Bring the Benefits of Improv
to your school, program or organization
Give one or all your departments a simple accessible tool to help them better engage and connect with your students/clients, coworkers, and families.
WHY YOU NEED ONE RULE IMPROV TRAINING PROGRAMS:
As someone interested in implementing improv with your school, organization, or team…
Working with trauma is not easy or intuitive for most people. Your staff needs training, and while sessions on trauma can be deep and complex, all staff still need a simple accessible tool to have with them at all times.
Your purpose is to serve people who suffer from the effects of trauma, but many of your staff may be dealing with similar issues as well bringing with them their own boundaries and unknown trigger points. With the staff’s own struggles in connecting, communicating, or building relationships, this can exacerbate the challenge in creating a trauma responsive environment that provides a sense of safety, acceptance, empathy, and joy.
Training programs often target only one department at a time, stretching the budget even more so and leaving little for training that would help improve the overall communication, culture, and outcomes within and between the departments your organization.
Decrease staff frustration, failure and turn-over in just a few minutes a day.
Why One Rule Improv?
Research Based and Trauma Informed
Reduce Turnover, Incidents, and Improve Student/Client Outcomes
Strengthen Culture
Creative a supportive and positive culture when you use improv to facilitate discussions when meeting with employees, students, clients, and families.
Save on Resources
Ideal Learning Interface
Provide your staff with a training experience designed so they achieve a sense of ownership of this impactful tool. Choose the training format that works for you. In person, virtual, online learning or blended solutions are all designed with respect to learning styles and structured and scaffolded to promote mastery.
Monitor Progress & Record Training Hours
24/7 Access
Online courses are accessible anytime on any web-enabled device to accommodate individual schedules.
Meet The Founder and Instructor
Mary DeMichele
How can improv be less overwhelming and scary for absolute beginners? This is the question that has defined the 25-year career of Mary DeMichele. Mary is a coach, consultant, and author whose work in education, clinical and professional setting has helped thousands of people take those first critical steps in the world of improv. She first applied improv in her classroom and then school-wide over twenty years ago to wonderful effect. In recent years, she has systematically implemented improv in a clinical and educational setting that serves preteen and teenage students who suffer from complex developmental trauma/early childhood trauma.
Mary is featured in the documentary, Act Social- Using YES AND to Save the World from Within, starring Collin Mochrie of the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway. There she discusses her work and research with teens with developmental trauma. This groundbreaking study, Short-Form, Comedy Improv Affects the Functional Connectivity in the Brain of Adolescents with Complex Developmental Trauma, published by the Journal of NeuroRegulation, reveals the positive neurobiological impact of improv.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
NOT VISIBLE
Will my staff really be able to learn improv?
Absolutely. The One Rule Improv approach, as it simplifies the process of learning and teaching improv, makes improv accessible to the beginner, whether they may be outgoing or introverted.
I am worried that when doing improv, a person might be emotionally triggered/upset.
There are many improvisational games and activities that utilize situational role-playing activities, are not framed by the rule of “Yes, and…” or don’t feature collaboration as a central theme. These are the types of activities that may trigger someone emotionally.
In contrast, this program uses collaborative short-form improv games framed by “Yes, and…” which helps individuals achieve a more neurologically balanced state, as well as research-based instructional design and strategies that create a trauma sensitive and supportive experience for all players.
What else will I need to purchase after I sign up?
Absolutely nothing. Everything you need will be provided.
If I have other questions, how do I ask them?
You can send us an email at hello@oneruleimprov.com and someone from our team will be in contact within 24 hours.
Are there other resources available?
Yes. The Improv Video Library will be available with a membership after the completion of the Make Improv Your Own Online or the Improv ‘n Ink Course. This resource includes improv games presented in video format and supported with written resources so that you can quickly and confidently find games, plans and resources that work for you and your people..
Training
(Live/On-Demand/Blended)
Learn the Exact Approach Used By Mary DeMichele, the Author, Researcher, and Master Improv Instructor Who First Published Groundbreaking Research Revealing Improv’s Neurobiological Benefits
Improv is awesome and so many amazing benefits can be obtained from playing these fast, easy games. Unfortunately, common misunderstandings often make people hesitant to try it or impede them from doing it effectively.
Research-based and trauma-informed, the One Rule Improv training:
Enables you to play, lead and apply improv with confidence.
Are adapted to specifically engage your participants and focus on the skills and benefits you seek.
Are informational and experiential
Offer the opportunity to practice by playing, facilitating, and applying improv in meaningful and relevant ways
Training can be delivered :
- Live – in-person and virtual training sessions
- On demand – online video-based courses with downloadable resources
- Blended – a combination of live and online training; depending upon the training solution this may include coaching and consulting
Training Solutions
Train Your Team:
Make Improv Your Own or Improv n’ Ink
These online courses will enable your staff to bring the benefits of improv into their work as they are equipped to design and implement their own improv sessions to work specifically within their workspace.
A Certificate of Completion can be earned.
Training Programs
Make Improv Your Own
Offered Live, On-Demand, or Blended
This course teaches the complete One Rule Improv approach to learning, teaching and applying improv. It is offered in live, on demand and in blended formats. Learn more about this course, its structure and content.
Improv n’ Ink
Offered Live, On-Demand, or Blended
Learn an evidence-based sequence of improv games that can help students and individuals overcome a resistance or reluctance to write, allowing the teacher to teach and assess writing skills or assess content knowledge of any subject. Learn more
Improv ‘n Ink uses the One Rule Improv method as a foundation.
Custom
Offered Live or Virtual
Custom Trainings are designed to best fit your needs, desired outcomes, and audience. These trainings may use a combination of theater and improv games, structured role-plays and other exercises all grounded in neuroscience and cognitive and behavioral psychology.
Custom Training Examples:
- Experiential components to therapeutic, operational, and crisis management trainings.
- Presentation and Public Speaking
- Instructional Design and Coaching
- Training and Presentation Skills
- Interpersonal and/or Interviewing Skills
Additional Solutions
Facilitators’ Certification
Bring a greater sense of community, cause, and momentum by adding a customized in-person or online coaching, consulting, and evaluation package, to the already convenient format of the online training.
Certified Facilitator Training Certificate based on evaluation can be earned.
Train the Trainer
If you are interested in sustaining your program over time as new staff are hired, you may choose to have some or all of your Improv Facilitators to become certified In-House Trainers. This training includes one-on-one and group coaching, consulting, and evaluation as well as, a Trainer’s Tool kit.
Certified Trainer’s Certificate can be earned based on evaluation.
Keynotes
(In-Person and Virtual)
Bring energy and joy to your conference or event.
One Rule Improv sessions are not only relevant and informative, but they are an energizing and experiential session for your conference.
This session is not only enjoyable and often filled with laughter, but by using the One Rule Improv approach as a foundation, participants leave with practical tools to practice improv and apply and its transformative benefits in meaningful and relevant ways to their personal or professional lives.
The design and facilitation of the sessions are supported by current neuroscience and behavioral and cognitive psychology for engaging small and large groups.
Here are just a few examples of how One Rule Improv Speaking Sessions can be aligned to the theme of your Conference or Event:
- One Rule Improv and the Brain: Creating Connections for Healing and Learning
- One Rule Improv: Building Healthy Relationships with Improv
- One Rule Improv: A Fast and Easy Way to Introduce Play and Playfulness
- One Rule Improv: Unscripted! Create Voice and Choice in Your Classroom with Improv
- Improv n’ Ink: Helping Your Students Write More So You Can Teach Writing
Improv Jams
(In-Person and Virtual)
Bring shared laughter and joy to your community or group.
One Rule Improv Jams are a fun and entertaining way of introducing improv to a group or community. Those who attend are invited to watch, learn, and play improv games. No one is required to play, but they soon learn that improv is not at all what they thought it was.
Works great at community events, retreats, events at conferences, and in businesses, organizations, and residential facilities to bring departments, clients, and families together in connection, communication, and joy.
Interested in a custom program or jam?
Although I love to perform and am used to learning a script, I’m an introvert and thought improv would be terrifying! Mary not only makes the process tremendous fun, but also provides a safe and supportive environment to explore and learn. Mary’s coaching style is unintrusive, highly encouraging and educational. I didn’t just “survive” having a go – I loved it and came back for more!
