What I AM A ZEBRA Offers
All ZEBRA Workshops and Events are
Custom designed after consultation with group organizers,
as ZEBRA learns about
- your learners/players
- the specific learning objectives your group seeks, and
- the context of the learning experience for your group
Learning objectives generally revolve around communication, relationship-building, collaborative decision-making and resilience
Improv Workshops
Workshops can take many forms, from a one hour inservice to 2-6 hour interactive sessions with patient support or professional groups;; from all day continuing education accredited courses, to professional education term-long weekly classes to interactive virtual sessions.
Learning activities include, as required to meet objectives:
literature review presentation, improv activities (games), performance pieces, writing/creating, and demonstration of applied improv principles within the context of the learners'/players' personal and/or professional worlds.
But yes...mostly playing (learning)
Tailored Performance Pieces
IAMAZEBRA creates, produces and performs targeted comedic sketches and shows that reflect the experiences of all the stakeholders across healthcare. These performances use humor and satire to illuminate and give voice to the variant perspectives across all the joys & trials, challenges & triumphs, epiphanies & confusion, delights & grievances inherent in this universal human experience
These bespoke pieces are used within the context of workshops
or as stand-alone performances
to prompt and support the many challenging and ofttimes difficult conversations within healthcare that need to be laid bare if we and our system are to be healthy.
Improv Social
IAMAZEBRA creates spaces for groups of individuals who inhabit similar circumstances within healthcare (e.g. a practice group, a patient support group) to gather and engage in improv games that:
- erase hierarchies
- lower the stakes of engagement than is otherwise omnipresent in healthcare, providing a liberating levity
- allow, even welcome, a shared vulnerability
- allow players to see new sides of each other
- allow people to know each other as simply...people
IAMAZEBRA provides improv experiences within social settings to support the acquisition and enhancement of resilience skills
Presentations
The role of improv, humor, comedy, satire and theater more broadly within medicine and healthcare continues to be explored across the worlds of medicine, healthcare, the humanities and theater. IAMAZEBRA researches these relationships on an ongoing basis. IAMAZEBRA has presented on the topic at conferences and can customize a presentation for groups to share our understandings and considerations about how to apply knowledge of the integration of these concepts and move it forward.
Workshops, when appropriate (e.g. when CE accredited), include presentations of literature and evidence.