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Can Improv address some of the problems of mainstream education? by John Cremer and Joe Samuel Our mainstream education system is based on an industrial model of mass-produced learning. We compel lively and inquisitive young people to sit in rows and be “educated” according to an outdated and rigid curriculum. One of the problems of...

Business Improv Business improv training is now a well established, trusted and proven way to bring fast, effective and lasting benefit to your business.  We have been delivering business improv training for companies across a wide range of sectors for over 10 years and are still surprised and delighted by the range of benefits that...

Improvisation is a thing in its own right. Here’s how to book it for your event. This is a short article to confirm that improvisation, or to give it its snappier name, ‘improv’, is indeed a thing. That might sound obvious, particularly to improvisers, but there are possibly a couple of misapprehensions that need clearing...

by Jon M Thomas 2015 has been a transformative year for my improv, full of unexpected events and opportunities, as changing circumstances have brought me closer to my peers in Cambridge and caused me to consider, in a way I perhaps should have been already, exactly what course my journey should be taking. What was...

by Robin Earlier this year I got fed up of improv. I’d had few months off work, and gone to just about every class I had time for (which was a lot). I meant to learn so much! It was going to be amazing! And I did, and it was – but something went off...

Support – a blog by Lloydie James Lloyd When you are really, REALLY supported you can do almost anything. There are studies that show children that have a mentor cheering them on do better at school.  There are programmes that get incredible results in criminal rehabilitation where the offender is assigned someone who gives them unconditional...

THE SECRET PORTAL        by Liz Peters    The older you get the more clear it is that no-one is completely grown up and most people are winging it. When I was young there was a sense that all the adults knew everything, that they had reached maturity and gone through a secret portal of...

  A dream come true By Rhiannon Vivian   I’m always overwhelmed by how brave everyone is when I teach at the Maydays improv retreat. How willing everyone is to stand up in a room full of people they don’t necessarily know and just give anything a go.   Every single one of my classes...