Here are the list of Strengths - ordered to track with an improviser's growth from novice to artist - linking to the relevant piece of the matrix:
- Vulnerable Confidence - Player is emotionally and personally accessible
- The Details - Player is specific with descriptions
- Bold Choices - Player initiates with active endowments
- Self Contained Initiations - Player initiations ground them while allowing scene partners freedom
- Emotional Perspective - Player is emotionally affected and has emotionally connected desires
- Committed Mime - Player engages the world on a blank stage, showing rather than telling
- Agreement to What Is - Player accepts whatever is happening on stage as the "right" thing
- Reacting - Player is affected by scene elements
- Active Endowments - Player focuses on elements on-stage in the present
- Patterns of Emotional Behavior - Player establishes a cause-and-effect reaction and works to repeat it
- Pattern Progression - Player's contributions heighten in relatable steps
- Capping Patterns - Player knows when to disengage a game to build tension for its return
- Crafting Beautiful Trajectories - Players establish a rhythm between personal and scenic games
- Enabling Sustainable Scenes - Players use game patterns and patterns between games to keep scenes flowing
- Tertiary Additions - Player only enters scenes in progress to serve what has already been established
- Beat Structure Rhythm - Player initiates subsequent beat scenes focused on heightening established patterns
- Playing with Flexible Formats - Team trust and knowledge of each other allows them to discover their format in-the-moment
- Confident Vulnerability - Player doesn't stop at "good" on the way to "great"