improvising with life
Program “Improvising with Life”
8 sessions I @Espaço Agra
Invite more flow and inspiration in your life, by co-creating with uncertainty instead of resisting it.
Train the skill to engage with the unknown, in a relaxed way, by listening and cultivating intuition.
Bring the gift of creativity to your relationships, work, or hobbies.
Welcome!
This is a space of presence, playing, and listening.
We'll practice exercises that tend to the full person, body, mind, emotions, and soul with care and curiosity.
This is a place for both active engagement and slow contemplation of life's deeper questions.
If you are starting, navigating, or coming out of a transition period, this program might help you welcome the transformation potential hidden behind uncertainty.
If you are seeking inspiration, refreshment, and access to your intuition and inner guidance, these improvisation exercises and reflective circles of trust may support you.
If you want to bring the gifts of vitality and inspiration to your relationships, work, hobbies, family dynamics, sports, art, and partnerships, you are welcome here.
No previous experience is needed.
Everyone is welcome.
What matters is your dedication and openness.
In this program, we create space for both community and solitude.
This might be the beginning of beautiful friendships.
“Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence, and creativity.”
Viola Spolin, Director and Creator of theatre games for improvisation
ACTIVITIES
- Connecting exercises
- Spolin Improvisation games
- Personal reflection activities
TIMING
- 8 sessions
- Each session lasts 2h30
- 1 full Saturday with shared picnic (see calendar below)
working languages
The workshop will be held in English.
If needed, the activity instructions will be translated in Portuguese.
The reflection exercises can be done in the maternal language.
resources
- 20h of in-presence training over 6 weeks
- Innovative methods for self-exploration
- Quick exercises for daily life to ground and calm yourself in new situations
- Suggestions of readings, podcasts, daily exercises, and songs to deepen the learning
- A Bring-a-friend-for-free session
CONTRIBUTION
- Full program fee - 140€
- Registration needed
- The spot is secured after the first payment of 40€. The rest is due by October 10th. You will receive the payment details in the confirmation email.
- Limited places
location
- Espaço Agra
Rua João Martins Branco 172, 4150-430 Porto
Calendar
19th of Sept - 24th of October 2025
Friday 19th Sept | 16:00 - 18:30
Session 1 - Focusing & Connecting
Friday 26th Sept | 16:00 - 18:30
Session 2 - Playing & Listening
Friday 3rd Oct | 16:00 - 18:30
Session 3 - Initiating & Following
Saturday 11th Oct | 10:00- 12:30
Session 4 - Giving & Taking
Saturday 11th Oct | 12:30 - 14:00
Shared picnic lunch
Saturday 11th Oct | 14:00 - 16:30
Session 5 - In & Out
Friday 17th Oct | 16:00 - 18:30
Session 6 - Doing & Non-doing
Saturday 18th Oct | 14:00 - 16:30
Session 7 - Bring a friend
Friday 24th Oct | 16:00 - 18:30
Session 8 - Present & Future
"The nature of everyday life is improvisational.
When we start noticing how the energy moves within us and within others, how it's actually improvising all the time, we're more at ease to move forward and receive the richness of life.
It sounds easy, but it's quite a difficult task. Yet with practice, it can become easier to be present."
“Each time a door closes,
the rest of the world opens up.”
PARKER J. PALMER, "Let your life speak"
