Level up your coaching and facilitation skills

Grow your presence, expand your range, and create more impact. Join our interactive improv workshops for coaches and facilitators and grow your skills in a playful way.

Our workshops and courses are for you if you are a certified coach looking to expand your range, sharpen your coaching skills, and have a lot of fun too. You don’t need any theatre experience to join. All you need is to be curious and to be willing to explore and play.

 

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You’re a good coach, yet you find you think about the rules so much it gets in the way of great coaching. 

You’ve been a coach for a while and your clients are happy. But too often coaching feels like hard work, and sometimes you find you’re not sure where to take the coaching session next. You want to be more present but you get distracted because you’re so focussed on delivering results.

Let’s find more fun and flow in your coaching with our ICF accredited course. You’ll feel more confident and your clients will get better results.

Improv for Coaches – Practise & Play

free workshop on Zoom

Tuesday 17th December 15.00-16.00 CET

Curious about Improv for Coaches? Come join a workshop! We’ll play games and talk about why improv is such a great skills for coaches to have. No experience necessary, just be open, switch on your camera, and come play with us!

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I’m feeling braver, more connected, more engaged and ready to play with my expanding toolkit.

– Mel, workshop participant

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Improv for Coaches Course on Zoom

Next cohort starts 21st January on Tuesdays 15.00-16.30 CET

 Improv for Coaches is a 6-week online course designed around the coaching skills you know. The course gives you 9 CCEUs towards your ongoing ICF accreditation (6 in core and 3 in resource development). All sessions take place on Zoom.

We’ll play improv games that help you create more awareness of your range and preferences. We’ll have lots of fun while also growing your coaching skills and learning how you can apply improv to coaching.

NEXT COURSE Tuesdays 15.00-16.30 CET 

All sessions are on Zoom. Please note that this course runs over 7 instead of 6 weeks.

21 January: Introduction to improv and co-creating the relationship

28 January: Being present and active listening

Week of 4 February*: Peer coaching practice

11 February: Storytelling and metaphors

Week of 18 or 25 February*: Peer coaching practice

4 March: Celebration and completion

Course price €450 (excl VAT).

EARLY BIRD UNTIL 31 December €375 (excl VAT).

* You are free to schedule the peer coaching sessions at a time and day that works for you and your coaching partner.

Please note that you’re required to attend all 4 group sessions to qualify for ICF CCEs. If you miss one, we can find a way for you to make this up at a discounted rate. Sessions will not be recorded.

I want to join the online course!

Improv for Coaches 1-day Workshop in Amsterdam

Thursday 13th february 10.00-16.30

Want to take the Improv for Coaches course but prefer in-person training to online? Come join our workshop in Amsterdam!

This day is a shorter version of the online course. We’ll play improv games and apply all the skills you’re learning to coaching. You’ll learn games you can play with your clients, and you’re growing your range as a coach at the same time.

Workshop & lunch € 199 (excl VAT)

EARLY BIRD until 31 December € 149 (excl VAT)

The workshop will take place in a central location in Amsterdam. Exact location TBC. Lunch is included. ICF CCE certificate available on request (2 core and 2 resource development).

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If you’re looking to be more open and flexible as a coach while also evoking transformation in your client, I highly recommend taking Improv for Coaches.

– Klarrisa, workshop participant

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1. Introduction to Improv

Our first session is all about building a strong foundation. We believe this is an essential part of both improv and coaching. So we’ll look at how we can establish trust and safety with our clients, how we co-create the relationship, and we’ll do exercises that help us maintain presence.

2. Being Present

This session is all about being present, active listening, and co-creation. We’ll look at how we maintain presence and how we can create from it. We’ll play games that focus on active listening, which will also help us to be curious, manage our judgement, and stay in connection with our clients.

Peer Coaching Practice

Practise your improv coaching skills with your peers. You can schedule the coaching sessions at a time that works for you and your coaching partner.

3. Storytelling & Metaphors

Let’s make it more interesting! We’ll work with metaphors and storytelling, creating stories and images together. We’ll also look at the impact of the language we use and how we can choose our words to write our own life stories and create new perspectives.

Peer Coaching Practice

Practise your improv coaching skills with your peers. You can schedule the coaching sessions at a time that works for you and your coaching partner.

4. Completion & Celebration

Just like with coaching journeys, we’d like to close our Improv for Coaches with a celebration and look at how far we’ve come. There will also be time for questions and requests – we can play new games or go back to your favourite games and play them again. Improv games, just like coaching sessions, are never the same.

Improv for Trainers and Facilitators

To really get your message and course objectives across, it’s essential that you connect to your audience and your co-facilitator. Come play with us and learn how you can create impactful training sessions that respond to the needs of your audience, while also having lots of fun. Build your confidence to dance in the moment, connect with your co-facilitator, and create a little bit of magic in the training room.

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What coaches say

Testimonials

There are many things I took away from the Improv for Coaches course. One of the biggest learnings was about myself and how I can be more flexible with clients and in life. The games and exercises we did helped facilitate that. Reflecting on the exercises in the course, I realized how often my people-pleaser and perfectionist parts get in the way of having more fun with my clients and in life. I want to “get it right” and that often comes at the expense of trying out new ideas or thinking creatively.
Through the improv games, reflections, and practicing with our partners, I gained a greater awareness of this side of me and practiced letting go more often. While I have tried some of the games and activities with clients, I think the biggest learning has been letting go of the fear to just try things out with clients and seeing what happens. The benefit has been clients and myself having more fun in the process, even when dealing with hard things!
If you’re looking to be more open and flexible as a coach while also evoking transformation in your client, I highly recommend taking Improv for Coaches.
Klarrisa Frank, Multicultural Leadership & Life Coach

I had the pleasure of attending an improv coaching workshop led by Su Mee Tan and Lori Shook. The bespoke design of the workshop, tailored to our needs, truly stood out. With a small, intimate group setting, we were able to dive deep into the exercises, ensuring personalised attention and feedback. The complementing energy Su Mee and Lori brought to the room was making the learning process not only insightful but also incredibly fun. Their expertise in gently nudging participants out of their comfort zones, while maintaining a supportive environment, was amazing.

I left the workshop feeling invigorated, full of confidence to surrender and a toolkit of strategies to implement in my facilitation and coaching practice. I wholeheartedly recommend their workshops to anyone looking to expand their range and include improv into their coaching repertoire in a dynamic and engaging setting.

Maja Seggerman
Executive Coach & Intercultural Team Facilitator

Working with Su Mee has been transformative. As an improv coach, she brings a unique blend of fun, gentleness, and deep knowledge to her workshops. When you step into her space, you’re greeted with an atmosphere with no right or wrong—only endless possibilities for growth and self-discovery.
I’ve had the privilege of attending her workshop designed for coaches, and it’s been an incredibly liberating experience.
Su Mee has a knack for helping you break free from your limitations. Thanks to her guidance, I’ve shed the ‘good girl’ syndrome and stepped out of my comfort zone.
But what truly sets Su Mee apart is her approach to improv. It’s not just about entertainment; it’s about profoundly impacting how you think and act. She’s a treasure trove of surprises and knowledge, and every session with her leaves you feeling empowered and inspired.
If you’re looking for a coach who can help you unlock new dimensions of yourself, Su Mee is the one to go to.

Anna Zoladkiewicz
Conscious Leadership Coach

“I can honestly say that I never had so much fun in a training & applied so many new things at the same time. I decided to sign up because I sometimes struggle with presence and with allowing myself to bring more play & fun during sessions. I learned that there is so much wisdom and beauty in improv.

Su Mee really models presence and improvisation and shares openly what’s happening from her perspective. During the sessions time flies. I loved how energized I felt during the calls and after.

Thank you for creating such a powerful experience.”

Federica
Coach, Amsterdam

“Su Mee Tan was amazing! She was so engaging and enthusiastic. And I loved the break out rooms – this was the most fun I’ve ever had on an ICF call!”

“I was pleasantly surprised at just how applicable and effective of a tool it can be in coaching clients who may be stuck, need a perspective shift, or just a lighter, more fun experience to gain insight.”

“As a seasoned improviser, I appreciated this opportunity to explore the relevance explicitly to coaching. Thank you!”

Participants ICF workshop
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Hi, I’m Su Mee

Coach. Trainer. Improviser.

I used to plan everything, including my coaching sessions. I’d get nervous if I didn’t know what topic or emotion a client would bring to a session, and I’d be stuck in trying to remember the tools and structures I learned in my coaching training. Until I found improv.

Improv taught me to really be in the moment, to dance with whatever is thrown my way, to listen, to connect, and to trust my intuition. And all this while being playful and having fun. I’ve poured all of this into my Improv for Coaches workshops and hope to bring that fun to you and your coaching too.

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