Explosive Minds

Explosive Minds are a dynamic combination of interactive improvised comedy, entertainment and training - with a difference! As Australia's foremost experts at engaging the nervous system of any audience, their corporate performances are tailored to fit your event every time.

The Explosive Minds show involves a crack team of improvisers, able to use your audience's suggestions to create hilarious scenes on the spot. No scripts, no safety net, just fly by the seat of your pants fun! Every performance then becomes totally unique, as the team create each comedy scene based on characters and situations taken from your event.

Improvisation by its nature also requires highly developed skills in communication and teamwork. By focusing on these key areas, Explosive Minds Improvisation Workshops use the power of performance to demonstrate skills such as listening and not 'blocking' the ideas of others. Proving that one person alone will never achieve as highly as a team of committed individuals, supporting each other towards a common goal.

To enable the right environment, all workshops and performances begin by creating a safe and open space, so delegates can feel comfortable stepping outside of their comfort zones and trusting their team. Each workshop can also culminate with a performance by the delegates themselves! A hilarious finale that leaves everyone in stitches while cementing all the skills they have learnt, and showing all the newly developed team relationships.

The Explosive Minds cast contains years of television, radio and international teaching and tournament experience. So you can be guaranteed a professional and stylish performance that's been created specifically to meet your objectives. Whether it's a night of hard and fast laughs, a focused message, a show... or a combination of all three!

PRESENTATION TOPICS

Interactive Show
The 45 minute Interactive Show is the perfect way to leave your audience buzzing with excitement and laughter, be it at the start of a conference, after dinner at the end of a long day, or wrapping up a successful event with a bang! The Explosive Minds team will work with your audience to create a hilarious show unique to your event.

E=MC2
While one Explosive Minds MC will bring magic and comedy to any event, add another performer and you have a high energy, hilarious comic duo! E=MC2 includes the consistency of two MCs, with improvisation highlights as energisers throughout the event. All Explosive Minds MCs are skilled at keeping your event rolling at the pace you need, each with solid backgrounds in stand up comedy, TV, radio and corporate entertainment.

Explosive Minds The Musical!
With all the energy and humour you would expect from Explosive Minds, the musical team use suggestions from your audience to create songs from the variety of genres... all to live music, all made up on the spot! Imagine a serenade to the HR Director, or a Broadway musical about your latest product, or even a rap 'wrap-up' of the past year? As no improvised show is ever the same, the team can also tailor their performances to suit your event theme. An ideal entertainment solution for any group that has seen and loved improvisation comedy shows and wants more!

Laughter Academy
There is no better way to anchor learning than laughter. Explosive Minds use the power of the nervous system to engage delegates in learning the Language of Improvisation. These skills include the power of 'Yes and..', not blocking your teams ideas and also really owning your role in every scenario. The foundation of teamwork is listening and learning to appreciate the thoughts, styles and ideas of others. During these workshops the team highlight this message and many others by asking delegates to work through various comedic scenarios, proving that it's our own reactions to situations that prevent us from reaching the outcomes we seek. The Laughter Academy can be run as either a stand alone session, or up to a year long program of workshops building on the skills and climaxing in an amazing Finale!

Thank Goodness You Came!
A corporate take-off of the popular television show "Thank God You're Here". This program consists of the Explosive Minds team running a high-energy workshop during the day, covering the various skills of improvisation. The evening then kicks off with a finale performance in true TGYH style, with the Explosive Minds team performing pre-prepared comedy sketches to fit your event theme, then inviting delegates to use their new found skills as the celebrity guests! The program finally finishes a week later, with each workshop participant receiving a video link to their performance to show friends and family how 'officially hilarious' they

Client Ovations: Well it was just what the doctor ordered! After a couple of days of Conferencing the mid afternoon Explosive Minds session was spot on. Grant, Beefer and Tanya managed to bring everyone together like never before. Rather than a presentation from the podium, Explosive Minds got everyone gladly involved, doing things they never would have previously dreamed of, while learning a few things about themselves and their colleagues. Inhibitions soon melted away, and the witty and tasteful humour meant that everyone had a great time, which is always a risk with any form of comedy in a mixed audience. Would I engage Explosive Minds again? Absolutely. Would I recommend them to someone who wants to put some fun into virtually any gathering? Of course.

Arthur Ellis Pty Ltd

Explosive Minds! makes communication come alive as they take you on a fun-filled, unpredictable journey into the unknown. Be prepared to laugh until you cry as boundaries are stretched and you are involved in taking communication to a whole new level.,A resounding success, the Explosive Minds! session cemented the success of our whole program!

Group Training Australia

Explosive Minds were the perfect entertainment act, no matter what the theme. Their fresh approach and broad sense of humour was perfect for my large, multicultural group of store managers. From hire to farewell, I couldn't be more happy then with the progress and professionalism of the group.

DSE (Holding) Pty Ltd

Explosive Minds! are true professionals able to capture an audience quickly and set the tone of the night on a high. Their quick wit and fast pace is a real audience pleaser. Explosive Minds! played a critical role in ensuring the evening was a huge success - nothing was too difficult and they worked seamlessly into our requirements for the evening!

Roche Pharmaceuticals

Excellent! The best session I have attended at a conference!

St George Bank

I was apprehensive about using Explosive Minds - humour is a very cultural thing. Having visited their website I knew their brand of humour worked in Australia but would it work in Singapore? With a culturally diverse audience I was mentally half-prepared for the gamble to backfire. Explosive Minds showed me that the right kind of humour can be a very universal thing. In a magical evening that is still talked about, the team gave us a very special gift. We learnt about ourselves, about each other and about how to work better together. At a time when we were all low on energy from too many late nights and feeling the pressure of business targets, an evening with Explosive Minds was just what the doctor ordered! I would happily recommend this team of very intelligent, very talented people to any organisation that wants to get better or simply have a laugh!

BW Shipping Singapore

On behalf of the Customer Service Institute of Australia, we wish to thank you for generously supplying Explosive Minds for our 2007 Australian Service Excellence Awards ceremony.As you would know, it really does take a special team of people to coordinate the timing, professionalism and smooth running of such a large important event, ensuring a memorable experience is created for our guests and award winners on the evening. Initially, when the suggestion to have an entertainment group was put forward, I must admit, I hesitated simply because of the tight running order we had for our awards presentation. I then, watched the demonstration video and was convinced that we must include Explosive Minds in our special evening.We are particularly grateful for your dedication and efficiency in ensuring we had their bio and AV requirements well in time for the awards. We would also like to compliment Explosive Minds for their professionalism and entertainment value, right down to the finer details of arriving on time for their sound checks and preparation. The feedback we have received both on the evening and afterwards from our guests and award winners has been tremendous. Explosive Minds were certainly well received by the large corporations and all we had attending our event. From CSIA's perspective, it was a highlight for us on the night to see many of our clients having so much fun on stage in the interactive components of their performance.Without a doubt, this witty and devilishly clever group of performers have a wonderful future ahead of them. We look forward to working with you again in the future.

Customer Service Institute of Australia

Take a tough crowd of 110 people and try to keep them both entertained and in order for 3 whole days? Sounds like a job for Explosive Minds! MCing our annual conference is a challenging job, Explosive Minds added a whole new level. They kept people organised and in order, they challenged and made laughter. They were a true delight to work with and ultimately flexible. Explosive Minds are true professionals in this rare art. I simply cannot recommend them highly enough.

Ashe Morgan Winthrop

Absolutely the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. Phenomenal, Brilliant! I still have sore cheeks from laughing 2 days after the event.

Infocomp

I wanted to thank all the EM team for their efforts and enthusiasm over the course of the years workshops and the finale night. Everyone who attended had heaps of fun and I really feel that the workshops have helped us to bring to life our values in an energetic, creative and fun-filled way. The EM team clearly understood the meaning of these values and used their improvisation techniques effectively weave them into the culture we are working to develop.

Swiss Reinsurance Company

I'd like to thank you and the team for your work at our International Sales Conference in Singapore. You and your teams involvement in our program allowed us to take a new approach to running these meetings. The feedback has been sensational. Not only were the team entertained throughout the session but the content was also supported by your performances.

Stryker Australia

Hysterical - I was crying with laughter!

Intimo