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March Meeting
Practicing Spontaneity – Enhancing Personal and Business interaction thru Improv Theatre Skills


Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Registration - 5:30-6:00 PM

Location: Improv Asylum

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Explore how the performance art of Improv Theater works and how it can have a powerful impact on your important personal & business interactions. In these challenging times we are all dealing with the unexpected, looking for ways to stay in control and how to stay balanced in an unbalanced world. By sharing the very same techniques used by talented performers from the entertainment world like “Second City” and TV’s “Whose Line is it Anyway” this session offers new and powerful insight into the way each of us embraces and processes every challenge we encounter.

Our featured speaker, Izzy Gesell, MS Ed, CSP, will help us explore how the performance art of Improv Theater works and how it can be a powerful skill applicable to both personal & business interactions. Come learn how to use humorous & memorable techniques to help you stretch our own comfort zone. Izzy just did this session at PCMA in Dallas and had everyone fully engaged, inspired, and totally prepared for the next time when you have to think on your feet. Click here for speaker bio.

The skills that make Improv Theater players successful are the same ones that make us all successful. Highly effective individuals and improvisers are both able to respond positively to new realities, are driven to achieve desired outcomes and can cooperatively resolve conflict and reach agreement. They generate new ideas, incorporate changes quickly and easily and communicate constructively, consistently and proactively. Of course, creating this powerful and effective person is not a simple task. It requires flexibility, creativity and spontaneity.

This highly interactive (using volunteers only!!) and practical program will let you experience how Improv works, why it is so powerful at facilitating self-development and organizational effectiveness and how to you can incorporate these techniques into both your personal and professional life. Plus, you will have fun!

Learning Objectives:
1.Learn how to diffuse the feelings of fear, risk, and change to become more comfortable with uncertainty.
2.Develop your confidence and maintain effectiveness in situations requiring spontaneous response.
3. Understand how to keep a dialogue going while trying to resolve conflicts.

Co – Chair Names & Contact Information:
Robert Korin, Sr. Sales Manager, Hilton Waikoloa – Hilton Hotels Hawaii , 203-207-0074, robert.korin@hilton.com
Denise Banach, Dir. Group Sales, Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, 508-270-1957, denise.banach@sheraton.com

Speaker Bio

Izzy Gesell, CSP
www.izzyg.com • izzy@izzyg.com
"Helping people change the way they look at things, so the things they look at change"Coauthor of "Cancer & The  Healing Power of Play"

NEW DVD: "Managing Stress Through Humor" 
Recorded at the survivor day celebration at the U of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Click here for product information

Izzy Gesell, MS Ed, CSP is an "organizational alchemist." As a keynote speaker, workshop leader, professional facilitator and presentation coach his skill is in transforming something commonplace into something special.

His humorously serious and seriously humorous programs help people thrive and prosper during these changing times as they become more confident, spontaneous and effective.

As Author of Playing Along: Group Learning Activities Borrowed from Improvisation Theater. Izzy was one of the first to bring the concepts of Improv Theater into the business world. He has also contributed to the International Association of Facilitator's Handbook and Humor Me, a compilation by America's most prominent humorists.


MPI New England Educational Institute
"Spring Forward"


Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sheraton Framingham Hotel
1657 Worcester Road
Framingham, MA 01701
(508) 879-720

Please join us for “Spring Forward” a MPI New England Educational Institute. This budding program will burst forth with insights and best practices on subjects of greatest current interest to meeting planners and others in the meeting industry.  The one-day program will include numerous educational sessions, a “reverse tradeshow” and an evening networking reception.  A variety of registration options will be available to suit your busy schedule.

If you have ideas for presenters or topics you would like to see presented, please email to Bob McGlincy at BMcglincy@willworkinc.com

Further information on the Spring Forward Educational Institute will be made available on soon on our website.

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Upcoming Meetings

April Monthly Meeting– stay tuned for location and time

NEM!CE – Postponed for 2010 - will return in 2011

June 28, 2010
Annual Meeting and Awards Event
Marriott Copley Place


 


 


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