Acting and Improvisation Exercises

Acting and Improvisation Exercises

Practicing improvisation exercises can greatly help with communication skills and help reduce fear of being on stage. In a controlled environment of a class, you can easily get delegates to practic...

Storytelling Exercise: Form a Line

Storytelling Exercise: Form a Line

This is a creativity exercise that encourages delegates to create a story together as a group. It is ideal for team building, acting and creativity. You can also modify the exercise to limit its sc...

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: Making Eye Contact

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: Making Eye Contact

This exercise helps delegates to understand and appreciate the power of eye contact and how it can affect emotional connection and emotional states. It is ideal in teaching emotional intelligence, ...

Listening Exercise: So, What You Mean Is…

Listening Exercise: So, What You Mean Is…

Purpose This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of acknowledging the view of a person they are having a conversation with irrespective of whether they agree with it or not. The...

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images

This exercise helps to test the creativity of delegates on their ability to make stories based on a series of images. Each delegate sees a series of images and needs to make an interesting story th...

Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image

Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image

This is entertaining exercise on getting delegates to quickly think of a story to tell based on a visual prompt. The options allow you to bias the exercise based on what you want delegates to pract...

Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery

Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery

This entertaining exercise helps delegates practice their acting in front of an audience. Each person will be required to deliver a speech about a given topic. You can vary the exercise by expectin...

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

This is powerful exercise in creative writing where delegates get to write a phone conversation based on certain limiting criteria. The structured approach to writing helps to make the task more cr...

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

This is an entertaining and creative exercise which can serve a variety of purposes. You can use it for subjects such as story making, storytelling, communication skills, acting and creative writin...

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

In this exercise, delegates get to practice making a TV advertisement. The aim is for the delegates to think creatively and quickly with given resources and come up with an effective ad for a new p...

Body Language Exercise: Guess the Initial Mood

Body Language Exercise: Guess the Initial Mood

This exercise helps illustrate an important point on body language. As soon as we see a person, we read their body language quickly to establish their mood and we can be fairly good at this. The pr...

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Purpose Sometimes a little action can lead to a lot of change as the actions are amplified. This exercise helps delegates see this effect in a symbolic exercise on gestures on what is famously kn...

Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win

Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win

This exercise helps participants to practice acting in front of a small audience. The ideal acting is one that conveys information as quickly and efficiently as possible. People need to think of id...

No More Soap: Make it Assertive

No More Soap: Make it Assertive

Many countries around the world regularly broadcast soap operas on TV; social programs which usually contain a lot of angry and emotional discussions between various extreme characters. This exerci...

Acting Exercise: Moving and Following

Acting Exercise: Moving and Following

This is a quick acting exercise which is usually used to get delegates familiarise themselves with space and movement. It encourages people in looking carefully and being constantly aware of their ...

Acting Exercise: Boost Performance Using Sensory Acting

Acting Exercise: Boost Performance Using Sensory Acting

The ability to act allows you to adopt different roles as you see fit. To be good at emotional intelligence, it is very important to understand emotions and be able to express appropriate emotions ...

Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor

Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor

This is a useful exercise in acting. Use this exercise to help people adopt certain roles or learn how to imitate target behaviours. Acting and understanding how an ideal role feels like can help d...