Rediscover Play
Rediscover Play
Level / Experience: Beginner
Expand your comfort zone, build confidence, and connect with others in a low-stakes, high-fun environment. Expect games and exercises designed to get you moving, thinking, and connecting at the top of your intelligence. You’ll be on your feet and connecting with a group of wildly clever, diverse players. Rediscover Play is designed for those completely new to improvisation.
Term 3 Beginning Thursday 6th August!
When: 6 August to 24 September 2026 (8 weeks)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm (two hours)
Where: Centenary Park Community Centre Main Hall, 105 Daly St, Belmont WA
Teacher: Kate O’Sullivan
Step out of your comfort zone, build confidence, and connect with others in a low-stakes, high-fun environment. Rediscover Play is designed for those completely new to improvisation and more experienced players looking to firm up their confidence and spontaneity.
This course uses games and exercises from improvised theatre to give you practical experience:
🫰 Accepting our own and others’ ideas without judgment.
🫰 Feeling safe enough to be spontaneous with a group.
🫰 Adapting and thriving in uncertain situations.
Our courses are a cohort and term-based experience, so you’ll be part of a supportive and diverse group of people. Courses are offered over an eight weeks, with weekly two-hour classes beginning at 6:00pm.
Skills you’ll build…without even noticing
Through games, laughter, and a little organised chaos from improvised theatre, this course gives you practical experience in:
Learning to say “yes” to our own ideas and each other’s, without immediately judging or shutting them down.
Feeling safe enough to loosen up, be playful, and have fun with a room full of soon-to-be-less-strange strangers.
Building sharper listening skills, more confidence, and the courage to back yourself a little more.
FAQs
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Yes! We have two free improv tasters in the week prior to each term. Enrol here.
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Absolutely! You can purchase courses as a gift, or just enrol a friend to join you. When you enrol, just say “It’s for someone else,” and add their details. If you want it to be a surprise, please let us know when you’ve completed the enrolment.
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Improvisation is a social experience and a great opportunity to meet new people, have fun, and explore your boundaries. We learn that being a good improviser is often just about being a radically excellent human — we need to be able to be vulnerable, confident, supportive, and empathetic. Improvisation has a long history of being used not only to train actors and comedians, but as a self-development practice.
Don’t worry if you’re not an aspiring actor or comedian — our courses are designed for people who are starting fresh. You can read more about our teaching philosophy here. How we play is how we are, so learning how to show up in improvisation helps us show up better in real life.
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We recognise that many students want to commit to improvisation as a long-term practice. At the end of the course, your facilitators may recommend that you take our Make a Scene course or repeat Rediscover Play. Mastery takes time, and the course varies each term with different facilitators, so we encourage repetition to establish skills before moving forward. Facilitators often teach different courses from term to term using different exercises and games, so there is enormous value in learning these skills from multiple perspectives.
For long-term improvisers — those that are comfortable with the fundamentals of Rediscover Play and Make a Scene — we have several advanced courses in rotation. Many of our advanced students have also gone on to put on Fringe shows, deliver keynote speeches, and start their own improvisation business!
More about our student journey and the specific outcomes from this course are available here.
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You’re being asked to be playful, support growth for yourself & your classmates, and respect boundaries. We also ask that you make people feel welcome, respected, and included. Improvisation is a practice founded on creative self-expression, discrimination or harassment will not be tolerated. More details on all of this is available in our Conditions of Participation.
We also expect you attend a minimum of six classes to perform in the showcase, though we may make exceptions on a case-by-case basis. -
We strive to create a welcoming, trusting, and safe environment where marginalised folks can find joyful, creative self-expression. Historically our courses have been particularly popular with neurodivergent people, those with social anxiety, or those who speak English as a second language.
Since our courses are delivered in a group coaching environment, we cannot provide one-on-one support. This means participants need to demonstrate a certain level of self-awareness and self-management. Anyone with a serious mental health condition, trauma, or complex inclusion needs is asked to consider whether this course is appropriate for them. Improvisation can support wellbeing, but it is not therapeutic intervention. Our facilitators are great teachers, but they are not healthcare professionals. If you’re unsure whether or not this course is for you, you’re very welcome to email us directly at inquiries@onlythehuman.com to discuss your needs.
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All courses are offered at our ‘early bird’ rate up to approx. 72 hrs before the course begins — enrolment pricing will then revert to the full retail cost.
Each term we offer two partial scholarships for Rediscover Play to students who face marginalisation, discrimination, or financial hardship. These scholarships discount the course cost by $150 and are offered on a no questions asked basis - the discount code for this course is “HELPPLAY” to be applied at checkout.
Still have questions?
Reach out and we will fill in the gaps.
Other workshops on offer
Make A Scene
Level / Experience: Intermediate
Deepen your improv skills, build creative confidence, and learn to create scenes and stories in real time. Designed for improvisers who have completed Rediscover Play.
Scenius
Level / Experience: Advanced
Explore collective creativity through advanced improv, longer scenes, and collaborative performance. Designed for players who have completed Make a Scene.
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Rediscover Play
Unlock creative confidence in a fun, supportive environment.
Level / Experience: Beginner
Step out of your comfort zone, build confidence, and connect with others in a low-stakes, high-fun environment. Rediscover Play is designed for those completely new to improvisation and more experienced players looking to firm up their confidence and spontaneity.
This course uses games and exercises from improvised theatre to give you practical experience:
🫰 Accepting our own and others’ ideas without judgment.
🫰 Feeling safe enough to be spontaneous with a group.
🫰 Adapting and thriving in uncertain situations.
Our courses are a cohort and term-based experience, so you’ll be part of a supportive and diverse group of people. Courses are offered over an eight weeks, with weekly two-hour classes beginning at 6:00pm.