Improv

Improv workshop with the urban studyers.  You really get to know people in ways you wouldn't expect.  It is so fun to see people outside their comfort zone.  Especially when you start talking about Michael Jordan's 30 whores and kitty-shooting, machine guns.  Making stories, one word/ person at a time is sheer madness, but my favorite, the game of encouragement really offers the greatest life-skills.  
Here's the game.  A product is proposed in response to an everyday nuisance.  For example, pit stains.  Now the ultimate goal of the game is to make every individual person feel like a winner/ genius.  As the team , is brainstorming ideas for an advertisement campaign, every idea that is offered receives the most enthusiastic and positive response possible from everyone else.  Gosh, it feels so good when people commend your idea to have Denzel Washington as the spokes person for your line of "Pants glue." Cheering and applause gets you further than you might think.  Thank you Chicago for having the best improv scene in the country.


Check it out:  http://chicago.ioimprov.com/
http://www.secondcity.com/