If someone all the way on the other side of the building makes the gesture of shoveling food in their mouths, you know you’re being invited to lunch. No need for words. We do it all the time. Here’s where the challenge comes in, try and communicate everything this way.
“Did you get my email?” (point to them, typing fingers, shrug)
“I love your new shoes!” (lift your foot high, point to your shoes, point to them, heart shape hands)
“Someone used the company photocopier to print out 200 pages of a file called ‘MyStory-novel-final-v.13.2’ at 10pm last night, was that you, you li’l rascal?” (you got this!)
Act things out, use your facial expressions, clearly mouth out your words, get your whole body involved, or simply learn sign language.
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This series was inspired by people asking me “How do I keep doing improv?” after a corporate improv workshop. There are, of course, improv classes, more workshops, team building exercises you can do with your group, but these games are specifically ones you can do on your own to practice “Yes and” and get into a state of play.