It worked for me

Sharon Clement, 24, from Leicestershire, found that trying an improv class helped boost her confidence once she’d left the workshop, too:

‘Attending an improv class taught me not to be afraid to go for it. In one of the exercises during my first session we had to do a silly little dance, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m not doing that!’ But, then I just went for it, and it wasn’t half as embarrassing as I’d feared. In fact, it was really fun to break through the barriers that you usually hold up in front of other people, and actually quite freeing in a way. At work or in our personal lives, we rarely have that space to just go for it, to do something ridiculous and have fun.’