THE P.L.A.Y. METHOD
You do important work. You have a team of talented people. Those talented people have amazing ideas in their heads. But how do get those talented people to share their amazing ideas to help you do your company’s important work? You let them play.
Innovation, creativity, and joy all come from play. We understand this as kids but somewhere along the way, we lose sight of our playfulness – right when we need it the most. Improv has helped us learn to play again. The discipline of living in the moment, and the hard work of saying yes to each other, has not just made us better performers, it’s made us better people. We believe improv can do the same for your people.
After a decade on the improv stage, we realized that there are four steps to every brainstorm or creative process. That’s where the PLAY method came from. Anything’s possible when you play.
Siblings Improv is on a mission to help teams play together. Because when they do, good people bring good ideas to life.
2 hours
What do improv and business have in common? Everything except the two-drink minimum. Hopefully. As seasoned improvisers, Siblings trainers are experts in collaboration and fun. The 2-hour training will introduce the PLAY Method, give your people a chance to reflect, share, and have fun together. We have found that this training goes over well as a compliment to a team retreat or as part of a professional development day. And by all means, let’s do it right after lunch. We’ll get your team moving and their blood flowing.
One Day
Order lunch, silence your phones, and roll up your sleeves for a full-day onsite workshop. A Siblings trainer will facilitate the entire day, working with your team to solve a specific problem or create something new. Pre and post consultation meetings (virtual) will ensure that we come in ready to play and ensure you have the action plan to bring your new ideas to life.
THE PLAYbook
The PLAYbook is a template you can use in brainstorming sessions to bring energy into the room and get the best ideas on the table. This digital tool is fully customizable and is included in every Siblings training session free of charge.
Contact Siblings
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From stages to Trainings
Eric Epperson founded Siblings Improv in 2013 while working at a creative agency in Joplin, MO. Eric trained at The Second City in Chicago and brought his improv knowledge back home where he taught his own improv class in the back of a now defunct pizza parlor. After a decade of leading creative teams by day and performing improv by night, Eric has seen teams succeed based on their willingness to say “yes” in collaboration rather than “no” in competition.
The principles of improv, when applied to every day life, help teams function at higher levels. Principles like:
Say “Yes, and...” to build upon each other’s ideas.
“You bring a brick. I bring a brick.” means we each do our part with excellence.
“Stay Present and Listen Well,” teaches us to serve one another.
“Adapt!” teaches us to do just that.
Several friends have joined Eric on this journey who have led their own teams and have also performed improv on stages around the country. This group of creative leaders make up Siblings, a professional development and coaching agency helping good people realize their good ideas.