Taking yourself too seriously has never been a good look. I’m not suggesting that you put on your ‘clown shoes’ when you go to work or out with your friends, but there’s many advantages to being comfortable around using humour.
I’ve made comedy my business over the last 20 years and I’ve a few tricks up my sleeve to help you nail this. It’s more important than ever to extend the practice of humour into our working environments so we’ve developed our HERlarious blueprint for #funatwork here at Funny Women and the next HOW TO HAVE FUN AT WORK event, takes place on Tuesday 23rd May with the support of NatWest, who are hosting us at 250 Liverpool Street in London.
We remember funny people – and those who make us laugh in public life, often do very well and climb the ladder of success in politics and business. Not always for the right reasons, admittedly, but it’s human nature to laugh at other people as well as with them!
Now post pandemic there’s an urgent need to get people back into the communal workspace, even for two or three days a week, not just to justify the rent, but to rebuild teams, restore confidence and recalibrate working relationships. Fun should be on the menu along with the benefits of company and communication.
Laughter, humour and comedy are all communal activities and, even if it isn’t obvious, this is often the glue that keeps teams and friendship groups together, even beyond the office walls. Why would you want to socialize with somebody you work with who doesn’t like laughing?
I was once told by a former friend that she never came to any of my comedy events because she didn’t like laughing. Blocking off those happiness-focused neural pathways which are so closely aligned to humour and ‘having a laugh’, is a form of emotional amputation. Why would anybody want to work with such a sourpuss?!
If your role is to help people to integrate back into the working environment and enhance communication with your colleagues, a giggle here and there is hugely beneficial.
I am thrilled that we have the support of NatWest as our lead partner on this event so please take a few hours out at the end of your working day to join us for some carefully curated workshops, run by some of my fave funny women from business and comedy, enjoy some discussion about how we can have fun at work, and end your evening with some wine, nibbles and our trademark stand up comedy.
Workshop topics include:
- Stand Up to Stand Out with Rachel Creeger
- Telling Your Story with Hela Wozniak-Kay
- Improvise for Success with Monica Gaga
- Workplace Wellbeing
You can take part in two workshops followed by a lively panel discussion on the importance of fun and laughter in the workplace. The grand finale, as you would expect, is some rib-tickling stand up comedy from an array of funny women from our community!
Are you in?
All the details of how to book are here and there’s a 25% early bird discount until stocks run out using the code ‘EarlyBird’.
If you would like to bring along a group of four or more people from your organisation or workplace, please email info@funnywomen.com for a group discount. Men are most welcome too!
If you have become one of our growing band of Patrons, look out for our extra special 50% discount code in your mailbox – you still have time to subscribe to Patreon and take advantage of this.
We’re super grateful to our supporting partners Comedy Crowd and SisterSnog – look out for a special discount code if you are one of their subscribers or members.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. PLEASE JOIN OUR MAILING LIST FOR UPDATED INFORMATION OR BECOME A PATRON TO GET DISCOUNTED TICKETS WHEN WE PUT THIS BACK ON SALE.
