On the morning of 2/19, we did our 1st Heroic Improvisation Workshop in the native Filapino language. The participants were staff from Forest Club in Laguna Province, 2 hours south of Manila towards the mountains. More at www.theforestclub.com
Our participants were a diverse group in age from 20-somethings to 60-somethings. The staff here run team-building courses for company retreats, and feed and house the visitors. All the staff had personal experience with typhoons, so were very interested in the workshop.
My improv collaborator ran the games in the Filipino language. I did the disaster part in English, which many can understand better than they can speak it.
It was really gratifying to see my workshop launched in a different culture. It was a bittersweet moment for me...I have launched something that now has a life of its own.
The highlight of the workshop was the end. We put the staff through an imagined fire drill and they got the fire house, first aid kit and many buckets of water in 3 minutes flat. (No exaggeration!) This workshop works!
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