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Philip Patston

PHILIP PATSTON - unique to the core

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“Thank you for your awesome facilitation! It was such a pleasure to work with you… 97% of attendees rated your facilitation as excellent or very good, 88% were very inspired.” — Marianne Taylor, Arts Access Aotearoa (June 2010)

Services offered

  • Social innovation – Philip is a social and creative entrepreneur and will augment your team with fresh ideas and innovative thinking.
  • Speaking and facilitation – Philip’s unique and engaging story makes him an outstanding and entertaining speaker – with insights about experience and diversity that are both profound and funny. He inspires, engages, moves and gently challenges.
  • Entertainment – Philip is most well-known for his live and broadcast comedy. He now offers a unique style of cabaret performance combining comedy with music and spoken word.
  • Coaching, supervision and training – Philip has over twenty years’ experience as a qualified counsellor, social worker and facilitator. He has great empathy and insight into personal and professional development with an emphasis on constructive change.

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“Humour is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.” — Anonymous

Philip Patston is a social and creative commentator and entrepreneur, with fifteen years’ experience as an award-winning, professional comedian. He is the founder and Director of Diversity New Zealand and Diversityworks Trust. He’s also the creator of WISE SPECIES – a practical tool for personal and social change. Philip lives in Auckland, New Zealand but his work – an eclectic mix of entrepreneurial leadership, consulting and performing – sees him travel regularly around the country and has taken him to Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and Belgium. He holds a Diploma in Applied Social Studies and a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW) from Auckland College of Education 1991 (now the University of Auckland).