Want to feel more confident in networking or interview situations? Hone your creative problem-solving and ability think on your feet? Be able to handle impromptu business challenges or questions from coworkers and clients? This is the course for you!

In this 6-week Improv for Portland-area Professionals course, you will not only learn the fundamentals of improv, you will put them into practice right away, every class, with a supportive group of Portland-based professionals looking to hone their skills just like you.

Improv Connect’s Corporate Improv Training uses improv games, exercises, and collaborative activities and conversations to address your team’s unique goals and needs. You’ll be laughing together as you target important (and sometimes neglected) skill areas…(click More Information to continue reading).

Improv Connect Corporate Improv Training Programs:

• Culture Building

• Design Thinking

• Fully Customized Training

• Just for Fun (improv games for your parties, conferences or other events!)

• Public Speaking

• Team-Building

Improv for Adults Who Stutter brings together the dynamic energy of improvisational theater with evidence-based communication and fluency techniques to empower adults who stutter.

Facilitated by a speech-language pathologist with a background in improv performance and coaching, you’ll engage in improv warm-ups, games, and activities designed to boost confidence and group cohesion.

As a group, we’ll foster trust and delve into the fundamentals of improv, discovering the joy of spontaneous co-creation while learning effective communication and fluency-enhancing techniques.

An improv program that maintains a high level of sensitivity for anxious, shy or self-conscious people who want to learn improv in an accepting, low-pressure environment with “like-feeling” people.

Participants: Any adult (18+) who experiences anxiety, shyness, or self-consciousness who wishes to experience improv with a group of people (and an improv coach) who understand their feelings, in a supportive, accepting environment.

Looking for a four-week anxiety-friendly course? Check out Mindful Improv.

Boost confidence, explore emotions of self and others, and HAVE TONS OF FUN doing improv comedy with peers!

Improv for Autism is an improv-based therapy group focused on social and life skill-building for teens (ages 15-18) on the Autism Spectrum.

This program fosters self-exploration, promotes interpersonal connection, and helps build social, emotional and life skills in an accepting and fun environment.

Participants: Teens (15-18 years) on the autism spectrum.

Are you a senior looking for a fun way to try something new and interesting, meet new people, share some laughs and keep your brain fit? In-the-Groove Improv is the course for you!

Come get creative while learning how to perform improvisational comedy. You’ll learn the comedic improvisational acting techniques and skills used by professionals by doing fun exercises and playing improv games that will keep everyone laughing!

Participants: Seniors looking to have fun, make friends, and learn how to do comedy using the techniques that professional comedians do!

An improv class that combines mindfulness and grounding exercises with improvisational theater techniques, exercises and games.

Participants: Adults (18+) who…

• are looking for a gentle, non-performer-friendly approach to improv

• OR experience anxiety or introversion

• OR want to learn improv-based approaches to mindfulness that can be applied to everyday life

Within a small supportive group that meets for 10 weeks, you will learn coping skills that will help you better manage the uncomfortable feelings of anxiety that arise especially in social situations…(click More Information to view additional information and all offerings)

Improv Connect offers:

• Social Anxiety Improv Therapy Groups

• Improv Therapy Clinician Trainings

• Customized clinician and research collaborations