exercise · all tools
Improv Prototyping
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Groups act out a chronic challenge scene three ways — the dysfunctional version, an improved version, and wild variants — with player groups performing while observer groups harvest what works. Serious fun that lets people rehearse better behaviour before they need it, and lets a group laugh at patterns nobody could name in a meeting.
Hold with care
- Performing in front of colleagues is exposure — recruit volunteers, never conscript, and keep scenes about roles, not impressions of real people
Practical
- Time
- 20-60 min
- Group
- 9–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Open stage area; clustered chairs; optional props
- Mechanisms
- behavioral-rehearsal, creative-expression, perspective-taking
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/improv-prototyping — Liberating Structures, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless — Liberating Structures; applied-improvisation lineage
In this directory via Liberating Structures
status: checked · added 2026-08-25