Things You'll Need:
- An improv troupe.
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Step 1
Strive to understand what blocking or negation is. Any time another player makes an offer, and you reject that offer, you are guilty of blocking and negation.
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Step 2
Accept all offers given to you in a scene. Note that offers do not always take the form of, "Would you like X?"
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Step 3
Realize that any statement that introduces facts about the world is an offer. If someone holds up cupped hands and says, "Look, I think he's breathing," she has offered the fact that a living, breathing creature is in her hands.
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Step 4
Affirm any facts offered by the other player. To follow our example, replying with, "That's not breathing, that's just a doll," would be blocking, and bad. Replying with, "He is breathing, but barely," affirms the offer of a breathing thing, and adds more information. That is the ideal.
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Step 5
Note that not all offers are verbal. If another player is attempting to work space and creates a table in the scene, walking through that space while ignoring the table would be blocking and negating.
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Step 6
Avoid blocking and negation at all costs by constantly paying attention to the other people on stage, so you can accept and affirm all offers given.
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Step 7
Practice constantly with your troupe in order to eliminate blocking and negation from your shows.
