Descriptions of remote events for
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Let’s face it, the changing world brings challenges that require improvisation.
Work teams require flexibility, innovation, and creativity.
Often on the fly.
In these interactive online training events, Pam Victor shares the superpowers that allow improvisers to create comedy out of thin air to support your work team to improve vital professional and interpersonal powers
...and we get to do all the learning through laughter!
Work teams require flexibility, innovation, and creativity.
Often on the fly.
In these interactive online training events, Pam Victor shares the superpowers that allow improvisers to create comedy out of thin air to support your work team to improve vital professional and interpersonal powers
...and we get to do all the learning through laughter!
Pam Victor's signature event
improvise into the unknown
adapting to uncertain times with more ease & Joy
90-Minute or two-hour training event |
Improvisers are trained to eat the unknown for breakfast.
As a professional improviser, Pam Victor's job is to jump into the unknown and instantly create content out of thin air with her colleagues. With her signature presentation, Pam shares easy-to-learn techniques to help you improvise opportunities no matter what comes your way. Improv trains us to: Accept the reality of the moment and then agree to move forward together with positivity. Using interactive elements, entertaining stories, and the wisdom of improv tenets, Pam offers immediately-applicable techniques to reframe challenges, redefine failure, and quiet the internal messages of fear and self-judgment that inhibit progress at work. This engaging and fun professional development event is designed to support the resilience, flexibility, and confidence of members of work and leadership teams, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to navigate the future with more ease and joy. |
Collaborate with positivity
improv to improve team communication & innovation
90-Minute or two-hour TRAINING Event |
Pam Victor shares masterful tools used by improvisers to collectively create comedy out of thin air, so you can apply these trade secrets to building stronger collaborative, team-focused progress at work. Through humorous stories, small-group discussions, and impactful interactive exercises, you gain valuable tools to work with more positivity and true cooperation in order to increase staff empowerment, conflict-resolution skills, and productive team spirit. Get fun, hands-on experience with how we can get to a “Yes, and...” mindset to promote more productive brainstorming sessions, innovative thinking, and creative problem solving. Learn how improv improves teamwork .... and let's do it all through laughter! |
Flexibility & Change
through laughter
90-MINUTE OR TWO-HOUR TRAINING EVENT |
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 interrupts that plan. Who better to teach adaptability with change than an improviser? In this remote interactive presentation, learn how to apply improv techniques to meet change and challenges at work with greater flexibility, ease, and good-humored equanimity. Professional improviser Pam Victor supplies tools and a shared vocabulary to help to reframe challenges at work to handle them more as judgment-free events rather than impenetrable obstacles. And we get to strengthen these flexibility and adaptability skills through fun improv exercises designed to immediately put the learning into practice ... through laughter! |
Improv superpowers
to improve Your Personal & interpersonal Powers
90-Minute or two-hour training event |
Let’s face it, life gives us lots of challenges that require improvisation. In order to progress, we must innovate daily to take beneficial risks, problem-solve with confidence, and bravely move into the future. Improv to the rescue! In this fun, interactive presentation, you learn the superpowers that allow improvisers to collaboratively create comedy out of thin air to help you reframe failure, build trust in your authentic voice, and work together with your colleagues with more joy and ease. Through humorous stories and impactful interactive exercises, Pam Victor presents powerful techniques to support you in speaking up, standing out, and taking it to the next level with more confidence, creativity, and collaboration. Engage improv superpowers to improve your personal and interpersonal powers whether you use them in the living room, the boardroom, or beyond! |
Pam Victor's 2019 TEDx Talk "Meet Your Inner Critic
(and Tell It to Pipe Down)"
(and Tell It to Pipe Down)"
Mini-workshops
Lunch & Laugh
for positivity, mindfulness, & well-being
30-Minute
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Why Lunch & Learn when you could Lunch & Laugh? In these entertaining and enlightening interactive presentations, happiness coach Pam Victor guides your work team through a customized selection of wellness practices to boost positivity, mindfulness, and well-being. The benefits of "Lunch & Laugh" mini-workshops extend well beyond our half-hour together. Choose the mini-workshops that best fit the needs and style of your team:
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
- Aristotle |
Want to See the Program in Action? Check Out This Overview of The Happiness Experiment with Pam Victor!
workplace wellness
refill your tank
self-care practices for REsilience & Happiness
1-2 hour
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We work so hard every day. But how can we give it our all when our energy tanks are empty? Happiness, mindfulness, and resilience are not automatically renewable resources. Luckily, we can refill our energy tanks and re-energize our positivity reserves with these simple yet profound daily self-care practices. Through entertaining and interactive lessons, Happiness coach and professional funny person Pam Victor invites the team to try out evidenced-based practices to refill their energy, positivity, and compassion tanks in just minutes a day. By the end of our time together, each participant will have tools to create their own personalized well-being plan, get practice with a bunch of easy to implement wellness techniques, and make joyful, team-building connections together through fun interactive activities and discussions.
Let's refill the team's positivity tanks, so they have the energy to support themselves, their work, and each other with more ease and joy. This is the one Zoom meeting that leaves the team energized, laughing, and connecting together! |
Pam Takes You on a Romp Through the Happiness Experiment in This 15-Minute Video
The 30-Day happiness Experiment
for self-care & Resilience
30-Day programProgram Includes:
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Whether your team is remote 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 online 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 remote and completely customizable, so each person selects the best-fit daily practice, time commitment, schedule, accountability aids, and connection style. Safe, easy, self-directed, introvert- and extrovert-friendly. And FUN! The investment in employee wellness and well-being 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 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? |
"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." |
"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." |
NEW! The 30-Day Happiness Experiment Has Been Approved for an Express Grant for a 50% Savings
Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant, where qualifying companies are reimbursed 50% of the cost of this event.
Head of Happiness Pam Victor
about Your facilitator & happiness coach
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. As the Head of Happiness of Happier Valley Comedy, happiness is literally Pam Victor's title and business. It's also her life practice as she shares these powerful tools for building resilience and well-being with her original program The Happiness Experiment. 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.
In-person Events
learning through laughter program
