Teambuilding with Improvisation

″Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.″
(Vince Lombardi, football coach)

DRAMATRIX offers flexible and tailor-made teambuilding programs based on improvisational theatre workshops. These are ideal for groups between 8-25. This involves teaching basic acting skills, for example improvisation skills. Specially-designed role-plays are thus enhanced, enabling participants to recognise different types of barriers in personal communication by using status and games people play.

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How?

This is a theatre workshop session, focussing on improvisation, communication, open thinking, team work and co-operation. This will prepare the participants for the next stage, where they will work out short scenes, in small groups of 5-6. In the scenes, they will deal with a situation that relates to a relevant work issue. After practising the scene once, they act it out for the rest of the group.

After the performances, in a group discussion, the relevant issue can be discussed and what was learnt from the experience.

This is a challening exercise, but it has proved a valuable vehicle for exploring relationships within teams and generating smoother communication among team members.