Helping You & Those You Care For Better Engage with
Healing, Learning, and Life
LEARN.
Do you or someone you live or work with suffer from the effects of trauma and or other mental health issues?
One Rule Improv is a unique research-based and trauma- informed method that employs improv as a tool to create the neurobiological change that enables one to better engage in therapy, the classroom, and in personal/ professional relationships.
The One Rule Improv approach is based on the latest neurobiological research and is designed to offer a safe, trauma-sensitive experience.
TEACH.
IMPROV IS TRULY FOR EVERYONE
One Rule Improv is accessible for everyone — introverts, extroverts, people with anxiety, PTSD, depression. All ages, backgrounds, professions, and abilities. Improv is so much more than comedy or theatrical games — if you approach it with the right understanding and technique.
In fact, improv is never about being witty or funny. It’s about showing that you accept and value the other person. With that in mind…how could improv not be for you…for anyone? For everyone?
APPLY.
One Rule Improv is based on current neuroscience, cognitive psychology and behavioral science. Scientific studies continually show major benefits to using improv. Because of this, it has been adopted by businesses, schools, clinical and medical fields, therapists, and more.
This simple yet powerful approach promotes the simultaneous development of dozens of skills, including:
- Acceptance
- Adaptability
- Attunement
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Coregulation
- Creativity
- Empathy
- Gratitude
- Mindfulness
- Spontaneity
- Trust
- Respect
- Resilience
NOT YOUR AVERAGE IMPROV
One Rule Improv is not another improv class or fun online game.
Mary DeMichele’s One Rule Improv is the only neurobiologically researched and trauma-responsive approach of its kind. Her method enables you to bring the transformative powers of improv to your life and to share them with others.
Are you ready to experience the power of improv?
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
AS SEEN IN
My view/opinion of improv has changed a lot since taking the course. Traditionally, I would have thought of Improv just as things like “Who’s Line is It Anyway?” and never would have considered it as an intervention psychologically or relationally. I use Improv now with both group therapy and during my family intensives. I find it to be a great way to create flow in conversations and help the brain’s defenses to drop. I also utilize the “Yes and” language in general with my own language with others and teaching it to clients I work with. It seems like such a small difference from “Yes but,” and on a neurobiological level it is experienced totally different, and that difference makes a 1000% difference in flow in communication and feeling seen, heard, and validated.
NICOLE PINGEL, CLINICAL THERAPIST, CALO PROGRAMS
WHAT IF ONE RULE
Could help someone move from isolation to connection?
Could disrupt anxiety and depression and promote feelings of support and joy?
Could improve cognitive and executive function and engage the sensory-motor system so one can feel, express themselves and perform at their best.
And what if the ONE Rule could do all of that in only minutes?
Are you ready to experience
the power of improv?
One Rule Improv is an accessible approach to helping you bring improv and all its benefits into your life and the lives of others. Better engage in healing, learning and life.
