- David Granirer
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David Granirer Medium Stand-up Nationality Canadian Genres Satire, Observational comedy David Granirer is a counsellor, stand-up comic, the author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst can lead to Happiness and Success, and the founder of Stand Up For Mental Health.[1] David lives with his wife and two kids in Vancouver, BC.
David lives with depression and is a committed advocate for destigmatization of mental illness. He speaks very openly about his experience with mental illness.[2] For his program, Stand Up For Mental Health, David teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of increasing their self esteem and allowing them to change their perception of their own mental health journeys.[3] At the end of the classes, the groups do graduation shows, where they help to reduce stigma, discrimination, and prejudice surrounding mental illness and encourage people to talk about it. Stand Up For Mental Health runs classes from coast to coast in Canada. David also teaches stand-up comedy classes at Langara College in Vancouver and does Fighting Stigma in the Workplace and Laughter in the Workplace presentations.[4][5]
David Granirer is a pioneer in the therapeutic use of humour and has had very positive responses from people involved in his programs and those who have seen the shows.[6]
Granirer's father and grandparents were Romanian Jews, and concentration camp survivors.[7]
References
- ^ http://www.standupformentalhealth.com
- ^ video: David Granirer's Take on Stigma at http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=_TUCjBWV7IA
- ^ Cuddington, A., (2009). Cracking Up, Mental illness and stand up comedy: a social representations approach to anti-stigma resistance. Retrieved from http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/documents/Cracking-Up-Mental-Illness-and-Stand-Up-Comedy-A-Social-Representations-Approach-to-Anti-Stigma-Resistance.pdf on May 17, 2010
- ^ David Granirer Mental Health Consulting, http://www.granirer.com/about_david.html
- ^ About David Granirer, http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/aboutdavid.shtml
- ^ What people say about David's work teaching stand up comedy to people with mental illness at http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/reviews.shtml
- ^ http://www.aish.com/j/f/48937097.html
External links
Categories:- People with bipolar disorder
- Canadian stand-up comedians
- Canadian disability rights activists
- Canadian people of Romanian descent
- People from Vancouver
- Living people
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