Rachel West is the engineer who became a clown who became a facilitator.

At the AMED Writers’ Workshop, she showed us how a bit of skill, dressed up as performance, can be very impressive to an audience. 

The World Cup approaches, very strictly structured and tightly organised on the pitch – yet certain to provoke controversy when decisions in matches are seen as unfair.  When football began – with spontaneous kicking of a pig’s bladder, there were no rules.  Well, maybe a few – first remove the pig, for example.  Then we had the crucial game-defining concept of two teams facing each other, aiming for the goals at each end.  Then probably limits on acceptable levels of violence.

I've been studying more and less successful networks to identify what works well.  These seem to be some of the characteristics:

A neat way of raising the profile of Applied Improvisation is to notice examples in the world around us, then name them and claim them.  So if you see an individual or an organisation succeeding by tackling something improvisationally, you can point it out.  Likewise, if they seem stuck in a script that no longer serves them well, you might comment on how improvisation might be a more useful response.