Our sister site, www.laughterworks.com.au are very excited to announce that their popular Laughter Yoga Leader Workshop will be held again on Sunday 5th September in Hunters Hill, Sydney.
It will teach you practical skills in creating and running laughter sessions for others, how to get more joy in your everyday life and how to spread laughter to others - and much, much more! All your queries answered.
Laughter Works are Australia’s number one provider of laughter yoga in corporate settings, with a client base that includes Honda, AIG, Deloittes & Nokia Siemens. Why not learn from the best?
Laughter Yoga is spreading like wildfire all over the world – don’t miss out. Attend this day and walk out ready to run your own laughter sessions for friends, family (your kids will love it!), community groups, work mates, and complete strangers. Please see the brochure and registration form for more information. They even have an early bird offer available until 23rd August!
As it has been a while since Laughter Works’ last workshop in Sydney they are expecting a lot of interest in this event and places are strictly limited, so please register early to secure your spot!
For registration enquiries please contact Melissa Williscroft at melissa@laughterworks.com.au or Cris Popp on 0438 545 607.
We were delighted to have Cris Popp present a laughter session at this year’s “Happiness and Its Causes Conference 2010″ held in Sydney. The laughter session was a roaring success - just see how much the 2,500 participants loved it by viewing media footage from the event:
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“Laughter is the best medicine” not just for people but for workplaces - it cuts through stress, reduces conflict and energises like no other activity. A customised laughter session delivered by Australia’s premier laughter leaders, Laughter Works, will help you and your message shine.
Yours Laughingly, The Workplace Wellbeing Team
I am thrilled, and a little flattered, to announce that after two and a half years of hard work I’ve been invited to take Laughter Yoga to the “Happiness and Its Causes 2010″ conference! This conference has featured some of the biggest, baddest (or should that be happiest?), and most influence figures in happiness Dalai Lama; Martin Seligman (the ‘father’ of positive psychology); Marva Collins (US educationalist); and Tal Ben Shahar. This year I am very much looking forward to seeing Barbara Fredrickson - a pioneer in the field of positive emotions.
Happiness & Its Causes is the world’s largest forum on human happiness and is being held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, 5-6 May 2010. Each year, over 2,000 people from all walks of life meet at the conference to examine the big issues of life. The conference provides a unique combination of hard-edged science, real life inspiration, gut-wrenching personal stories and practical wisdom. Many have hailed it as a life-changing experience. I know I certainly have - it is also an incredible buzz to be in a room so many people all interested in human development.
There are some fantastic key note speakers scheduled to present over the two-day event, including some of the world’s best psychologists, scientists and philosophers (and of course - me)! I am very grateful for the opportunity to bring laughter yoga to so many people - I hope you can be one of them. If you do come please popp (sorry couldn’t resist that pun) over and say hello.
Yours Laughingly, Cris Popp
Laughter - even the pretense of laughter - improves the workplace performance of staff. A recent study at the SVYASA research institute in Bangalore, India, found that 15 minutes of laughter a day over 15 work days significantly boosted the self-efficacy of participants and it stayed high even after the trial ended. Workers at an IT company who participated in “unconditional” laughter doubled their role competency and self-competency, and boosted their relational competency by 50% . Their scores were still high at a 90 day follow-up.
Unconditional laughter refers to making the sounds and motions of laughter even when there is nothing to laugh at. It’s called “unconditional” because it’s not conditional on humour which is often culturally specific and varies greatly from person to person. Unconditional laughter often occurs in the context of Laughter Yoga which was conceived by Dr Madan Kataria in 1995.
At Workplace Wellbeing we are big proponents of workplace laughter - we trained with the good doctor and have been providing laughter yoga in workplace settings for over four years. We are Australia’s leading corporate laughter leaders - for more information visit our sister site: www.laughterworks.com.au
But back to the study - laughter yoga was also found to reduce “alexithymia” - a condition in which people have difficulty identifying and expressing emotions. In essence it’s the opposite of emotional intelligence so the lower your alexithymia score the better.
The best news for employer and employee alike was that workplace performance rankings for all participants went from “having potential” to being “good assets” to the firm. Just from having a laugh! We always knew laughter was the best medicine - turns out it’s the best way to lift productivity and your career too. Contact us if you’d like to know more about the benefits or want to arrange a workplace laughter yoga session.
