Find Your Light

Explore your possibilities through the lens of Improv

improv coaching is for you if…

  • you often feel like you’re on the brink of being more than you are

  • you hold back

  • you second-guess yourself

  • you secretly wonder if you’re enough or have what it takes (imposter syndrome)

  • you’re overly self-conscious

  • you’re tired of getting in your own way

why “find your light”

What does it take? If you ask a successful improviser it takes being present, listening to the offers around you and saying yes to them. This includes, most importantly, the offers that you give ourselves.

What does that mean for our own personal process? Listening to the offers around you and saying yes to them, including the offers you give ourselves. Yep, same.

Using improv in a nonperformative way is a remarkable avenue into a world of self-acceptance, self-confidence and presence. We can use the experiential tools and tenets of improv to work (play) through what’s holding us back, explore how communication works and our own in particular, and how we can say yes to ourselves and become more powerful versions of ourselves.

I call this “finding your light” because in the theater, improv or otherwise, it is the phrase used to make sure you’re seen. If we perform in the shadows we can’t be seen. This is an obvious metaphor, of course; some of us shy away from the light (expressing our real-est selves) for numerous valid reasons better explored in therapy but we don’t need to know these reasons in improv. It is enough to know that to live hovering at the edges of the light or deep in the shadows is to keep us from experiencing our best selves in the world, and sharing it. It’s not about performing; it’s merely a practice of allowing our authentic, open, brilliant and curious self to exist unburdened by our own judgements and recriminations.

And since delving into improv led me to discover a richer version of myself that I’d always suspected I had in me—but didn’t know how to access—I believe it can help you, too. It set me on a path that thoroughly surprised me and if I knew in the beginning what I know now, this is what I would have asked myself:

what if

  • you acted as though you had nothing to expose? 

  • you could gain confidence by accepting your vulnerability?

  • you could become comfortable with your discomfort?

  • one way to explore this is through playing games and laughing?

Private coaching is fun and relevant for individuals, couples and families. Please note that this is not mental healthcare—we teach improv. If you think you need therapy please look for a licensed practitioner.