WHY OUT OF OUR MINDS?
Out of Our Minds is a growing network of arts workshops designed to help people improve their storytelling, communications, and life skills through creative play, improv games, and writing exercises.
Our core belief is that EVERYONE is capable of amazing, creative insights and activities if only we remove the initial fear of being anything less than excellent.
Our goal is to re-instill the playful antic freedom of childhood into adults of all walks and ages, folks with passions that just need a nurturing spark to blaze once again.
(Workshop details below)
WHO IS RANDALL?
Randall C Willis is a veteran storyteller, writer, and improviser. An award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Randall teaches screenwriting at George Brown Polytechnic, and through So, What’s Your Story?, helps clients bring life to their visions and breath to their unique voices
A perpetual student of the storytelling arts, Randall has 25+ years of training in improv, stand-up comedy, puppetry, and sketch comedy. Where Randall excels, however, is in spoken-word storytelling, performing routinely across Toronto.
Randall’s motto is: “You have permission to suck.” Fits nicely with his fully improvised life.
“You have permission to suck.”
WORKSHOP 1: Out of Our Minds (& onto the page) – 6 weeks, $250
Intimidated by the blank page? Want to write and tell entertaining stories with abandon? Wish your words were more effective and affecting?
Out of Our Minds (& onto the page) is the perfect workshop to get those creative storytelling juices flowing.
Thinking is overthinking, so we’re going to remove the pressure to get it right by simply goofing around with whatever comes. Playing improv games and using prompted writing exercises, the workshop helps make writing spontaneous and freewheeling. No preparation. No homework. No inhibitions.
6 Saturdays, January 13 – February 20, 2027, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm (ET), $250 (HST inc)
Comedy Bar Danforth, 2800 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1M1
“Writing without thinking, because when has thinking ever helped?”
WORKSHOP 2: Further Out of Our Minds (& onto the page) – 6 weeks + showcase, $300
Ready to stun the world with your storytelling? Want to tackle a longer piece to share? Ready to elevate your stories from good to DAMN!
Further Out of Our Minds builds on the freewheeling play and practices of Out of Our Minds to help you build stories with riveting characters (maybe you) and stirring plots.
You have something to say, and using games and general silliness, we’ll get you saying it loud and proud, starting with a staged reading for our showcase audience. Some preparation. Some homework. Still no inhibitions.
“Starting was only the beginning. Now, it gets weird!”
6 Saturdays, January 13 – February 20, 2027, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (ET), $300 (HST inc)
Plus Showcase (date to be confirmed)
Comedy Bar Danforth, 2800 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4C 1M1
TO REGISTER
To reserve your place, please e-transfer a refundable $50 deposit to createdbyrcw@gmail.com. Space is limited to 12 registrants per workshop.
TESTIMONIALS
“…thoughtful, practical suggestions on how to write for impact & evoke genuine emotion.”
“…I was able to go to places I didn’t know I needed to go to tell the stories I needed to tell.”
“…I now sit & put my pen to paper & go where I am taken.”
“…I didn’t feel my usual dread of reading what I’ve written out loud.”
“…helps people get into their writing & out of their own way.”
“…Randall is a great storyteller, very inclusive & attentive to everyone.”
