pam victor brings
insightful learning and active fun to
improv-rich interactive presentations
Rather than have your audiences sit through yet another traditional sit-and-listen speech,
bring in a wise and wise-cracking facilitator to get your group laughing and learning on their feet!
Happier Valley Comedy's Founder and Head of Happiness Pam Victor uses
humorous stories and lively improv exercises
to bring laughter and learning to keynote audiences throughout New England.
bring in a wise and wise-cracking facilitator to get your group laughing and learning on their feet!
Happier Valley Comedy's Founder and Head of Happiness Pam Victor uses
humorous stories and lively improv exercises
to bring laughter and learning to keynote audiences throughout New England.
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"Pam's talks and presentations are always crowd-pleasing- from high school students to adults - everyone can learn from the lessons she pulls out of improv." |
SWIPE LEFT ON YOUR INNER CRITIC
5 techniques for quieting your voice of unhelpful judgment
(60 -90 Minutes)
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the two magic words for stimulating innovation
(30-90 Minutes)
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What would you say if you heard that there are two "magic words" that could transform innovation in your professional life and personal creativity? In this interactive talk experience, Happier Valley Comedy's Head of Happiness Pam Victor explores the two magic words of improv that can increase beneficial risk-taking, pure creativity, and delicious brainstorming ... and we get to do it all in an hands-on talk with fun and active exercises that provide practical skills to stimulate innovation through laughter.
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collaborate with positivity
improv superpowers to improve teamwork
(30-90 Minutes)
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Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone this secret: In this interactive presentation, Pam Victor shares the exclusive collaboration superpowers that allow improvisers to create comedy out of thin air, so you can use these trade secrets for building stronger collaborative, team-focused progress at work. This presentation provides hands-on experience with why we overuse “no” that restricts progress, and how we can get to “yes” in order to move forward together as a happy team. Through humorous stories and impactful interactive exercises, you gain valuable tools for how to progress at work with more positivity and true cooperation in order to increase staff empowerment, conflict-resolution skills, and productive team spirit. Let’s learn how improv superpowers can improve brainstorming sessions, getting to win-win, and promoting creative problem-solving … and we get to do it all through laughter!
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Meet your evil mind meanie
how to get the voice of unhelpful judgment out of your way
(25-30 Minutes)
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Professional improviser Pam Victor would like to introduce you to the internal voice that is stopping you from realizing your professional potential. In this insightful, interactive talk experience, Pam uses humorous stories and improv exercises to provide game-changing tools to help reframe challenges, redefine failure, reduce fear and self-judgment, and provide tools to get that inner critic out of the way so you can better manifest your dreams. It’s time to give yourself permission to take the winding journey of progress without putting up unnecessary roadblocks along the way. Ready to meet your Evil Mind Meanie, so you can thank it kindly … and then tell it to hit the road, Jack? (And don’t come back no more.) In this presentation, you can do just that ... and laugh a lot in the process too!
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Let's get happier
habits & practices for prioritizing happiness
(30 - 60 Minutes)
As the Head of Happiness of Happier Valley Comedy, happiness is literally Pam Victor's title and business. It's also her life practice. Yes, happiness is more than something that just magically lands on us. It's a muscle we can build and develop. In this fun and informative interactive presentation, Pam Victor shares immediately-applicable techniques to make happiness a habit in your life. Using improv-based exercises and stories, your audience actively experiences, explores, and expands on the practices of happiness, gratitude, and play. Did you know that employees who report being happy at work take 10 times fewer sick days? Happy employees also stay twice as long in their jobs as their least happy colleagues, spend double their time at work focused on what they are paid to do, and believe they are achieving their potential twice as much (1). Plus, they're happy! Let's harness the power of happiness in this laughter- and skills-building interactive speech.
(1) The Five Drivers of Happiness at Work, The Wall Street Journal and iOpener Institute for People Performance
wanna have more fun?
Exploring the Benefits of Play
(30 - 60 Minutes)
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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” So says Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not only that but play keeps you healthy. According to data researcher Brene Brown’s findings, wholehearted people goof off. (Yes, “goof off” is the scientific term used by Dr. Brown.) When is the last time you goofed off, just done something for the pure fun of it? As adults, so often we’ve forgotten the art and joy of real play. In this interactive presentation, Happier Valley Comedy founder and professional improv comedian Pam Victor brings the audience on a laughter-filled exploration of play: How can we learn how to play again? What’s stopping us from having more fun? And the question the audience will be asking at the end of the presentation: Can we play that game again please?!
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about pam victor
Pam Victor is a professional improviser, facilitator, 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 HVC’s mission to bring more laughter, joy, and ease to the world, Pam directs the three branches of the company: the improv training center, regular shows, and the THROUGH LAUGHTER program for professional and personal development, which uses improv training exercises to build foundational training skills, such as communication, collaboration, and creativity. Pam is a recipient of the 2019 NEPR 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.” Pam currently is working on her next book, a companion series to her training program, which might be titled “Jump into the Unknown & Catch Your Friends.” 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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