Consider the improvisation workshops that you are attending. After the workshop on 4th March, consider the following:
In what ways does the facilitator make the group feel comfortable / safe / able to experiment?
What sort of skills are people developing through these workshops. Some are not so abvious?
What barriers are there to people participating. What stops people 'letting go' and joining fully in?
What implications are there for designing a workshop of your own?
What factors might you need to consider?
In these workshops the people running them did warm ups that made the group realise that they could act comfortably around eachother. He was very energetic and enthusiastic and this broke down the barriers of people feeling shy. These workshops built on skills such as communication, spatial awareness and consentration, as some of the exercises could not have been completed without listening and trying to pick out certain infomation from a loud activity.
ReplyDeleteJoe Macklin
ReplyDelete3rd of March;
The group feels safe with an introduction to each other by each person introducing them self then performing an action, the rest of the group then has to mimic this action, therefore this adds an element of comfort to the single person introducing themselves.
There are multiple skills gained from participating in this workshop, for example working with unfamiliar faces or learning new performance styles.
Confidence plays a big part in a persons joining in and also insecurity, if one doesn't feel as comfortable as another, the person then limits themselves on what they think they can and cannot do.
One should always consider how another person would feel participating in the tasks of your workshop, especially using methods such as pairing people who don't know each other up on the first session, you must ease the group before putting them on the spot right away.