Joy
Create the energy and permission that help people become present, curious and willing to participate.
English improv and applied improvisation in Munich
Improv workshops in Munich for people, communities and organisations.
Discover how the serious power of play strengthens creativity, collaboration and adaptability—whether you want to join a local improv community, try an exercise or design a workshop wherever your group is.
No acting experience English first delivery Purposeful and participatory
Based in MunichEnglish first · Italian · German by agreement
What changes in the room
Play changes what becomes possible in a room.
Applied improvisation is not about performing well. It creates a practical space where people can become more present, try another response and discover what they can build together.
Creativity
Loosen the need for a perfect first answer and make space for ideas that can grow through interaction.
Cooperation
Listen, respond and build with other people so that the group can create more than separate individuals can.
Play becomes visible in the room.A workshop gives people something concrete to notice, try and build together.
Play as a lens
More than an activity.
I am fascinated by cognitive biases and systems thinking. I use play as a lens for noticing the patterns we repeat, testing assumptions safely and discovering what else is possible.
At its best, play is joyful, serious and gently subversive. It gives us permission to question familiar rules, loosen fixed responses and try another way.
Play lets a group experience a different possibility before it has all the words to explain it.
Who I work with
Different rooms. The same invitation to play.
The purpose, pace and reflection change with the setting. Every workshop begins with the people in the room and what they should be able to experience together.
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Companies & organisations
Workshops, collaboration labs and interactive event sessions
For teams, leaders and event audiences exploring collaboration, communication, creativity and adaptability.
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Schools & learning groups
Sessions designed around the learning setting and group
For educational settings that want to encourage imagination, listening, participation and cooperation through purposeful play.
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Communities & public groups
Open workshops, community sessions and participatory events
For groups that want more connection, spontaneity, shared joy and room for every voice to contribute.
Explore community workshopsProof in practice
Serious about the work. Honest about the evidence.
A long running Munich improv practice, community facilitation and professional experience show how I work. I do not invent clients, outcomes or credentials.
Facilitating improv in Munich
Work with beginners, experienced improvisers, international groups and people with different levels of confidence.
Building spaces where people can contribute
Co-manager and co-host of Rice Cookie Improv, co-founder of Monday Flow Improv and an Applied Improvisation Network member.
Status, warmth and participation
A transparent example from a Rice Cookie Improv workshop led by Max, showing the exercise, learning and an additional workplace application.
See workshop evidence
Why Max
I bring curiosity about people and systems into the same room.
I am an applied improvisation facilitator, community organiser and systems thinking enthusiast. I am interested in the hidden rules a group follows, the assumptions people stop noticing and the small changes that can shift a whole interaction.
Alongside my improv practice, I have more than 25 years of experience in technology, billing and complex transformations. That analytical background helps me distinguish a behaviour people can practise from a structural problem that play cannot solve.
700+improv workshops
participated in
participated in
10,000+hours of
improv practice
improv practice
25+years in technology
and transformation
and transformation
Since 2017facilitating improv
in Munich
in Munich
You do not need a workshop title
Tell me about your group, setting or event.
Describe who will be in the room, what you want them to experience and what should become more possible afterwards. I will suggest a sensible first format.