People and systems
Play gives us a practical way to see what habit hides.
I am Max Grillo, an Italian applied improvisation facilitator and community organiser based in Munich. I have been facilitating improvisation here since 2017 with beginners, experienced improvisers and international groups.
I have participated in more than 700 improv workshops and accumulated more than 10,000 hours of improv practice. That long practice continues to shape how I learn, facilitate and respond to the people in the room.
I am fascinated by cognitive biases and systems thinking. I am interested in the rules people follow without noticing, the assumptions that shape a group and the way one small change can affect a whole interaction. Play makes those patterns easier to experience without turning people into a problem to be fixed.
I co-manage and co-host Rice Cookie Improv, am co-founder of Monday Flow Improv and am a member of the Applied Improvisation Network. Community work has taught me how to welcome different cultures, accents, confidence levels and relationships to performance.
I also bring more than 25 years of experience in technology, billing, revenue systems and large transformations across Europe, South America and the Middle East. That world has sharpened my ability to separate a collaboration habit from a structural problem and to work credibly with analytical or sceptical participants.
I now bring that combination to companies, schools and communities. The setting changes, but the invitation remains: notice more, make an offer, build with what arrives and discover what becomes possible together.