New Perspectives
The “New Perspectives” workshop focuses on creating a workplace that celebrates diversity. This experience will be a revealing, enlightening, and engaging process to examine old patterns while cultivating new skills and perspectives in a nurturing, safe, energized environment.
An interactive virtual or in-person workshop utilizing the skills, techniques, and experiences of Improvisation, coupled with the transformative qualities of Storytelling. This program guides participants through a process of examining old patterns with new skills and perspectives in a nurturing, team-building environment. The intent is to explore tools that recognize and address micro/macro aggressions, implicit bias, and foster equity and belonging.
This dual approach to establishing a positive, creative, and socially conscious work environment is made up of:
Team Building and Collaboration: Build trust, have fun, and practice creating in a flow state. A team that loves working together pays off in productive meetings and projects.
Innovation: Practice having curiosity, not “control,” propels you past obvious answers to innovative socially conscious solutions.
Leadership: Keep connection your priority and create as equals so that people are valued, heard, and inspired to take risks and to be fully engaged.
Presentation Skills: Practice the 3-fold connection (to self, audience, and content) to experience being relaxed, focused, and compelling when communicating ideas.
Through a guided process of “Play” and applied Improvisation exercises, participants can experience superficial/pretend scenarios that are relative to issues of diversity, fairness, and social awareness. As the team moves through the proces,s we will utilize focused debriefs where participants reveal and reflect on the new skills being practiced, and identify where they are relevant at work. Via role-plays and scenarios, people get meaningful practice in applying their new choices at work.
The intent is to explore tools that recognize and address micro/macro aggressions, implicit bias, and fosters equity and belonging.