"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."
W. Lee Grant


The right workshop for you 


Whether you're looking for teambuilding, personal developent, or new skills for your organisation, there's a workshop here that's right for you. The full version of each  is a one-day event, exploring the field in detail. There is time to look at the range of research in the field, and opportunities for in-depth self-reflection. This allows participants to develop a wide range of  ways of building what they have learnt into their lives. But they can also be delivered as half-day workshops, covering the key topics concisely, so that participants can leave equipped with the key skills, and ready to identify those changes for themselves.

What Makes Me Laugh ?

Happiness Matters

Optimistic Thinking

Money Can Make You Happy ... But It's More Likely to Make You Disappointed!   


What Makes Me Laugh ? 


Laughter is such a valuable tool for keeping ourselves healthy and happy. It ensures that we keep a sense of perspective, it helps build good relationships, and it defuses tension. Laughter helps us to take control of our mood, draw a line under our stress, and really enjoy life. And scientific research is increasingly suggesting that it has a whole range of physical benefits. It really seems that human beings canā€™t be at their best, unless they really know how to laugh.

This workshops explores the theory and the practice behind laughter. We will consider:

  • the importance of laughter for physical and mental wellbeing 

  • the role of laughter in managing stress

  • identifying key thoughts which prevent us from laughing when we most need it

  • how laughter helps build  good relationships with friends, colleagues and family

  • the role of  light-heartedness in boosting confidence

  • the value of play for creative problem solving

  • strategies for keeping smiling in tough times

And all accompanied by a host of practical techniques for generating laughter more deeply, more easily and more often.

Happiness Matters 


Would you like to be happier ? Happier people are more productive, build better relationships, can make the most of their gifts, and contribute to the lives of those around them. All this as well as enjoying their own lives more! So what could be better than learning how to be happier ?

This workshop explores the compelling research into what enables people to experience “enduring happiness” - that underlying feeling that you are living the life that you want, even during times of inevitable difficulty or disappointment.

We will explore seven deep sources of contentment, identifying ways of making them more integral parts of our life at home, at play, in the workplace, and in our friendships. In the course of the workshop you will explore how to:

        Laugh more
        Become more connected with the people around you
        Identify your passions – and prioritise them
        Take time to savour what brings you pleasure
        Appreciate your past
        Feel optimistic about your future
        Leave the world better than you found it

By the end of the workshop, you’ll know that happiness is too important to be left to chance.

Optimistic Thinking


Optimism is not a fuzzy hope that things will work out well. It is the belief that you can take action to make a difference to the situations that you encounter

Optimism and pessimism might seem like personality traits – but in fact they are just styles of thinking. And anyone who has developed some thinking habits that are pessimistic, can also develop the ability to think optimistically.

This workshop explores the research into why an optimistic thinking approach has such a huge impact on our health, productivity, relationships, and perseverance. You will learn the key skills for making your brain approach problems in an optimistic manner:

Being prepared for problems before they arrive - not surprised when they hit
Creative problem-solving
Recognising the full range of resources that you possess
Answering back your self-critical voice
Noticing the action that you can take – instead of the one you can’t.

You will finish an Optimistic Thinking workshop better feeling better about your future, and confident that you can deal with whatever is around the corner.

Money Can Make You Happy - But It's More Likely To Make You Disappointed!



It’s a strange fact that in countries where the real income has doubled over the last thirty years, most  people now say that they feel less satisfied with their income than ever before. So whatever else money brings us – it certainly isn’t happiness! And it’s equally strange that while all around the world it makes a huge difference to someone’s quality of life if they go from living on £10,000 a year  to living on £15,000 a year, after that point their happiness won’t increase even if their earning power does. All of which might make us wonder why we spend so much time at work, when that extra salary makes so little difference to our quality of life.

But why should that be ? This workshop explores six themes that can help us understand the problems that pursuing, earning, and possessing money bring.

Looking in the wrong place: exploding the common myths about what money will do for  our lives, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
Acclimatization: why all those things we bought last year have already stopped being any fun and how we can work out which things we’ll still be genuinely glad about next year.
Competition: why money encourages us to compare ourselves unfavourably against others.
Purpose: why focusing on earning a higher salary rarely brings out the best in us.
Sustainability: why the planet can’t afford us to go on buying more and more ‘stuff’.
Spending wisely: what can you do with money that makes a real, lasting difference to your sense of fulfilment and joy in life ?

Contrary to the assertion that the best thing you can do with your life is to ‘attract wealth’ – this workshop shows why letting go of money, letting go of the pursuit of money, and letting go of the things that we think money can do for us, allows us to get on with the serious business of really enjoying our lives.

   


Read all about it!

Primary Teachers Magazine wrote up a series of my workshops in Sandwell and Dudley. Read the full article here. 

email me at: jo@joeadie.co.uk

Call me on ...
07816 439510