2019 AINx Talks - Johanna De Ruyter and Jules Livinstone: Co-creating Adaptive Futures
Channel: Applied Improvisation Network
Date: 20/12/2019

Co-creating adaptive futures within complexity and change

We are a playback theatre and corporate improvisation expert and an organisational change management and strategy specialist, one all emotion, story and movement the other all structure, analysis and plans. We were bought together through our deep appreciation of Improvisation, change processes and self-development - combining our skillsets to create a common approach.
In this case study, we worked with an international creative business finding itself at a crossroads in its 27th year. The client needed a new strategic direction, an updated energy and purpose and concrete steps to move into this new phase.  We applied a model for solving complex problems in new ways – Learn Change Adapt - which uses change management methods, alloyed with an improvisation mindset.

We share and explore:
· How can applied improv be deployed within a program for managing change and creating a new strategic direction ?
· What synergies emerge when an improv person combines talents with a corporate strategist and change manager ?
· What special outcomes resulted from this kind of collaboration ?
· What personal mindset and behavioural practices fostered our collaboration’s success?
· How did we generate them ?
· What roles and dynamics enabled us each to leverage the best from our working partner across the stages of program design, client facilitation and the final recommendations and plan?

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