Welcome to May 2019
…and news, stories, upcoming events and event reviews from UnitedMind Ltd. Laughter Yoga, Laughter Yoga in London, all over the UK and sometimes in Denmark, The Laughter Club International (UK) and The Telephone Laughter Club.
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In May News we share the following…
- World Laughter Day Thought from Yours Truly
- Meet Key Note, Kate Hull-Rodgers – Laughter Therapist
- What does the Accreditation stamp actually mean?
- Laughter Club and World Laughter Day
- The Accredited Training Formula
- Book your Laughter Yoga and Laughter Therapist training on time!
You can enjoy reading our news on our secure site on UnitedMind.co.uk!
Please also feel free to follow the scribbles about laugh life and life in general as well as a few moments of change on The Laughter Blog.
A few memories and places to listen and look…
- Review from Laughter Yoga Teachers January 2019
- Laughter Yoga with Lotte on Channel 4 4Music Trending Live 11 Sep 2018
- BarclayCard 31 Day Challenge with Giovanna and Tom Fletcher
- TOWIE – The Only Way Is Essex Laughter Therapy 26 October 2017
- The Laughter Club in 2019 – hope to see you here or there
- UnitedMind’s Online Shop – products, services, subscriptions
Our pages are constantly going through changes so please feel free to stop at Your Everyday Laughter Queen, Laughter Conference UK, and World Laughter Day UK, The Telephone Laughter Club, Laughter Clubs in the UK, and please stay with us on www.unitedmind.co.uk.
Please also follow and like UnitedMind on Social Media
- Twitter – https://twitter.com/unitedmind
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/unitedmind.through.laughter
- YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/lottemikkel
- Instagram – https//www.instagram.com/unitedmindthroughlaughter
A brief overview of our May 2019 diary
May is tremendously and beautifully busy with laughter work.
Mental Health Awareness Week is running form 13-17 May and we have been busy trying to double the many bookings and involve Laughter Yoga Professionals around the country.
In May the journey takes us to Brighton, Preston, Norwich, London, Croydon, Blackburn, St Albans and many other places around the UK.
Thank you!
There is so much room for Laughter Yoga for teamwork, stress management and workplace wellbeing as well as for real personal life changes.
To give you an idea of availability please visit our Events Calendar.
Available in London, across the UK, and Elsewhere
In May we share laughter during Mental Health Awareness Well and all other days, too, throughout the month in many locations around the UK and London in workshops and training events.
A reminder, too, that UnitedMind has the largest network of Laughter Yoga Partners in the UK and we always do our best to find a good day, time, and a great Laughter Facilitator so please look beyond our diary when you are looking to organise a Laughter Workshop for your group.
We also work with some awesome partners who organise corporate wellbeing, team and stress management events, ask us and they step in to plan together with you and bring it all together for your group at your venue.
No distance is too far for sharing laughter and positive change.
Give the gift of laughter to someone you care about.
Laughter coaching, workshops and training offer great value in life and in the workplace. We can run our training courses and workshops at your venue if you cannot join us on scheduled dates around the country.
All Laughter Yoga and Laughter Therapy training is now accredited and approved for CPD in the UK by FHT. Ask for a list of Approved Teachers.
Please contact us on email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714 or mobile 07736 341 717.
World Laughter Day Thought from Yours Truly
World Laughter Day has been celebrated in the UK since first time we held it in St Albans in 2004 – it got a bit bigger in 2005 and 2005 is possible the more official year for our first World Laughter Celebration in the UK…
Looking back over the years of celebrating laughter brings some wonderful thoughts and I think for many people the moments we shared laughter are some of the happiest memories we have.
Laughter has also brought me tears, serious contemplation, and distress.
However, walking in front can sometimes be faced with different challenges than when we submit to a less active role in the community and in the workplace.
Regardless what has been in the past I love everyone who has spent laughter time with me no matter where and how we are connected or disconnected at present. Laughter Yoga is a community of people who have found laughter to be a connecting and healing force of life!
I am up to something with the transformational power of laughter and Laughter Yoga is my superpower – as is Danish but that is a different story altogether…
If you see something in the change you have experience through laughing then Laughter Yoga may be something for you. I may not be the right teacher for you but I may be able to point you in the direction of someone who will nurture you and your laughter to new levels.
World Laughter Day is a celebration of our differences coming together in one whirlpool of laughter for world peace.
Different laughter, different opinions, different people, different circumstances.
When we share laughter we let everything go and become one big chuckle-muscle together in greatness and peaceful agreement.
Please join us in sharing laughter on World Laughter Day 5th May 2019 in St Albans or elsewhere around the UK and the world.
Find your event on www.worldlaughterday.co.uk.
Love, Laughter and Peace
Lotte
Your Everyday Laughter Queen #youreverydaylaughterqueen
The Playing Human Conference – on its way!
A superb line up is currently being introduced. We started in February when we introduced The Miracle Man, Ant Bennett, in March you met the YES Man, Dave Cornthwaite, in April you were acquainted with Play Expert, Yesim Kunter and this month we have another treat in store for you.
In May we are SO excited to introduce Laughter Therapist, Kate Hull Rodgers.
Meet Kate Hull-Rodgers – Laughter Therapist
Kate wears a great number of hats and I am not sure ‘Laughter Therapist’ is quite the right one I have chosen. She is an author, play producer, comedienne, coach and lots more that is liberally shared from within her grande personality and big heart.
As per her website Kate is an international leading authority on the strategic use of Humour in the Workplace. Believe you me, she is!
She has pioneered work in the fields of laughter therapy, stress management, communication and networking.
Her work and personal story of mental health recovery are the subject of the ITV documentary “Laughter is the Best Medicine”.
And Kate’s business book, “Pearls of Bizdom” outlines how businesses can go from grit to great.
There is much, much more to come when her profile airs later in May so look out for the page about Kate Hull Rodgers!
Read more about Kate on humourus.co.uk.
Make sure you book soon – even if 2020 still seems a long way away.
Did you notice who else is coming?
- Ant Bennett, The Miracle Man
- Dave Cornthwaite, The YES Man
- Yesim Kunter, Play Expert and Creative Strategist
- Kate Hull Rodges, HumourUs and Author
- Sue Haswell, Big Results and Mindfulness Leader
- Albert Nerenberg, Film Maker and Laughologist
- Maggie Irving, Class Clown and Performance Coach
- Miriam Akhtar, Positive Psychologist and Happiness Expert
- Dr and Mrs Kataria, Founders of Laughter Yoga International
- Eser Mutlu, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Turkey
- Corinne Cosseron and Julien Pechot, L’École Internationale du Rire
These truly motivational people are not only there to talk, they are coming to inspire and move us all with playfulness and attitude!
Please get in touch about The Playing Human Conference & Laughter Yoga 25th Anniversary, our courses, workshops, conferences, laughter clubs and other events via email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714 or mobile 07736 341 717.
What does the Accreditation stamp actually mean?
Accreditation is a great way to achieve recognition for Laughter Yoga Training as CPD for professionals and for organisations and companies where a public recognition is required.
With the few additional requirements it also has the potential of heightening the standard of the newly trained Laughter Yoga students’ work and delivery of laughter sessions.
It is a win-win for everyone whether it is workplaces or individuals in private or public sectors.
If you have already obtrained your Certified Laughter Yoga Leader or Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher qualification through training with UnitedMind and UnitedMind trained teachers you can as leader do all you have learned so far which includes
- developing your own laughter
- leading laughter clubs
- running community and workplace sessions
And as teacher you can do all you have learned as a leader and teacher plus teach the 2-day Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training.
With the Accreditation there are simply a few extra requirements to comply with in order for teaching accredited training.
These requirements bring a different level of quality and CPD recognition to the qualification as a Laughter Yoga Leader, Teacher and Coach.
Laughter Yoga Leader Training follows a specific structure around the country and world, and Master Trainers around the world follow a specific structure for teaching Laughter Yoga Teacher Training.
It is simply the extra registration of the training in the UK that leaders and teachers have been asking for over the past many years, this has nothing to do with Laughter Yoga International.
It is simply an additional quality stamp for the UK and is not changing the training only adding extra leverage with an extra certificate when you complete the accreditation requirements.
If you don’t want the accreditation you simply do the training as it has always been.
To teach Accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Training you must complete the requirements as a Laughter Yoga Teacher as some of the requirements are set out by the awarding body, FHT.
If you do not want to comply with the requirements you can still teach Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training, however, you cannot call it accredited training.
Look for an Approved Trainer for your Accredited Laughter Yoga course when you choose the provider for yourself or for your team.
Approved Trainers have a whole range of professional certifications including First Aid training as well as personal and interpersonal skills that are key to facilitating and teaching Laughter Yoga.
They have also practiced Laughter Yoga every day for a very long time and as such know from a very personal angle the changes you can potentially experience through adopting the practice into your life.
They not only know it works, they feel the benefits daily, AND they undertake regular CPD (Continued Professional Development) to keep their skills up-to-date and fresh.
Read more about the benefits of Accredited Training and requirements on https://www.unitedmind.co.uk/courses/accreditation-and-certification/.
Please get in touch about our 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader and 5-day Laughter Yoga Teacher or 1-day Laughter Yoga Coach courses, and other events via email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714 or mobile 07736 341 717.
World Laughter Day…
A reminder although mentioned in my welcome to May thought.
Please join us in Wadley Hut on 5 May 2019 at 1pm to 2:30pm for a bit of laughter and celebration fun.
…and Laughter Club International (UK)
Another reminder that we meet and share laughter in the 1st St Albans Scouts Wadley Hut in The Laughter Club International (UK) in St Albans on First Sunday every month at 1pm-2:30pm, in May it just happens to also be World Laughter Day – please do join us!
There are over 120 Laughter Clubs in the UK with their own webpage where you can find details.
Please get in touch about the laughter clubs and other options via email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714 or mobile 07736 341 717.
Laughter Yoga at the 2020 Olympics
One Minute Laughter for World Peace at the Opening of 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Laughter Yoga leaders from Japan have already had two successful meetings with the officials’ in charge of the opening ceremony in Tokyo.
To support the petition please sign via link.
The Accredited Training Formula
Accreditation means our courses are approved for CPD!
Together with some great Laughter Yoga Teachers I train individuals and teams all over the world to lead laughter sessions as Laughter Yoga Leaders or Laughter Yoga Teachers.
You are always in good hands with approved Laughter Yoga Teachers!
The Laughter Yoga Training is still certified with a standard international certificate issued by Laughter Yoga International and co-signed by your teacher(s) which you receive at the end of the 2-day or 5-day training.
You can simply get your certificate and be ready but there are a few more requirements if you want the additional accreditation certificate. The training is accredited in the UK.
Getting the training accredited has been a big step in standardising the way we teach Laughter Yoga in the UK and how we bring the techniques to people as a tool approved for CPD purposes.
The courses from UnitedMind that have been approved as FHT Accredited Training are
- 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training
- 5-day Laughter Yoga Teacher Training
- 1-day Laughter Yoga Coach Training
- Laughter Therapist Training
This is exciting news at a time when mental and physical health is top of the priority list for many workplaces and public sector organisations.
With accreditation we are taking Laughter Yoga to another level of nationwide approval within the education system.
If you would like to train with me I would love to teach you and share my 16 years experience with you in London (with Mel Bloch), St. Albans, Durham, Preston, Bristol (with Sue Haswell), and your venue if you want to organise your own dates with your group of minimum 4 people, as well as one-on-one in Hemel Hempstead.
The courses are continuing to fill with laughter-willing people and the Laughter Yoga Leader Training in London on 20-21 June have only few spaces available to book, the Laughter Yoga Leader Training in Preston was booked weeks ago. Next is 11-12 May in St Albans where you can still get a space in the group.
Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training runs on the following dates and is a requirement for the Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher Training:
- 02-03 May Laughter Yoga Leader Preston £195 – FULL
- 11-12 May Laughter Yoga Leader St Albans £195
- 20-21 June Laughter Yoga Leader London £195
- 29-30 August Laughter Yoga Leader London £195
- 07-08 Sep Laughter Yoga Leader Durham £195
- 28-29 September Laughter Yoga Leader St Albans £195
- 19-20 October Laughter Yoga Leader BRISTOL £195 – NEW
- and more dates
Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher Training runs on the following dates and is a requirement for the Certified Laughter Yoga Coach Training:
- 21-25 July 2019 in Hemel Hempstead NON-residential £650
- 12-16 August 2019 in Hemel Hempstead NON-residential £650
- 20-24 January 2020 in Hemel Hempstead RESIDENTIAL £850
- 24-28 February 2020 in Hemel Hempstead NON-residential £650
- 26-30 October 2020 in Hemel Hempstead REsIDENTIAL £850
Please make your booking via secure link on www.unitedmind.co.uk/product-category/training/laughteryogateacher.
Book your training on time
Laughter Yoga is for everyone!
Whether you want to start your own Laughter Club or simply wish to bring more laughter into your own life, workplace, community or business, the training courses are fantastic and so useful in life and at work.
Personal and professional development at its best!
For information about Laughter Yoga, our clubs, courses, workshops and how you can learn, please contact us on info@unitedmind.co.uk, or 07736 341 717.
UnitedMind teaches Certified Laughter Yoga courses in the following locations:
- Accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Training
This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Teacher- London, St. Albans, Preston, Durham, Online
- Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
- Accredited Laughter Yoga Teacher Training
This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Coach
- Hemel Hempstead
- Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
- Accredited Laughter Therapist Training
- Hemel Hempstead
- Accredited Laughter Coach and Certified Gibberish Coach Training
- Hemel Hempstead, Online
- Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
- 8-week One-On-One Laughter Coaching Programme
All fees listed in the newsletter are early bird fees available until one month before training dates and excluding travel and accommodation costs unless otherwise stated. Other deals may be available as well as special agreements with companies and organisations who wish to train teams and individuals in their workplace.
If you want to be sure to get a place on the course of your choice please book now in the UnitedMind Online Shop.
For more information about certified training courses please contact us via info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714, or mobile 07736 341 717.
