Descriptions of online/in-person events
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
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 the superpowers that allow improvisers to create comedy with colleagues out of thin air to support your work team to improve vital professional and interpersonal powers
...and we do all the learning through laughter!
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 the superpowers that allow improvisers to create comedy with colleagues out of thin air to support your work team to improve vital professional and interpersonal powers
...and we do all the learning through laughter!
See Learning THROUGH LAUGHTER in action!
Pam Victor's signature event
improvise into the unknown
Techniques for reframing challenges with more ease & joy
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Improvisers are trained to eat challenges for breakfast.
As a professional improviser, Pam Victor's job is to jump into the unknown and instantly create content with colleagues out of thin air. 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 ease and joy. 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. |
Pam Victor's 2019 TEDx Talk "Meet Your Inner Critic
(and Tell It to Pipe Down)"
(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.
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Collaborate with positivity
improv to improve team communication & innovation
TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE
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Learn improvisation's masterful tools and tricks of the trade to support your team in collaborating with more groupmind, joy, and ease. Through entertaining lessons, small-group discussion, and impactful improv-enriched interactive exercises, Pam Victor shares valuable techniques 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 to use a “Yes, and...” mindset to promote more inclusive brainstorming sessions, innovative thinking, and creative problem solving.
Experience how the tenets of improv improves team spirit and team thinking in this easeful event designed to make everyone on the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel successful and empowered ... and we get to do all this learning through laughter! "I feel this presentation should be a prerequisite for everyone in the workplace!" 
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See Learning THROUGH LAUGHTER in action
Flexibility & Change
through laughter
TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE
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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. Who better to teach adaptability and flexibility than an improviser? In this interactive presentation, learn how to apply improv techniques to meet changes and challenges with greater flexibility, ease, and good-humored equanimity. Professional improviser Pam Victor supplies tools and a shared vocabulary to help reframe challenges as judgment-free events rather than impenetrable obstacles. And we get to strengthen these adaptability skills through fun improv exercises designed to immediately put the learning into practice using easy-to-learn, non-performance improv training exercises specifically applied to the professional setting. All exercises take place in a circle 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 a blast Learning THROUGH LAUGHTER! 
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build resilience &
Boost Connection
through laughter
training event or keynote
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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 spirit rather than divisive shame and 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. Pam Victor brings all those tools to your team in this fun, highly supportive training event that uses improv tenets and easy-to-learn, engaging exercises to boost connections, foster team spirit, decrease stress, and build resilience through laughter! “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” ― Sharon Salzberg 
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Improv superpowers
to improve Personal & interpersonal Powers
TRAINING EVENT OR KEYNOTE
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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 fun, interactive event, professional improviser Pam Victor shares the superpowers that allow improvisers to joyfully create with colleagues on the fly to improve your interpersonal collaborative skills and personal confidence in your authentic voice. Improv superpowers help to reframe challenges more positively, quiet the inner critic, and innovate together with a “Yes, and…” mindset. Through humorous stories and easy-to-learn improv-enriched exercises, Pam presents powerful techniques to support you in speaking up, standing out, and supporting each other with more joy and ease from a place of assuming 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. Improv superpowers can improve personal and interpersonal powers whether using them in the living room, the boardroom, or beyond!
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leadership
through laughter
Training event & Keynote
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“The real obstacle to brave leadership is how people respond to their fears.“
- Brené Brown In her decades of improvising, Happier Valley Comedy president and founder Pam Victor finds that more than anything else, improv training is fear management training. Pam uses improv tenets and exercises to provide leaders with tools to disempower fears and reframe unproductive judgmental thinking in order to build collaborative energy, confident decision-making, smart risk-taking, and more courageous vulnerability. Leading like an improviser also means being of service to the team and the moment. In this interactive event, Pam shares immediately-applicable improv tools to quiet internal fears and lead with service-mindedness, a hallmark of brave and compassionate 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. 
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Mini-workshops
Lunch & Laugh
for positivity, mindfulness, & wellbeing
30- or 60-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 time together. Choose the mini-workshops that best fit the needs and style of your team:
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
- Aristotle |
EXAMPLE OF
customized remote MINI-WORKSHOP SERIES
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Check Out One Mini-Workshop in Our Lineup:
"Self-Care & Happiness Habits"
"Self-Care & Happiness Habits"
online or in-person workplace wellness
Rest management
as compassionate self-care
1 - 2 hour
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Did you know that people who regularly take opportunities for productive rest are more effective at work, less stressed, and sleep better? Join happiness coach and professional improviser Pam Victor on an experiential exploration of techniques for beneficial rest. Not all downtime is created equal! In this fun interactive and engaging event, Pam invites you to explore several evidence-based self-care habits for incorporating productive and restorative rest into your life, so you can determine which rest management practice is a good fit for your personal style and schedule. You’ll leave this event with the tools needed to try out your selected habit in your own 30-Day Happiness Experiment in order to set the stage for making rest management a lifelong self-care habit.
As author Alan Cohen says, “There is virtue in work, and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” 
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online or in-person workplace wellness
refill your tank
Happiness Habits for REsilience & self-care
1 - 2 hour
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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, deliberate rest, play, intentional living, and positivity and more! Pam helps you find the ones 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" 
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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
30-Day programProgram Includes:
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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? |
"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 is Now Included in Our Offerings for an
Express Grant for a 50-100% Savings
Express Grant for a 50-100% Savings
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.
Want to See the Program in Action?
Check Out This Overview of The Happiness Experiment with Pam Victor!
Check Out This Overview of The Happiness Experiment with Pam Victor!
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.
