The Laughter Path

What issues are your employees facing?

• Stress, stress and more stress!?
• Team or co-worker challenges?
• Self doubt, lack of resilience or poor motivation?

Imagine how enjoyable work would be if there was a simple system to remove barriers, rocket resilience and catapult creativity – FAST.

Well there is! It’s called The Laughter Path

The Challenge

The Solution

The Results

The Science

Make Laughter Your Business

Laughter sessions are the latest workplace wellbeing initiative. Google and the BBC use laughter to boost their employees’ wellbeing, leaving them feeling happier and more relaxed.

We have developed four workshops which can be tailored to your business needs. Running from 45 minutes to a full day.

The Laughter Path Sessions

“The shortest distance between two people is laughter”

- Victor Borge

The Laughter Path for Stress Busting

You will learn:

  • Laughter and deep breathing exercises to help you to manage stress on a daily basis
  • How you can generate laughter at any time, in any place, with anyone
  • How laughter changes your brain to empower you in controlling the way you feel
  • Effective techniques to help you press pause, re-ground and keep calm

The Laughter Path for Rocketing Resilience

You will learn:

  • Laughter and deep breathing exercises to keep you calm and help you carry on
  • How to embrace and celebrate failure
  • How laughter changes your brain to increase your resilience
  • To deal with the effects of negative situations and negative people

The Laughter Path For Connected Teams

You will learn:

  • To create a positive team vibe through laughter and fun exercises
  • How to embrace and celebrate failure as a team
  • How to keep your team positive and motivated
  • How a team that laughs together bonds together

The Laughter Path for Joyful Creativity

You will learn:

  • Open up to new ideas and new ways of thinking
  • Use games and laughter to get your creative juices flowing
  • Stimulate the right hand side of the brain through childlike play
  • Enhance creativity through embracing and celebrating failure

The Laughter Path For Conferences & Conventions

You audience will:

  • Be energised, focused and engaged
  • Open to new ideas and new ways of thinking
  • Connect, strongly bond and become more open with one another

“I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.” ― Maya Angelou

Other Amazing Services

In addition to our Laughter workshops The Smartest Path also offers training programs, coaching and public speaking.

Coaching

Discover how our Rapid Results Coaching techniques can create fast, long lasting change to benefit you, your team and your organisation.

Speaking

Inspire, elevate and motivate your staff with 30 to 90 minute talks on key topics that particularly resonate with professional women.

Programs

Create rapid and decisive transformations in the way you Think, Feel and Act with our professional development programs.

Scientifically proven with measurable results

 

  • Laughter releases endorphins, which are feel good, pain reducing chemicals. A study conducted at Deakin University’s School of Psychology last year that showed laughter can increase personal and workplace wellbeing, mood and self-esteem. Just one laughter session can decrease stress, depression, and anxiety by up to 10%.
  • Clinical research conducted in Denmark, India and the USA has proved that laughter lowers the level of stress hormones in the body. In a clinical test in the USA, workers reported feeling more motivated, optimistic and focused after practising Laughter Yoga 15 minutes a day for two weeks.
  • Laughter works like an aerobic exercise without sweating. Dr William Fry, at Stanford University, found that 10 minutes of hearty laughter equalled 30 minutes on a rowing machine! Laughter stimulates the heart, increases blood circulation, boosts oxygen and removes waste products.

 

Our Laughter Path Sessions stimulate the production of FOUR key neurochemicals

Dopamine

Are procrastination, self-doubt, or lack of enthusiasm a problem for your team? Our Laughter sessions continually celebrate accomplishments thereby giving participants a Dopamine boost. As a result participants are motivated to take action, which ultimately means increased productivity.

Serotonin

Laughing increases your oxygen intake and boosts serotonin. Your brain has trouble telling the difference between what's real and what’s imagined so even pretending to laugh will boost mood. Gratitude also increases serotonin, that’s why we include a gratitude exercise in every session.

Oxytocin

If your team needs to bond then Oxytocin, or the cuddle hormone, is the chemical which will build healthy relationships and improve social interactions. Receiving gifts also raises oxytocin levels and smiles and laughter are the gift everyone loves to share.

Endorphins

In high pressured work environments where stress is endemic Endorphins are the key to alleviating anxiety and depression. Laughter is the easiest ways to induce endorphin release at work. Even anticipating laughter increases endorphin levels. We encourage participants to laugh throughout the day to keep stress at bay.

 

What’s that smell?

You may smell essential oils during our sessions. Studies have shown that essential oils are another great way to release endorphins and help boost participants’ mood.

Laughter Path workshops will help your team to be:

 

  • Happier and healthier
  • Open to new ideas and new ways of thinking
  • Energised, focused and motivated with a “can do” attitude

 

Additionally, teams that laugh together are more productive and:

 

  • Have increased resilience and creative problem-solving skills. The childlike playfulness found in laughter sessions stimulates right brain activity, the seat of creativity. Challenges are worked around, failures become stepping stones and problems are tackled imaginatively.
  • Grow stronger relationships. Colleagues connect more easily and communicate better after bonding through laughter.

The Laughter Path takes the best bits from laughter yoga and mixes them with learnings from mindfulness, yoga, martial arts and comedy improvisation to create a hilarious, engaging and invigorating experience to reduce stress, lift mood and bond teams.

44% of all people in the workforce are stressed and 1 in 4 struggle to stay happy As a result Australian businesses lose almost 10 billion dollars per year due to mental health conditions reducing productivity and increasing absenteeism and presenteeism.