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Professional Development & Accreditation
Continuing Education Credits
Currently, Impromi workshops do not offer formal continuing education credits for ICF or Agile certifications. However, the curriculum is specifically designed to strengthen several core behavioral competencies required by these organizations (more details in the question below). We provide a Certificate of Completion for all participants, which many practitioners use as evidence of independent professional development.
ICF Core Competency Alignment
Impromi is a disciplined approach that enhances skills that are consistent with several ICF Core Competencies. By training in an Improv-Agile environment, you move these skills from theoretical knowledge into embodied professional habits:
Core Competency #4: Cultivates Trust and Safety: Creating a safe, supportive environment that allows the client to share freely.
Core Competency #5: Maintains Presence: The ability to be fully conscious and present with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible, grounded, and confident.
Core Competency #6: Listens Actively: Focuses on what the client is and is not saying to fully understand what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support client self-expression.
Core Competency #7: Evokes Awareness: Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy.
Common Questions
I am an introvert. Is this for me?
Actually, introverts often make great improvisers because they are excellent observers and listeners. The environment is designed to be psychologically safe and supportive, allowing you to participate at your own comfort level.
Do I need to know anything about Agile?
No. While many participants come from Agile backgrounds, we focus on the human-to-human coaching skills that apply to any professional relationship.
How is this different from an improv class?
We aren't training you to be funny or to perform. While we do play, every activity is purpose-driven. Impromi is a disciplined "brain gym" focused on communication, presence, and how we respond to others. It integrates improvisation with mindfulness, leveraging the virtues of both practices:
Improvisation alone trains spontaneity and creativity but can lack grounding—you might respond quickly but not wisely.
Mindfulness alone trains awareness and sensitivity but can lack creative action—you might stay present but not responsive.
The integration of both creates Responsive Presence –the capacity to stay present, creative, and adaptive regardless of where your coaching sessions go.
Is this for beginners or experienced coaches?
While the Impromi Method is accessible to all coaches, these workshops are specifically designed to help experienced practitioners take their existing skills to a higher level of agility and creative connection.
What about my coaching frameworks and techniques –isn't that just as important as presence?
Obviously it is —and Impromi doesn't suggest otherwise.
Structure, whether in the form of coaching frameworks, your favorite techniques, or if-then processes, gives you a reliable map for guiding a session. But even the best structure can't anticipate everything: a client who goes somewhere unexpected, a moment that calls for a different approach, a conversation that needs something other than what you planned.
The goal is to make you less dependent on the "safety" of those structures so you can utilize them more fluidly. Responsive Presence is what allows you to recognize those moments and meet them skillfully — without abandoning your structure, but without being rigidly bound to it either.
Is there a sequence to the Impromi Method?
Yes. First comes the Introduction –a 3 hour first step that introduces the core mechanics. Then comes the Foundation –which is still in development. And finally –comes the Playgrouns–which is open-ended and is also in development.
Will sessions be recorded?
No. To maintain a safe space for experimentation and peer-level play, we do not record these labs and do not permit external recording tools.
Is there a path for continued practice?
After completing the Foundation series, you will be invited to join the Impromi Playground —an exclusive practice space to stay sharp alongside a community of like-minded, Improv-Agile practitioners.
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