Finding Humour in the Hectic Holiday Season

Nov 30, 2023
12:00PM to 1:00PM

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Date(s) - 30/11/2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Laugh more, stress less

Is it the most wonderful (!) time of the year? It can be with these tactical strategies to lessen stress, find perspective, and thoroughly enjoy our well-deserved holiday. Join Nancy Watt, McMaster Continuing Education Instructor, humour-researcher, writer, and improviser, with Patti Lago, Program Manager, as they discuss how, by choosing to find holiday humour rather than holiday headaches, we impact our mental, physical, and social health. Positive psychology interventions and the currency of comedy go a long way to finding the good in the bombastic relative at the dinner table.

Join us on Thursday, November 30 from 12 – 1 p.m. ET and make this holiday season a little less stressful.

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Rated in the top five Leadership Workshops at Microsoft’s INPSIRE global conference, Communication Specialist for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and an international speaker, facilitator and improviser, Nancy Watt delivers creative and memorable instruction. Her ‘Pracademic’ approach applies evidence-based research with experiential learning using the tools and techniques of improvisational theatre. By harnessing humor we learn that the currency of comedy is a learning modality and this teaching tactic builds connection and community. Her speaking engagements and workshops have been delivered extensively throughout the tech, legal, engineering, and corporate sector. She’s delivered to academic departments at Harvard University, Princeton, MIT, Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Caltech, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and McMaster University. Her work is referenced in academic papers for pedagogical experiential learning and a psychology journal outlining a pilot experiment lowering social anxiety disorder amongst at-risk youth in Hamilton, Ontario.

She’s from Second City’s Improv Conservatory and Sketch Writing Programs in Toronto and Chicago. She has a B.A. in Psychology/Sociology from McMaster University, a Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology, an Applied Improv Practitioner, and a graduate of Cornell’s Executive Program in Diversity & Inclusion. In addition to EQi 2.0, she was in the first graduating cohort of AQ, Adaptability Quotient from AQai. Nancy delivers her proprietary program, H.A.P.P.I.E., How to Apply Positive Psychology Improv Exercises.