Accepting
Also known as Acceptance
Receiving and building on an offer rather than blocking it, Johnstone's term for the courageous half of improv collaboration.
Known for
- Johnstone frames accepting as an act of courage: saying 'yes' means accepting responsibility for the world you just agreed to.
- The prior-art term for what Close/UCB later called Yes, And.
- Accepting includes receiving physical offers, emotional offers, and status offers, not just verbal.
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