Annual Wellness Summit - "Applied Improvisation: Play Our Way to Wellness, Together"
Tue, Aug 27
|Fairmont Chicago
Join us in Chicago to learn through direct experience how improvisation skills can apply to your professional and personal life, supported by groundbreaking research connecting these activities with essential elements of wellness: enhanced resilience, communication skills, and flexibility.
Time & Location
Aug 27, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT – Aug 29, 2024, 1:30 PM CDT
Fairmont Chicago, 200 N Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, USA
About the event
We hear buzzwords and phrases emphasizing the skills needed to foster meaningful connections to support wellness, calling on us to “be compassionate, flexible, resilient and, communicative,” to name a few. These sound great, but how do we actually put those skills into practice to collaborate and connect more effectively, and what does that look and feel like in our work and in our lives? In this highly interactive session, attendees will learn through direct experience how improvisation skills and exercises can apply to their professional and personal lives, supported by groundbreaking research connecting these activities with essential elements of wellness: enhanced resilience, communication skills, and flexibility. We will highlight almost three decades of research supporting applied improv as a highly effective methodology to promote social and emotional wellness. Our group will then transition into playing (that’s right, playing!) improv games to practice thinking quickly on our feet and working as a team to enhance our connections, build new worlds together, and collaboratively solve problems in a fun, low-stakes environment.
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