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illustration above left shows Gerry's new workbook for trainers - click for extract
Gerry Thompson shows how comedy and improvisation methods
can be injected into any kind of training or learning activity
Available as bespoke training for organisations and teams nging comedy and improvisation into your training, teaching and learning methods
This innovative and highly interactive training is suitable for...
- independent trainers, facilitators, coaches and consultants
- teachers and others engaged in education
- people who run meetings, conferences or group events
- company training managers, HR managers and 'trainer-trainers'
- anyone interested in exploring methods of learning and development
Would you like to…
- add freshness, excitement and fun to your training or group events?
- discover interactive training activities that liberate participants' unique individuality and expression?
- make your facilitated events more adaptable & responsive to delegates' needs?
- bring more of your own individuality and creativity to your training activities?
- challenge your own personal issues around running courses and events?
Drawing on methods from the world of comedy, improvisation and performance, this fun hands-on workshop equips you with a fresh and invigorating approach to running events for change, learning and personal or professional development.
Positive Comedy's approach to learning and development is powerful and innovative – focused squarely on practical results that will make a significant difference in the real day-to-day world of business and organisational life, flexible and adaptable to any learning outcome.
In this innovative approach pioneered by Gerry Thompson, participative improvisation is a key element. Improvisation, the core of all human creativity, is a highly versatile technique which can be applied to any problem or issue.
Improvisation promotes:
- being yourself, accessing unique individual resources that you may not be fully aware of
- being in the present moment and fully using that potential, rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future
- thriving on unexpected developments instead of being thrown or panicked by them
- developing reliable instinctive abilities to respond to circumstances and people
- enhancing creativity and ability to solve problems
- trusting yourself, taking risk and having confidence in your capabilities
- being spontaneous
- making life and work more exciting and fun!
Typical content of the training
- improv-based ice-breakers and getting-to-know-each-other activities
- examine the principles of comedy and improv and their applicability to training and teaching
- a series of group activities giving participants and experience of improvisation and comedy
- demonstration of how to devise and improvation/scenario based activity from scratch, applied to a real-life learning brief
- further worked examples of how improvisation based activities can satisfy any parameters of learning outcome and setting
- break-out groupwork, designing and then running an activity for the other group
- consideration of how to apply the day's learning to the participants' work, and action points from this
- review of key principles from the session
In this workshop, the improvisational content has relevance to trainers and teachers in three ways:
1) as a basis for activities in a learning or training programme
2) as a creative mode for the facilitator when devising training programmes
3) as an aid in adapting responsively to needs, as a learning event unfolds
What you will get from this training
- this training will supply you with methods you can use to facilitate influential learning events
- it can also be a transformative event for you, personally
- time will be allotted to devising activities that respond to workshop delegates' particular issues, in their field of facilitation and learning
- there will be an opportunity to devise a new training activity from scratch.
- an advance questionnaire will provide the chance for individuals to identify these points, ahead of the workshop.