Getting into flow is associated with a number of mental health benefits, which we will discuss in this workshop. Improv injects joy and fun into the experience of personal growth that creative flow makes possible. This workshop is an opportunity play games and do improv exercises designed to get into flow, reap the immediate psychological rewards of comedy and the creative experience, and learn exercises to use on your own as well as with with clients, students or trainees. 

To free our creative mind, we have to be in a receptive, expansive mindset. Improv exercises help us shift out of the self-protective defenses that can automatically arise when we are faced with the unfamiliar or great uncertainty, and translate into real-life embrace of the possible.

This workshop 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 mistakes or shoot down our most interesting ideas, and structured enough for us to take risks. This combination generates creative flow, with the added bonus of comedy, surprise, and discovery.
INSTRUCTOR: Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, CPAI

Jude Treder-Wolff was interviewed for Authority Magazine on ways to avoid hustle culture and create a new sustainable work paradigm. Improv comedy and joy are part of the equation. Here are her 5 tips in a 10-minute video. You can read the interview on this link