We help people to communicate
important environmental and social issues
in ways that are loving, impactful, and funny.
Why take our climate comedy course?
What makes this different?
This lady knows stuff
Belina uniquely combines exquisite facilitation skills, global environmental and social project experience, and a profound understanding of how to help nervous people to shine while being generous, connected, and loving.
Love is our sponsoring energy
When we face and communicate climate issues with fear and anger, we generate more of the same. This course is a unique space to see what happens when we use a loving form of humour to illuminate and engage others in the issues we care about.
This course has a great track record
This course has run over 50 times online and across 11 countries. It was part of National Science Week in Australia twice. Alumni include climate scientists, humanitarian workers, sustainable transport professors, and more.
Success stories
Public course participants include climate scientists, humanitarian workers, sustainable transport professors, and many more. All of them want to make the world better.
Here's what some of them say:
Peter, the NASA climate scientist says...
"I need to reach people about the deadly serious impacts of climate change. But I don't want to drive them away with gloom and doom. Belina and my wonderfully supportive classmates helped me discover the hilarity in my work and connect with the audience about something that really matters, to me and the world."
Pablo, the humanitarian worker says...
"How do we communicate changing climate risks in a way that is both serious and fun? The 'Sustainable Stand Up' course taught me to engender laughter and inspire action through a potent, clever, generous lens: (1) love humanity, and (2) find the system funny. Thank you dearest Belina."
Gillian, the professor of sustainable transport says...
"Turning my hand (or mouth!) to comedy as a new way of communicating the transport and climate change agenda has been extremely rewarding in several different ways. I have been acutely aware for some time that we need to find different ways of engaging people in order to convince them that we are all in this together. I now realise that comedy is a brilliant way of acknowledging common challenges and contradictions in a relatable way that is much more likely to get people to own their own responsibility as compared to the more standard ‘finger pointing’ ways of providing information. Sustainable Stand Up is all about a compassionate approach where the comedian exposes an issue that they are themselves grappling with and teasing out the individual and system-wide components that make things so hard. Although there will always be a time and a place for the comedic approach, the experience has given me fresh hope that we can make faster progress so long as we really get inside the hearts and minds of the people we are trying to influence and there is no better way than to find the issues where people can laugh..."
Here are some public courses we have coming up.
For in-company or public courses in your city,
contact us (Maffick.com is where this project comes from).
Warning: This course may include belly laughing, transformative insights, and meeting delightful, like-minded people.
Sustainable Stand Up
online course
(Time zone picked for North America morning/lunch time and Europe early afternoon)
Illuminate important ideas with a loving form of humour
16 Sept to 28 Oct 2024
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath): Monday 16 September, 5pm to 6.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average): Monday 23 September, 5pm to 6.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy): Monday 30 September, 5pm to 6.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies): Monday 7 October, 5pm to 6.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). We'll find a time that works for us between 9-11 October.
Class 5 (Finalising the content): Monday 14 October 5pm to 6.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing): Monday 21 October, 5pm to 7pm Berlin, Germany time.* (Note - 2 hours).
The Show (a live, online public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, on Zoom): Saturday 26 October, 5pm to 6:15pm Berlin, Germany time.
(Note: We meet in the Zoom room 40 minutes before the show starts.)
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps): Monday 28 October, 5pm to 6pm Berlin, Germany time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
COURSE FEE
Individuals: 249 euros plus 19% VAT (296.31 euros) .
Corporate: 349 euros plus 19% VAT. (415.31 euros)
(If you qualify for 0% VAT - e.g. you have a valid EU VAT number which is outside of Germany, email me and I'll invoice you for the fee with 0% VAT)
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because this course is a labour of love, skill, and broad knowledge of climate issues (I have run it now over 50 times across 11 countries) and it supports profound and positive transformation in the climate space. Having a few individuals attend at higher rates allows me to support more beautiful individuals and groups who cannot afford those rates. And at the moment, we need everyone 'in the pool' to help create positive change.
To book, scroll down or click here.
Sustainable Stand Up
online & in-person hybrid course
(In-person part in Melbourne, Australia)
Australia - second time this year!
28 Oct to 2 Dec 2024
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath): Monday 28 Oct, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average): Monday 4 Nov, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy): Monday 11 Nov, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies): Monday 18 Nov, 7.30-9.30pm Melbourne time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). We'll find a time that works for us between 20-22 Nov.
Class 5 (Finalising the content): Monday, 25 Nov 7.30-9.30pm* (Note - 2 hours) Melbourne time.
Live, in-person, in Melbourne
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing): Thursday 28 November, 4:30pm-7:30pm Melbourne time.
The Show (a live, public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, in a theatre): Saturday 30 Nov. Time to be confirmed - we think it will be 5.15pm Melbourne time show start.
(We meet at the venue 60 minutes before the show starts.)
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps): 2 Dec, 7.30-8.30pm Melbourne time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
COURSE FEE
Special individual early bird rate, ends 30 April.
Individuals: 299 euros plus 19% VAT (355,81 euros) .
Corporate: 399 euros plus 0% VAT.
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because this course is a labour of love, skill, and broad knowledge of climate issues (I have run it now over 50 times across 11 countries) and it supports profound and positive transformation in the climate space. Having a few individuals attend at higher rates allows me to support more beautiful individuals and groups who cannot afford those rates. And at the moment, we need everyone 'in the pool' to help create positive change.
(Course fee does not include travel, accommodation, food, etc.)
Note: This course is for people based in and around Melbourne. If you are joining from outside Melbourne, please do not book any travel or accommodation until you get a confirmation from us to do so.
Course limited to 7 awesome participants. Will you be one of them? To book your place, click here. If you would like to pay in two installments, email us.
To get on the waiting list for the next course, email us.
Book your place now
Check out our courses above.
Sustainable Stand Up Online Course 16 Sept - 28 Oct 2024
296,31 € - 349,19 €Delightful and online. Illuminate important ideas you care about with a loving form of humour. New format with more people, more group work, and more real world applications.
And still we have a public online comedy show with all of our most loving friends.
See above for details.
Fee is 249 euros plus 19% VAT for individuals and 349 euros plus 19% VAT for organisations. If your organisation qualifies for zero percent VAT (e.g. you have a company outside of the EU, or within the EU but outside of Germany paying for the course) don't book here. Email us and once you confirm your VAT status and relevant address, we'll issue you an invoice including 0% VAT for a place on this course.SelectQuantity
28 October to 2 December Sustainable Stand Up hybrid online & Melbourne Course
355,81 € - 399,00 €The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath): Monday 28 Oct, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average): Monday 4 Nov, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy): Monday 11 Nov, 7.30-9pm Melbourne time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies): Monday 18 Nov, 7.30-9.30pm Melbourne time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). We'll find a time that works for us between 20-22 Nov.
Class 5 (Finalising the content): Monday, 25 Nov 7.30-9.30pm* (Note - 2 hours) Melbourne time.
Live, in-person, in Melbourne
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing): Thursday 28 November, 4:30pm-7:30pm Melbourne time.
The Show (a live, public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, in a theatre): Satursday 30 Nov. Time to be confirmed - we think it will be 5.15pm Melbourne time show start.
(We meet at the venue 60 minutes before the show starts.)
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps): 2 Dec, 7.30-8.30pm Melbourne time.SelectQuantity
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