A GATHERING TO EMBRACE IMAGINATION, SPONTANEITY & THE MAGIC OF CO-CREATION
THE INVITATION
The best part was
never knowing
what would happen next.
Remember sleepovers where you'd make up games on the spot? Where you'd start telling a story and your friend would add to it and suddenly you'd created an entire world?
Where you'd pretend to be different people, play dress-up, inhabit entire characters just for fun? Where nobody was directing it and nobody knew where it was going, and that was exactly what made it magical?
That's what this is.
TONIGHT, WE'RE CHOOSING DIFFERENT
✦ We're gathering to play in the space of "what if?"
✦ To improvise, co-create, and discover what emerges when we stop controlling.
✦ To follow imagination wherever it leads.
✦ To play pretend, to say "yes, and...", to make up stories, inhabit characters, and see what magic unfolds.
This is a sleepover where we make it up as we go. Where we trust the group flow. Where the best moments are the ones we didn't plan.
Come ready to play. Bring your "yes, and" energy. Be surprised.
THIS IS FOR YOU
If you're curious what
happens when you stop controlling the outcome.
You don't have to know where this goes. That's the whole point.
✦ You're tired of controlling everything
✦ You want to play without knowing where it's going
✦ You miss the version of yourself who could improvise and imagine without second-guessing
✦ You're curious about what happens when you stop planning and start flowing
✦ You want to co-create something with other women and be surprised by what emerges
WHAT THE NIGHT HOLDS
We don't know exactly what will happen.That's the plan.
Some of what's below will happen. Some of it might not. Something else entirely might emerge instead. That's not a lack of structure, that is the structure. The night unfolds the way the best sleepovers always did: wherever the group goes.
THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE
"Yes, and..."
The only rule of improv that matters tonight. Whatever someone offers (a character, a story, an idea, an unexpected turn) we say yes to it, and add to it. No blocking. No redirecting. No "actually, what if we did..." We build on each other until something we couldn't have planned on our own exists in the room.
MAYBE
Pretend Play & Characters
We inhabit people we're not, just for fun. Not to find ourselves, but to lose ourselves briefly and see what that feels like.
MAYBE
Co-Creative Storytelling
We build a world together, one "yes, and" at a time. Nobody knows the ending. That's what makes it worth telling.
MAYBE
Something Else Entirely
The group decides. The night follows. That's the whole point of this gathering; what gets created when nobody's controlling it.
I. Opening Circle
We set the playful container together. Warm up the "yes, and" muscle. Shake off the planning brain. Arrive in our bodies and in the room before we begin.
II. The Play
Improv exercises, games, co-creative making: the specific shape decided by the group in the room. We follow the energy, not a plan. Mistakes become part of the magic.
III. Closing Reflection
We land. We notice what surprised us. What we made. What it felt like to follow rather than lead. What the group created that none of us could have imagined alone.
THE SPACE WE HOLD
A room where
not knowing is the whole point.
This night runs on trust: in the group, in the process, in what wants to emerge. These are the agreements that make letting go actually possible.
✦ IMAGINATION LEADS THE WAY
There are no wrong answers, no bad ideas. Everything is material.
✦ WE FOLLOW THE ENERGY, NOT A PLAN
What wants to emerge gets to emerge. We trust the group flow.
✦ MISTAKES BECOME PART OF THE MAGIC
The unexpected turns are not problems. They're where it gets interesting.
✦ BEING SOMEONE ELSE IS JUST FOR FUN
We're not "finding ourselves" tonight. We're playing pretend. That's enough.
✦ THE POP-UP RULE
Commit fully to whatever emerges: no apologizing, no playing it safe. If you play small, you redo it with 10x more commitment and ridiculousness. Consider yourself warned.
The Details
DRESS CODE
Playful & Ready to Move
Comfortable, playful, ready to move. Sleepover cozy. You may end up being a pirate, a time traveler, or a dragon: dress for possibility.
WHAT'S PROVIDED
Everything You Need
Sleeping bag, pizza & popcorn, music & good vibes. The experience itself provides everything else.
THE CIRCLE
Ten Women Maximum
Always. Co-creation needs intimacy; a group small enough that everyone's contribution shapes the whole night.
WHAT TO BRING
✦ Your imagination: dust it off if needed. It remembers what to do.
✦ A willingness to not know what's coming, this is the whole practice.
✦ Your "yes, and..." spirit: the only skill required tonight.
✦ Optional: any random objects that spark your creativity. Weird is good.
THE INVITATION
Come play
without knowing.
Come improvise. Come discover what happens when you stop trying to control the outcome and just say "yes, and..." Come be surprised: by the group, by what emerges, and especially by yourself.
The magic isn't planned.
It never was.
That's what made it magic.
P.S. You don't need to be "good at improv" to come. That's not the point. We're not performing. We're playing. There's a difference, and it's the whole difference.
P.P.S. Come ready to be surprised. By the group, by what emerges, and especially by yourself.
INNER CHILD SLEEPOVER PARTY