1. “Yes, and!” Improv Your Life!
2016 MSU Denver Professional Development Conference
By: Brogs Brogie Brogan

3. A Name Game!!!
Show me how you get down!

4. What does improv mean to you?
Let’s define it!

5. Improv is known as the art of accepting the unknown gracefully.
Yes, And
Group Mind
Accepting
Improv is known as the art of accepting the unknown gracefully.
Relationships
Exploring
Listening
Heightening

6. “Some people misunderstand improv…it seems that improv is all about being funny. But it is not. Improv is about being spontaneous. It is about being imaginative. It is about taking the unexpected and then doing something unexpected with it. The key is to be open to crazy ideas and building on them. And funnily enough, this is exactly what is needed if we are going to make our enterprises more creative and agile.” – Paul Sloane

7. Ms. Viola Spolin…..the Mother of Improv!
In 1946 Spolin founded the Young Actors Company In Hollywood.
Spolin returned to Chicago in 1955 and conducted games workshops with the Compass Players, who were the first American improv company.
From 1960 to 1965 Spolin worked at Second City and developed Theater Games (also known as Spolin Games) theory and practice and from that published Improvisation for the Theater.

8. The Wonderful and Wise Ms. Tina Fey

9. Everybody Up!

10. EVERYBODY UP!!!!!!

11. Important Stuff. Listen! Listen! Listen! Accept reality (say yes!)
Stay positive
Always build upward (heighten!)
Have a point of view
Mistakes happen…embrace them
Don’t expect everything to go your way
Be the person that makes other people look good

12. There are no mistakes. There are only opportunities!
A game….just for fun?! 

13. Improv
Your
Life.