Survival of the Funniest

Welcome Video

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3 Chords from the Truth – episode 7 featuring Catherine

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Clips from various shows featuring Catherine

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Green Eggs and LAM

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Engaging Themed Events

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Catherine has organized or appeared at everything from a Hawaiian luau to a Fiesta. She works at creating an atmosphere in which participants can let go of any inhibitions.

Your boardroom can be transformed into a jungle, or a rain forest. Your survival expedition can even include a wall climb. Do you want a space theme? Let’s Do Launch! Catherine has her flight suit ready to go. Get your organization to let go of “gravity”. BYOT (Bring Your Own Tang).

She has appeared as a Full Mountie, a horse (seen here with her partner-in-crime Rear Admiral Perry; horsing around), a clown, a banana, and a safari leader (complete with Survival Kit). Give her a microphone and she’s off!

Laughter Loves Company

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Has Catherine Lawrence ever got a recipe for you! It’s called Rubber Chicken Soup and the main ingredient is laughter. Survival of the Funniest is the name of her company, and when it comes to Catherine’s work and life, she sees humor as a critical survival skill. It has positive effects on your health, both at home and in your working environment.

A corporate lawyer by trade, Catherine now works at helping you to harness the Power of Laughter to impact your energy and enthusiasm for your work and life. Catherine will customize a keynote speech or create an event to meet your business needs.

She is a resource that will assist your organization to survive and thrive by demonstrating that humor is a business, and workplace skill. It can:

In addition to coping handily with the corporate jungle, Catherine’s talents aren’t restricted just to business functions. She has planned and executed golf tournaments, charity auctions, and other themed events, and is, as well, a trained auctioneer. She has been described as “hilarious, talented, and…a great addition to any stand-up line-up.”

Humour as a Survival Skill

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The American Heritage Dictionary defines survival as “Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive …”(see also Gloria Gaynor “I will survive”, “Destiny’s Child “Survivor”, and the official sound track of CBS’s TV series “Survivor”.)
The Random House Dictionary defines a survival kit as a “package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.” These may include, but are not limited to corporate boardrooms, company meetings, family gatherings or reunions, and other difficult situations. It’s a jungle out there!
An additional definition is to “get along or remain healthy, happy, and unaffected in spite of some occurrence.” As everything that happens can be considered “an occurrence” the real meaning of this definition is to keep your cool at all times.

Concept of survival in Darwin
Darwin’s Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859. Darwin was doing two things:

Determining whether evolution has occurred (and he shows evidence which supports the reality of evolution) and
Explaining how evolution occurred.

His revolutionary work examines the nature of life, the diversity of living things, and their marvelous adaptations.
Survival of the Funniest is based on the fact that humor is a natural instinct and in our lives today, a sense of humor is necessary to survive. In applying evolutionary theory to humor, and humor in life is like having Darwin meet the Dalai Lama. Laughter is essential to inner tranquility. Darwin concluded that generations of species pass on to their offspring characteristics that enable the species to survive. I fundamentally believe we can imprint a sense of humor on our species.

Laurence A. Patillo, Thomas G. Heintzman, Q.C., and Garth Manning, Q.C. for Canadian Bar Association – Ontario

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On behalf of the Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund, we extend our sincerest thanks to you for performing at our fund raiser…Your humour and talents set the perfect tone for the evening.…and helped us to finance some innovative and timely research projects.

John P. Rousseau for McKellar Group

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Thank you very much for appearing at our company.…Your comedy was delightful. I still chuckle at some of your lines.…I will be recommending you to any of my business associates who want to arrange a show with pizzazz.

Robert A.L. Shour for The Ontario Bar Association

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:51:49 +0000

Your personal experience shone through in your presentation “The Law of Laughter” to the Year End Meeting of the Civil Litigation and Insurance Sections of the Ontario Bar Association. Thank you for reinforcing the idea that humour and the law are not a contradiction in terms.