There's an international organization called The Applied Improvisation Network (AIN). AIN's membership includes folks throughout the world who offer the tools and activities of improvisational theater (improv) to contexts outside of its familiar space of the theater. For example, applied improvisers offer improv to people in corporate settings to build work teams or in formal learning environments to support the learning and development of faculty and students.
I've been "applying" improv as an adult educator for more than 30 years. In that timeframe, I've peeked into the activities of AIN, like signing up for their email messages or setting up a profile on their website. AIN has offered in-person and virtual conferences for a while and I regret that I haven't gotten involved in this capacity.
Well, till now, that is! I'm excited to share I'll be attending and co-presenting at this month's virtual AIN event. The conference runs from November 20-23. The conference theme is Applied Improvisation: Against All Odds. Check out the conference page on their website to learn more.
I'll be co-presenting with Gwen Lowenheim and Amy Baldwin about our forthcoming edited book on improvisation with and in higher education. The title of our session is "Improvising With and In Higher Education: Creating Ensembles Everywhere." Gwen, Amy, and I will share a bit about our book's content. We will focus more so on the activities and development we co-created to support the contributors' becoming a book ensemble. We will celebrate the power of building groups as equally, if not more, important that the activity of creating a product. In our case, we simultaneously built a book and a book ensemble, and are looking forward to people connecting with our book and how we created our community of applied improvisers who contributed to it.
If you're attending the conference, see you there! And inviting you to attend our session on November 23 from 3:30-4:30pm Eastern US Time.
I'd love to hear from you if you're curious about applied improvisation with and in higher education, our forthcoming book, and how/that applied improv supports building ensemble everywhere. 
