Improvisation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Our Improv.
1 Experience
What is everyone’s experience with improv?

What I have
2 learned
Improvising Advice and knowledge

Improvising
3 activity
Doing some improvisation after learning
about it!

4 Psych of improv
What happens to our brain when we
improvise?
Psych of “the
5 zone”
What is it and how does it affect our brain?

6 Works Cited Where I got all of my information

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Our Improv.
experience

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Survey Time!

Interactive Activity

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 How I went from totally

2 scared to improvising
to…....having more tricks
up my sleeve.
What I Have Featuring tips and trips from
MT-BC Lauren Kell

Learned

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 Types of
improvisation
Mirroring Reflecting Matching
Playing back the Play in a way that
You repeat what the matches the client’s
client did emotional mood in
that moment mood of what they
played.

Grounding Dialoguing Accompanying

Creating something Playing something
steady that keeps the Communicating goes along with the
client’s music through music client that supports
anchored what they are playing
Field advice I
Use songs you already
found helpful know
from MT-BC I did not think about this the first
time I improvised with my client

Lauren Kell Narrate what is

happening
This was one I used often

You can kind of cheat and

practice your
improvisation
Write a song that can be flexible
with lyrics so you have something to
fall back on
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Improvisation Activity

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Psych of improv
What is going on in the
brain?

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 Inside The Brain

Medial prefrontal Lateral prefrontal

cortex cortex
● Studies have flow lots of ● Low activity here
activity here. ● This part of the brain
● This is the part of the checks if you’re doing
brain that's involved in tasks correctly, inner
self-expression, monitor
autobiographical
narrative, and your sense
of self
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Flow
What happens in the
brain?

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What is it and how
do I reach it?

What you need to reach it In the brain

● Clear goals (what is it focused on) Certain neurotransmitters are released
● Challenge such as dopamine, anandamide,
● Concentration norepinephrine, serotonin and
● Feedback endorphins.
● Effortlessness
● Control What it feels like
● Selfishness
● Timelessness Almost like you don’t exist, going into
autopilot, floating feeling
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Works Cited
Where did I get my info
from?

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 Works Cited
● GoodTherapy. (2015, August 18). Prefrontal Cortex.

GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog.

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/prefrontal-cortex

● Ifeanyi, K. C. (2019, October 25). This is your brain on

improvisation—and why your creativity depends on it. Fast
Company.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90421354/this-is-your-brain-on-i
mprovisation-and-why-your-creativity-depends-on-it
 Works Cited (cont.)
● Magazine, C. J. (2020, January 31). Music and the Brain: The Art

and Science of Improvisation. Chicagojazzmagazine.

https://www.chicagojazzmagazine.com/post/music-and-the-br

ain-the-art-and-science-of-improvisation

● The Neuroscience of Flow. (2018, June 27). Brain Biz.

https://brainbiz.com.au/the-neuroscience-of-flow/

● Wigram, T. (2017). IMPROVISATION : methods and techniques

for music therapy clinicians, educators, and students.
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