Rainbow Lifelong Learning Institute, Boston

Schedule

This course will take place on Tuesday at  10:30 for five weeks (3/8/25-4/15/25). 

This course will take place at the Arlington Council on Aging located at 27 Maple St., Arlington

Directions and Parking: https://www.rainbowlliboston.org/location

Liz Heichelbech, Instructor

Course Description. Explore the powerful art of comedy improv, learning to use spontaneity, creativity, and humor in a supportive community. Whether you're looking to enhance your communication skills, build confidence in thinking on your feet, or just have a blast, this course equips you with practical tools to apply improv techniques for greater joy and laughter in your life. 

Through games, exercises, and group scenes, you'll practice key principles like active listening, quick thinking, collaboration, and embracing failure as part of the creative process in an encouraging atmosphere.

Each class starts with a check-in and collaborative warmups, followed by short scene practice, props work, games, and longer scene work. Each class ends with a brief reflective conversation on what we learned and how we might apply it in our lives. 

Whether you're a seasoned performer or a total beginner, Applied Comedy Improv will help you find the humor in everyday life and make it work for you.

Required materials. Readings are short excerpts from Improv for the Spirit, by Katie Goodman. The instructor will email these to students the week before. After the first class, students will be asked to bring props from home. 

What to prep for first class

Come as you are!

Instructor Bio

Liz Heichelbech is an author, artist, educator and creativity coach. Her most rigorous training in comedy improv derives from twenty years as a middle school teacher. She holds a masters degree in Education from Lesley University, and first began practicing group comedy improv games as an undergrad at University of Arizona. She has taken classes at Improv Asylum, Improv Boston, and Center for Expressive Arts, and has performed at various venues throughout the country. She directed the Boston Women’s Improv Group for two years, and has taught comedy improv at the Waldron Center for the Arts, the Weston Public Schools Professional Development Academy, and at various churches, improv groups, schools, and community education organizations. A recent graduate of Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach Training Institute, Liz is passionate about helping others live their best lives through engagement with creativity and art making.