Training for trainers
- the power of improvisation for learning and development
This innovative workshop is suitable for...
- independent trainers, facilitators and consultants
- teachers and others engaged in education
- people who run meetings, conferences or group events
- anyone interested in exploring methods of learning and development
Would you like to...
- add freshness, originality and humour to your learning and development events?
- discover training activities that liberate participants' unique individuality and expression?
- make your facilitated events more responsive to participants'' needs?
- bring more of your own individuality and creativity to your training activities?
- make progress on your own personal issues around running transformational events?
Drawing on methods from the world of comedy, improvisation and performance, this hands-on workshop offers 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, exciting and fun - yet focused squarely on practical results that will make a significant difference in the real day-to-day world of business and organisational life: matters such as team-building, presentation skills, leadership, communication, handling change and solving problems.
In the innovative approach pioneered by Gerry Thompson and Positive Comedy, 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 its 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 people and circumstances
- enhancing creativity and ability to solve problems
- trusting yourself, taking more risk and having confidence in your capabilities
- being spontaneous
- making life and work more exciting and fun!
In this workshop, improvisation will have relevance to training in three ways:
1) As a basis for activities which the trainer can offer participants of a training
programme
2) More importantly, as a creative mode for the facilitator while devising the training programme
3) Also important - as a means of adapting the programme and activities responsively to participants' needs, as an event unfoldsSo this workshop will supply you with methods you can use to facilitate influential learning events; but it can also be a transformative event for you, personally. Time will be allotted to building activities that respond to workshop delegates' particular issues in the field of facilitation and learning. There will also be an opportunity to devise a training activity from scratch. An advance questionnaire will provide the chance to identify these and feed the information back, ahead of the workshop.
Practical details
The venue is the Conference Room at Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN13XG - just down the hill from Brighton Station, which is 50 minutes from London Victoria.
Car parking is available at the station.
The workshop runs from 10.00am, with registration and refreshments from 9.45, and concludes at 4.30 pm. Dress is informal for active involvement.Costs and booking
£65/ multiple bookings £55pp - inc. refreshments other than lunch. There will be a reduced price bursary place for a person who could not otherwise attend. Advance booking is required and numbers are limited.
To book please make cheques payable to Positive Comedy, and send to the address below. OR... let us know if you require an invoice, or wish to pay by BACS.Map Reference click here
For further info in UK call 01273 463611 or 07986 561860
Positive Comedy Learning, 57 Connaught Ave, Shoreham by Sea BN43 5WL UK
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