We provide opportunities for improvisational comedy as a therapeutic intervention. We specialize in working with people who are experiencing trauma, illness, displacement, and disempowerment.
Our board of directors and team members is comprised of many individuals of all professions and backgrounds who care deeply about transforming the way we think about, treat, and understand trauma.
Wanna partner with us and bring Humor for Hope to your organization, hospital, school, or community? Wanna become a laugh ambassador? We’d love to have you!
Humor for Hope uses the tenets of improvisational comedy to help heal trauma.
Tenet 1: Safety
Tenet 2: Trust
Tenet 3: Connection
Tenet 4: Being in the present moment
Tenet 5: Active Listening
Tenet 6: YES AND + Ensemble Support
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HALL PASS is our free mental health based arts program that uses improvisational comedy as a form of therapy for populations experiencing trauma. We offer this program in underserved and underfunded schools that have inadequate arts and mental health resources for students with high levels of trauma.
Our program runs twice a week for 10 weeks in Chicago Public Schools (20 total sessions) and culminates with students performing their own improv comedy showcase.
$1200 covers the cost of 1 entire semester of Hall Pass for a student in need.
At the end of the program students will have learned the basics and foundations of improv and comedy as well as how to regulate and begin healing their central nervous systems, connect safety to themselves and others, express emotions in a healthy way and develop presence and mindfulness as positive coping techniques amongst other things.