Rudy Nadler-Nir

Summary

Many companies are called upon to deal with issues of diversity and inclusivity among their staff. The MyScapes programme is a set of collaborative workshops that use improv & storytelling to help employees and their managers resolve tensions arising in today’s diverse workforce. MyScapes handles three crucial pillars of one’s personal and professional narratives, namely: - Ancestry, our past - Diversity and inclusivity, our present - Choices and agency – our future. Unlike other programmes dealing with diversity-based conflicts, we use positive and non-threatening games and activities in order to drive home the need for acceptance and cooperation in the workplace. There are two types of MyScapes spot-games:  Our improv spot-games use improvisation to explore the road from From Caution to Risk-Taking, working through issues of social-contracts, rules and agreements and team interaction and support. Storytelling spot-games use storytelling and personal narratives to travel along the path from Fantasy to Factuality, working through the stories we tell ourselves, inside our own heads, as well as stories we tell others, and the stories that others tell us. Rudy is a trained Theatre Director and Producer and he holds a Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of the Western Cape. His ongoing research focuses on social media networks and digital kinship systems, African archetypes and archetypical heroes. Rudy has been teaching, lecturing, speaking and writing extensively on various aspects of digital business, content management and communication.