IMPROV FOR
PUBLIC SPEAKING

Our signature half-day class takes you from self-consciousness, anxiety, and hesitation to freedom, flexibility, and confidence speaking in public.

RAVE REVIEWS

— JOHN R, Feb 2024 participant

— SOPHIA G, 2024 participant

— AMANDA G, 2024 participant

READY TO CHANGE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SPEAKING IN PUBLIC?

WHAT:
An immersive half-day workshop to experience working with the tools of improv and the benefits of an Improv Mindset to help you go from fearful to free when presenting or speaking in public. Oh, and it’s a lot of fun too.

WHERE:
THEATERLAB
357 W 36th St, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018

OUR UPCOMING CLASSES:

Sunday, April 21 — sold out
11:30am-4pm

Saturday, June 8
11:30am-4pm

COST:
$320

How Can I Get My Company to Pay for this Training?

To enable us to deliver our standard of excellence to each attendee and give personalized, hands-on training, we limit our classes to 12 participants.


*please read our terms & conditions before purchasing

 
 
 


Led by Senior Corporate Facilitator, Michael Goldfried.

“It’s my passion to offer the transformative experience of improvisation to people outside of theater communities.

It’s so gratifying to see how much confidence and presence it brings out of everyone who begin using its tools.”

  • Michael is an acclaimed director, corporate workshop leader and public speaking coach. He works privately with performers and business professionals and at Fortune 500 companies such as Capital One, American Airlines, Mass Mutual and IBM.

    Michael utilizes empathic conversation, improvisation skills, performance technique and his background as a professional director to help people access their bravery, creativity and communication skills—taking their career and work life to the next level.

 

WHAT THE WORKSHOP ENTAILS

There will be improv!
There will be laughter!
There will be exploration & discussion!
There will be brain science!
There will be more laughter!

and…

There will be a new, liberated way in how you feel about speaking in public!

What a lot of people don’t know is that we each have a recipe that gets us in the lowest, least-energized, most painful and shut-down parts of our brains and our selves. When we go there, the world looks and feels awful and taking risks and having confidence seem like a million miles away.

Often it’s an unconscious recipe and it gets put into play even by thinking of something like speaking in front of a room full of people or getting on a Zoom to present.

However, the good news — and there is good news — is that since there’s a recipe to tank us, there is also a recipe to ignite us! It frees us up, energizes us and gets us engaged, curious and able to pivot with no problems.

Improv & Brain Science!

We will explore and discuss what improv is at its core, free from the connotations it has with being the same as comedy and performing: how it is a highly-effective system and process of staying connected in the unknown.

We will discuss what improv entails and why it’s so beneficial for Public Speaking. We’ll then dive into the leading research on what happens in our brains when we are freaking out about presenting (or anything else that freaks us out) and when we are in the Improv Mindset.

Your Recipes

What are your personal, individual recipes for losing energy and, conversely, for expanding with increased ease & presence? What are you doing that contributes to your lack of confidence and effortlessness? What COULD you be doing instead to focus on things that give you energy, boost your confidence and restore an anxiety-free state?

Everyone has a recipe for both but very few people know what they are. We will help you uncover key components of the recipes you are using and give you tools for a more optimized energy recipe!

Understand the basics of improv through simple group games and exercises, each with a different, important tool and takeaway. You’ll see the connections between an Improv Mindset and gaining more comfort with Public Speaking. And why people have probably said to you, “oh, you want to get better at speaking in public? Take an improv class!”

The games and exercises are fun and simple to do, and each and everyone provides a new tool to help you approach speaking in public from a new place. 

Improv Basics
Application: Presenting 
with an Improv Mindset

We’ll then apply everything we’ve learned and experienced into practicing presenting to each other. This will give you the chance to see and feel how different standing up in front of people and speaking can be, and what tools and tips do you want to keep practicing with and implementing!

Please Read Our Terms & Conditions

  1. We accept ACH payments, credit cards, and VENMO. To avoid a 3% processing fee, you can pay through VENMO.

  2. There are no refunds after 48 hours from the time of purchase.

  3. If you need to give up your spot in a workshop, you have up until 6 days before the workshop to do so. You then have 6 months to reapply your registration toward another Improv for Career workshop we offer.

  4. You may transfer your spot to someone else by sending us their name and contact information.

  5. If you are asking your company to pay for part or all of the class, we are happy to help provide the necessary information and documentation needed.

  6. If you have any questions at all, reach out to our Career Coordinator, Liz Coin!

Be Confident & Engaged

Contribute More & Increase Impact

Feel Productive & Inspired

TRUSTED BY

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Have questions?

Ask Liz, our Improv for Career Coordinator.