learn to laugh more
more deeply ... more easily
... more
often
jo@joeadie.co.uk / 07816 439510
"you can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything" - Robert Killinger
Hello!
I'm Jo Eadie
And I'm learning to laugh more. I never
realised how
little I
laughed until I went to a Laughter Yoga event. At the end of 60 minutes
of laughing non-stop, I realised that this was probably more than I had
laughed all year. Did you know that as children we laugh 300 times a
day - but that most adults laugh only fiteen times a day? So I set out
to find out how to reclaim my missing 285 laughs.
This has been a wild ride for me, that began with a training course
with the UK Laughter Network, and has culminated in a new career
bringing laughter to the world. I've come to realise that laughter and
happiness are skills: you can develop them, expand them, pick up new
tips, make them grow. And where I used to think that the way to becomes
happier was to put all my energy into trying to clear away my unhapppiness
(journals,
therapists, deep introspection) now I think that for many of us the
trick to getting happier lies in learning to practice happiness more
often, more
regularly, more consciously.
Which is why I teach routes into happiness. At the moment
this includes:
* Running the Milton Keynes
Laughter Club, where anyone can drop in to
learn how to laugh more. more>
* Teaching
regular courses on
happiness skills. more>
* Arranging laughter workshops
for a range of organisations
with
an interest in lifting the mood, including The Open University, Barnardo's, the Healthy
Schools programme, and local health support groups such as Nottingham
Dyslexia and The Northants Active Ageing Network.
* I also have a special interest in developing gentle laughter sessions for people with M.E. more>
the laughter
network ...
The Laughter Network is the UK's only professional training and development orgnaisation for those of us teaching laughter.
Its members are spread around the UK - so if you know of someone who
needs laughter work in their area, there may well be someone there that
you can contact.
Robin
Graham
(Manchester) ,
Julie
Whitehead
(London)
and Joe
Hoare
(Bristol) run
the Laughter
Facilitation training courses which first brought me into this line of
work - well worth doing if you want to find out more about laughter.
They also all run laughter sessions in their home towns.
Lotte
Mikkelsen
is based in
St Albans and runs Laughter Yoga Leader Training courses, with the focus on
Dr Kataria's laughter technique
I've also been lucky enough to meet Leela
, Carrie
and Kit
(based
in London), Lisa
(based near Chichester) and Patrick
(based
in Stroud), all of whom I'd be happy to recommend if you are in that
neck of the woods.
latest news
Residential laughter retreat May 7th-9th.
Book now for my course CELEBRATING LAUGHTER at Claridge House. more >
March 20th: Laughter, Yoga and Happiness with Jo and Fiona.
Don't miss our all-day event at the Special Yoga Centre, London. more >
Read all about it!
Primary Teachers Magazine wrote up a series of my workshops in Sandwell and Dudley. Read the full article here.
Laughter in Milton Keynes
The MK Laughter Club meets on the last saturday of the month. more >
email me at: jo@joeadie.co.uk
Call me
on ...
07816 439510