HUmorizing

humorize: to inject or invite humor into, or to treat an interaction with humor.

A language of creative, positive, en-lightening humor: one that is uplifting, about laughing with people, not at people.

Recently I have been invited to apply my teaching and performing skills to a diverse number of projects. Here are some of the areas I am working in:

Trainings for Groups and Organizations

Stress and Trauma Release Trainings/Workshops

Directing Clown, Varieté Shows/Numbers

Cinematic Creation/Actor Preparation

Clown Conspiracy

Have a situation that could use a little humorizing? contact me !

humorizing Trainings
For groups and organizations

" Who could know that this would be such a valuable team building experience? It had more impact than a ropes course or any previous team training I have done. "

Are stress and tensions creating havoc in the working environment ?
Is there a need to develop capacity to interface with the public, with co-workers, in a more humorful, positive way?

Humorizing Trainings develops capacity to connect and communicate with lightness and positivity.

For working groups, engaging humor opens pathways to creative, collaborative communication and trusting relationships.

For those who interface with the public, humorizing creates positive relations and disarms tensions.

At the conclusion of a private workshop for a famous German filmmaker, one actor said: "this is great, a new muscle I can use". Indeed! Positive Humor is a powerful muscle for enhancing communication, trusting relationships and ucollaboration in many environments.

About the trainings. Trainings in organizational settings are based on my public workshops attended by professionals whose work involves public interface: lawyers, managers, educators, psychologists, nurses, dentists, doctors, coaches, trainers, salespersons. These trainings are a useful tool to enhance and inspire creativity, creative collaboration and problem solving.

• The work is both fun and focused, mindful and challenging.
• The training opens up trust, clarity, inspiration and authentic communication.
• Training tools come from the worlds Physical Theater, European clown, Improvisation, Qi Gong, Voice, and Japanese Butoh Dance,
• A serious investigation of humorous expression. No oversized gags, clown noses or loud colors.

Trainings range in length from 2 hour sessions to 3 day workshops.

Stress and Trauma Release Trainings/Workshops

These offerings have so far been in the context of Clowns Without Borders work with children in traumatic situations, both in Kosovo and Burma.The work involves releasing stress and trauma through humorous expression. I have developed specific clown/mime based exercises that offer children an opportunity to express negative emotions (fear, frustration, anger) in the context of play and being funny. For the children, it's about being funny and having fun (e.g. playing monsters.). In the play, they express from within, and in the process release pent-up emotions. The process is certainly not therapy yet has strong therapeutic values and can be applied to any number of situations.

Directing Clown, Varieté Shows/Numbers

Since 2009, I have been directing a number of performers, both in creation, and in revisiting/refining clown and varieté numbers. I welcome opportunities to work with artists looking for more connection to their humor, and to integrating it to their performances.

Cinematic Creation workshops/Actor Preparation

In 2011, Doris Dörrie, the German filmmaker (Cherry Blossoms, Enlightment Guaranteed) asked me to be levity master for her next film, Glück. The focus was on introducing lightness in negative emotions, so as to tell a difficult story with lightness and humor. We focused on expressing humor and lightness through non verbal expression, on creating relationship between the actors, and between the actors, the director and the cinematographer. The work was powerful and transformative, everyone was thrilled with the work, and the results will become clear when the film is released in early 2012.

Clown Conspiracy

For events large or small in the bay area, and beyond, it is possible to assemble the clown conspiracy to humorize in the most sophisticated fashion.
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" Moshe's workshops are more than just a 'clowning' experience. His emphasis on connecting with the audience and with teammates provides a solid foundation in how to meet someone on a common ground and truly be present in the moment. "

 

 

" We had a couple of opportunities to clown today (in business meetings 2 days later) and they were a big hit and release of tension for all. "

"The bottom line for me with Moshe’s work is how it can contribute to a wider range or palette within which to move in life, whether at a fire or at an airport or with family or whatever.  I find the access to a new degree of lightness and limberness through physical movement and awareness a powerful tool.  "