DIF Workshop: Imagine Training, Designing and Facilitating Applied Improvisation with Kat Koppett

Name: DIF Workshop: Imagine Training, Designing and Facilitating Applied Improvisation with Kat Koppett
Start: 2025-10-25T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-25T11:00:00-07:00
Location: Lesher Center for the Arts

Schedule

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 09:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Lesher Center for the Arts | Walnut Creek, CA

Diablo Improv Festival at The Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Check out our entire lineup of shows, workshops, and activities at DialboImprovFestival.org.
About this Workshop
Improv offers an opportunity to practice a range of skills and mindsets—including empathy, awareness, presence, resilience, flexibility, and creative problem-solving—that are at least as valuable off-stage as on. In this practical and playful session, using Kat's book "Training to Imagine" as a foundational text, we will explore: How the tenets and activities of performance improv apply to work and life, tips for choosing and designing activities to align with specific goals and contexts, and facilitation best-practices from set-up to debrief,
Experience Level
Improvisers with some experience who want to strengthen their facilitation and teaching skills in non-performatory settings; facilitators and trainers who wish to incorporate improv techniques effectively.
About the Instructor
Kat Koppett is the Eponymous Founder of Koppett, an applied improv consultancy, and the co-director of The Mopco Improv Theatre. She has designed and delivered programs for Apple, Prezi, Meta, PwC, the U.N. NASA and many others, She is a founding member of the Applied Improvisation Network and the author of "Training to Imagine", considered a seminal work in the applied improv field. She has performed with Synergy Theatre and is an alumna of BATS Improv and Freestyle Repertory Theatre.
CHECK OUT OUR ENTIRE WEEKEND LINEUP OF SHOWS, WORKSHOPS, AND JAMS AT DIABLOIMPROVFESTIVAL.ORG
Prepare to be inspired, delighted, and entertained at the Diablo Improv Festival. Laugh while you learn at improv workshops designed for all ages and experience levels, meet new friends, cultivate creative collaborations, and enjoy unforgettable performances from top-notch improvisers who take the craft to the next level.