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The Quantum Laugh - Shifting With Humour

This is for you if you're

interested in shifting your energy, mood and perspective
willing to laugh at yourself and your world through a reframing of your experiences
looking for new ways express passion and access creativity
seeking ways to enliven your primary relationships and to expand your ways of connecting
curious about ways to explore more of your emotional landscape
puzzled by the enduring popularity of I Love Lucy, The Simpsons, and Seinfeld

Format
Humour, and it expression through laughter, can facilitate shifts both at the mental/belief level and at the physical/cellular level. The ability to view life with humour allows us to access our energy, insight and creativity. A measure of our depth and breadth as individuals is our ability to laugh at our situations, our world and ourselves.

This is an experiential course offering opportunities to observe, examine, investigate and instigate humour in a myriad of forms such as cartooning, slapstick and improvisation. You will explore, create, play and puzzle with what's funny and what isn't, and why humour is such an under-rated form of therapy! This is not for the faint of heart-be prepared to laugh out loud!

What you will learn

forms of humour expression
physiological effects of laughter
what your sense of humour says about you
psychological benefits of humour
origins, uses and applications of humour
how to have more fun in your life

Quantum Laugh was recently talked about in The Times Colonist, a local Victoria newspaper, Katherine Gordon has this to say in her article.

Continuing Education Credits:
Approved for Continuing Education Credit hours by the Canadian Counselling Association (www.ccacc.ca) .

Faculty:
Carole Ames

Dates:

May.21-May.24, 2009 Thu-Sun; Register Tuition: ($465.00) $510.00

(early) regular fee: the price in brackets is the "Early Bird" rate for those who register and pay in full at least two weeks before the course begins. The price without brackets is the full price. Prices in Canadian dollars. Meals and accommodation not included. Full room and board is available for an extra charge. See Resort Prices for details.

Testimonials:

"Carole did a wonderful job of demonstrating how we can bring humor into our daily lives for greater health, wealth and happiness."
August 2008

"What I liked most about this course were the other participants and the richness each person had to offer."

July 2007

"What I liked most about this course was the variety of experiential experiences and the wide range of tools and research referred to - also liked the way Carol handled difficult questions/challenges."

July 2007

"The sketches helped to identify where we get stuck. Every individual's sketch resonated for me and I benefited vicariously from their experience. Recognizing where we get stuck will assist me replacing it with humour and amusement."

July 2007

"Thank you Carol - it has gotten even better since the first time I took it 4 years ago - your ongoing research and the addition of having Leslie come have added value to the course for me."

July 2007

"I enjoyed the course. It was very good for me to have a reminder of some of the principles of the "Coming Alive" course I did last year. I can imagine every time you run one it is entirely different from the previous one. I thought you were very skilled at bringing out people's concerns and appropriately dealt with emotions and issues which did arise. You were warm and considerate. I think it is likely that I will come back to The Haven and may take "Quantum Laugh" again. It would be interesting to see how it changes, and if I see your name on another course, that would make me more likely to attend it."

July 2007

Course Evaluation:
A student/participant who attends a minimum of 90% of the total course sessions shall receive a "Pass" grade. A student/participant who is absent for more than 10% of the session will receive an "Incomplete" grade and credit will not be granted.