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    Humour

    to engage people

    Get your message across better with Sustainable Stand-Up.

    Work with your inner truth-teller, comedian, and artist. Learn how to use a nice form of humour to talk about things that matter, in human, engaging, and powerful ways.

    We offer:

    Public courses

    In-company courses

    Individual coaching

    Check out my other site Sustainable Stand Up.

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    Co-creation

    through improv

    Work together smarter and more joyfully with Applied Improvisation.

    Develop skills and mindsets which will help you and your colleagues to co-create solutions to the increasingly complex and dynamic issues we all face.

    We offer:

    In-company workshops

    Public workshops

    Here

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    Learning

    from nature

    Become inherently sustainable with

    Thrivable World.

     

    Align your organisation with the principles that help nature and people to thrive.

    Create meaningful projects which inspire colleagues, customers, and the planet.

     

    We offer:

    Consulting

    In-company workshops

    Group coaching

    Check out my other site Giggling with Earth

     

  • Using improv to save the world (and me)
    The book

    Want to know if a book launch is happening near you? Then give us your details below. Want to buy the ebook version of the book? Then click 'Buy the book'.

  • As I wrote in my book, "Improv is a secret love technology."

    Let's practice.

    Experience

    I taught my first applied improv course back in 2007. I was on the board of the Applied Improvisation Network for six years, and co-chaired many of their international conferences.

    And I have been building improvisation capacity with people in public courses and in-company courses around the world.

    My clients include the top science accelerator lab Frontier Development Lab by Trillium, and the top regenerative agriculture organisation in the humid tropics Inga Foundation. I have also worked with the Red Cross Climate Centre, NASA and ESA climate scientists, social entreprenuers and climate journalists in Bhutan, leaders in the German sustainable development organisation giz, managers in Cap Gemini, and many others.

    Why improv?

    Because:

    - It is a powerful practice for helping us to be connected, generous, and creative, even when we are afraid.

    - It is a powerful co-creation practice.

    - It is crucial for innovation. It helps us to suspend our inner critic and outer critic to prototype new ideas, and new ways with engaging with emergent circumstances.

    - It is 'the gym' for navigating complexity.

    - It helps us to be present with what is, without getting lost in stories of the future or the past.

    - It helps us to experiment with where different responses could take us individually and as a group.

    - It's fun and meaningful. It makes doing normally scary stuff unexpectedly delightful.

    Why now?

    Because many of our major systems are in flux. We cannot rely entirely on our lived experience. We need a way to go back to basics and delight in our common humanity. It is the skill to do that well which will help us through these extraordinary times.

    Offers

    This year I will be brining back many of the workshops that people have found inspirational, and all with twists to honour these unique times.

    The first is an online, 90-minute workshop workshop, "Using improv to save the world (and us)". Friday, 10 April. 9am London, 10am Berlin, 4pm Singapore, 6pm Melbourne. Prices are 45 euros/65 euros/150 euros based on what you would like to pay. Book below.

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  • Testimonials

    Some lovely feedback we got from our clients.

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    Darshita Gillies

    Entrepreneur and Global System Integrator, on our Sustainable Stand Up

    “The concept is beautiful ... the ability to learn the art to articulate very

    tricky, boring, serious stuff in a fun way is definitely a skill to have ...

    I love the approach - it is very inviting.”

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    Caron Bradshaw

    Chief Executive at Charity Finance Group (CFG), on our Applied Improvisation

    “So many different trainers and experts that I’ve seen over the years will go:

    “Here is my programme”. And whatever you talk to them about they will be coming back to their default, this is my programme, this is how I’m doing it. But what Belina does is a much more of a listening approach that genuinely tries to understand what the problem is that you are seeking to resolve and then co-creates with you a resolution for it and not imposes just a different way of saying “This is my solution.” ..”

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    Julian Giacomelli

    President of RISE Kombucha Inc., on our Thrivable World

    “We worked with Belina on several internal thrivability-focussed meetings and workshops, as well as on an eco-system event. In the workshops, we helped give voice to everyone in the company on how we might better align ourselves more fully with nature, and with a way of working, that feels alive, meaningful and inspiring. In our ecosystem event, we had our whole company, supporters, customers, suppliers, artists, and musicians come together to celebrate and embody how our company works and dream with us what comes next. The insights gained from these meetings, workshops, and the event were invaluable."

  • Who is Belina Raffy?

    The empress and director of Maffick Ltd, Applied Improvisation and Thrivability

    thought-leader, Thrivable World Quest co-founder and global captain.

     

    She used to work for a big bank in London and New York and saw a bunch

    of people burning out. She thought 'there's got to be a better way

    than this.' and did an MBA at Cranfield School of Management to

    relax and regroup.

     

    She started studying and applying improvisation skills to work.

    Skills which help us to navigate uncertainty, co-create deeply.

     

    Her work is increasingly exploring how we might totally transform

    our organisations so that we (and the organisations we are in)

    serve life beautifully. Belina believes improvisation is vital for

    what the world is facing now - and it is her passion to spread

    these mindsets, practices and skills as much as possible, as

    well as to support others who do this with breathtaking ability.

     

    And oh, she is writing this book called

    Using Improv to Save the World (and me) ...

     

    Photo by Mikael Colville-Andersen

  • The Blog

    Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.

    Giggling with the SDGs: Goal 6
    September 15, 2020 · SDG2030,Humour
    When I spoke with Izzy from the environmental charity Earthwatch Europe about her experience of supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 on clean water and sanitation, an image came to mind: the tower of Babel. In an attempt to come together and build a bridge to heaven, we seem...

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  • Let's start a conversation

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