<b>Drawing on a combined expertise in improvisational theatre and psychiatry, author team Dan O''Connor and Dr. Jeff Katzman show readers how improv skills are the perfect antidote to loneliness and isolation.</b><br><br>I know what you''re thinking: Hold on...improv? Like getting on a stage in front of an audience? What if that''s not my thing?<br><br>Don''t worry: this isn''t a book about becoming an improv theater expert, and it''s not really a book about performing. It''s a book about loneliness--about our feelings of disconnection and isolation, ones that we may have been experiencing since long before the pandemic. More importantly, it''s a book about becoming <i>un</i>lonely--by borrowing from the collaborative and creative tools of improv.<br><br>Authors of <i>Life Unscripted</i> Jeff Katzman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, and Dan O''Connor, multifaceted actor, writer, and director, have created a process they call Ensembling that helps us build an