LEARNING JOURNEYS
The AIN Learning Journey is a deeper exploration into a specific topic, offered in the two-days prior to the conference. The fees are additional to the conference registration. This years Learning Journeys are an incredible opportunity to explore and experience New York City and Stony Brook, including different neighborhoods, food, and cultures. In working with our conference theme, we’ve put together an unusual array of experiences that explore this vital theme in many different ways.
Wed August 7, 2019: Full day sessions in New York City.
Thurs August 8, 2019: Full day sessions at Stony Brook University; half or ¾ day Learning Journeys in NYC. Those will be timed so that you can make it to the conference before it begins.
The Learning Journeys that are half or 3/4 days are the same price as the full days.
TO REGISTER FOR LEARNING JOURNEYS: You can register for one day or two days on this form. After your registration is confirmed, you will receive a link to a form with the complete information about each Learning Journey where you can register your first, second and third choices. You will receive email confirmation about that Learning Journeys for which you are registered.
Space is limited and available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Click here to read complete descriptions and details about each Learning Journey on the AIN website. Here is an overview of these fantastic opportunities:
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - New York City
WAIT LISTED - Big Apple Writers Workshop: Capturing the Power of Applied Improv in Words: With the women who have been leading the way in capturing our power - Caitlin McClure and Theresa Dudeck, editors of Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating and Creating Beyond the Theatre. And, special hot-off-the-press addition to this Learning Journey: One of the biggest literary agents in the U.S. will lead an improvisational workshop on pitching your applied improv book ideas in creative and practical ways.
WAIT LISTED - Foundations of Freestyle (Improv Rapping) and other Cultural Experience-Benders: Led by Anthony Veneziale, of Freestyle Love Supreme (and AIN) this full day experience will be an immersion in New York culture that takes you on a poetic and musical improvised journey!
Community Building, Playing Across Boundaries, and Improvising on Stage and Off: Spend the afternoon improvising, performing and growing at the National Headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd Street — a center for performance, youth development, and activism.
Seven Senses Stroll, and Following the Follower with Tango and Improvisation: New York is a city in constant creativity. Discover New York like artists. Experience your peak senses piqued! Then segue into a different kind of “senses-making" with a world-class tango instructor who will teach two simple tango walks. The focus of the workshop is not to learn dance steps, but to try to understand our experience of leading, following, and partnering, when we look through a different lens than usual.
WAIT LISTED - The Quest NYC: The Quest is a one-of-a kind experience where improvisation, storytelling, urban exploration, and magic meet. An improvisational structure developed by the legendary improv guru Del Close, The Quest will help you become a more engaged listener, be more present, curious, and attentive, increase your self-awareness and be more open to new experiences.
Learning Journeys on Thursday, August 8 — NYC and Stony Brook
WAIT LISTED - Introduction to Applied Improvisation: This full-day session is a delightful blend of immersion, information, and play experience. Facilitator Patrick Short will cover getting started, core concepts, client needs, and content customization.
Explore the Emerging Field of Medical Improv: Medical Improv is an exciting field that that calls upon the expertise of applied improvisors to help with unique challenges in overcoming barriers to communication in healthcare. This Learning Journey will be a combination of improv activities, discussion, a little bit of lecture, and an organic inclusion of local healthcare professionals who will be invited to join us and get a taste of Medical Improv. (Continuing Education hours available for social workers in NYS)
Jazz Improvisation, the Art of Risk: Taught by Stony Brook University Artist in Residence, Dr. Tom Manuel, we’ll explore sources and techniques of musical improvisation: practice and skills, playfulness, emotion, courage, will, concentration, risk, the power of limits, patience, trust and dedication. This interactive session will be hands, feet, voice and body on -- participants with no or lots of experience will improvise from moment one, learning the importance of improvisation in Jazz as well as in life.
Changing How We Perform Healthcare: The Joy Of Dementia And Improvising With Autism: Designed for people in the health care field who want to humanize health care, this will be an exploration of the a growing movement of practitioners who are finding creative and joyful ways to create inclusive and developmental environments and activities for two growing populations - people living with dementia and individuals on the autism spectrum, and the people in their lives.
Improvising with Anthropology with Margaret Mead as Our Muse: This unusual Learning Journey is a personalized, intimate, visual and conversational exploration of improvisation and anthropology through the work of the most famous anthropologist in history, Margaret Mead. Beginning at the home of Mead’s grand daughter (AIN’s very own Sevanne Kassarjian), and then moving on to the magnificent American Museum of Natural History
AIN Facilitator Excellence Bootcamp: In the interest of supporting and growing the field in alignment with our values and professional standards, AIN is developing a professional facilitator credentialing program. Join Kat Koppett and Paul Jackson in the launch a key component of that service; an AIN Facilitator Excellence Bootcamp in which we will identify and exercise the muscles and mindsets at the core of great quality applied improvisation initiatives.
Click here for: COMPLETE DETAILS ABOUT EACH OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES ON THE AIN WEBSITE
