Comedy Playground offers humour-infused workshops designed to build confidence, sharpen communication and spark creative thinking at work. These interactive sessions draw on the tools of stand-up to strengthen storytelling, improve presentation skills and help people communicate with more personality, energy and impact.
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Humour intelligence is about how we think, connect and communicate. It's the ability to read the room, think on your feet, find fresh perspectives and communicate in ways that feel genuinely human. Drawing on the tools of stand-up, storytelling and performance, workshops help people build confidence, sharpen communication and bring more personality, spontaneity and creative thinking to work.
Five Ways to Build Your Humour Intelligence
Humour Intelligence workshops focus on five connected areas of communication. Each can be explored as a standalone workshop or combined to create a bespoke session or programme around what you or your team need most.
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Communicate with Impact
Make your message clear, engaging and worth listening to.
Learn how to get to the point without losing your personality, hook your audience from the start, and use humour to create connection.
Useful for: explaining complex ideas, influencing conversations, leading meetings and making everyday communication clearer and more engaging.
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Storytelling That Sticks
Stories give ideas shape, emotion and meaning.
Find the story hiding inside the information and shape it to build curiosity, create connection and hold attention. Use surprise, contrast and detail to turn facts and ideas into messages people remember.
Useful for: presentations, pitches, case studies, turn data or information into compelling stories people remember.
"A refreshingly different approach to a skill we all think we know!"
Coralie Magonet
Head of Member Experiences | Events Curation & Management
"I now actually look forward to speaking, pitching and presenting."
Lisa Wrake - Creative Director | Brand, Content & Entertainment Experiences
"If you're looking for a speaker who can make people learn and laugh at the same time, I can highly recommend Kym."
Jenny Björklöf
Community Leader, Freelancers in Belgium
""Kym is both very encouraging in her approach and very honest in her feedback. She gave me so much clarity. I recommend!"."
Elizabeth Van Den Bergh
Speaker Coach & Keynote Speaker
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Spark Fresh Thinking
Unlock ideas, challenge assumptions, and encourage creative problem-solving.
Humour thrives on looking at familiar things from unexpected angles. Through playful, practical exercises, participants loosen habitual thinking patterns, challenge assumptions, and explore new ways of approaching problems.
Useful for: creative teams, brainstorming, innovation, problem-solving and teams that feel stuck in familiar ways of thinking.
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Own the Room
Presence isn't about being the loudest person in the room. It's about making people want to listen when you speak.
Using techniques from stand-up, performance and communication coaching, learn to use your voice, body language and presence to hold attention, handle nerves, read the room and respond confidently in the moment - while still being yourself.
Useful for: presentations, panels, pitches, meetings, public speaking and anyone who wants to feel more confident in front of other people.
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Beyond the Slides
Let your slides support your ideas, not deliver them for you. Learn to use slides more selectively, speak more naturally, and keep your audience focused on you and your message.
Useful for: Professionals, leaders and creative teams who rely too heavily on slides and want to deliver more confident, engaging, and memorable presentations.
In addtion....
Workshops can also be designed around a specific challenge, audience or team. Themes include:
From Presenting to Performing
How Not to Be Boring When You Present (quite a popular one!)
From Presenting to Performing
Give Them a Reason to Listen
Think Like a Comedian, Present Like a Pro
For teams
Bespoke team sessions can bring different Humour Intelligence themes together, depending on what your team needs most. Such as:
The Great Team Reset
Pitch Perfect
Think Differently Together
Read the Room
Better Conversations
Seriously Creative