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Beginners course in improvisation for NLPers/coaches/trainers
Improvisation is the art of creating or performing something spontaneously, without a prewritten script or plan. It involves responding in the moment to the environment, people, or circumstances, relying on creativity, intuition, and adaptability.
The synergy between improvisation and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) lies in their shared emphasis on adaptability, communication, and understanding human behaviour. Both practices enhance skills essential for effective interpersonal connections, creative problem-solving, and fostering transformation in yourself and others. Here’s how they align:
Presence and flexibility
- Improvisation: Requires being fully present, actively listening, and responding in the moment without a preplanned script.
- NLP: Stresses the importance of calibration (reading cues) and flexibility in adapting communication to match the needs and responses of others.
- Synergy: Both teach practitioners to stay grounded in the present while creatively navigating unpredictable situations, a critical skill for coaching or therapeutic sessions.
Building rapport
- Improvisation: Focuses on saying “Yes, and” to affirm and build upon others’ ideas, fostering trust and collaboration.
- NLP: Uses techniques like mirroring, pacing, and leading to create rapport and establish deeper connections.
- Synergy: Both cultivate an empathetic mindset, helping practitioners connect with clients on a deeper, more intuitive level.
Enhancing communication
- Improvisation: Sharpens verbal and non-verbal communication, helping practitioners express ideas more clearly and interpret others’ intentions.
- NLP: Explores how language patterns and body language influence thinking and behaviour.
- Synergy: Improves and strengthens the practitioner’s ability to read and respond to cues dynamically, reinforcing NLP techniques like reframing and anchoring.
Creativity and problem-solving
- Improvisation: Encourages thinking outside the box and finding creative solutions in the moment.
- NLP: Focuses on breaking limiting patterns and generating new perspectives.
- Synergy: Improv provides real-time exercises for creativity, making it easier to apply NLP strategies like reframing or using perceptual positions effectively.
Overcoming fear and building confidence
- Improvisation: Builds confidence by helping individuals step out of their comfort zones and embrace uncertainty in a safe, playful environment.
- NLP: Uses techniques like anchoring positive states and overcoming limiting beliefs to boost self-assurance.
- Synergy: Both empower practitioners to manage fear, trust their instincts, and engage confidently with others.
Developing empathy and emotional intelligence
- Improvisation: Teaches practitioners to step into different roles and perspectives, fostering empathy and understanding.
- NLP: Includes tools like modelling and state management to understand others’ experiences and emotions.
- Synergy: By combining improv’s role-playing with NLP’s structured techniques, practitioners gain a deeper ability to relate to clients’ emotions and perspectives.
Fun and engagement
- Improvisation: Makes learning enjoyable, breaking down barriers and creating an environment of openness.
- NLP: Emphasises experiential learning and state change as effective methods for growth.
- Synergy: Together, they make personal development enjoyable, creating lasting change through engagement and practice.
This course has been designed from an NLP and coach perspective to enhance your skill set when working with groups or individuals. It is looking at what you do well now and approaching it from a different perspective to advance your coaching or NLP practice with improvisation.
This weekend promises to be interactive, fun, and professionally enriching. Step out of your comfort zone and into your full potential.



June O’Driscoll is a Licensed Master Trainer of NLP, Clinical Hypnotherapy Trainer, Coaching Trainer & Supervisor, an Executive, Business and Life Coach with a huge wealth of knowledge developed over many years in large organisations. June also is a keen Comedy Improvisor and performs regularly with 3 Placebos and also performs with Miss Behaviour