Bringing the Skills of Improvisation to Your
Coaching Life

An Experiential One-Day Workshop with
Daena Giardella

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Daena Giardella is offering this highly experiential workshop for coaches who would like to deepen their coaching skills. You’ll have an opportunity to practice improvisation exercises that are specifically designed to help you enhance your coaching by bringing more creativity, confidence, spontaneity, authenticity, and awareness to your work.

This workshop will be a practical learning experience offering hands-on tools where participants will create demo coaching scenes based on real life situations, challenging client interactions, and other relevant topics. Daena will be also focusing on the issues of transference and counter transference in the coaching relationship as she coaches participants in these improvised demos. She will guide you through her Improviser Coach Model, which includes the useful exercise, Your Improvisational Actor Profile. This exercise helps you identify your strengths, negative hooks, patterns, and habitual “default” or “fall back” roles. The goal is to help you target your growing edge as you try out new approaches during improvised coaching scenes. While the workshop is open to all, advanced coaches are especially invited because of the unique opportunity to expand your approach and gain insights into your coaching style.

DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

For More Info or to Express Interest, Please Contact Daena at:  
daena@daenagiardella.com - 617/924-9596

Daena Giardella is an actor, creativity coach, teacher and author. She is frequently invited to give keynote presentations as a motivational speaker and humorist. She has dual backgrounds in the performing arts as well as in organizational development and coaching. Daena has worked with many prominent companies as a consultant, media coach, and executive coach. She recently gave a leadership innovation seminar entitled, Improvisation & Influence at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and she led an advanced training in Negotiation Improvisation for the European Commission in Brussels. She also custom designs original performances to fit the themes and goals of conferences, annual meetings, and other events. Daena was featured as a creativity coach on The Cheryl Richardson Life Makeover Show on Oxygen TV and she also appeared on the PBS series Discovering Psychology. She was also co-founder of TheraVision, a video/role-play process for training family systems psychotherapists at the Kantor Family Institute. For over twenty-five years, she has taught hundreds of Improvisational Acting workshops for people from all walks of life, which have stimulated a thriving improvisation community in the Boston area. Daena has an ongoing private coaching practice specializing in leadership & influence, transitions, and creativity development and she also offers ongoing Your Creative Process workshops, which began as an outgrowth of her book “Changing Patterns: Discovering the Fabric of Your Creativity, co-authored with Wren Ross.

Daena’s numerous one-woman performances have garnered kudos and enthusiastic responses across the USA and abroad. Daena’s new comedy-drama, called “What Can I Say?” explores the life of a harried radio talk show host who is dealing with her inner voices of censorship, a micro-managing boss, and her fear that she might be a closet misanthrope.