Featurning Comedian David Granirer
Interactive Online Chat
June 25, 2008
3:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time
(4:30 p.m. Eastern, 2:30 p.m. Mountain, 1:30 p.m. Pacific)
Chat with Stand Up For Mental Health founder David Granirer!
David is a counsellor, stand-up comic, speaker, and author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success. David also gives laughter in the workplace presentations to hundreds of organizations across North America, helping them use humor to decrease stress, increase wellness, and cope with change. He also suffers from depression and is proud of the fact he has been labelled as "crazy," because he truly believes you gotta be nuts to do stand-up comedy!
In this interactive on-line chat you'll have a chance to talk to David about Stand Up For Mental Health and his work teaching comedy to people with mental illness and using it to fight public stigma. And you can find out about being part of his program and making your comedy debut at the DBSA conference in September!
Stand Up For Mental Health
Led by David Granirer, a counselor, stand-up comic, and author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success, Stand Up For Mental Health teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness. Their shows look at the lighter side of taking meds, seeing counselors, getting diagnosed and surviving the mental health system. Stand Up For Mental Health aims to reduce public stigma around mental illness and spread a message of hope and empowerment. People with mental illness are always being told what they can’t do. In this show, they get to prove what they CAN do!
Stand Up For Mental Health was featured in the VOICE Award winning documentary Cracking Up.
This event is held via the Internet and involved typing questions and comments to David Granirer in real-time through the use of a web browser. There is no audio or video for this event.
Submit any questions in advance to David.
A transcription will be available 2-3 days after the event.
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