IMPROVISATION
Using What You Know
To Make Up What You Don’t
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Goals
• Define Improvisation and importance in Destination
ImagiNation® program components
• Highlight effective Improv Tools
• Encourage Team Managers and team members to
use Improv tools to enhance Team Challenge and
Instant Challenge
• Identify Improv Games, techniques and resources
• (Appraisers) Become aware of Improv techniques
team members might be using
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Methods
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Presentation
Discussion
Activities
Debrief
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Definitions
• Mime
– to act a part with mimic gesture and action
usually without words
• Improv (Improvisation, Improvise)
– 1 : to compose, recite, play, or sing
extemporaneously
– 2 : to make, invent, or arrange offhand
– 3 : to fabricate out of what is conveniently
on hand
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Guidelines
• Pantomime
• Improvisation
• Improv No-No’s: Avoid the Pitfalls
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Improv Activity
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How Improvisation is used
in Destination ImagiNation®
• Improvisational Team Challenge
• Team Challenge
– Improv Element
• Instant Challenge
– Performance Based
– Task Based
– Combination
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Assessment
• Think of 3 things you want to take
back to your team(s)
• Pair up in Groups of 2
• Share your 3 items with your partner
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Inc. 2004
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Thank you for
coming
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