No registration required. Just come!
Cost: $2.00 (please pay at the front desk)
Saturdays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Sundays 1:00pm - 2:00pm
at
John Braithwaite Community Centre
(an easy walk from the Sea-Bus)
145 West 1st Street, North Vancouver,
BC, Canada, V7M 3N8
For further info, please contact John Wallstrom:
phone: (604) 618-9535
email: john@laughter-is-the-best-medicine.com
or
For further info, please contact Andranik Pogosian:
phone: (778) 223-9499
email: andranik@globalhumanitarianaction.com
Laughter Clubs
Laughter Clubs were started by Indian physician, Dr. Madan Kataria in 1995 with just five people. Today, the Laughter Movement is widely accepted and has become a global phenomenon with over 6000 clubs in 60 countries. Realizing the tremendous power of laughter and its efficacy as the best prescription for wellness, Laughter Clubs have brought smiles and laughter in the lives of many people suffering from physical and mental and emotional upsets.
World Peace Through Laughter
One of Dr. Kataria’s objectives for Laughter is to promote World Peace through Laughter. Some people find this idea fanciful, but an understanding of the science of emotions and emotional contagion in particular shows how this might be achieved.
The practice of Laughter causes the body to release into the bloodstream high concentrations of communication substances related to feelings of happiness, warmth, unconditional love, bonding, tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, and compassion. Let’s call this a joy cocktail.
The presence of this ‘JOY COCKTAIL’ of hormones and neuro-peptides precludes the production of other hormones and neuro-peptides that correspond with hatred, fear, violence, jealousy, aggression and the emotions associated with war and oppression.
By practicing Laughter in groups, the level of joy cocktail is raised to high concentrations through the multiplier effect: People leaving Laughter sessions go forth and interact with many people who are in turn affected to varying degrees by this powerful emotional state of joy. They in turn ‘infect’ other people they come into contact with… and so on.