General
In this interactive workshop you will use exercises and techniques adopted from improvisational theater to hone your science communication skills.
Improv(e) your science communication
Do you want to hone your presentation skills? Do you want to be able to explain your science to both experts and a lay audience? Do you want to get a grip on those nerves you feel in front of an audience? And do you want to learn all this while having a lot of fun? This interactive workshop is the place for you! During the workshop, we will use techniques from improvisation theater and storytelling to improve your science communication. From lab meetings and conference talks to elevator pitches and answering that tricky question at a party (So… ‘what do you do?’), these skills will come in handy every day, both in the lab and away from the bench.
Workshop leader
Evolutionary biologist Aniek Ivens has a passion for all things cooperation and communication: in nature and in everyday life. Aniek studied biology, ecology and evolution in Wageningen, Groningen and Copenhagen. In 2012 she received her PhD from the University of Groningen and continued her research on the evolution of cooperation at The Rockefeller University in New York and later at the VU Amsterdam. Next to being a scientist, she is also an experienced improviser and founder of Academic Improv. For over a decade, she performed and trained with various improv groups in the Netherlands and the US. She is also an experienced improv - and communication coach in diverse settings, ranging from theater troupes and school classes to corporate team building. In the United States she trained at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (Stony Brook University), as well as at The People’s Improv Theater and The Magnet (both in NYC). She can be found on stages nationally and internationally performing improv with one of her teams or in her solo-improv show ‘Dr Aniek Discovers’.
website: www.aniek.nyc
twitter: @AniekIvens
Date and Location
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 workshop I
15:00 - 15:30 break
15:30 - 17:00 workshop II
17:00 - 18:00 drinks
Costs and registration
Contact
acs@amsterdamumc.nl