Life can be a serious business and as adults we’re programmed to always get it right, to have all the answers and to stay within the norms. Some argue that the education system and its singular focus on passing exams is to blame. In our adult lives we conform so deeply and perform so uniformly, that we lose something precious along the way. Creativity, spontaneity, laughter and risk taking were the means we used to explore the world and we forget the value of learning in this way.
Improvisation is a liberating process which creates a very safe space where it is literally impossible to say or do the wrong thing.
In fact, John will ensure you get rapturous applause for making mistakes. Then you can delight yourself in letting go. It feels like you are bunking off school. You are temporarily released from rigid conformity and the fear of disapproval. In so doing, you revisit the possibilities of collaboration, deep trust, and what it’s like to be collabrating with someone instead of going it alone.
John Cremer does not come across as some lofty expert. He’ll be very much walking the journey with you. He gets up there and leads the way in getting it wrong and right, succeeding and failing. Having triumphs and disasters.
At the end of an Art of Improvisation session, you’ll feel released, lighter and happier and you may walk out with a spring in your step and a fresh new look at your adult life.
An interactive, enriching keynote in which John Cremer brings delegates into the moment to enable them to experience improvisation first hand. Entertaining, often hilarious, sometimes deeply poignant but always truthful and real, the keynote will feel totally personal to the people in the room, and will take them places they’d never expect to reach in a sit-down conference or function. There will be lots of laughter!
Keynotes can last between 30 minutes and an hour. How much do you want to do this? Let us know!
Workshops give us the opportunity to draw deeply on some of the principles of improvisation. Creating a safe space where it is literally impossible to get it wrong, John takes delegates on a revealing journey of self-discovery which will culminate in almost guaranteed hilarity which no one could have foreseen at the outset. During the workshops there will be moments of significant self-realization, there may be profound emotional reactions, and generally people will not walk out of that room the same as when they walked in.
John has worked with small groups of some of the world’s most senior executives. These are often the people that need improvisation the most, but arguably might feel they have the most to lose by getting it wrong. John eases them down from their professional tightrope, and gives them permission to relax, laugh, be spontaneous and unlock and revisit a little more of what got them there in the first place. Contact us about this now.
John is the founder of one of the UK’s most famous comedy improvisation troupes, The Maydays.
For large-scale corporate events, John will either work alone or with other Maydays to deliver complex training solutions which can scale from 20 to well in excess of 500 delegates. Workshops will be every bit as safe and experiential as with Executive Workshops, and conference proceedings can also be enhanced with energizers and on-stage performances to end the event on an emotional high.
Large group workshops can also connect into the wider purpose and objectives of your conference and events, and the content will be customised every time.
Please contact us to tell us more about your requirements.
You may know that you would like to bring in John to do something with your people, but you might not be sure quite what. That’s fine. It could be that you need something quite different. It could be a series of keynote style pieces delivered to different tiers of your organisation in subtly different ways. It could be that you want to pull everyone together but you’re concerned about how those same tiers will mesh together. You may very specific organisational outcomes you’re trying to target.
Please get in touch and we can look at the best solution.
After one of John’s sessions, a common reaction is that delegates would love to be able to apply some of John’s techniques in their own training and development sessions.
In this book, John Cremer provides context for what occurs during an improvisation session and a clear D.I.Y guide to running a basic session yourself. By applying these clear lessons you will be able to:
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