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--- futurist_fieldguide:improvisation [2015-05-18 16:03] – created maja
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-  * Trust: Trust in yourself and in your fellow participants, trust the situation. Allow yourself to be vulnerable in order to be affected, altered by the experience. Whatever happens, it is the best thing that could have happened.
+  * Trust: Trust in yourself and in your fellow participants, trust the situation. Allow yourself to be vulnerable in order to be affected, altered by the experience. Whatever happens, it is the only thing that could have happened.
-  * Commit: You must commit to be fully present and an essential part of the process. A non-committal attitude can kill an improvisation before it starts.
+  * Commit: Be fully present and committed, engage with the process. A non-committal attitude can kill an improvisation before it starts.
-  * Be honest: Act from your gut feeling and speak your mind, respectfully. Pretending can stop you from learning new insights.
+  * Be honest: Act from your feelings and speak your mind.
-  * Focus on the Here and Now: Listen, observe and then interact. Let yourself be lead by the situation. Be fully present, open, aware, receptive and responsive. Adapt your actions to whatever emerges around you. Don't worry about the past or the future.
+  * Focus on the Here and Now: Listen, observe and interact. Let yourself be led by the situation. Be fully present, open, aware, receptive and responsive. Adapt your actions to whatever emerges around you. Don't worry about the past or the future.
-  * Agree: In a speculative futuring process building on each others' stories is preferrable. Say "Yes and..." add something, don't block or reject ideas (avoid sentences starting with "yes, but").
+  * Agree: Try building on each others' stories. Say "Yes and...". Add something, don't block or reject ideas (try to avoid sentences starting with "No" or "Yes, but").
-  * Support: In a participatory exercise it's important to have a group mind, to think of others and how your actions will impact them.
+  * Support: In a participatory exercise it's important to have a group mind, to think of others and how your actions could impact them.
-  * Be aware of different lenses. All of us have assumptions, points of view, opinions, intentions and expectations. Be aware how you and others view reality through different lenses, allow them to co-exist out in the open. Be specific, avoid generalisations and absolute statements.
+  * Allow different lenses: All of us have assumptions, points of view, opinions, intentions and expectations. Be aware how you and others view reality through different lenses, allow them to co-exist out in the open. Be specific, avoid generalisations or absolute statements.
-  * Set the scene: The Future is vast and abstract. Define your the limits of your world and explore the universe within, move back and forth in time and space, but whatever you do, don't break the universe!
+  * Set the scene: The Future is vast and abstract. Define your the limits of your world and explore the universe within, move back and forth in time and space, but whatever you do, don't break the universe.
-  * Make Active Choices: Move as quickly as possible from talking to action. Do something. Try things out. Experiment. Fail and start again. Avoid talking around in circles..."When an opportunity for an action comes up- do it! Don't speak about it, don't lead up to it, don't put it off."
+  * Make Active Choices: Move as quickly as possible from talking to action. Do something. Try things out. Experiment. Fail and start again. Avoid talking around in circles...
   * Smile: "When thy faith is low, thy spirit weak, thy good fortune strained, and thy team losing, be comforted and smile, because it just doesn't matter." Let go of your fear of failure and have fun!
-==== References ====
+=== References ===
-  * [[http://www.keithjohnstone.com/|Keith Johnstone]]: Impro. Improvisation and the Theatre and [[http://moemesto.ru/newcode/file/8398046/Impro+for+storytellers.pdf|Impro for storytellers]]
+  * [[http://www.keithjohnstone.com/|Keith Johnstone]]: "Impro. Improvisation and the Theatre" and "Impro for Storytellers"
   * The [[http://improvencyclopedia.org/|Improv Encyclopedia]]