Improv For Coaches: Get Better At Handling Tension, Uncertainty, and Surprises In Your Coaching Sessions

What to do in a coaching session when you don’t know what to do… 

• Ever felt adrift when the topic of a coaching session suddenly changes or disappears? Or is blank at the beginning? 

• How about feeling powerless and stuck when a coaching problem seems hopeless and unsolvable? And your client’s fixated, lost or down.

• Do you resist ‘coaching upwards’ with clients who seem more successful? Because you don’t know enough about their world.

In this workshop you’ll explore how the principles and practices of improvisation help you and your clients in tricky situations like these. 

Improv is the art of accepting ‘what is’ with playful, open-hearted curiosity in the here-and-now. It teaches you how to not only cope, but thrive and delight yourself by embracing uncertainty. 

With a more playful, improvisational approach to coaching, you’ll be able to lead your clients through similar discomfort, and encourage their natural creativity and problem solving to emerge. 

• Free your creativity and imagination and your clients’

• Improve communication and deepen connection

• Discover playful spontaneity and limitless adaptability

The workshop will be led by two experienced improv nerds and coaches:

• David Papa is a Soul Goals and Strategic Habits Coach, and an Improv Performer and actor that uses improv methods and mindsets to solve problems and set people free.
  

• Chris Kenworthy is a certified embodiment & ILM5/PII coach, facilitator at Leeds Improv Co-Lab (UK), and Authentic Relating leader.

  
  

While there will be theory, this is a practical workshop designed to bring improv to life. You’re invited to play gentle warm-up games and relational exercises from improvised theatre. 

You’re welcome as a total beginner or newcomer to improv. There’s no audience or show, and no pressure to perform, be clever or funny. Play at your own pace.

Join us and other coaches, to rediscover trust in your innate capacity for joy, creation and human kindness - especially in those dreaded moments when nothing and anything can happen…