Everything’s an Offer – How Coaches Can Learn From Improv - Julie Flower & Stephen Burt

What does it feel like to be truly present, co-creating in the moment, with lightness and mischief, welcoming whatever emerges in an environment of trust?

In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore the basic tenets of improv comedy and theatre, as they relate to coaching, through a number of practical and playful exercises. You’ll be encouraged to reflect on how improv skills can support your coaching practice through experiencing the improv mindset and ‘way of being’. You’ll learn some simple and powerful exercises that offer you some insights and skills, and which can be used in both an individual and team coaching environment.

To get the most out of this webinar, you may wish to be in a quiet place where you can speak out loud and move around to try out one or two exercises in your own environment.

By attending this event live, you will receive 1 CCEU unit from the ICF and 1 CPD hour from the AC.

Julie Flower is a leadership and team development practitioner and ICF-credentialed coach, with a specialism in improvisation and navigating complexity. Julie is also an external tutor in coaching at Henley Business School and a co-editor of Coaching Tools. Julie is an experienced improvised comedy performer, including with award-winning Improbotics, which explores AI and human interaction, and duo Twinprov. She performs regularly at festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe. Her MSc research explored how coaches experience participating in improv theatre exercises.

Stephen Burt has 20+ years’ experience as a coach and leader of development programmes. He aims to help leaders work authentically, have impact and deliver inclusively. He writes widely and leads workshops on leadership and coaching. His book, The Art of Listening in Coaching and Mentoring was published in 2019. He brings the skills, practices and mindset of improvised comedy and theatre to his work. Stephen performs with three improv teams around London and wherever they can get stage time.

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