Improv Workshop/Group
What is Improv Group Therapy?
A group therapy designed to help increase Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and/or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills, encompassing the use of mindfulness and emotional regulation, through the practice of improv!
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialticial Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and improv?
Acceptance Commitment Therapy: An engaging perspective to therapy in which clients attempt to learn how to accept their thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations as they show up in the present moment, identifying their values, and taking actions towards what is important in their life.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: A constructed form of therapy that encompasses an educational aspect of helping clients learn skills to help cope with overwhelming emotions, and to help increase their ability to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Improv: A form of theater in which most of what is performed is unplanned, not scripted, and created in the spur of the moment. Some core principles that are reflected in improv are tolerance, compassion, and modesty. There are no errors or miscalculations in improv, but rather gifts, origination, and opportunities.
As improv opens a vessel to observe the mind’s ability to respond to a scene, or opportunities that arise throughout an activity, a byproduct that is often produced is comedy and laughter. Furthermore, from a clinical perspective, laughter itself has been studied and it has shown to offer physiological and mental health benefits such as lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and can help improve depressed mood, anxiety, and stress.
So how do they all interrelate?
By using improv exercises/games, within a group therapy setting, clients are able to actively utilize ACT/DBT mindfulness skills (being in the present moment with thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment) to help clients improve their listening and communication abilities, learn to let go of unhelpful traits of perfectionism, and to help strengthen imagination and creativity. Additionally, by utilizing ACT/DBT through the practice of improv, clients can learn how to implement skills to help cope with anxiety, including social anxiety, and depressed mood.
What is explored in Improv Group Therapy?
-The foundation of “Yes, and…,” the basic building block to improv, and how it relates to acceptance and mindfulness.
-Practicing being imperfect and how every mistake is really a gift.
-Identification of emotions
-Identification of values
-Listening, communication, and public speaking/social skills
-Universal expression and culture
-Connection and storytelling
-Neuroplasticity
Begin the Improv Workshop/group Counseling in Broomfield, CO
You deserves support in learning new tools and growing in your mental health. Our team of caring therapists would be honored to support you from our Broomfield, CO counseling practice. To start your therapy journey, please follow these steps:
Meet with a Adam Davis, LPC for a free consultation to get to know their style and ask any questions you may have about counseling
Begin receiving support