| corporate:
Lloyds TSB London
A fun interactive team training day for 40 on leadership and followship, moving towards an evening party
Morgans International Investment Bank
A learning-at-work day for 100 using comedy to explore issues and challenges
ProfitNet business start-up groups
A series of sessions for these groups in different parts of the country, introducing people with new businesses to develop self-presentation skills needed for pitching, selling, addressing groups or one-to-one interviews
CIPD trainers forum
An interactive session giving trainers insight into how comedy and improvisation can enhance any kind of training or learning activity
Sussex Enterprise
Sessions on presentation skills and train the trainer for the annual exhibition and conference Expeditors UK, Heathrow Airport
An intensive training session using improvisation to enhance deliver skills, body language, spontaneous reactions to audience, and expand participants' comfort zones
Datel, Warrington
A team training event using improvisation to develop consultancy and selling skills for Sage financial software - such as speaking skills and dealing with problematic situations
|
public sector :
Environment Agency. London
A seminar for agency executives on skills for presentation and addressing groups, with particular emphasis on making dry or technical material more interesting, entertaining and memorableSussex Probation Service
A DIY comedy workshop at annual staff conference, using everyday scenarious and problems as raw material
South Downs Health/ Brighton Child Protection
A training-for-trainers day for the child protection training pool. working with young people to develop confidence and skills for their work in training adults in how to deal with children and youth Pulse project, Hastings
A training for trainers day for all kinds of youth workers from East Sussex, showing how to use comedy to create fun activities that engage youth, promote self-esteem, foster co-operation, address issues and explore situations
Hastings and Rother Youth Team
A day with local youth, bringing them on board to design the next publicity campaign on chlamydia and sexual health
|
youth and schools work Peace InSight
A summer camp for Israeli and Palestinian teenagers using DIY comedy to bring the youngsters together and create mutual trust, communication and leadership skills
East Sussex School Improvement Service/ CfBT
An interactive seminar for primary school head teachers on creativity, team-building, accelerated learning and excellent education as part of a large scale conference
Epsom Youth Theatre
Sessions on bringing comedy and improvisation into drama work
West Sussex Healthy Schools Team
An interactive team-building event at annual conference
Springboard Pupil Referral Unit
A four week project in which PRU pupils developed their personal stories into a film, produced it on DVD and put on a presentation for friends, family, carers and education professionals
Bognor Regis Community College
A ten week project focused on enhancing the capabilities of two groups of disengaged pupils within the college's specialised Focus Unit. At the end of the 10 weeks, these students presented their own projects throughout the school on it;s annual 'Stop the World' day, for all1800 pupils.
play video clip from this project
Brighton School Workplace Development Team
One-day workshops for teachers on using and caring for the voice
Oakgrove College
A summer school for secondary school pupils with disability, enhancing their drama skills with comedy and improvisation. The summer school culminated in a show for parents, staff and other pupils
East Brighton College of Media Arts
An INSET day for the whole school staff, addressing somewhat challenging issues of the time and looking for ways forward
Sussex Downs College
Staff training day showing how comedy and improvisation can be used in teaching and learning
|
voluntary sector
Emmaus
A fun team-building session fore the staff of this admirable organisation which supports the homeless and other disadvantaged individuals in creating work and living in community
Lewes and Wealden MIND
A series of comedy workshops for service users, leading up to putting on a show at annual conference
Worthing MIND
A ten week course of weekly sessions where service users explored DIY comedy and improvisation to develop confidence, reduce isolation, develop co-operation and communication and have fun, as part of the day centre's Get Active programme
Birmingham BVSC Social Care Services
A session within annual conference for many and diverse local organisations covering issues such as learning disabilities, domestic abuse and substance misuse, to explore common issues and ways forward
V Involved Youth Action Group
An interactive session at annual conference, encouraging participants to gain confidence, get to know one another and raise questions for subsequent conference sessions
prison/ offenders/ youth at risk etc Reading Gaol
A six week project with young prison inmates producing poems, rap and ballads which were then broadcast on BBC radio, chosen for Radio Four's Pick of the Week, and won the 2009 Prisoneractionnet Award, for excellence in work strengthening positive identity and belonging in prisoners and ex-offenders , first among 80 projects nationwide
Wessex and Brighton Youth Offending Teams
A long-term project in which young offenders workshopped their personal stories, and turned them into a DVD. These stories were then turned into a live interactive drama performed at several venues in the south as 'Leggsy Gets a Break' and broadcast on BBC Radio. This work won several Koestler awards. East Sussex Youth Offending Team
Six week summer school using comedy, drama, improvisation and film to engage young people on ISSPs, using the problematic summer holidays to express themselves positively and creatively and work together to make a movie
|
| other University of Brighton
Inaugural lecture on promoting 'resilience' among children with complex needs and their carers. Gerry was engaged as a comical eccentric Irish professor at the reception for 300 guests
Wolds Words Festival
A DIY comedy workshop
Sussex University
Sessions for university staff using comedy and improvisation to develop presentation and public speaking skills and address personal issues in this area
Ocean Village Cruises
A week of hands-on DIY comedy workshops for holiday makers on board ship cruising the Mediterranean
|
one-to-one work
Mediabox
Mentoring a young offender in writing his life story and publishing it as a book. This book won a Koestler award and became the basis of the 'Leggsy Gets a Break' radio broadcasts
Other one-to-one training sessions have included practising self presentation and speaking, preparing particular presentations, writing and developing comedy acts and scripts, making pitches, preparing for interviews or key meetings, adding humour to arts performances and generally building confidence, creativity and communicative ability
|
