Lead with Confidence: Enhance Your Coaching Skills with Improv Comedy Techniques!

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February 15, 2025 | Houston TX

TEAM BUILDING

Participants will understand how improv-based coaching techniques can enhance their ability to support individual clients and support team performance.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Participants will develop their collaboration, adaptability, and leadership skills by practicing in a safe and fun environment using improv activities.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Participants will learn how improv techniques can help develop thinking on their feet, become more innovative and develop resilience in times of stress.

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Enhance your abilities, support those in need, and have a blast doing it!

What You'll Learn While Having Fun:

Get ready to level up your coaching skills with the power of improv comedy! In this dynamic 4 hour workshop, you'll discover how to apply improv techniques like active listening, "yes, and" thinking, and accepting offers to create breakthrough results in your coaching conversations. Through a series of interactive improv activities and thought-provoking discussions, you'll gain a new perspective on how to support individual and team performance, foster collaboration and adaptability, and drive positive change in your organization.

You'll leave this workshop with a repertoire of improv-based coaching techniques, exercises and proven strategies for building trust and rapport, and a fresh approach to problem-solving that harnesses the creativity and spontaneity of improv. Whether you're an experienced coach, a talent development professional, or a business professional seeking to expand your coaching and sales capabilities, this session will provide you with the skills, insights, and confidence to take your coaching game to the next level. Get ready to laugh, learn, and "improv" your way to coaching success!

Gain insight into why and how improv comedy techniques can help you strengthen skills for thinking on your feet
Practice improv skills to fine-tune your focus while coaching others
Learn techniques for managing stress and anxiety that also help you to develop resilience
Apply insights about personal and others' behaviors to navigate work and personal relationships more effectively
Develop leadership techniques for managing everyday conflicts and stress in both professional and personal contexts
This course includes a 6-hour in-person workshop PLUS access to our workshop resource library, which includes videos, articles and other resources and is updated frequently!
Participation earns you 6 hours of ICF and ATD resource development CEUs

Who You'll Help:

Proceeds from this workshop will be donated to The Houston Food Bank:

Over a million people in the 18 counties that The Houston Food Bank serves are considered food insecure
Every dollar you give provides 3 meals for those in need
The Houston Food Bank distributes food and other essentials to those in need through a network of more than 1,600 community partners.
The Houston Food Bank provides programs and services aimed at helping families achieve long-term stability including nutrition education, health management, and help in securing state-funded assistance.
Ways to help:
- Donate funds
- Donate food
- Donate your time to volunteer
- Donate your voice through advocacy

Important Event Details to Remember

What: Improv for Better Coaching - Workshop
When: February 15, 2025
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Where: The Houston Food Bank Conference Center, 535 Portwall St, Houston, TX 77029
Registration closes at 5pm on February 12, 2025
Registration fee includes a catered lunch
Wear comfortable clothes you can easily move in, and comfortable shoes like sneakers

FEATURED FACILITATOR

Sonya Calooy, CEO / Chief Learning Strategist

Sonya Calooy is a seasoned Executive, Consultant, Facilitator, and Coach with over three decades of diverse professional experience, including a unique background in improv comedy and standup. As a former member of the Dallas-based Lone Star Comedy improv team and a professional standup comic, Sonya honed her skills in adaptability, creativity, and effective communication. She served as the Chief Laughing Officer of Funny Business Consulting, designing corporate comedy shows and team-building activities.

In her extensive career, Sonya has held leadership roles in marketing, advertising, learning and development, and consulting. Currently, as the Chief Learning Strategist and Leadership Coach at SpiritHawk Coaching & Consulting, she combines her improv background with curriculum development and leadership coaching to create innovative, engaging learning solutions. Passionate about fostering leadership development and organizational success, Sonya holds several coaching certifications and continues to innovate in her field.

FEATURED GUEST FACILITATOR

Jerry Fu, Career and Leadership Coach for Asian Leaders

Jerry Fu, PharmD, ACC, is an associate certified leadership coach (focusing on conflict resolution), speaker, and diversity and inclusion consultant. individuals and organizations hire him to co-design healthy organizational cultures and a safe space for people to have difficult conversations. Before starting Adapting Leaders, LLC, Jerry worked in several community pharmacy settings and taught pharmacy students. He has won the "Selfless Servant" award and "Crowning Glory" award while volunteering for nonprofits.

Level up your coaching skills with the power of improv comedy!