Contributed by Hillary Saffran
Recycle Your Stress To Laughter Workshop
7/19/2018 – 6PM
Valley Community Recycling Solutions Center
9465 E Chanlyut Circle, Palmer
FREE Event
Laughter is a therapeutic tool. I’m not joking!
Due to the success of the last “Recycle Your Stress into Laughter” workshops presented in May and June at the VCRS classroom, another workshop is scheduled for Thursday, July 19th at 6:00pm. It will be a half hour of fun, laughter and healthy destressing.
Consisting of therapeutic laughter techniques with deep breathing exercises, those attending will be sure to leave refreshed and revitalized. Please bring your favorite joke or story to share. Also, one of the participants will be trying out a short comedy bit for an upcoming clean comedy contest to start out the evening, so please come willing to laugh! No pressure, but it will be recorded for YouTube.
While living in Colorado, Hillary Saffran was trained as a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour, founded by psychologist, Steve Wilson.
This systematic, therapeutic and credible method is now used by hundreds of professional organizations and healthcare communities. Those using these techniques for their own workshops are nurses, psychologists, counselors, activity therapists, health educators, marriage and family therapists, social workers and volunteers.
The roots of these methods can be traced to ancient practices, biblical prescriptions and modern science. Laughter therapy reflects Steve Wilson’s 45+ year career in psychology and a philosophy of happiness through living with a positive sense of urgency, summed up as, “Don’t postpone joy.”
So, don’t postpone your own joy and head on down to the Valley Community Recycling Solutions Center on 9465 E Chanlyut Circle, Palmer on Thursday, July 19th at 6:00pm. You’ll be glad you did!
Healthy attitudes and healthy living is definitely a laughing matter!
About Hillary Saffran:
Hillary Saffran is the author of Laughing in the Rain – Self Care for the Storms of Life and other books that involve humor, stress management and light reading on a summer’s day. She works in social services and can be seen galavanting around the Mat-Su Valley with her violin or performing at VPA or with the Valley Arts Alliance. She has never told anyone to talk to the hand or to read her lips, as that would be a really bad thing for a friend of a ventriloquist to do.
