Teaching

Learn Improv believes in a safe and supportive environment.


Learn Improv works with GOALS not rules.


Learn Improv teaches that every offer needs LACE

  • Listen
    • with you ears, eyes, heart, brain
  • Accept
    • accept the offer as real
  • Commit
    • to your first idea, it is great
  • Expand
    • add a tiny bit

Learn Improv uses the narrative framework of STEPS

  • Setting
    • environment and mime objects
  • Ties
    • characters and relationships
  • Establish, Explore
    • “something” from setting or ties
  • Propel
    • move the “something” along as a story
  • Sort
    • solution not necessary

Learn Improv creates characters using Three Parts.

  • move
    • gait, handedness, physicality
  • sound
    • voice, volume, pace, or accent
  • want
    • desires, triggers, emotions, or motivations

Have fun.