Only humor
can save us
Develop your humor ón stage and in your daily life
For leaders, speakers, trainers and coaches
Welcome to the School
for Humor & Authenticity
The School for Humor & Authenticity helps you as a speaker, leader, trainer & coach to develop your humor and personality to make your audience more involved and engaged.
Here you will find playful skills as a leader, speaker, teacher or trainer to strengthen your impact on stage, your impact in front of groups and your impact in your daily life.
The School was founded by Malinca Verwiel and provides classroom training, online training and coaching.
In its first year of establishment, this school won the award for: 'Best New Training of 2020' with an average rating of 9.4.
After completing a training, you receive the digital badge: Certificated Humor Proof.
This badge can be placed on your online CV, your Linkedin profile, other social media or on your website.
With this badge you show that you take humor seriously and use it in your professional life as well as in your daily life. You use humor to break tension and strengthen connections, but also use humor, when necessary, to create tension and wake people up.
Testimonials
Super Grateful
Thanks to Malinca making jokes for me is much more approachable. Before this course I only made jokes with friends and people I knew, but now I also do it with total strangers. Besides that it was really a pleasure to do her exercises and I felt really comfortable with her guidance so I could also make jokes about the uncomfortable and the more vulnerable topics. I am super grateful for the outcome!
Until you break through
As a comic I am very interested in questions like: What is humor exactly? Why do people laugh? Which mechanism goes behind and under ‘comic stuff’. Malinca gives answers to these questions ánd other questions, so you recognise more easily the funny (read: painful) situations. Because humor and laughing - so we learn from Malinca - have everything to do with awkwardness, tension (and relaxation), shame, misunderstandings, unfulfilled desires and not redeemed expectations, and until you have this break through you suddenly see the humor all around you.
It was possible to turn my more serious and heaviness attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic
Malinca does an appeal to your inner child that is open and curious for new experiences. The exercises are challenging in a nice way. Her way of looking and thinking is inspiring. She honours everybody's authenticity with no exception and gives advice on command, so you get the best out of yourself. I didn’t think (but secretly hoped) that it was possible to turn my more serious and heaviness attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic but that is exactly what happened. My compliments for how she works are endless for me.
Incredible strong trainer
In terms of content an incredible strong trainer. She knows exactly where she is talking about and is able to address this and point this out. She has got a clear vision about stagework and stories which I like very much and inspires me.
Back to something about yourself you‘ll actually instinctively always knew
This is about a lót more then humor, this is a personality training. This is about creativity, resilience, self reflection, and about following your curiosity, but also back to something about yourself you actually instinctively always knew.
Balanced didactical talent
If you are looking for a way to develop your stage presence on a rooted way than you have to go to Malinca! She knows where she is talking about and is a balanced didactical talent. I got the learning experience and playfulness I was looking for! Surprisingly fresh!
Claudia de Breij - Comedian
She gets the best out of someone
The way Malinca gets the best out of someone, as well in directing groups or individuals, has helped me a great deal in overcoming my first fears and shame to go on the stage. Text-writing, performance and discovering your strengths and weaknesses are all essential for learning this profession.
Instructor
Comedy director & Speaker coach Malinca Verwiel
Malinca Verwiel has directed many comedians, including Claudia de Breij, as well as executives, economists, marketers, engineers and everyone in between. She once started at Loesje and graduated as a theater and comedy teacher, where she earned a Cum Laude for her thesis, "How do you make a comedy tragic and how do you make a tragedy comic?" She created and performed shows, energizers and workshops for organizations for 18 years with her own company Humor in Business.
She is a cabaret director and speaker coach for comedians, comedians, pitches, Ted talks, seminars and book launches. She studied High Impact Leadership at the University of Cambridge and she considers anyone who takes the stage as a leader.
Her school won the Best Educator 2020 award with an average rating of 9.4. Her first book, "Making Impact with Humor, or How to Make the audience Crazy," became immediately a bestseller. She has been trained as a comedian in the UK by Jill Edwards, Judy Carter, Jeremy Nicholas, Steve Kaplan and Keith Palmer (Comedy School Bristol/London).
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Testimonials
Incredible strong trainer
In terms of content an incredible strong trainer. She knows exactly where she is talking about and is able to address this and point this out. She has got a clear vision about stagework and stories which I like very much and inspires me.
Back to something about yourself you‘ll actually instinctively always knew
This is about a lót more then humor, this is a personality training. This is about creativity, resilience, self reflection, and about following your curiosity, but also back to something about yourself you actually instinctively always knew.
Balanced didactical talent
If you are looking for a way to develop your stage presence on a rooted way than you have to go to Malinca! She knows where she is talking about and is a balanced didactical talent. I got the learning experience and playfulness I was looking for! Surprisingly fresh!
Until you break through
As a comic I am very interested in questions like: What is humor exactly? Why do people laugh? Which mechanism goes behind and under ‘comic stuff’. Malinca gives answers to these questions ánd other questions, so you recognise more easily the funny (read: painful) situations. Because humor and laughing - so we learn from Malinca - have everything to do with awkwardness, tension (and relaxation), shame, misunderstandings, unfulfilled desires and not redeemed expectations, and until you have this break through you suddenly see the humor all around you.
It was possible to turn my more serious and heaviness attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic
Malinca does an appeal to your inner child that is open and curious for new experiences. The exercises are challenging in a nice way. Her way of looking and thinking is inspiring. She honours everybody's authenticity with no exception and gives advice on command, so you get the best out of yourself. I didn’t think (but secretly hoped) that it was possible to turn my more serious and heaviness attitude into something lighthearted and humoristic but that is exactly what happened. My compliments for how she works are endless for me.
Super Grateful
Thanks to Malinca making jokes for me is much more approachable. Before this course I only made jokes with friends and people I knew, but now I also do it with total strangers. Besides that it was really a pleasure to do her exercises and I felt really comfortable with her guidance so I could also make jokes about the uncomfortable and the more vulnerable topics. I am super grateful for the outcome!