Elizabeth : Freedom.
Elizabeth began learning improvisation with the self-belief "I don't consider myself that creative." She was armed with evidence from painful early childhood memories of being told she was too heavy to perform in a dance concert (she was told she would embarrass the family). She continued to develop this identity into adulthood. Over time, these self-beliefs became a self-fulfilling prophecy. She enacted this self-belief, in part, by avoiding situations that would put her in a position to be creative or spontaneous. Elizabeth was well into middle age by the time she arrived for the first night of a class with the unsettling words "creativity" and "improvisation" in the title. She was not going to suddenly express creativity simply because the instructor or anyone else told her she was creative or introduced her to improvisation concepts and research findings; Elizabeth needed to experience herself as creative, and this took time, the freedom to be herself, and a slowly emerging trust and appreciation of herself and her learning colleagues.

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