Laughter programs
We’ve all heard the saying that ‘laughter is the best medicine’. Laughter for wellbeing is a body-mind practice – a holistic humour and non-humour-based skillset and practice that doesn’t leave feeling upbeat or enlivened to chance.
Choose between my 3 popular programs
How does Laughter Contribute to wellbeing?
Laughter for wellbeing works on the premise that motion creates emotion. Intentional laughter is no exception. Our body doesn’t need to consult with our mind to feel and stimulate our body’s cocktail of wellbeing hormones. That’s the laughter effect.
Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga combines deep slow diaphragmatic breathing, playful movement, gentle stretches with intentional laughter exercise. Laughter Yoga is an enlivening and inclusive activity suited to all abilities and stages of life, from schools to healthcare settings to the wider community and business world.
It doesn’t rely on humour or jokes to stimulate laughter making it the perfect choice for when life becomes stressful, and laughter is furthermost from mind.
Popular sessions to choose from:
A great way to turbocharge fun and positive energy. Ideal for a conference warm up, wellbeing day or team meeting.
10-20 minutes
Combining an overview of the science of laughter with an experiential Laughter Yoga session.
30 – 60 minutes
From the latest evidence-based research to simple hacks to switch on smiling and laughter, this in-depth session dives into this healthy high. Build your own session, choosing from Laughter Yoga, the neuroscience of smiling and laughter, laughter and smiling meditations and other intentional laughter practices.
2 hours +
Laughter for Wellness
- Boosts the immune system
- Enhances oxygen exchange in brain and body
- Reduces anxiety and stress
- Increases energy levels
- Improves circulation
- Regulates blood pressure
- Develops social connections
- Increases motivation
- Cultivates creativity
- Promotes subjective wellbeing (aka happiness).
Laughter for Wellness programs expand on the fundamentals of Laughter Yoga, providing a model to practise positive uplifting behaviours and create a laughter mindset.
The more you practise these positive, uplifting behaviours, the more this feeling begins to flow into your daily life. Workshops incorporate varied techniques that amplify positivity and joy in body, mind and spirit.
sessions include:
- The neuroscience of smiling and laughter
- Reframing stressful situations with levity
- Laughter Yoga and other intentional laughter exercises
- Smiling practices
- Joy-promoting breathwork
- Positive affirmations and intentions to turbocharge joy
Finding Humour
- Increase creativity, innovation and performance
- Make leaders more relatable
- Increase job satisfaction and reduce employee turnover
- Develop consumer/client relationships
- Enhance team connectedness
- Improve a company’s bottom-line
- Positively impact our most important resource – the people we live and work with!
Research has shown that accessing humour is a powerful way to reduce stress and build positive emotion. The more we draw on this resource, the more we reduce the harmful impact of stress hormones, such as cortisol. Using humour appropriately and sensitively brings people together, positively impacting morale, whether in your household or at work.
When people share a laugh, a bridge of connection is built, and it also maximises creativity and learning. Drawing on this resource promotes levity and psychological resilience and there are many ways we can develop this sense.
There are many ways to apply humour in your own life and my workshops show you how.
included in the program:
- The science and neuroscience of humour
- Different humour styles
- How to access humour and/or laughter after a stressful event
- The tricks to keeping humour appropriate
- Evidence-based hacks to promote levity
- Harnessing the power of humour in your personal life or in the workplace
- Developing a personalised humour action plan
My Laughter Keynotes
I offer a range of keynote speeches for your event, organisation or school. I happily customise the duration of the keynote to suit your needs.
The science of laughter
15 minutes +
Get the lowdown on this healthy high with an overview of the health benefits of laughter and the latest evidence-based research from the field.
Laughing at Adversity
15 MINUTES +
How to activate a positive mindset to enhance resilience, healing and wellbeing during life’s prickly moments.
Laughter for Wellbeing
15 MINUTES +
All you need to know about this body-mind practice, and how applying it will amplify the positive impact in your life.
The Neuroscience of Smiling
15 MINUTES +
How to turbocharge your inner and outer smile and how doing so will transform your life.