Improve through Improv

Over thirty years ago I founded the Canadian Improv Games, which now has tens of thousands of graduates. All these young people put their minds, hearts and endless enthusiasm into creating new ideas and playing around with them from different angles. Wouldn't it be fantastic to harness some of this energy into improving the city where we live?

Improvisation can be used in community building. Before committing billions of dollars and lots of time, let's improvise our way through different scenarios and see if we can make sense of the challenges and opportunities.

Over the next several months I will be introducing the practical and civic applications of the work that I've been involved with for decades, such as

• Dr. Jean Houston's groundbreaking leadership work for the UN, empowering indigenous wisdoms
• David Shepherd's decades of exploration into group creativity
• Philip Berg's democratization and twenty-first century application of Kabbalah
• Vern Harper's work bringing First Nations understandings to Toronto as an urban elder

Thank you for joining me on this journey. Next post we'll look at the Season for Nonviolence, a process that has inspired me for years.