Fun Corporate Training in Soft Skills with Improv theatre Bangalore

To the corporate world, FLUX offers corporate training in soft skills with improv theatre plays in Bangalore.

Well, the worlds of corporate businesses and improv theatre plays in Bangalore are starkly different. Still somehow the fundamentals of improv theatre hold utmost value to organizations for personal and collective growth and development. Hence, FLUX wanted to bridge the gap between artistic exploration and the spaces where we earn our living.

This bridging the gap comes from our intention to express ourselves freely to have an authentic expression of our voices. It leads to collaborative growth and safe spaces at our workplaces. What if corporate businesses and improv theatre Bangalore come together and let us shine in our individual unique ways? Here we step back to our inner world. We dive into the characters we play and express our inner voice into the outer world.

Improv theatre at FLUX lays the foundation of living through the act of life by being an active participant. Through our actions and intentions, we transform to a new different world of leadership development. We enter a parallel universe by living somebody else’s story and narrating it like our own story.

Corporate training with improv theatre aims at getting in touch with our lived experiences in work life to express it authentically. Improv theatre is a way and an act of life for us to become our own storytellers. We keep it bare, open, vulnerable and strong to let people interpret it and get in touch with themselves. This encourages sharing and a rejoicing sense of community through our shared lived experiences. It helps us to be empathetic and develop emotional intelligence with a sense of belonging into our shared world. This is how we understand where one ends and the other begins or where one begins and the other ends.

Through our improv theatre classes, people learn to be more receptive to the idea of collaboration. This helps them develop their own skills of self- confidence, stage presence and public speaking. It is a paradigm transformation that changes them inside out.

What Is The Role of Corporate Training in Soft Skills with Improv Theatre?

Amid the pressures of KPIs, quarterly goals, and never-ending emails, companies are increasingly turning to unconventional tools building stronger teams. One such powerful tool is the improv theatre workshops for corporates.

Improv theatre, often seen as an artistic expression, holds untapped potential for professional development. Through engaging and experiential activities, corporate training  with improv theatre offers employees the chance to improve soft skills translating to business success.

Why Including Improv theatre in Corporate Training?

Improv theatre may seem like an alien in a corporate setting. But at its core, it’s all about human connection through communication, storytelling, empathy, soft skills development, collaboration, and presence. These are all the most essential tools in the workplace. Improv theatre exercises push people out of their comfort zones, encouraging authentic interactions through self-discovery.

Whether it is an MNC or a startup, all organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of human skills. They have started employing a holistic approach toward employee development. Unlike traditional seminars or lectures, improv theatre workshops are immersive, embodied, fun, and most importantly transformative and skill driven.

Objectives of Corporate Training in Soft Skills with Improv theatre

• Enhancing Communication Skills
• Team Building and Collaboration
• Boosting Creativity and Innovation
• Emotional Intelligence and Empathy
• Public Speaking and Stage Presence
• Stress Relief and Engagement

Our Approach to Corporate Training in Soft Skills with Improv Theatre

• Many of us in this age and time have difficulty in attending social gatherings and go through social anxiety. This anxiety comes from fear of speaking in public and inability to hold presence on stage. This in turn impacts our relationship with self and others including our community, limiting our overall personality development and growth. Our improv theatre classes are a way to transform the self-doubt, judgement and insecurity to self-expression, safety, belongingness and self-confidence. Our director Avinashi Singh easily creates a sense of community and belongingness in a collaborative community art space.
• One of the main components in our improv theatre classes is empathy with emotional intelligence. Our students immerse in different people’s worlds and lives to learn about them in depth. It includes their history, their environment, their socio-political stands, their relational and individual dynamics, fictionally and non-fictionally. They enact every little nuance in their emotions, ranging from high to low, to different layers to oneself and others. They sit with their emotions to understand other’s emotions and hold space for both. It is also losing their own selves to find themselves in somebody else and find others in their own selves. This fosters empathy in the audience to feel for the character.
• Another main component is a sense of belonging in community. Improv theatre has an essence of community and thrives through community. It is the versatility of every community member bringing their own uniqueness that helps in the relatability between people. That shows how we relate, build a relationship, collaborate, encourage people for their self and community growth. Thus, our improv theatre classes are community driven, making them accessible, inclusive, and adaptable.

Other Components of Corporate Training in Soft Skills with Improv Theatre

Strengthening Self-confidence and Personality Development

Through our improv theatre classes, we encourage people to be true to themselves. Once done, it brings out their own intuitive and authentic self with a voice of self-expression. This helps in building up their self-trust and self-esteem. They build up an authentic personality and stage presence of their own. It is through character development that personality growth happens. And it is through public speaking that we let ourselves be seen and acknowledged as the truest version of ourself.

Social Skills and Stage Presence

Role playing in improv theatre classes helps us in enhancing our social skills. It addresses fear, awkwardness and anxiety in social settings along with the fear of public speaking. Our improv theatre classes provide a non-judgmental space. Here people embrace their so-called weirdness as uniqueness and bring out various parts and layers of themselves to the forefront. We address social mannerisms, social communication and enhancing social skills.

Stage presence is also a vital part in improv theatre. It holds the audience attention when all its focus is on the character and the actor. It is achieved through mindfulness, body language, macro and micro facial expressions, impromptu actions and voice modulation. One learns stage presence in our improv theatre classes through rehearsals and shows.

Nurturing Self and Creative Expression

One of the main principles of improv theatre is self and creative expression through one’s voice. It gives voice to the voiceless as well as silently narrates the story of present, past, and future. The detailing, the depth of work, the improv theatre acting techniques and skills help us in the language of an improv theatre artist.

• Narration and storytelling.
• Voice modulation and voice projection
• Macro Micro facial expressions.
• Emotional regulation.
• Intersectional Cultural social sensitivity
• Creative thinking and Impromptu Skills
• Creative outlet and imagination.
• Dynamics of physical movement and body language.
• Action and Reaction.
• Gesture, posture, stance, eye contact and eye expressions and speech.
• Character building and development.

FLUX acts as a revolution in the corporate culture through one of its magical tools, i.e.,  improv theatre workshops! It facilitates corporate training in soft skills with improv theatre where companies build people and not just profits.

Improv theatre is a deep effective approach when it comes to transformation and revolution. It is a lived experience and experiential learning that facilitates creative expression for personal and professional growth. At Corporates improv theatre workshops translate to build up…

• clear communication and active listening
• collaborative approach towards change
• emotional intelligence
• nervous system regulation
• out of the box creative thinking
• presence in public speaking with confidence
• deeper interpersonal bonding
• trust and conflict resolution

Today when we are glued to our screens, everything is available at the drop of a hat for instant gratification. Here the virtual reality has taken over, and remote work has blurred human interactions, play and expression. In such a scenario, improv theatre helps us connect with being human to human. Here we no longer silence our voices and don’t let that silence deregulate our nervous system. It rather acts as a thread to connect back to our inner world and expressions freely. Improv theatre is the act and ‘art for change’ at FLUX, Bangalore.

Modalities or Themes in Corporate Training with Improv Theatre

Warm Ups and Ice Breakers:

We at FLUX believe in getting to know the real people inside us. So our workshops start with knowing and interacting with each other at a deeper level. It dissolves the hierarchy and lets us loosen up, feel safe and brave with one another. That is what builds trust and deeper communication, both verbal and non-verbal.

Improvisation And Play through Games:

Play and fun are the most important approaches to life and struggles we face. Improvisation helps us not to be in the mind alone all the time. It rather fosters the mind body connection and lets us be ourselves unapologetically in the most authentic way of being. Both play and improvisation are key tools in improv theatre helping us achieve work-life balance.

Voice Modulation:

Voice modulation is a technique as well as the foundation of improv theatre. The components of voice modulation include pitch, tone, volume, tempo or pace, pause, emphasis, inflection and resonance. All of these helps in characterization, emotional depth, connection or engagement, clarity, and projection. In corporate training, this translates to improved communication, autonomy, confidence, presentation skills, team building, public speaking and presence.

Body Work:

It emphasizes on the technique in improv theatre where we work toward posture, physical awareness, movement, gesture and non-verbal expressions. It is the language of no words, and thus embarks a lot on our presence on people around us. It includes posture alignment, gestures, spatial awareness, breath-work, grounding, movement expression, presence, and stillness. As our bodies can never lie, in corporate training it is also about not only what we are saying. It is more about how we are saying it in different modalities.

So non-verbal along with verbal communication plays an important role in getting across our message, our intention, and our goals. In improv theatre for corporate training, we dive deeper into understanding and communicating this language of non-verbal and verbal ways.

Storytelling and Presentation:

Storytelling is the foundation of improv theatre. Storytelling in improv theatre is all about weaving emotion, character and role development. It’s also about empathy toward oneself and others and what we say and hear from the world around us. Further, it’s about owning one’s voice and express it through imagination and creativity. We humans love stories and keep telling those to ourselves about how we perceive the world and people around us.

Thus, storytelling becomes an integral part in how we connect and find meaning and purpose in our life. Presentation is about how our stories reach people with our voice, pace, space, body language and emotional connection with others. Both play a significant role in corporate training. In corporate training, storytelling and presentation enhance communication, connect, engagement, confidence and presence. They let people see where people come from, whether empathy or emotional safety. It’s always about how you say what you say.

Performance and Enactment:

We at FLUX, in our improv theatre workshops give scenarios and plots to enact and perform in presence of the audience which fosters stage presence, build confidence and public communication skills, and work on our fears to be seen, heard in our unique ways, sometimes through solo act or group act. This also emphasizes on building team bonding, collaborative, and team work, creative outlet and expression, creative thinking, and interpersonal connections. It revolves around giving and receiving through active listening and also own ourselves in front of people and give space with each other.

Reflections or Sharing Circles:

Reflections or sharing circles in improv theatre for corporate training help people to hold a safe space for one another. It is an empowering and a beautiful way of connecting with others as well as with oneself. All of us sit in circles, reflect on our roles, experience, characters and thus self-regulate, process, connect and grow together. It builds a sense of community with collaboration over competition and agreeing to disagree. This regulates our nervous system and gets us in touch of our bodies, emotions, thoughts and behaviors. We respect differences, and dissolve any hierarchy to help in system revolution and conflict resolution.

Community Building, Trust, and Interdependence:

In the world that we live in and at the places where we work, we do so in total alienation. We forget about our community work, collaboration, and healing together. Here it is not about comparison, but celebrating our uniqueness, our capabilities in togetherness, and getting inspired by one another. Improv theatre for corporate training helps us move from individualistic to community culture for growing, shining and rising together.

Leadership:

Improv theatre teaches us to be our own leaders and lets our followers lead with the leaders. Thus there is active listening, empathy and non-hierarchical structure with each one walking along all others collaboratively.

Who Is This Corporate Training with Improv Theatre for?

Precisely everyone, as art is for everyone. Specifically, these workshops can be attended by…

• Leadership teams
• Managers
• Human Resource Management
• Sales and Marketing
• New joiners or freshers
• Remote teams

Improv theatre at FLUX provides us with a wide range of benefits that extends beyond performing arts alone. It rather enhances, and enriches personal, social, and professional skills and in our daily life, it provides a holistic development.

In our improv theatre classes, we cater to beginners and professional actors enhancing their acting skills through group activities. We teach improvisation, spontaneity, confidence building, communication, soft skills, creative outlet of our imagination and expression. It works through getting in touch with our emotions, expressing each emotion through micro and macro facial, eye body expression. We integrate it all for an overall characterization and developing an arch in our character or character curve.

FLUX breathes magic and provides magical transformation. We are a school of creative expression through various arts forms. One such art form for us is our improv theatre classes led by an amazing improv theatre artist Avinashi Singh. She is a huge believer of expressing through eyes, body language, facial expressions and character development as an actor. She is a devoted improv theatre artist having produced various improv theatre plays and productions.

So, what happens when technology, AI and corporates meet the world of creativity and art?

Improv Theatre!

In a world of automation, soft skills are the most important root for us to start a cultural revolution. We need to coexist together to efficiently define our future world to be empathetic, deeply human, creative and collaborative. Through the transformative process of improv theatre, FLUX helps corporate training to build sensitive humans and not profits alone.

…It’s where we have our lived experiences and get in touch with our physical reality, not virtual reality alone.

…Where we allow ourselves to feel things and express our voice freely.

…Where our creativity and imagination to transformation and evolution through our humanness and collaboration prevails.

…And where we all tell our stories, celebrate our uniqueness, and grow with one another both personally and professionally!

We at FLUX welcome you for a transformative experience through our corporate training in soft skills with improv theatre Bangalore.

Give us a call on +919606555607 and we will take things further from there!

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