Scripting and Video

Using scripts and video has the advantage of portraying the actual experiences people, leaders and teams face. This promotes engagement, discussion and the appearance of new solutions.

Forum Theatre

The goal of forum theatre is to deepen and widen the perspective students have on their problems and create and awareness of new solutions and strategies. Forum theatre scenarios are designed to stimulate audience participation through discussion, interactive role-playing and shared experiences.

Open Reflective Dialogue

Sometimes and more often these days, people simply need the space to gather calmly gather their thoughts and actually think openly about possibilities and potential solutions. Positive and sometimes magical results emerge by creating a space and empowering conversations.

Open Space World