IMPROV FOR COLLABORATION AND CREATIVE THINKING 

WITH "RISK-RELUCTANT" GROUPS-Video/Webinar

Continuing Education-Home Study 

A link to watch the video will be emailed to you when registration is received, along with a written handout and evaluation. When the completed evaluation is received, a CE certificate will be emailed to you.

This training provides 1.5 contact hours of Continuing Education for Social Workers approved by NYS (provider #0270)

This workshop will focus on ways to introduce, describe and facilitate improv exercises and games with groups that are not familiar with experiential methods or are in work cultures in which taking creative risks is challenging. Properly designed improv exercises can engage people cognitively, physically and emotionally in ways that can rapidly produce a shift from self-protective to creative mode and demonstrate the purpose and value of these experiences for the important work teams in these environments are doing. Grounded in neuroscience and research showing that improvisation training increases uncertainty tolerance and divergent thinking, this workshop will be experiential and have opportunities to discuss applications for targeted groups.

Objectives:

• Identify the social and psychological barriers to risk-taking in work groups;
• Demonstrate improv techniques that help individuals shift out of self-protective mode and engage with a creative experience;
• Demonstrate the impact of improv games and exercises designed to target the "baked-in" barriers of risk-reluctant groups;
• Identify techniques that explore the intersection of well-being, uncertainty tolerance and divergent thinking

INSTRUCTOR: Jude Treder-Wolff, is President of Lifestage, Inc a training/consulting company based in Smithtown, NY, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation and creative arts therapist, with 30 years experience as a clinician and trainer working in every area of mental health. She is also a writer/performer, singer, storyteller creative arts psychotherapist and improviser who speaks and presents on topics related to creativity, creative/experiential methods, storytelling and Applied Improvisation in the process of learning and change for individuals, organizations and communities. Her book Possible Futures: Creative Thinking At The Speed Of Life explored the impact of the accelerated pace of change on mental and social health and the role that creativity training plays in navigating 21st century life. She served as Chair of the Applied Improvisation Network 2019 World Conference at Stony Brook University, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science, which specializes in using improvisation to train scientists, researchers and academics to communicate effectively. www.lifestage.me