Short trainings

Bring us to your organization or school for a couple of days or weeks. We'll help you and your folks produce an effective trickstery project. We'll also teach lessons and tools — so in the future you can do it alone!

We teach not only our own ways of doing things, but those of tricksters we've known since we started. Each workshop includes: 

  • Working with an activist partner already deeply engaged with the issue at hand
  • Presentation of "laughtivism": developing effective, mediagenic activist projects
  • Brainstorming effective and appropriate project ideas, evaluating the options, and choosing a good one to go with
  • Fleshing out chosen project(s) and developing a complete action plan
  • Developing a complete action plan with timelines, deadlines, and chains of responsibility
  • Bicycle, kayak, or paragliding tours of local areas — or other fun activities of some relevance

Trainings are provided as needed, with the Yes Men and external trainers, on: 

  • Public relations (press releases, speaking with the media, etc.)
  • Improv acting
  • Writing
  • Making catchy video pieces, including Video News Releases (VNRs) and viral videos
  • Planning a big project from beginning to end

Each workshop helps new tricksters to:

  • Use public spectacle to affect the public debate
  • Use humor to open minds, share ideas, and change the world
  • Figure out what's effective, and why
  • Figure out how change happens, and how we can fit into that change

After the workshop, we remain available to answer questions, offer advice, and generally help guide any projects that tricksters have opted to continue.

These projects were developed in this way, through intensive trainings with activist orgs and (usually) students.

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