The conflict is entered with group support. Conflicts within the home or with significant others are often personally self exposing, but are usually done in private. The process of acting, however, asks people to tap themselves, reveal themselves, and share themselves in front of others. Few young actors are comfortable transferring this raw, personal, private material onto a character. Group improvisations, like the ones described here, take this into account and many are designed to encourage students to risk self exposure through conflict within the relative safety of a structured experience.
Imagination is one of the actor's most important resources.
It is the artist's personal, unique view of things. The degree to which imagination is nurtured, tested and applied to character is greatly responsible for the difference between a fine performance and a brilliant one. Use of imagination in acting can be threatening, for imagination also involves risk. Imaginative ideas are by nature untested and do not yet reside in the accepted mainstream of the collective psyche. It requires courage to release and exercise these untamed demons.