No past. No future. Only Now.

One quality that distinguishes Improvisation from other practices and art forms is that it can't exist in the past or the future. Improvisation can only take place in the present, in the Now.

As an improvisor you depend eternally on right now. That's your stage. Your calling.

The practice exists solely in the moment.

Which is one very good reason to improvise. By default, the practice of improvisation places you, forces you, to focus on the immediate. To listen. To be.

And in Being, you will become a better listener, will ease the frictions in your relationships, will build greater trust with other people, will generate more facile understanding within the teams you engage.