Making HEALTHCARE Healthier ...with IMPROV
Improvisational theater to support collaborative relationships
across all stakeholders
and reinvent our healthcare system
Zebras? Healthcare? Improv?
Zebras and Healthcare
"If You Hear Hoofbeats, It's a Horse, NOT a Zebra",
That mindset is the starting point of every medical and healthcare practitioner's thinking...
That Is:
a patient's issue is probably caused by the most obvious thing - don't make things complicated!.
But, life is complicated.
What if we're in Botswana? Hoofbeats might indeed mean....ZEBRA.
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING.
How do we make decisions about healthcare - individually and collectively - assuring we're doing so within context?
Healthcare and Improv
The premise of improvisational theater (improv) is, people creating characters, discovering the context in which those characters live and creating a new space for all the characters to explore together.
An activity, if we're honest, we all do with many a daily encounter.
Improv demands actors create a space that brings all scene partners to the new place their characters each need to be to meet their individual and collective goals. These same skills are critical to well-functioning relationships amongst and across all stakeholders in healthcare.
How better to explore, practice, enhance and hone such relationship-building collaboration skills than with scene partners who's primary goal is to have their scene partner's back so everyone looks good...on an imaginary 'stage', where the stakes could not be lower?
About: I AM A ZEBRA
Who We Are
Whom We Serve
Whom We Serve
Across and between our identities, we are patients, healthcare practitioners, administrators, educators, researchers, improvisational actors, directors, producers, children, parents, siblings and caretakers with a passion to create collaborative relationships across and amongst all the stakeholders in healthcare to support the health, and humanity, of all of us.
Whom We Serve
Whom We Serve
Whom We Serve
We strive to engage
all stakeholders
across healthcare:
- patients, families
- doctors, nurses, the myriads of professional, technical & support staff
- administrators, attorneys, legislators, lobbyists, payers
- why,...even big Pharma & 'alternative' practitioners
What We Do
Whom We Serve
What We Do
- Provide workshops in many different formats with improv, customized performances, applications to the specific group
- Performance pieces to prompt and support difficult conversations
- Presentation about humor & comedy in healthcare
- TBA: a video podcast with sketches & stakeholders engaged in improv & conversation