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Improv Surgery

Opening up minds, cutting out nerves, sewing together skills

Improv Surgery is a fun, friendly, and safe workshop to explore confidence building in communication skills and interpersonal interactions. Utilising props, structured games are designed to release people from their self-imposed discomfort zone with spontaneous communication.

Claire is an experienced speech and language therapist (SLT) who has devised and facilitated groups for patients with communication disorders and behavioural challenges. She has also led workshops for clinical staff, incorporating neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) strategies, to enhance their skills when interacting with challenging clients. She brings these two professional experiences together with skills devised from years performing in an improvised comedy troupe.

This two-hour workshop accesses participant’s creative expression in forms they have rarely explored before or even knew they had. Spontaneity is in everyone’s communication repertoire, but nerves often block people’s self-expression. These workshops create confidence to cut out nerves and sew together a new belief that confident communication is achievable.

No need to be a good communicator or confident to attend, this is what the games will naturally bring out and as Claire is a professional SLT, she has ways of making people talk! These workshops are not about being funny or fast, just a willingness to have a go and let the improv surgeon, Claire, manage your communication health.

£30 per person or £300-500 per work or social team event, dependent upon the size. Venue costs may be additional, as would travel costs if out of the Lothian area.

Minimum group number = 6, maximum group number = 18