Laughter Network Events
London
Hampstead Heath Laughter Yoga
Date: Every first Sunday of each month throughout the year; February 5, March 4, April 1 etc.
Time: 11am
Venue: Near the Bandstand in Parliament Hill Fields, on Hampstead Heath, London NW5 1QR
(nearest heath access by William Ellis School on Highgate road, go past the tennis courts, turn left at the drinking fountain, and the bandstand is just past the cafe, on your right)
Cost: Free or donation to charity
We laugh for ourselves and world peace in this beautiful spot.
"When we laugh we change, when we change, the world changes." Dr M Kataria
Just turn up or call Mary 0207 609 6145 or text 07969 408 661 or email mary.adshead@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Please wrap up warm, and bring a mat if you'd like to lie down for the relaxation at the end.
Islington Laughter Classes
Date: Sunday February 19, March 18, April 15 and every third Sunday of the month, except August
Time: 6.00pm- 7.00pm
Venue: Hilldrop Community Centre, Community Lane, Hilldrop Road, London N7 0JE Nearest tube stations: Kentish Town or Tufnell Park. Buses 390, 393 stop on Brecknock road; 29, 253 stop on Camden road; 134, 214, C2 stop Kentish Town Road
Cost: £5 or £3 conc
Easy, Fun exercises to facilitate Laughter!
Let's do it! Let's laugh! Let's relax with Laughter!
Come as you are, and leave feeling brighter.
Just turn up or call Mary 0207 609 6145 or text 07969 408 661 or email mary.adshead@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Please bring a mat if you'd like to lie down for the relaxation at the end.
Laughter & Happiness Playshop with Julie Whitehead
Date: 14th February – Valentine special, 13th March 2012
Time: from 6:15pm for 6.30 start to 8:00
Venue: St Saviours Church, St George's Square, Lupus Street, Pimlico London SW1V 3QW
Cost: £15 if booked by the 1st of the month; £20 after 1st of the month
Come and experience Laughter Yoga incorporating mind/body exercises, fun and games with Laughter Yoga Ambassador Julie. A chance to have fun, relax and meet like minded people .
“I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the Laughter Playshop. It was really uplifting and I feel like I got back in touch with the child in me! “ Sarah-Jane, September 2011
I came to the Laughter Playshop for respite from the stresses of business, technology and depression. I was startled to find how quickly such a simple activity could ease my tensions and lift my spirits. I wish I could do it everyday! Nathaniel, Scientist/businessman Playshop, July 2011
For full details please contact Julie on 07973 164 369
or email julie.whitehead@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Laughter Playshop with Kit Hammond Stapely
Date: Commencing 31st January 2012
Time: from 6:30pm to 8:15pm
Venue: St Saviours Church, St George's Square, Lupus Street, Pimlico London SW1V 3QW
Cost: Early bird tickets available - £15 if booked by 17th January 2012; £20 thereafter
This evening is a chance to experience Laughter Yoga and mind/body exercises, fun and games to help you feel lighter and look younger! A chance to have some fun, relax and meet like minded people .
In addition to the regular second Tuesday with Julie Whitehead there will now be this session with Kit Hammond-Stapely on the last Tuesday of every month as well
"A great evening, Laughter Yoga is better than any medicine reducing stress, relax and have fun at the same time. If you're stuck at your computer all day feel all scrunched up and full of angst from the commute, try this and see if it doesn't put a smile on your face" Angie, February 2011
For full details please contact Kit on 020 8398 4034 or email kit.hammond@laughternetwork.co.uk.
The Laughter Facilitation Skills (2 days)
Date : 23rd-24th February 2012 – filling up fast
27th-28th April 2012 - booking already
6th-7th July 2012
Time : 10am - 5:30pm
Venue : The Gallery, Troubadour Cafe, Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London, SW5 9JA
Cost : £225 per person inc course material and certificate, email information on earlybird special deals. Book & pay online from January onwards
Contact : Julie on 07973 164 369 / Joe on 07812 159943Come and learn from 2 of the UK’s most experienced laughter specialists in a group with never fewer than 8 participants, and never more than 20. You experience lively group dynamics, and have opportunities to learn from each other’s insights, expertise and experience.
People can and do start using this material immediately, at home, in workshops, in clubs and in the workplace:
‘I’m really glad I came on this course, meeting people who believed in and enthused about what they were teaching and others who were friendly and willing to learn. Thank you for the experience and starting something I see as being a big part of my life from now on, both for clients and personally.’ Paul Chivers.
‘Really inspiring, great presentations’
‘Calm & playful & inspirational – thank you’
Over the 2 days, some of the things you learn & experience include:
- The benefits of laughter
- To laugh more and generate more joyfulness in life
- The science and medicine of laughter,
- Dr Kataria’s laughter club initiative and laughter yoga
- Laughter exercises and laughter meditation
- How to use this personally and / or professionally
- How to adapt this for any work / social / home setting
- And much, much more
At the end of the course you will receive a certificate from the Laughter Network enabling you to get appropriate insurance and start your own laughter business.
The Courage to Be Discovering and Playing with your Innter Clown
Date: Course of 3 weekends 31 March/ 1 April and 21/22 April and 12/13 May, 2012
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Venue: Eastbourne Arts, Bethnal Green, London E2
Cost: £375
The word 'courage' comes from a root that means 'heart'.
Through clowning and connecting to our playful spirit we can develop and sustain, in ourselves and each other, the heart to be who we truly are, to trust life and ourselves.
'Taking heart' is a profoundly inward process, and an invitation to overcome the fears that block us from being fully present in the here and now.
Come find that free, fun, spontaneous part of you that copes with life without being concerned about getting it right or being clever all the time.
This approach to clowning is not a technique (tricks, gags or routines) but a personal journey towards finding your own unique way of being a clown.
Through play, games and short improvisations we will learn to let go of our control over things and be surprised by what reveals itself to us.
Lighthearted and playful weekends that will build confidence, develop a sense of wellbeing and above all provide plenty of fun and laughter!
The work and the group, will build over the three weekends. The group size is limited to 12.
Facilitator: Carol Thompson has been a teacher and trainer for most of her career...a teacher of Drama, English, Theatre, Communication Skills, Laughter Leading, Play and finally the combination and culmination of all that, a teacher of Clowning. About 6 years ago she started working with Vivian Gladwell of Nose to Nose and learned the ways of the clown for herself and then went on to train as a facilitator of clowning in order to help others discover and play with this most magical part of themselves.
Please contact Carol on carol.thompson@laughternetwork.co.uk for further details and to book. Advance Booking Essential.
Look at www.ntncarol.blogspot.com and www.nosetonose.info for more about Carol and Clowning
Laughter Yoga Leader Training (also regularly in North-East, North-West and London)
Date: 8th and 9th March 2012
28th and 29th June 2012
25th and 26th October 2012
Time: 10am - 5pm
Venue: The Training Consortium, 21 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road (Off York Way - Kings Cross), London, N7 9AH
Cost: £175 (early birds) £200 per person incl. manual and certificate. Book and pay online.
Become a certified Laughter Yoga Leader and help to spread the laughter in social laughter clubs, yoga & fitness studios, senior care facilities, and in the workplace.
This course is for everyone!
Become a certified laughter yoga leader and help to spread the laughter in social laughter clubs, yoga & fitness studios, senior care facilities, and in the workplace.
The world needs more laughter!
The course comprises of 2 days of Laughter Yoga Leader training.
During the two days you will
- get an understanding of the need for Laughter Yoga
- find out how the idea of Laughter Clubs originated
- learn the basic guidelines for a Laughter Session
- identify the role of the Anchor Person in a Laughter Club
- get to know the benefits of Laughter Yoga as well as the contra-indications
- find out how to start a Laughter Club
and much more
At the end of the course you will receive a Laughter Yoga Leader certificate enabling you to get appropriate insurance.
For more information please visit www.unitedmind.co.uk or phone Lotte on mobile 07736 341 717 or email lotte.mikkelsen@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Laugh to Love - NLS: Natural Laughter Skills
Date: 9th June 2012
Time: tba
Venue: Alternatives, London
Cost: £70 per person
NLS: Natural Laughter Skills - Laughter as spiritual practice.
“Laughter as spiritual practice builds you an ecstatic, sublime sacred space where you revitalise yourself again and again.” Joe Hoare
For more information please contact Joe Hoare on joe.hoare@laughternetwork.co.uk or 07812 159 943.
South London Laughter (usually 3rd Saturday of every month)
Date: usually third Saturday of the month but please call / email for dates
Time: 11.00am-12.00pm
Venue: Lewisham Carers Centre: Waldram Place, Forest Hill, London, SE23 2LB. From Forest Hill BR, turn right along the main road, and follow it round down the hill and under the railway bridge. You will see the Centre ahead of you
Cost: £10/£5 (concessions always available)
More information and to book your place contact Leela: 0790 433 4222 / leela.bunce@laughternetwork.co.uk or Cathy cathy.collymore@laughternetwork.co.uk.
South London Laughter is a friendly monthly group bringing people from all sorts of backgrounds together to enjoy a really great laugh and to learn how to get more laughter into their lives.
The group is run by Leela Bunce and Cathy Collymore who use a wonderful mix of laughter practices and techniques culminating in a blissful laughter meditation - no previous experience is necessary, no sense of humour is needed - come as you are and leave feeling lighter, brighter and smiling broadly!
Places are limited, laughter is very much not!
The more the merrier.
London Laughter (usually 1st Saturday of every month)
Date: usually first Saturday of the month but please call / email for dates
Time: 12.00noon-1.00pm
Venue: Lincolns Inn Fields, Holborn, London (in winter months we move to an indoor venue in central London, please email/call to check)
Cost: payment by donation (suggested £5-£10)
More information and to book your place contact Leela: 0790 433 4222 / leela.bunce@laughternetwork.co.uk.
London Laughter is a friendly monthly group bringing people from all sorts of backgrounds together to enjoy a really great laugh and to learn how to get more laughter into their lives.
Using a wonderful mix of laughter practices and techniques culminating in a blissful laughter meditation - no previous experience is necessary, no sense of humour is needed - come as you are and leave feeling lighter, brighter and smiling broadly!
Bring friends or bring yourself, the more the merrier! Please bring a yoga mat/blanket or towel and dress for the weather! We meet in rain or shine!
Advanced Laughter Facilitator Skills course (London)
Date: tba 2012
Time: 10:30am-5:30pm
Venue: London tba
Cost: £250 (£200 earlybirds)
Leela Bunce and Robin Graham lead the Advanced Laughter Training in London and Manchester.
This course is an opportunity to explore our laughter and to find answers to questions we have about our laughter.
Maximum of 10 places.
The course is part of the Laughter Network Training, and is endorsed by Dr Madan Kataria.
More information from Robin Graham on 0161-831-9385, mobile 07930-570140 or e-mail at robin.graham@laughternetwork.co.uk.
The Telephone Laughter Club
Time: Monday-Friday 7:00am - 7:10am GMT
Phone: 0800 121 4136 - dial the number and wait to enter conference ID
Conference ID: please register online to receive passcode - enter conference ID followed by # and start laughing
Welcome to the Telephone Laughter Club where we laugh every morning at 7:00am GMT
From 1st January 2012 there is a small fee for dialing into The Telephone Laughter Club which can be paid monthly, quarterly or annually.
For more information please contact Lotte on lotte.mikkelsen@laughternetwork.co.uk or mobile 07736 341 717 or visit www.unitedmind.co.uk/telephonelaughterclub.php.
World Laughter Pledge
Date: every day
Time: every morning
Venue: around the world
Remember how you feel after a good laugh?
Now imagine how the World would feel if we all laughed together!
So lets do it! Alone or withothers, every morning!
Lets change the World with laughter!
World Laughter Master, Belachew Girma (Ethiopia), world record holder for continuous laughter, and World Laugher, Robin Graham (UK), co-Founder of The Laughter Network, give you our word that every morning we will chuckle while thinking ofpeople around the worldlaughing with us in a wave of laughter. Wewill cross this world with laughter.
Laughter is a gift. We can laugh ourselves happier and we can laugh ourselves healthier. And it is free. It only needs us to make the choice. We can use our laughter to help us deal with stress: and although we cant laugh away our problems, laughter gives us greater clarity, creativity and calmness to enable us to face up to them more effectively.
And laughter is the diplomacy pass key. With genuine laughter we can communicate more openly. Laughter can bring love and peace.
Launched on Saturday 30th August 2008, we invite you now to join us wherever you are, to have people laughing joyfully across the World. Join us for a few seconds or a few minutesevery morning!
For more information: www.worldlaughterpledge.org.
Join us!
