Improv LOLA
LOLAs are live online learning activities incorporated in a virtual training session. Here are some characteristics of effective LOLAs:
Improv LOLAs
These LOLAs are based on activities adapted from improvisational theater. The participants do not follow a script, but spontaneously create dialogs and action. These LOLAs facilitate the mastery of creativity, collaboration, communication, and change.
Double Reversal
This is an improv LOLA that requires the participants to brainstorm ideas for reaching a negative goal (such as inflexible management) and then invert these ideas to achieve a positive goal (such as resilient management). The facilitator provides examples of ideas for achieving a negative goal and ask the participants to type in additional ideas. Then, the facilitator presents examples for inverting one of these ideas and asks the participants to type in other inversions.
Thank you for reminding me that I absolutely love this and "World's Worst" (same idea) for free-thinking and brainstorming. While I think they are structured to lower the stakes so we can start looking at a challenge together with perspective and creativity, maybe even playfully, the activities occasionally provoke seemingly horrified responses at naming/practicing/spending time on what we *don't* want to do. Which leads to its own discussion about what being able to name and 'inhabit' a challenge versus working to deny its existence each mean.
Love this approach. It taps into their knowledge AND they have fun as they talk about ways to get a negative outcome. I use a version of this when I do Presentation Training. I ask if someone is willing to do a terrible opening to a presentation. Sometimes I have to do a little prompting. "Who can do a terrible job?" "Just 45 seconds at the beginning." One someone does it - I applaud them and say, "that was great - it was terrrrrrible! Who can do worse?" It takes the fear out of the room. And now we can explore, learn & play. #things-I-learned-from-Thiagi
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