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Kate McGlynn, aka Katy BEE is a first year Humor Academy student with AATH and the founder of a new Non-profit Joy First Foundation - https://www.joyfirst.org/ - which is dedicated to bringing, evoking, creating, and offering joy to all living beings. Joyful Moments are online and in-person spontaneous moments appreciating and being grateful to others with standing ovations, surveys, gifts, like noses, kazoos, awards, certificates, and more. Joy FIrst also offers donated clown visits to organizations supporting families, and kids in need, like senior centers, shelters, police stations, veterans services, and random people because EVERYONE needs a Moment of Joy. The Tour of Joy is ongoing and you can support the tour as spontaneous moments are being offered from her trailer, on the road, or with Joy Ambassadors. You can also be a host, or a joy ambassador and collaborate with Joy First Foundation. She also offers Laughter Yoga, Juggling and Hula Hoop Shows, Joy Coaching and more!

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I am living proof that the application of applied and therapeutic humor can help to heal the mind, body and soul!
At the age of 60, while feeling depressed, physically unwell and living in a new state, I needed to find ways to be of service and to find joy - seemingly an impossible situation to change having a negative mind set.
And then I found Laughter Yoga!

Forget flying, invisibility or teleportation – the best superpower to covet is humor. Jennifer Keith’s superpower has been and always will be humor – in many forms.

As a certified Humor Professional and current president of the international Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Jennifer discovered the brain remembers two things – trauma and humor. Using her G.R.I.T. method of using humor to process trauma and loss, Jennifer finds ways to fix the funny bone and find the funny faster when surrounded by disappointing and upsetting events. If your brain is remembering the difficult times anyway, why not cushion them with a little bit of light, levity, and laughter?

Jennifer has degrees in English, journalism, theatre, technology, and educational leadership, proving that she doesn’t want to nor should any of us grow up or stop learning. This published author and newly-TEDx’d speaker encourages you to take funny bone breaks – integrating humor into daily life, career, and family situations which can transform situations from barely tolerable to memorably positive. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferjkeith/

https://www.facebook.com/jenniferjkeithauthor/

Fixingthefunnybone.com

Jenniferjkeith.com

Daughter - E.G. Keith - age 12, author of Havoc and Serenity in The Magics series

egkeith.com

Dr. Lois Holzman and her East Side Institute colleagues and associates bring human and community development to the forefront of culture and social change through grassroots, performance activism worldwide. Trained as a developmental psychologist at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities, Lois is a leading proponent of a social therapeutic psychology of becoming —which she’s dubbed “non-knowing growing.” She has written 8 books, including Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind and The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World. Her most recent project is a “different kind of advice column,” she calls “Dear Developmentalist.” She invites letters from all feeling stuck, stymied and wanting to grow.

LoisHolzman.org

LoisHolzman.org/the-developmentalist/

EastSideInstitute.org

#TheDevelopmentalist

#LoisHolzman

#PerformanceActivism

#SocialTherapeutics

The Lead with Levity Podcast shows leaders (like you!) how to create space for humanity in business so you can have a fun, safe, and supportive company that people love.

If you want to create the kind of work environment that your team can get excited about, where people feel valued and connected, then this is the show for you. 

Dr. Walker has dedicated her career to helping organizations revamp their cultures to improve morale, productivity and profit. After doing this work for 10+ years, she noticed a core cultural differentiator in organizations that truly thrived…. Levity—those moments in the day that are uplifting.

Now, she works to instill levity in every organization. With the help of the Lead with Levity team, Dr. Walker will help you build a  magnetic culture that people love with the REVEAL|EMPOWER approach. Our approach will help you REVEAL hidden stressors and opportunity zones in order to EMPOWER your people to thrive personally and professionally. 

https://leadwithlevity.com/

AATH's Sue Stevenson returns to the Laughbox podcast with a new book! Sue is a certified brain-based coach working with decision-makers, C-suite executives, professionals, solopreneurs, speakers, and coaches. She uses a varied and effective neuroscience-based skill set, that includes positive intelligence, applied and therapeutic humor, social learning, and peak performance strategies.

Sue is best known for facilitating learning and positive change through brain-based coaching and consulting by utilizing the latest research in neuroscience, strategic humor management, and positive psychology to help leaders realize their full potential and success.


Her new book:  "Impossible to Possible: Neurostrategies for Healing, Humor, and a Reimagined Life," describes her personal journey for success. Available on Amazon https://a.co/d/eJbhXb5

Michael Kerr is a Canadian Hall of Fame speaker who travels the world researching, writing, and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures and businesses that leverage their humor resources to create outrageous results. He is also the author of eight books including The Jerk-Free Workplace: How You Can Take the Lead to Create a Happier, More Inspiring Workplace and The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank.  You can sign up for Michael’s weekly newsletter Inspiring Workplace at www.MikeKerr.com.  

Inspiring Workplaces YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeaRB1AE5C_RWBjK87wwRYg

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkerr3/

Kathy Laurenhue heads Wiser Now, Inc., a multi-media publishing and staff development company focused on wellbeing in aging that aims to be practical and lighthearted in everything it produces, including her award-winning e-newsletter, Wiser Now Wednesday.  Wiser Now also provides dozens of online courses, webinars, and other services to a variety of clients in the U.S. and, in the past, Australia. Her brain-stimulating writing includes more than a thousand trivia quizzes, word games, discussion topics, and imaginative/ reminiscence exercises that are available in both downloadable print and themed slide show formats. She is the author of five books, including, Creating Delight – Connecting Gratitude, Humor, and Play, which essentially sums up her life and work goals. Learn more at www.WiserNow.com or email Kathy@WiserNow.com 

Trained as an actress and theatrical director, Marian has spent over 30 years designing and delivering playful social therapeutic workshops and programs. 

An accomplished improvisational actor, Marian has performed improv comedy with This is Your Ridiculous Life and The Proverbial Loons, stand-up comedy at Caroline’s Comedy Club (NYC), and traveled to Central America exploring humanitarian clowning with her clown mentor, Dr. Patch Adams. A lifelong community organizer, and longtime builder of the nonprofit All Stars Project, Marian has taught improvisation to non-actors of all ages from the poor communities of color at the All Star’s free university-style school in New York City. She is a co-founder and Artistic Associate of the Castillo Theatre. 

As a faculty member of the East Side Institute, her joyful and philosophical sessions during International Class residencies have impacted activists, educators and scholars from around the world who are looking for ways to infuse their work with the power of performance. 

She is the co-author (with Carrie Lobman) of “Playing Around with Changing the World,” a chapter about this work in The Applied Improvisation Mindset, Bloomsbury Press (2021).

Her website: https://www.marianrich.com

Her next workshop - Collage Play: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collage-play-tickets-429349735617

Info about Nippy Bottoms Is Not Going Back to Normal: https://www.marianrich.com/blog/nippy-bottoms

The East Side Institute International Class https://eastsideinstitute.org/study/international-class/

The Global Play Brigade

https://www.globalplaybrigade.org/