...a way to connect the depth and stillness of meditation...

...with the dynamism and creativity of theater and drama therapy.

Insight Improvisation is a vehicle for self-exploration and self-discovery. As a form of contemplative drama therapy, it combines meditative and theatrical practices for the purpose of personal growth, learning, and transformation. Since its beginnings in 1993, Insight Improvisation has evolved as a way to connect active, expressive techniques — including authentic movement, storytelling, improvisation, writing, solo performance, and collaboration with partners and groups — with the skills and concepts underlying meditation, including mindfulness, choiceless awareness, and lovingkindness. Insight Improvisation replaces theater’s focus on “performance” — that is, presenting an artistic work for an audience — with an inward focus on the participant's mind-body experience. What gets communicated to the audience (or witness) in an Insight Improvisation activity is authentic, self-expressed, and unexpected. Insight Improvisation prompts the practitioner to access their intuition effortlessly, drawing upon the inspiration of each moment, freeing them from the pressure of performing. Psolodrama, in many ways the culminating form of Insight Improvisation, is a melding of vipassana meditation, authentic movement, and psychodrama — a powerful vehicle for self-discovery. Here you will find writings describing Psolodrama, as well as workshops in which to learn how to practice it.Resources.htmlWorkshops.htmlWorkshops.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1

This workshop was truly a gift in many ways...to allow me the space to explore the intersection of these two paths [meditation and theater] which have been so core in my life.


I feel it’s opened up a whole range of new possibilities and directions for my own teaching and my own life...to explore the integration of meditation into action, relationship, and art in a new way.


Your coaching the first evening — to fully enjoy each moment for myself — was a breakthrough for me in my attitude and experience of performance.

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Joel has been highly attuned to whatever process is unfolding within the therapy session. He is intuitive, gentle and respectful. He comes from a deep place of respect for each person's struggle to open and grow, to shed our fears and repressive attitudes.