Explore The Possible: Strengthen Your Creative Self Through Improv

ONLINE CLASS SERIES As with any possible thing we want to develop or build in our lives, having tools and skills we can put to use increases the likelihood we will take action toward our goals, use our voice, and create collaborative relationships that support our dreams. Expert improviser and trainer Robert Poynton describes improv as a way to “act ourselves into a new way of thinking.” It is an art form that taps into a creative mind set from the start, by providing tools and skills for interacting within a structure that provides an opportunity to take risks and strengthen the psychological “muscle” for navigating uncertainty. Positive, encouraging support is part of the improv ethos, which empowers us for full engagement with the creative process. This class series will focus on improv tools and techniques that tap into creativity in a positive, encouraging way, and expand the field of possibility. We will play with exercises founded on the radical agreement and attunement that allows us to go further “off-script” and embrace the unusual enough to drive scenes bravely into the unknown. When we expand into creative freedom with others in an improv format, we develop skills that translate into writing, painting, acting or other expressive art form as well as dealing with real life stresses and relationships. Instructor: Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, CGP CPAI is a creative arts therapist, improviser, applied improviser, storyteller and storytelling coach who offers improvisation and storytelling classes through Lifestage, Inc. and host of the Improv In Real Life podcast. She completed the improvisation programs at The Peoples Improv Theater and The Magnet Theater in NYC, was on a Magnet Theater house team and is currently on the NYC-based independent team Submarine World. She is very active in applying improvisation skills, practices and philosophy to personal and professional development and works with groups and organizations and communities in New York and around the country.