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.