Aims of Stand-up Comedy Session:

This session draws on techniques from stand-up comedy teaching to encourage participants to develop stories based on their lives and experiences. The exercises encourage them to develop clear attitudes to the things they are saying which helps them to enhance their confidence and their communication skills.

Learning Outcomes

• To consider how drawing on our own lives and experiences can enable us to share new information about ourselves.
• To develop new ways of promoting ourselves and our identity
• To consider how laugher, comedy and responding to an audience develop our 4C skills.

Materials needed:

• Pen
• Paper