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Improv for Anxiety – Beginner

IFAX 1 – Improv Basics

A 7-week introduction to the art of improvisation and the tools it offers to help us deal with social anxiety.

This innovative class uses ensemble-based improv to help people manage feelings of stress and anxiety. A Second City...

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Price: 395

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Location: 1 York Street Toronto ON M5J 0B6

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Tue:  08/26/25 - 10/14/25

06:00 PM, 3 hours

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Key Concepts:

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Safe Environment:

Students will explore spontinaiety and risk taking in safe environments that limit external pressures to foster a sense of safety and inclusion.

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Improv Tools:

Students will implement the concept of "Yes, And" to foster collaboration and creativity.

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Communication:

Through improv games and exercises students will learn to enhance effective communication skills.

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Ensemble-Based:

Students will use teamwork to generate ideas and support ensemble members in improv scenes.

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IFAX 1 – Improv Basics

A 7-week introduction to the art of improvisation and the tools it offers to help us deal with social anxiety.

This innovative class uses ensemble-based improv to help people manage feelings of stress and anxiety. A Second City instructor will lead the class through a series of improv exercises that are specifically chosen to help students focus on the present, step outside of their comfort zones, and embrace the unknown in a welcoming and low-pressure environment.

About The Second City’s Improv for Anxiety Program

The Improv for Anxiety Program aims to build a nurturing space and student community where students can slowly explore the tenets of improvisation while receiving accommodations due to feelings of fear or anxiety.

The Improv for Anxiety Program is not a substitute for therapy. Instructors focus on teaching improvisational skills such as listening, being others focused, taking risks, and working from a “Yes, And…” mindset.

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