Senior Improv Facilitation Guide — Lead With Confidence Without a Performance Background | PDF

Know how to lead an improv-style senior activity without comedy training or a performance background. Get practical language for starting, pausing, and supporting the group.

How this helps you

• Follow guidance for eight improv-style activities.
• Have responses ready when residents disengage or the room goes quiet.
• Use pauses to allow people time to process and decide whether to speak.
• Apply suggestions for mixed cognitive abilities and shared participation.

What you receive

• A guide to running eight improv-style senior activities.
• Four core group-interaction principles explained with practical applications.
• Specific facilitation language for disengagement, silence, and participation.
• Written for activity directors by a facilitator with 30 years of professional improv experience.

How to use it

Review the guide before an improv-based activity and use its principles to accept contributions, build on ideas, and share participation. Adapt each activity to the group.

Digital delivery

Printable PDF download. No physical materials will be mailed.

License

Single-facility license. Print and use in one senior living facility, adult day program, or care practice.