Improvisation and Laughter Playshop (Second Tuesday of the Month)
Dates: 13th July, 10th August, 14th September, 12th October, 9th November. 14th December (Christmas Special) Time: 6:00pm to 8:30pm Venue:St James the Less Church, Thorndike Street, Off Moreton Street Pimlico, London, SW1V 2PS. Just a few minutes walk from Pimlico Tube station Cost: £35
Join Kit Hammond Stapely and Julie Whitehead at St. Saviour's in Pimlico.
These workshops are a fusion of laughter and drama based exercises to bring more fun and laughter into your life.
You will:
build confidence and self esteem
se more comedy moments into your life
never be lost for words again
ligthten all your troubles with laughter
feel all the health benefits of having a good laugh
For full details please contact Kit on 0208 398 4034 or Julie on 07973 164 369.
Summertime Laughter Sessions in the Park
Date: Tuesday Weds 7th July, Weds 14th July, Weds 21st July Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Venue: Outdoors in Lincolns Inn Fields, close to Holborn Tube Station Cost: £8pp all proceeds to charity & good causes
Come along to this regular laughter workout in central London. Sixty minutes of laughing and exploration of unconditional laughter.
Discover how to increase your daily laughs and get the health benefits of regular laughing.
Date: Tuesdays throughout July 2010 Time: 9.30am Venue: Top of the hill in Roundwood Park (there's only one), London NW10 Cost: £8/ £5/ donation, first session free, 1 month £24/ £15
Bring more laughter and joy into your life, learn techniques to take with you, connect and enjoy. Meet other North West London laughers and feel the difference throughout the week.
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)
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: Arch, 897 Holyrood Street, London Bridge, London, SE1 2EL (nearest station/tube London Bridge, 5 mins walk) Cost: payment by donation
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 warm clothes as this fantastic venue is very large and not carpeted!
The Laughter Facilitation Skills (2 days)
Date : 23rd and 24th October 2010 Time : 10am - 5:30pm Venue : The Gallery, Troubadour Cafe, Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London, SW5 9JA Cost : £300, early-birds if booked before 24th September 2010 £275, very early bird if booked before 27th August 2010 is £250 Contact : Julie on 07973 164 369 to reserve your space now as places are limited
New ways to beat the recession. Are you ready?
What you get:
lots of confidence;
a user-friendly toolkit;
a supportive group dynamic;
practical experience;
a certificate so you can get insurance.
What do you learn? Among other things:
To laugh more, and why its good for you;
How to use this professionally, eg for teambuilding, therapeutically, as a social activity
The positive psychology/emotional intelligence/psycho-neuro-immunology connections
The links between positive psychology, laughter and creativity
The health benefits of laughter – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
Dr Kataria’s laughter club initiative and laughter yoga
Laughter exercises and laughter meditation
The difference between laughter and humour
And much, much more
This makes it the perfect training tool for both personal and professional development for: workshop leaders, facilitators & trainers, coaches, carers, therapists, nurses, wellbeing specialists.
Who we are:
Joe Hoare is a facilitator with over 25 years experience, and has been running laughter workshops for over 14 years. His clients include major organisations from both the private and public sector, and he also runs sessions run at venues like Alternatives, Cortijo Romero, and Mind Body Spirit festival in London. He is an occasional Visiting Lecturer ‘Laughter’ at the University of the West of England, his work features regularly in the media, including BBC 2’s ‘Don’t Die Young’ with Dr Alice Roberts, and his work on cardiovascular health is used by the Open University. In 2003 he founded the Bristol Laughter Club which is now the UK’s longest-running series of laughter workshops. In 2006 he set up the UK’s Laughter Facilitation Training programme and organised the UK’s 1st National Sponsored ‘Laugh-a-thon’ for the British Heart Foundation. He is a director of the Pierian Centre (www.pieriancentre.com) and a long-time full healer member of The Healing Trust.
Julie Whitehead, qualified Yoga, Relaxation & Meditation teacher; Qualified Laughter Leader Trainer and Happiness Coach. She has practised and taught Hatha Yoga for many years and since training with Doctor Kataria, the founder of the Laughter Club Movement in June 2002 has been spreading laughter throughout society. She ran regular public laughter clubs for 3 years but has now passed this role on to Laughter Leaders she has trained. With a fusion of laughter, fun, yoga, and breathing techniques Julie’s work brings about an awareness of the mind/body connection and how we can influence this for the improvement of our health and wellbeing, bringing more positive energy and control into our lives. She gives talks and seminars using laughter to motivate and team build for companies, exhibitions and special interest groups. She is a co-founder of the Laughter Network and loves chocolate.
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: 59021950 - enter conference ID followed by # and start laughing
Welcome to the Telephone Laughter Club where we laugh every morning at 7:00am GMT
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!
