Increasing Options: Improv for Organizations

You’re stuck.

Meetings are a slog. Your team members are anxious and bored. Your organization misses exciting opportunities, seemingly unable to try anything new.

You want to break out of this pattern—to have more and better options—but you don’t know how.

Improv can help with that.

I highly recommend the Increasing Options: Improv for Organizations workshop for any unit in any organization that wants to do a team building activity or a retreat. It will help staff come together as a unit, and pick up valuable skills in collaboration and creativity plus have tons of fun in the process! This is a wonderful workshop for teams that primarily work remotely and lack an opportunity to develop shared experiences in the office to create informal connections.

Did I already say that this workshop was a lot of fun – let me say this again!

Zoya Davis-Hamilton , EdD, CRA, Associate Vice Provost for Research Administration and Development, Tufts University

The Workshop

In “Increasing Options: Improv for Organizations,” you and your team will learn how to use the principles of improv to disrupt habitual thinking, improve collaboration, and spark creativity. 

Over the course of three hours, you’ll explore:

  • How the applying the concept of “Yes, And” can make your coworkers happier and your conversations smoother
  • How to persuade and help others by listening deeply
  • How to use spontaneity and play to generate breakthrough ideas—and inject a bit of fun into your work life

By the end of the workshop, you and your team will have a firm grounding in the basics of improv, giving you the skills you need to approach old problems in new ways—and discover remarkable solutions.

Myles’ expertise as a facilitator shone through in his ability to create a playful, judgment-free environment for the session, one in which participants were welcome to snowball ideas off of each other in collaborative exercises. I appreciated how Myles explicitly connected the dots between the selected activities and the life skills the exercises strengthened, such as active listening. We hope to work with Myles and JP Improv again in the future.

Elizabeth Hammel, SCI Americorps Program Director

Details and Pricing

Length: Three (3) hours

Location: On-site

Number of Participants: Up to 15

Cost: $2,400 plus expenses (airfare, lodging, etc.)

Registration and Scheduling

To register for a workshop, please send me an email at myles@mylesmcdonough.com so we can set up a 20-minute discovery call.

I’ll ask a few questions to learn more about your goals, and answer any questions you’d like to ask. I’ll follow up with a proposal based on our discussion, and if everything looks good, we’ll get started!