FREE YOUR MIND: Improv Games and Exercises For Tapping Creative Flow

Mondays 6:30-8:00 EDT ONLINE $25/class
September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 2026
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Getting into a creative flow state is associated with a number of mental health benefits, which we will discuss in this workshop, and tap into through direct experience. No prior knowledge or experience with improv is required, just a willingness to play, and to be supportive of others. One of the reasons the flow state is helpful and healthy, is that to free our creative mind, we have to be in a receptive, expansive mindset that focuses on fun and discovery when faced with the unfamiliar. Improv exercises help us shift out of the self-protective defenses that can automatically arise when we are faced with uncertainty, and this capacity can translate into real-life embrace of the possible.

This class series will focus on exercises and games that are ridiculous enough to take us out of the conventions and concerns of regular life, fun enough to overcome the inner judge always ready to monitor us for being "good enough" and shoot down our most interesting ideas, and at the same time grounded in the neuroscience of resilience. The intention of this play is to be fully committed to the improv experience, but not take ourselves too seriously, to exercise maximum creative freedom - within a structure that helps us all get on the same page - and discover what gets in the way of the artistic freedom. If there is a project, piece of writing or change you think about putting into action and need encouragement, this class can help. Also, improv is a natural mood-booster, enhances cognitive capacity and emotional agility, all elements that free our mind to express our gifts, connect to and express our ideas, and elevate one another.

Monday September 14, 2026 6:30-8:30 pm EDT ONLINE
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Improv is uniquely effective for learning a set of skills for communicating as clearly as possible in situations of uncertainty, to read others' cues, and respond with clarity and creativity in order to build something together. Improv exercises build these psychological and behavioral "muscles" through dynamic, highly-engaging interactive experiences that are also fascinating and fun. These communication skills are best learned through direct experience, and improv is an ideal framework to discover and practice them over time. In this workshop we will play improv games and do improv exercises that demonstrate essential elements of emotional intelligence. We will discuss research that supports real life applications of improv practice.