David Granirer

Founder, Stand Up for Mental Health

Please bring a blank an 8.5×11 sheet of paper and a pen with you to his talk.

David Granirer is a counselor, stand-up comic, speaker, and author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success. He has taught stand-up comedy to recovering addicts and cancer patients, and is the founder of Stand Up For Mental Health, a program teaching standup comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building confidence and fighting public stigma. His work is featured by media throughout the world and in the Voice Award-winning CBC Passionate Eye documentary, Cracking Up. David also gives ‘Laughter in the Workplace Presentations’ to hundreds of organizations across North America to help them use humor to decrease stress, increase wellness, and cope with change.

David is the recipient of a Life Unlimited Award from the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), as well as the Champion of Mental Health Award, a national award recognizing individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the mental health agenda in Canada.