Laughter Keynote Address (45-60 minutes)

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5 titles to best match the theme of your event. 1 amazing keynote.

An Evening Of Laughter

Laughter is the Best Medicine

Unearth Your Mirth!

Hilarity Leads To Clarity

Fun Is The New F Word

• Overview
• Designed For
• Content
• Learning Outcomes
• General Information
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• About The Presenter

Overview

Tickle your funny bone, release tension and get a taste of free-flow laughter with this fun workshop. Experience and learn practical tools that produce immediate results. Enjoy the liberating and empowering effect that proves laughter is the best medicine. It’s a great stress-reliever and heart-pumping fun. Your inner child will take days to settle down!

• A playful approach to everyday things is a key factor in keeping healthy. Daily chores are less burdensome when we laugh while doing them. We aren't always having fun, but we do have a lot more fun with laughter than without.
• Laughter puts anxiety on a back burner for everyone. We can't laugh and worry at the same time.
• Science and research demonstrate that laughing improves health and shortens recovery time following illness. It strengthens the immune system, combats the negative effects of stress, and is a powerful antidote to depression and anxiety. It alleviates high blood pressure and asthma and increases tolerance to pain.
• One of the most painful aspect of depression is the loss of the ability to laugh, and with it the ability to be close to others with whom one can confide his/her emotions. Laughter can give suffering veterans that much needed feeling of closeness and fraternity.
• Children laugh 20 times as often as an adult every day. What happened to the laughter you had as a child?
• Laughter is a social glue that transcends all barriers: language, age, sex, social or racial background. It improves inter-personal relationships and enhances communication. It interrupts the power struggle and breaks down the instinctive barriers between people.
• Will you laugh every day after this keynote? Of course not. Only if you want to feel good.

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Designed For

People in need of healing, stressed out, depressed, angry, or who just want to have a lot of fun laughing and feeling really good about nothing in particular.

Anyone who wants to feel empowered, connected with others on a human level and add laughter to their personal and professional life.

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Content

Brief introductory talk
Group laughter session (standing)
Group laughter meditation (sitting)
Group affirmations and sharing
Short Q&A time
Wrap up: what this all means / next step

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Learning Outcomes

• Spend an inpirational, uplifting and mind-stretching hour with one of the most senior figures in the international Laughter Yoga movement.
• Learn about the physical advantages of laughter, and how you can open your body into the laughter and joy that reside inside.
• Aquire personal weapons to address stress and tension.
• Discover a physically-oriented technique that uses a perfect blend of playful, empowering and otherwise "tension-releasing" laughter exercises.
• Learn how to access your own cellular pharmacy in no time at all.
• You will be given the tools to stay in the now. You will also receive tools to laugh at small everyday experiences. You may even learn to laugh at yourself, if you have the courage!

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General Information

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About The Presenter

Sebastien Gendry is the director of the American School Of Laughter Yoga and one of the most senior figures in the international Laughter Yoga movement. A passionate and charismatic author and teacher, he is best known for his ability to empower and help people rediscover their creative spark. He played a major role in helping introduce Laughter Yoga in the USA. He delivers trainings worldwide and was the first to introduce this method in Russia. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC Good Morning America, National Public Radio and many more mainstream media.

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