Quantcast
Channel: Portsmouth Improv Learning Lab
Browsing all 142 articles
Browse latest View live

What is the most powerful language in all the world?

Gibberish! In PILL classes we have lots of fun with Gibberish activities. We played Gibberish Poet in a recent class and one of my students shared her observation that it was wonderful to see trust...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Help Plan a Joliday Holiday PILL Party?

I have the extreme good fortune of getting to know all PILL Peeps!  And what an awesome group of people you are! OMG!   Many of you know each other and I believe would love meeting those you don’t know...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Help Lightening Larry Share Kindness & Empower Homeless People!

By Lori Austin, LCSW So excited, once again to think about empowering those who struggle with homelessness to gain independence via RUNNING for Back on My Feet (BoMF).   For me being an athlete...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

PILL Joliday Holiday Party Date & Signup Link

Thanks for all of your  interest and thoughts about our first Joliday Holiday PILL Party. The best date given your responses and PPMTV space is 12/16/17 from 4p-7p!  I hope that works for everyone and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Brene Brown Suggests “Show Up for Collective Moments of Joy & Pain”!

Professor, Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW is well known for her TED Talk, research, and writing on courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. In her latest book,  “Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True...

View Article


Alan Alda Has a Passion for Using Improv to Help Scientists Communicate better!

There's something about improv that opens you up to another person.-Alan AldaClick To Tweet Building trust, developing empathy, and practicing communication skills are going on all the time in the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Portsmouth Fitness Leader Happy to Support Homelessness Fundraiser

Honore and her Mom, Andrea I’ve been taking Zumba dance classes at Jubilation (where your first class is always FREE!) for years and love it.  The music, moves, and community fill me up in so many...

View Article

Teach this Fun Clapping Game to Your Friends & Family at Any Gathering!

It’s called the Danish Clap! Can you sense ‘Divine Play’ with these people? Isn’t it beautiful to see? It is part of what happens in PILL classes! Maybe you’ll join us one day. Happy Thanksgiving...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Do You Nurture Your Playful Spirit?

I remember my father’s playful side.  Not often, but once in a while it came out! One example that comes to mind is when I was 12 or so and there was a hail storm going on outside.  He called to me...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Applied Improv & Trust! Glorious, Glorious Trust!

One of the differences between applied improv and improv comedy is that we take the focus off of performing and put it on the process of play.  One of the most fundamental and powerful parts of that...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Presenting the PILL Poster People of Portsmouth!

Beth Boynton, RN, MS & Liz Korabek-Emerson, MFA Beth and Liz love teaching PILL classes! Sometimes serious, oft times silly, and always kind; it is no surprise that they have fun putting up PILL...

View Article

Hark! It’s a Musical Christmas Parody @ the Tax Bill

Colleague and friend, Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, RMT, CGP (also singer, storyteller, improvisor) has combined her talents to bring us this 2 Min video that speaks to the tax bill! Warning:  If you...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“…a story about how we begin to remember…”- Paul Simon

Listening to Under African Skies while driving under them with my son was an incredible privilege that moved me to tears.  And he too, felt something profound in the words and music from Paul Simon’s...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

PILL Open House Was Wonderfull & Early Bird Rates Extended!

Is there a PILL for making friends, playing, & learning interpersonal skills?Click To Tweet Portsmouth Improv Learning Lab isn’t a PILL you swallow, it is a PILL class you take! And there are a few...

View Article

Emmmmm…Snacks, Music, IMPROV, & Prizes! Please Come to the Community...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Single Session PILL Improv Classes at York Adult & Community Education!

New improv classes this March in York, ME! Intro to Improv:  Activities Anyone Can Do! People are talking about PILL (Portsmouth Improv Learning Lab) classes!  Where you don’t have to be an actor to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New in Town Seacoast Transplant Meetup Group Had a FUN PILL Improv Night!

If you think improv games are just for actors, guess again!  On 2/2/18 ten people from New in Town Seacoast Transplant MeetUp group showed up for a PILL Improv night and they took to it like fish to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

This FUNdraising Party Has So Many Raffle Prizes from Seacoast Businesses that…

…we need to make 2 blogposts out of it!!!  This is Part I! Wait, what? Fundraising for?  People who struggle with Homelessness When/Where 2/24/18 from 5:30-8p at Jubilation Dance Studio Learn about the...

View Article

Loved Krista Tippett’s Interview w/ Brene Brown

Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. . –Brene Brown If you liked Brene Brown’s well-known TED Talk on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

MORE Fantastic Raffle Prizes from Mostly Seacoast Businesses for this...

When/Where 2/24/18 from 5:30-8p at Jubilation Dance Studio Suggested donation $10! Last week we published a list of SOME of the fantastic raffle prizes you can win ifyou come to the fundraising party...

View Article
Browsing all 142 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images