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Play: Improv is for Everyone!

Improv can seem intimidating if you have only ever seen it on a stage or in a comedy class. You picture the quick thinkers, the bold personalities, the people who seem to pull entire worlds out of thin air with nothing but a sentence and a shrug. But at its heart, improv is not performance. It is presence. It is curiosity. It is the art of letting the story unfold rather than trying to write it in advance. And that means improv is something all of us can do. In fact, we already do it every day. Every conversation, every unexpected moment, every time life changes the plan and you adjust, you are improvising. The more you practice it, the more comfortable you become with surprise, with wonder, with discovery, and with the new parts of yourself that emerge when you just let things unfold.  Now, I'm not saying "Don't have a plan." You should always try to plan when you have the capacity, but life often laughs at our plans and that is where improv skills are a game chan...