Improv Theatre for Non-formal Education

Aims of the tool

Develop skills such as:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Active listening
- Self-confidence
- Connection
- Performing in front of audience
- Presentation
- Comfortable with making mistakes
- Maintaining composure under pressure
- Embrace vulnerability
- Expressing emotions
- Accept diversity

Description of the tool

In the frames of the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange project "Improv for Change", 41 people young people from eight different countries around Europe and beyond, gathered together under the same goal: Sharing the different problems that young people face in their communities, and explore different solutions, using improvisational theatre as their main tool.

This document summarizes all these activities, methods, and techniques used during the project. The activities are divided in nine different categories, depending on the skill they aim to develop. These are:
- getting to know each other (ice breakers)
- acceptance
- collaboration
- stepping out of the comfort zone
- listening
- awareness
- expressing emotions and reacting
- being vulnerable, and
- creating characters on stage

Each category consists of warm-ups, exercises, and games that aim to create an inclusive environment and guide the group to the desired skill. A lot of the exercises can be relevant in many different categories. The structure provided here is the one suggested by the facilitators of the project and the authors of this document. One can choose and combine the activities provided here, in any way that serves the purpose.