What is it?

 

‘Humour is Serious Business’ is a Training Programme (primarily but not exclusively so) aimed at young leaders, youth work practitioners and other practitioners with a remit for young people that are interested in and committed to the examination and use of Humour as a pro-active and deliberate methodology of engaging young people and other youth work communities.

 

The programme provides space and time to examine a multitude of questions, matters, issues and concerns related to the use of Humour in an effort to increase skills, knowledge and experience of Humour.

 

This interactive programme not only allows participants to examine humour in detail but enables them to achieve a greater understanding of the subject matter, enhances their capacity to use it in their work setting and provides them with space to test it in a safe environment.

Philosophy

 

There are three elements that underpin our philosophy - laughter is the shortest distance between people, laughter is [indeed] the best medicine and finally, what we affectionately call 'The H Factor' where we focus on 'The Heart', 'The Head' and 'The Hand'.

 

Shared laughter is the one sure thing that will bring people together even in the most trying of circumstance, whilst the medical evidence of the benefits of laughter for health and well being is well established.

 

'The H Factor' works:

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'The Heart' by focusing on your personal development by exploring People, Attitude and Personality;

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'The Head' by examining the culture of humour and leading you to greater Knowledge, Reflection and Context; and

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'The Hand' by upskilling you in the use of new Techniques, Expressions and Situations

Our Work

 

Typically, ‘Humour is Serious Business’ aims to:

 

'upskill' you in the use of humour

 

enhance your knowledge of the various types of humour

 

increase your awareness of how humour can be used in work situations

 

raise your awareness of cultural differences in humour 

 

provide you with space and time for individual reflection about how humour is used 

 

challenge you to step out of your ‘comfort zone’

 

support you in the development of locally humour-based activities to demonstrate your learning 

 

facilitate development of a number of

joint-actions between you/your's and other partner organisations