During this week's SPHY310 workshop with 3rd year speech pathology students the central discussions were around difficult communication scenarios. One student shared some of her personal experience - she was aware that she would try and search for "the perfect response" during simulation role play and also when on placement. This is an almost impossible task, especially when improvising a conversation. It also takes more time to generate a response because the brain is creati

It was exciting to get to meet the SPHY310 cohort at ACU's North Sydney campus this week. The students have been working with ImproCOG (similar to their Brisbane campus peers) to investigate Gen Z communication and how improvising might be used to improve outcomes. The Sydney cohort has also been getting feedback from their allied health peers across a range of subjects to make a list of difficult communication scenarios. There was lots of sharing of placement stories and how

The ImproCOG applied impro workshop was a lot of fun at NZIF. The participants were a mix of expereinced improvisers, educators and new to impro people. Lots of great sharing about workplace contexts, power/status dynamics, and communication strategies. Would love to come back and do more applied impro, thanks NZIF for a great workshop opportunity.