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Masterclass on Humour Wellington

Develop your humour on and off the stage, in your daily life. For anyone who doesn't want to be a robot, but just a human being.

Being funny, can you learn it? Or are you born with it?
The good news is that it's a skill you can learn. The bad news is that it's not just some tips & tricks.

We all have humour. And yes, you can make jokes about any topic. Don’t worry.
But humour is not just for laughing, it serves an important social purpose. Humour is used to connect, relax, to make the atmosphere more positive or lighter. Or to wake each other up in a friendly way.

- Would you like to be more yourself, more real and more authentic?
- Would you like to have more playfulness in your life and have more fun?
- Maybe you secretly like to be the pace-setter, dare to show your craziness and get others to follow you.

So you only need some analytical qualities, some honesty, some foolishness and courage.

Does this ever cross your mind?

You want to make jokes at work, but you are afraid that you will not be taken seriously anymore.
You think that you have to have a talent for humour. And you keep yourself small by telling yourself, 'I'm not funny.'
You know that humour is important, but you don't know where or how to start.
You used to make jokes, but somewhere along the way, you started to keep your jokes inside.

Are you ready for some fun personal development?

Stick your toe in the water and experience the power of humour.
In this one-day physical masterclass, you'll get more familiar with humour by developing your creativity.
You'll learn through a variety of interactive and fun exercises which you can immediately apply in your daily life.
You will end up with a load of humour tools, inspiration and definitely a successful experience.
To finally go home as a reborn human being, more playful and more authentic.
Join Malinca Verwiel, an international award-winning Humour Coach from the Netherlands, for this in-person one-day masterclass designed for anyone who wants to write, communicate or perform with more humour.

This physical Masterclass will be given in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. The group size is 6-12 participants.

By the end of this Masterclass, you will have learned:

Why humour actually exists.
How to make a heavy subject light. How to make a difficult subject understandable. How to lighten up a boring topic. How to make a sour topic sweet.
How you can use humour to create a positive environment.
How to enlarge your creativity.
How to enhance your interaction with others.
How to deal with mistakes more easily and think more flexibly
Two humour tools for your keynote about blowing your audience away.
How to grow as a personality and leader.

After completing, you receive the digital badge: Certificated Humor Proof.

This badge can be placed on your online CV, your Linkedin profile, other social media or on your website. With this badge, you show that you take humour seriously and use it in your professional life as well as in your daily life. You use humour to break tension and strengthen connections, but also use humour, when necessary, to create tension and wake people up.

School for Humor & Authenticity

The School for Humor & Authenticity helps you as a speaker, leader, trainer & coach to develop your humour and personality to make your audience more involved and engaged.
Here you will find playful skills as a leader, speaker, teacher or trainer to strengthen your impact on stage, your impact in front of groups and your impact in your daily life. The School was founded by Malinca Verwiel and provides classroom training, online training and coaching. In its first year of establishment, this school won the award for: 'Best New Training of 2020' with an average rating of 9.4

About Malinca Verwiel

Malinca Verwiel has been trained as a theatre and cabaret teacher and has infected about a thousand pupils with the cabaret virus and helped many beginning cabaret performers to a flourishing career, including Claudia de Breij and Leon van der Zanden. She graduated Cum Laude with her thesis: "How to make a comedy tragic and how to make a tragedy comic". For 15 years she made and played shows, energizers and workshops for organizations with her own company Humor in Bedrijf.

She is a Humor coach and Speaker coach for pitches, Ted talks, seminars and book presentations. Malinca makes everyone playful and knows how to put her finger on the sore spot in a loving way, for which everyone is usually very grateful. She has studied High Impact Leadership at Cambridge University and followed the Women's Leadership Program at Carla Clarissa and considers everyone who takes the stage as a leader.

Her school won the Best Education Award 2020 with an average grade of 9,4. She wrote an anti-self-help-book titled: 'Decide to become funny'. She is trained in the UK as a comedian by Jill Edwards, Judy Carter, Jeremy Nicholas, Steve Kaplan and Keith Palmer (Comedy school Bristol/London).

Reviews

Incredibly strong trainer Martijn Derksen - Creative / Educational Professional at Fontys University of Applied Sciences

In terms of content, an incredibly strong trainer. She knows exactly where she is talking about and is able to address this and point this out. She has got a clear vision about stagework and stories which I like very much and inspires me.

Super grateful Marianne van Dijk - Relation Therapist

Thanks to Malinca, making jokes for me is much more approachable. Before this course I only made jokes with friends and people I knew, but now I also do it with total strangers. Besides that it was really a pleasure to do her exercises and I felt really comfortable with her guidance so I could also make jokes about the uncomfortable and the more vulnerable topics. I am super grateful for the outcome!

It was possible to turn my more serious and heavy attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic Ilse Coolen - Teacher Care

Malinca does an appeal to your inner child that is open and curious for new experiences. The exercises are challenging in a nice way. Her way of looking and thinking is inspiring. She honours everybody's authenticity with no exception and gives advice on command, so you get the best out of yourself. I didn’t think (but secretly hoped) that it was possible to turn my more serious and heaviness attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic but that is exactly what happened. My compliments for how she works are endless for me.

Back to something about yourself you‘ll actually instinctively always knew Ruben Stelli - Art-Director/Creative thinker

This is about a lót more than humor, this is personality training. This is about creativity, resilience, self reflection, and about following your curiosity, but also back to something about yourself you actually instinctively always knew.

Balanced didactical talent Mirjam van der Veer - Pedagogical Assistant

If you are looking for a way to develop your stage presence in a rooted way then you have to go to Malinca! She knows where she is talking about and is a balanced didactical talent. I got the learning experience and playfulness I was looking for! Surprisingly fresh!

Until you break through Henk van Huisstede - Comedian

As a comic I am very interested in questions like: What is humor exactly? Why do people laugh? Which mechanism goes behind and under ‘comic stuff’. Malinca gives answers to these questions ánd other questions, so you recognise more easily the funny (read: painful) situations. Because humor and laughing - so we learn from Malinca - have everything to do with awkwardness, tension (and relaxation), shame, misunderstandings, unfulfilled desires and not redeemed expectations, and until you have this breakthrough you suddenly see the humor all around you.