NLP-Podcast 45: "Simply Improvised" - Book Presentation by Evi Anderson-Krug

Many people dream of publishing their own book - our NLP trainer Evi Anderson-Krug has fulfilled this dream and published her own book in March published and released by Junfermann Verlag.
For the first time, Evi Anderson-Krug played improvisational theater during her trainer training - back then, anyone who wanted to could participate. Since then, she has not let go of the topic and has continually engaged with it. Improvisational theater is a form of theater where there is no fixed text. There are some fixed prompts given by the audience, and from these prompts, the actors spontaneously create a play on stage.
“It’s already been twenty years since I first saw improv, and I thought it couldn’t be learned. But after the first workshops I attended, I realized I could actually do it – you can really learn the basics,” Evi Anderson-Krug shares in her interview with Stephan Landsiedel. Such basics include, for example, associating and practicing spontaneous action.  

What does NLP have to do with improvisational theater?

During an improvisational theater exercise, Evi Anderson-Krug realized that improvisational theater is a form of NLP: “When you improvise together, you have to adjust and calibrate to each other,” she explains. “Within seconds, you have to agree with the other actor on stage about how the scene will be played. This is only possible if you can communicate well with each other, if you have rapport, if you can pace and adopt the other person's model of the world.” Without these points, an improvisational theater scene is likely to go completely wrong.  

“Simply Improvised”

Gradually, Evi Anderson-Krug incorporated various improv games into her training and recognized that these improv games showed their effect: “The participants were able to remember the content much more easily,” she recounts.

At the Landsiedel Summer Congress, she then spoke with representatives of Junfermann Verlag and had already taken the first step towards her own book. Subsequently, Evi wrote a proposal, a structure for the book, and a table of contents, and her book project was accepted. In March, it was finally time, and Evi Anderson-Krug was able to publish her own book. "The book does not just contain improv games, but improv games that are adapted to the training context and working with groups," she explains. Therefore, the book is suitable for all NLP trainers as well as for other trainers and educators who work with groups. In the complete podcast episode, Evi Anderson-Krug talks about some improv games she uses in her training to convey the content of NLP. Enjoy listening!