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Professional and Personal Growth Through Laughter Programs

Descriptions of Events

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Let’s face it, the changing world brings challenges that require improvisation.
Work teams require flexibility, innovation, and creativity.
Often in the moment on the fly.


 In these interactive online and in-person training events and keynote addresses, 
Pam Victor shares an improviser's guide to improve vital professional and interpersonal skills, like communication, collaboration, innovation, confidence, resilience, team-building, and intentional connection. (Oh, and did we mention it's super fun too?!)

 
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Pam Victor's signature event
AN IMPROVISER'S GUIDE TO
quieting the inner critic & disempowering failure


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training event or Keynote

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​to your TEAM

In the interactive presentation based on her TEDx Talk, professional improviser Pam Victor shares immediately-applicable techniques to help quiet the inner critic and disable the fear of failure that might be sabotaging your work.

Ready to let go of imposter syndrome? With equal parts humor and wisdom, Pam offers easy-to-learn tools to quiet the internal messages of fear and self-judgment so you can gain more confidence in your authentic voice. You'll get hands-on experience in how to reframe challenges and disempower failure ​that inhibit progress at work through easy-to-learn (not scary!) improv-based exercises. Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have a blast Learning THROUGH LAUGHTER! This engaging and fun interactive professional development event is designed to support the resilience, creativity, and empowerment of members of work and leadership teams, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to navigate the future with more ease and joy.
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

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Pam Victor's 2019 TEDx Talk "Meet Your Inner Critic
​(and Tell It to Pipe Down)"
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Pam receiving the New England Public Radio Arts & Humanities Award, presented by NPR's Eric Deggans.
 

Collaborate with positivity
improv to improve team communication & innovation

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TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE

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"Group mind" is what improvisers call the ultimate collaboration of singular vision and shared purpose. It's magical! In this event, Pam Victor, president and founder of Happier Valley Comedy, shares improvisation's masterful tools to support communicating, collaborating, and innovating with more joy, ease, and group mind. You'll gain immediately-applicable techniques to quiet the inner critic and work with more positive cooperation in order to increase staff empowerment and productive team spirit. The tenets of improv provide a powerful blueprint to share space and influence to take advantage of the talents of the whole team (even the quiet ones.) In improv, we believe that what we create together is more beautiful than what we come up with alone. Learn how to use the magic of improv to improve your team's work.
​(Oh, and did we mention this event is a lot of fun too?!)
Skills focused on include:
  • Collaborating with an aim to consider all ideas to progress with more positivity
  • Learning practical techniques for quieting the inner critic and reducing imposter syndrome
  • Communicating using an improviser’s perspective of acceptance of the reality of the moment and agreement to move forward together with joy and ease
  • Using a "Yes, and..." mindset for more inclusive problem-solving, brainstorming, beneficial risk-taking, and creativity thinking
  • Incorporating tips for creating productive meetings that invite enthusiastic participation and welcome the input of all participants​
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
"​I feel this presentation should be a prerequisite for everyone in the workplace!"
- Collaborate with Positivity participant
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant
See our professional development program in action
 

improv to imprrove
​Flexibility & Change

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TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE

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bring this interactive event
​to your TEAM
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Life seems to have an endless supply of curveballs up its sleeve, doesn't it? We arrive at work every day with a plan ... and then the unexpected promptly interrupts it. Fortunately, improvisers are trained to eat flexibility for breakfast and adaptability for lunch. (Dinner is usually pizza.) So who better to teach adjusting to change than a professional improviser? 
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 In this interactive event,  professional improviser Pam Victor shares immediately-applicable improv techniques to meet changes and challenges with greater agility, ease, optimism, and good-humored equanimity. This fun, interactive event includes an engaging and entertaining mix of lessons, guided discussions, and interactive exercises to deepen learning. 
Skills focused on include:
  • Learning practical techniques for quieting the inner critic and unhelpful internal fears that interrupt adaptability
  • Adapting to changes using an improviser’s perspective of acceptance of the reality of the moment and agreement to move forward together with joy and ease
  • Using a "Yes, and..." mindset for more positive problem-solving, beneficial risk-taking, and creativity thinking when encountering change
  • Participating in exercises and guided discussions to foster a mindful perspective to better be of service to the needs of the whole group
  • Gaining tools and a shared vocabulary to help reframe challenges as judgment-free events rather than impenetrable obstacles
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant

 

an improviser's guide to
​building resilience & Connection

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training event or keynote

contact us to
bring this interactive event
​to your TEAM
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Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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What would it be like to see challenges as opportunities rather than endings?  To navigate bumps in the road with equanimity and team unity rather than unproductive shame or blame? The resiliency necessary to weather mistakes, overcome setbacks, and maintain team cohesion through thick and thin are tricky but essential skills in the workplace. Resilience is associated with greater job satisfaction, work happiness, and employee engagement. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recommends building resilience by reframing challenges and boosting social connections, positive thinking, and laughter. Professional improviser Pam Victor brings all those tools to this fun, highly supportive training event that uses improv tenets, entertaining lessons, and easy-to-learn exercises to boost meaningful connections, foster team spirit, decrease stress, and build resilience.

“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”

― Sharon Salzberg
Skills covered include:
  • Learning practical techniques for quieting the inner critic, reducing imposter syndrome, and reframing challenges to increase resilience
  • Building resilience using an improviser’s perspective of acceptance of the reality of the moment and agreement to move forward together with joy and ease
  • Intentionally connecting with other participants through guided discussions adapted from "36 Questions to Increase Closeness"
  • Creating an appreciation for the histories and experiences that make our colleagues who they are
  • 3 Hour Event Only: Using a "Yes, and..." mindset for personal empowerment and more inclusive problem-solving, brainstorming, beneficial risk-taking, and creativity thinking
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event..

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant
 

improv to improve
challenging conversations


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training event or keynote

contact us to
bring this interactive event
​to your TEAM
Improv trains performers in complex communication. Each improv scene involves simultaneous conversations from character to character, performer to performer, and audience to performers. Bring the tools and flexibility of improv to improve important communication in your team. This interactive event applies the tenets of both improv and mindfulness to support your team in holding more open, accepting, and productive conversations. Using entertaining lessons and engaging interactive exercises,  Pam Victor  supports your team in applying a "Yes, and..." mindset, a spirit of inquiry and curiosity, and deep listening skills to accept the reality that brought us to this conversation in order to move forward together with positivity and ease.  You'll leave with hands-on experience and a framework to continue using improv to improve future challenging conversations. This event brings lightness and playfulness to learning these formidable communication skills to bring the team benefits that extend well beyond our time together.
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to
know about the
​workforce training fund
​express grant
 

AN IMPROVISER'S GUIDE TO
amplifying your authentic voice

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TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE

contact us to
bring this interactive event
​to your TEAM
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​Life doesn't come with a script. We're all improvisers doing our best to make it up every day as we bravely move into the unknown future. But most of us aren't trained in improv skills ... until now! In this engaging, entertaining event, Happier Valley Comedy president and founder Pam Victor joyfully delivers an improviser's guide to reframing challenges more positively, quieting the inner critic, and innovating with a “Yes, and…” mindset to support you in boosting confidence in your personal authentic voice and interpersonal collaborative skills. Through humorous stories and easy-to-learn improv-enriched exercises, Pam presents powerful techniques to support you in speaking up, standing out, and supporting others with more joy, ease, and good will. And don’t worry; it’s not too scary. One of Pam’s personal superpowers is making everyone on the introvert-extrovert spectrum feels engaged, successful, and empowered. Learn how improv can improve your own personal and interpersonal superpowers, whether using them in the living room, the boardroom, or beyond!
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant
 

An improviser's guide to
service leadership

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Training event & Keynote

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​to your TEAM
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 Leading like an improviser means prioritizing being of service to the team and the moment. In this engaging, entertaining event, Happier Valley Comedy president and founder Pam Victor shares immediately-applicable improv tools to guide the team with service-mindedness, a hallmark of brave and compassionate leadership. More often than not, service leadership requires continual practice letting go of fear of the unknown, fear of losing control, and fear of failure. As Brené Brown says, “The real obstacle to brave leadership is how people respond to their fears.“

 In her decades of improvising, Pam Victor has come to equate improv training with fear management training. This interactive event provides leaders with an improviser's guide to disempower fears and reframe unproductive judgmental thinking in order to build more collaborative energy, confident decision-making, smart risk-taking, and the courageous vulnerability necessary for service leadership. Unless you have a script for the future, you're already an improviser. This event shares the training necessary to lead like an improviser with more authenticity, adaptability, and empathy.
Note:  This is not an improv workshop; it's an opportunity to learn an improviser's approach to workplace skills-building using simple improv-enriched (not scary) exercises designed to  put the learning into laughter-filled practice. All exercises take place in a circle, small group, or pairs; participants are never “on stage.” Pam Victor specializes in making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel comfy, successful, and have fun learning how to use improv to improve the workplace.
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant
 

Mini-workshops
Lunch & Laugh
for positivity, mindfulness, & wellbeing

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30- or 60-Minute
​Interactive Presentations

contact us to
bring wellness & wellbeing
​to your team
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
- Aristotle

Why Lunch & Learn when you could Lunch & Laugh?
​In these entertaining and enlightening short interactive presentations, happiness coach Pam Victor guides your team through a customized selection of evidence-based wellness practices to boost positivity, mindfulness, and well-being. The benefits of "Lunch & Laugh" mini-workshops extend well beyond our time together to promote greater productivity, optimism, resilience, and physical and mental health. Support your team in refilling their energy and positivity tanks.
As the saying goes, "You can't pour from an empty cup."

​Choose the  topics to best meet the needs and style of your team.
Most clients prefer a monthly series of 3-4 mini-workshops
: 
  • Self-Care & Happiness Daily Habits for Busy People
  • Easy Daily Positivity Practices to Rewire the Brain
  • Guided Happiness Meditation to (Jump)start Your Practice
  • Gratitude in Minutes
  • Rest Management as Compassionate Self-Care
  • Play as Self-Care: Improv Games with Joy & Ease​
  • The Power of Play: Improv Games for Team-building Fun
  • The Connection Series: Intentional Connection Through Laughter, Bond-Building Hang Out, Life Stories in Minutes

EXAMPLEs OF 
customized remote MINI-WORKSHOP SERIES

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Contact Head of Happiness Pam Victor 
​to customize
a series of 30-minute remote mini-workshops
or a focus on one topic for a whole 60+ minute event
​to bring more wellness and wellbeing to your workplace

Contact Pam

the 3- and 4-workshop series are
​Fully REimbursed for qualifying companies

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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the workforce training fund express grant

Check Out One Mini-Workshop in Our Lineup:
"Self-Care & Happiness Habits"

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online or in-person workplace wellness
refill your tank
Happiness Habits for REsilience & self-care


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1 - 2 hour​
​Interactive presentation

contact us to
bring this interactive event
​to your team
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As caring professionals, we give our all to our jobs. But how can we keep giving if our energy tank is empty? Wellbeing, mindfulness, and resilience are not automatically renewable resources. Luckily, we can refill our tanks and re-energize our positivity reserves with simple yet profound daily self-care practices in just minutes each day. 
Through entertaining and interactive lessons, Happiness coach and professional improviser Pam Victor invites you to try out evidence-based practices to refill your reserves, such as gratitude, meditation, mindful connection, play, intentional living, positivity and more! Pam helps you find easy daily habits that fit your personal style and schedule. This is the rare meeting that leaves the group energized, laughing, and connecting together. By the end of this event, you’ll have tools to create your long term well-being plan, so you have more energy to support yourself, your work, and your colleagues with ease and joy.
"The perfect reminder that we must take care of ourselves before we can take care of others"
- Refill Your Tank participant

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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant

 
Pam Takes You on a Romp Through the Whole Happiness Experiment Program in This  15-Minute Video

The 30-Day happiness Experiment
for self-care & Resilience

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30-Day program

Program Includes:
  • ​Interactive kick-off learning event (2.5 hours)
  • Menu of optional "add-on" interactive online or in-person learning events to bring more connection, growth, and joy
  • Takes only 1-10 minutes a day
  • Curated collection of resources 
  • Customizable menu of accountability aids to support a daily practice
  • Printable informational packet
  • Optional one-on-one consultation with happiness coach Pam Victor
  • Lots of laughter!
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Whether your team is online or in-person, you can still build team spirit and workplace wellness. With only a few minutes each day, you can boost morale and create positive connections to get the whole team learning and laughing together with The 30-Day Happiness Experiment.

This customized 30-day program
provides simple, game-changing wellness practices and the support to make them a lifelong habit.


Yes, you have time for this program.
First, you attend a fun, engaging interactive presentation where
happiness coach and expert facilitator Pam Victor invites you experience

all eleven of the evidence-based "Happiness Habits" to build resilience and self-care. Then each participant picks 1-2 Happiness Habits to do every day for 30 days. We're talking a commitment of about 1-10 minutes each day.
For only 30 days.


The 30-Day Happiness Experiment is completely customizable, so each person selects the best-fit daily practice, time commitment, schedule,
​accountability aids, and connection style. 

Designed to be in-person, online, or hybrid, 
this program is self-directed, introvert- and extrovert-friendly. And FUN! 


The investment in employee wellness and wellbeing could be invaluable.
​In a 2010 study, Harvard researchers concluded that, on average, for every dollar spent on employee wellness, medical costs fall $3.27 and absenteeism costs drops $2.73. This is a 6-to-1 return on investment! Furthermore, happiness at work is tied to greater productivity, positive collaborations, innovation and creativity, better health, more effective conflict resolution,
​and so much more!

Ready to find out more how you can build team resilience, self-care, and happiness? 
contact pam to schedule
​an informational meeting & customized proposal

"I'm so grateful to Pam and this program for bringing more happiness to LCM. It was really wonderful to watch my coworkers reap the benefits of their experiments, and I greatly enjoyed my own as well."  
​- Alex Noonan, Director of Operations at Last Call Media
"This program was extremely helpful for improving gratitude, mindfulness, and increasing trust and strength of bond between myself and my co-workers. Bringing play into our remote, professional workspace was more valuable than I could have anticipated."
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- Ang B.

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NEW! The 30-Day Happiness Experiment is Now Included in Our Offerings for an
​Express Grant for a 50-100% Savings
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Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50-100% of the cost of this event.

everything you need to know about the
​workforce training fund express grant
 
Want to See the Program in Action?
​Check Out This Overview of The Happiness Experiment with Pam Victor!

Head of Happiness Pam Victor
about Your facilitator & happiness coach

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Pam Victor wears a lot of hats: professional improviser, facilitator, happiness coach, author, teacher, and the Head of Happiness (aka founder and president) of Happier Valley Comedy, the first improv theater in Western Massachusetts. In service to their mission to bring more laughter, joy, and ease to the world, Pam directs the three branches of the company: the comedy training center, regular shows, and the professional development and workplace wellness & wellbeing programs, which use improv training exercises to build foundational training skills, such as communication, collaboration, creativity, and happiness. 
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Pam is a recipient of the 2019 New England Public Radio Arts & Humanities Award and a TEDx speaker. She is the author of “Baj and the Word Launcher: A Space-Aged Asperger Adventure in Communication” a children’s book that uses sci-fi to teach social and communication skills. Along with legendary improvisers TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, Pam is the co-author of “Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ & Dave Book.” A graduate of Smith College with a Master’s in Education from Iona College, Pam has received improv training from iO Theater (Chicago), Annoyance Theatre (Chicago), ImprovBoston, and from Second City teachers.  Pam is a nice person. She likes you already. 


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​​"using improv to trust your inner voice"

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