Keynote Speaking & Education
🌀 Keynote Speaking & Education 🌀
We are dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their fullest potential through education. Our educational workshops and programs are designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their personal and professional lives. From mindfulness and emotional intelligence to communication and leadership, we offer a range of topics tailored to meet our clients’ unique needs.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
As an experienced DBT Skills Trainer and keynote speaker, I offer engaging and informative presentations on the benefits of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I aim to help individuals and organizations better understand the principles of DBT and how this practical and rich curriculum can benefit their personal and professional lives. From improving emotional regulation to enhancing communication and problem-solving skills, DBT offers a practical and effective approach to managing stress and increasing resilience. If your organization or office is interested in learning more about how DBT can benefit your team and improve overall performance, please get in touch with me to discuss scheduling a session, workshop or keynote presentation.
Public Speaking
As an experienced keynote speaker, I bring my passion for storytelling and engaging audiences to every event. My talks are designed to inspire, motivate, and empower individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Whether it’s a conference, workshop, or corporate training, I offer customized presentations tailored to your specific needs and goals. With my unique blend of humor, insight, and practical tips, I’ll leave your audience feeling energized and ready to take on the world.
Team Building with Laughter
Team building is a serious and challenging undertaking, and in order to succeed requires a large contribution from everyone. Using humor and laughter during the process causes oxytocin to be released, which stimulates bonding and group cohesiveness. Laughter also relieves tension and makes the whole process fun.
In this training, you will learn the core ideas for these techniques:
- How to use humor to create a collaborative team environment where people are motivated and ready to contribute.
- How to use humor to stimulate listening, trust, cooperation, creativity, and spontaneity.
- About organizational humor and how to use it to increase morale and team spirit.
- Practical techniques to “lighten up” the office environment.
- How to have more fun at work and easy stress management techniques.
- How to use humor to examine and overcome obstacles…how to turn defeats into victories!
Each session also includes a relaxing sequence of Laughter Yoga and Laughter Meditation. These techniques are proven to be easy and workable, and they relieve office stress, relax muscles and give your insides a good laugh-induced massage.
Wellness Programs
Distress Tolerance: Many Paths Up the Mountain
Based on the mind/body premise that every thought becomes a chemical reaction in the body, this workshop uses a multimodal approach to learning how to relax and renew body, mind and soul.
Processes include kinesiology demonstrations, learning new wordplay for better self talk, healing with sound, laughter meditation, guided imagery and body work using chair Reiki. Also included are a couple of useful skills from the Dialectical Behavior Therapy training for releasing intense emotions (DBT).
[For spiritual learning centers, this program includes non-denominational forgiveness and gratitude meditations.]
Good-Bye to Guilt: Improve your Communication with Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
When do you feel close to someone? What makes you feel safe? How to set healthy boundaries? How can you communicate more honestly about what you want? In this interactive workshop, it is possible to learn how to become more authentic in your relationships.
Learn to be more relaxed when negotiating with colleagues or loved ones; practice the release of guilt and other shame-based emotions. Learn to say yes when you mean yes and no when you mean no, without having a meltdown. Learn to become bulletproof to others judgments or disapproval of you.
Therapeutic Laughter for Caregivers
Therapeutic Applications of Humor and Laughter for CaregiversSM
An academic and experiential workshop for institutions, incorporating humor and laughter in four parts.
Part I: Overview of the history of therapeutic laughter, with a literature review of the most recent psychological and physiological benefits of laughter from peer reviewed journals.
Part II: Constructive vs. destructive humor; case studies on the successful use of therapeutic laughter in business or clinical settings.
Part III: Experiential segment of laughter yoga, laughter meditation and Laffirmations (no yoga mats needed, but wear comfortable clothes and bring water).
Part IV: Aftercare suggestions for the further study and maintenance of your daily laughter practice.
**Optional viewing of 20 minute video, displaying the use of laughter yoga in treatment centers and prisons. Formats are customized, available in 60 minute, 90 minute, or two to six hour formats.
Let Go & Lighten UP: Laughter is the Best Medicine!
How can you use humor and laughter to overcome obstacles? How can you shift your focus and turn your defeats into victories?
In this interactive, multimedia event you will learn about the physiological, psychological and spiritual benefits of extended laughter sessions and the difference between constructive and destructive humor.
You will also learn some extraordinary joy-making techniques, including Laughter Meditation, Laughter Yoga and the power of Laffirmations (includes slide show, one to three hour formats available).
LaughĀnanda Yoga and Meditation
Ānanda (Sanskrit: आनन्द) literally means bliss or happiness. In the Hindu Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad gita, ānanda signifies eternal bliss which accompanies the ending of the rebirth cycle.
As one of my favorite laughter yoga teachers has said:
Laugh so that your whole body, your whole being becomes involved, and suddenly, there will be a glimpse. For the moment, the past disappears, the future disappears, the ego disappears, everything disappears – there is only laughter.
– Osho
Philosopher, Mystic and Teacher
(1931-1990)
Through laughter you can experience Ānanda!