Creating Connection Online with Improv-Based Activities

Building connection and trust is essential to the success of any group process, and is especially important online where the default experience is separation and isolation. Fortunately being online also offers unique opportunities to thoughtfully design for meaningful interaction and inclusive processes.

In this highly interactive program you will learn how building trust sets the stage for success and how activities adapted from improvisational theater are uniquely designed to be welcoming, inclusive, and build essential skills of collaboration in the face of uncertainty.

You will learn

• Fun ready-to-use activities that build connection in groups
• When, how, and why to use each activity 
• How to adapt for group size and outcome goals
• Why connection matters from a research perspective 
• Principles of improvisation and how they inform activity choices
• Strategies for including all voices and managing power dynamics
• Technical tips for running activities smoothly on Zoom

Included in this program

• Video recording of the main session
• Written descriptions of each activity 
• Slides & resource link
• Drop-in office hours for answering additional questions

Cost of the program is $40.

Free for nonprofit agencies in Tompkins and surrounding counties (use code TCNONPROFIT)

Free for those working to end sytemic racism (use code BLACKLIVESMATTER)

Free for repeat participants (use code ALUMNI)

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