# Event Details - **Event Name**: Impro(ve) Your Speaking... - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 03:30 pm – Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Stage Fright? If so, welcome to the human race... Human! Swap old habits with Applied Improv. Master public speaking on your feet.About this EventDo you struggle in any of the following areas:Demonstrating confidence.Handling nerves before a presentation.Engaging an audience.Networking at events.Speaking with clarity and presence.Breathing life into flat material.Feeling capable of standing in front of a room of other humans and saying things...In this session you will learn how to control your nerves, have more self belief and actually look forward to giving a presentation.In our sessions people smile a lot...We use games and exercises based on comedy improvisation techniques to practice engaging other humans and giving presentations with confidence and clarity.The main philosophies in improvisation are Trust and Respect. We'll live those values throughout.We'll cover:Presentations.Thinking on your feet.Elevator Pitches (60 seconds).Telling Stories.Landing Key Messages.Body Language, Eye Contact, and Tone of Voice.Articulation and Diction.What to do with your hands!And more...The session is highly interactive and will give you plenty of practice of the techniques in order to help you impart information in a compelling way.Great leadership can't be scripted.This session helps business leaders swap rigid habits for rapid adaptability, deep trust, and curious listening. You’ll learn to think on your feet, unlock your team’s creative potential, and command any room with authentic confidence.We'll also cover:"Yes, and": Accepting and building on others’ contributions to foster collaboration.Spontaneity and presence: Encouraging immediate, authentic responses to situations, improving leadershipand interpersonal skillsAn atmosphere of PlayCurious listeningEnjoying yourself.Flexibility/SpontaneityFocus on the here and nowRisk takingPersonal awareness/mindfulnessAnd more...Duncan is one of the few Applied Improvisation facilitators in the UK: Applied improvisation draws on theatrical techniques to develop human capacities like collaboration, creativity, communication, and adaptability.What you'll walk out with:Improved confidence.Less nerves.Feeling capable of standing in front of a room of other humans and saying things...A big smile on your face.Part of the session will also be the opportunity to network with other participants (drinks and biscuits will be on hand to keep us all going).Fun shouldn't be hard work, but hard work should be fun."It helped me re-evaluate the sense of what's important and that things don't have to be perfect.""Duncan is the most passionate, intelligent and versatile teacher with a great many skills, a lot of talent, humour, care and love."Agenda🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PMNetworking, coffee and Biscuits.🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PMFirst Games Section...🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:15 PMMini Break for a Breather.🕑: 05:15 PM - 06:15 PMSecond Games Section...🕑: 06:15 PM - 06:30 PMLast chance for biscuits and chats. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/leeds/improve-your-speaking/100001996364396651 - **Event Categories**: sports, comedy, public-speaking - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 60, max: 100, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Leeds - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Horizon - **lat**: 53.79316430000001 - **long**: -1.5391108 - **full address**: Horizon, 2 Brewery Wharf, Leeds, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Impro(ve) Your Speaking... - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/64afaf844eccb668af527d3844177f8f82c7f20f700ebf25b8e131a3340200df-rimg-w1200-h1200-dc88e8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1786517305 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Impro(ve) Your Speaking... being held? - **A:** Impro(ve) Your Speaking... takes place on Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 03:30 pm to Wed, 26 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Horizon, 2 Brewery Wharf, Leeds, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Impro(ve) Your Speaking...? - **A:** Impro(ve) Your Speaking... is organized by Impro(ve), MonkeyHeads & Friends. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Impro(ve) Your Speaking... is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Leeds, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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We also run open sessions for anyone to join.Becoming a supporter means you help build an ImprovNHS (free to use). It'll be free because of this platform:https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoul.#improvNHS #monkeyphilosophyHelp us open up access to improvisation for more humans... help us keep our community support sessions free at the point of use (an ImprovNHS if you will), so more humans can access the benefits of Improv. and all of its lovely social and health related brilliance. We run sessions for refugees and asylum seekers, humans in recovery from addiction, older humans, younger humans, humans with diabilities, humans in need of mental health support EVERY WEEK.We don't think availability to cash should be a barrier to our sessions. The more we have as a fund on here (https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoul), the more we can do in the real world.A new model of community funding... each donation or monthly addition to this opens up our ability to deliver sessions to those in our society who have less advantages and more barriers to living their best life.https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoulMonkeyheads...Duncan and Colin combine to create a surreal soup of silliness, where there can be love, laughter, tears and tantrums. Improvised theatre that teeters on the edge of calamity and tweaks the beak of impending doom.We are regular visitors at the British Improv Project, Nottingham Smash Night and performing throughout Yorkshire for over 10 years. We combine over 90 years of improvising experience (aka living and existing) to bring you a menagerie of badgers, dinosaurs and occasionally humans.Testimonials:\"If Samuel Beckett did Improv, this is what it would look like” UK Improv Project“11/10 Genuinely incredible”, “Delightfully strange” Nottingham Scratch Night Audience“It broke all the Improv rules... but it was compelling” Jon Trevor, Director, Birmingham Improv FestivalWebsite:https://www.monkeyheads.co.uk/ThreadBear Theatre...Our events are a chance for people to reflect on their time together, or on a specific theme they wish to explore. For anyone interested in developing skills of listening, improvisation, fluidity, personal storytelling and music that are intrinsic to this form of theatre.We create a ritual space where any story however ordinary or extraordinary can be told and immediately made into theatre.Testimonials from audience and workshop participants:\"Absolutely brilliant. Please come back again and again and again.\"\"The effect from the four people on the stage was amazing – funny, sad, despairing, baffling, miniscule but overwhelming. The way these actors re-enacted the emotions and the essence of the story in just a few minutes was uncanny in its clarity...\"Website:http://www.threadbeartheatre.com/" } ] } ] ```