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Positive Comedy Training: Learning and development through comedy and improvisation

with Gerry Maguire Thompson

Improvisational comedy is an extraordinarily powerful transformational medium for personal, professional and organisational development.
Like children, we learn and develop fastest when we're having fun. Improvisational comedy can enable us, for instance, to:
- be who we really are
- be fully in the present moment
- thrive on the unexpected
- develop courage, spontaneity, charisma and energy
- create and use our own authentic humour, naturally and organically

Positive Comedy's methods help develop many capabilities that are crucial in business and organisational life, such as….

* presentation and communication skills
* team-building and group dynamics
* creativity and problem-solving
* leadership, authority and personal power
* using humour confidently and positively

Gerry is also author of many successful books of humour and personal and professional development, including the best-selling parody of intimate human relationship, "Cats are from Venus, Dogs are from Mars".

“Participants will find Gerry’s workshops powerful as a means of developing confidence, assertiveness, social and communication skills and co-operative ability. “

Paul Levy

“Participants can experiment with such comedy methods as improvisation, stand-up, monologue, double-act, story-telling, sketches and sitcom. The workshops help develop life-skills such as confidence, creativity, communication, self-presentation, teamwork and overcoming fears. “

Gerry Thompson

Gerry has an excellent resource page here.

“We believe that the worlds of comedy and theatre provide a rich source of ideas, techniques and approaches which can help everyone to become more competent and confident in their daily working lives.

Drama and comedy address our behaviour and skills at a deep level. Actors and comedians have to transform themselves on the stage in order to create a lasting connection with an audience.

So, if we want to change ourselves for the better, the techniques of theatre and comedy have potential to help us - and we can laugh along the way.”

Gerry Thompson and Paul Levy

“We believe that every individual is innately creative, inventive and entertaining - and can be so in their own unique way. Improvisation-based comedy is an extremely powerful approach to this, which anyone can use for enhanced self expression, moving energy, creating positive change - and having fun!”

The Positive Comedy Credo