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The official podcast of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
She’s an author, she’s an educator, she can leap tall buildings in a single bound….it’s Mary Kay Morrison! Few people have done as much to further the cause of therapeutic humor than Mary Kay. In this episode of Laughbox, Mary Kay shares some insights into the Association and how our Certified Humor Professional Program (which she gave birth to) took shape. Mary Kay is a great friend and has dedicated a great part of her life to AATH (and her husband’s too). Take a listen to this interview with one of our own.
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Mary Kay Morrison, a professional educator, has dedicated her professional and personal life to researching the benefits of humor and play. She has shared her message with groups as diverse as hospice caregivers, education administrators and bank executives. Through her workshops and publications her quest for humor has assisted others to achieve significant positive change in their lives. She is the teacher for the Humor Academy a graduate program offered through AATH (The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor).
More on Mary Kay can be found on her website at: http://www.questforhumor.com/
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Knock knock! Who’s there? Heidi Hanna! And that’s no joke! What a great experience it was to get to share some of Heidi Hanna’s brain this week on Laughbox. I say some because she’s so smart I don’t think I could handle the full Hanna. Heidi shares what’s going on in your brain when you’re stressed and what you can do to calm the monkey on this week’s Laughbox episode. She also shares about her upcoming Global Stress Summit and how you can be a part of this incredible event. Take a listen in, you won’t be disappointed.
More on Heidi….
As an experienced speaker, Dr. Heidi Hanna has been featured at many national and global conferences, including the Fortune Magazine Most Powerful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Women’s Leadership Summit, and the Million Dollar Round Table. She is founder and Chief Energy Officer of Synergy, a consulting company providing brain-based health and performance programs for organizations, the Executive Director of the American Institute of Stress, and a frequent lecturer at Canyon Ranch Resort and Spa in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr. Hanna’s publications include the NY Times bestseller The SHARP Solution: A Brain-Based Approach for Optimal Performance (Wiley, Feb 2013), Stressaholic: 5 Steps to Transform Your Relationship With Stress (Wiley, Jan 2014) and Recharge: 5 Shifts to Energize Your Life (Synergy, 2015).
Dr. Hanna is a National Board Member for Blessings in a Backpack, a Fellow with the American Institute of Stress, and she currently serves as editor of their quarterly publication, Contentment. Recently, Dr. Hanna created The Beyond Funny Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing resources and education related to the benefits of healthy humor.
Dr. Hanna holds a bachelors degree in communications from Penn State University, where she competed on the Big 10 softball team and received academic All-American honors. She holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Rollins College and a Ph.D. degree in holistic nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health. Clients have included Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Boeing, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, ESPN and Starbucks, as well as professional and amateur athletes.
Still need more? Check her out at: https://www.heidihanna.com/
Tuesday Mar 28, 2017
Tuesday Mar 28, 2017
What do you get when you cross a tech savvy entrepreneur with a person that wants to make a difference for others? FRANK CHINDAMO! In this episode of Laughbox, Frank shares about his humor roots and how LaughMD got started and where they want to go. Take a listen in as Frank makes me laugh a LOT!More on Frank…
More on Frank…
Frank created Fun Little Movies in 2003, the first U.S. company to produce comedic films for mobile phones worldwide, and launched the still-running top-deck channel of comedy videos on Sprint phones in 2004. In 2007, he was nominated by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur of the Year. Frank is LMD’s Founder and Content Curator, and has experience ranging from the Sprint Channel to Babelgum.com, (achieving 1 million subscribers in under two months) to the current Christian content site. Truli.net. FLM produces web video series for big brands including Walmart, Petco and Kingston Technologies.
FLM has been a cover story or featured in Forbes Magazine, the L.A. Times, the NY Times, USA Today, The NY Post, the BBC, Washington Post, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, AdAge, Mashable, CBS and Wired Magazine. FLM has also won over 30 awards for the the videos they have produced, including the Grand Prize at Mobile Content World in Barcelona at the MoFilm awards, given by Kevin Spacey. FLM was also a finalist at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Short Film. In 2010, Frank produced a video for TED with Titanic and Avatar producer Jon Landau. He has lectured at numerous colleges and universities and is currently an Adjunct Professor in Web Video at USC, UCLA and Chapman Universities.
Frank created LaughMD because of the experiences he saw when he was with his family in hospitals. His father suffered from heart attacks and cancer and was in the hospital 17 times. His brother passed away after months in a hospital. And other family members have spent weeks in hospitals. Frank saw that most of the time, patients were doing nothing but watching TV, and the TV channels available to them made them more anxious, aggravated and sicker. There had to be a better way!
Frank received his Film B.F.A. from N.Y.U. and his Screenwriting & Producing M.F.A. from Columbia University.
Want more on LaughMD? Visit their site: http://www.laughmd.com/
Tuesday Mar 21, 2017
Tuesday Mar 21, 2017
Mirthologist and psychologist, Dr. Steve Sultanoff, is the founder of Humor Matters. He also is the Past-President of AATH and also the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. In this episode of Laughbox, he shares his personal strategies for incorporating more humor into your life and how he used humor strategically as a psychotherapist with his patients. You’ll get some real strategies you can use right away in this episode! Grab a pen, paper and be prepared!
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
Roberta Gold
Humor DOES Rock! This week I got to talk with longtime AATH member and humor advocate, Roberta Gold, RTC. Roberta Gold is a Recreation Therapist and a Humor Therapist who founded Laughter for the Health of it in 1985 with one mission: To empower everyone to have a more positive outlook by seeing the humor instead of the horror in our world. In this episode, she shares her new book and new venture, "Laughter Rocks!”, aimed at bringing positivity into the educational environment in order to help parents, teachers, and students live life more positively and with more humor.
Roberta is a Recreation Therapist by trade and a Humor Therapist by choice. Her proprietary program, Laughter for the Health of it has helped countless businesses, healthcare facilities, medical organizations, schools, non-profit organizations, networking groups, elder/senior care facilities, churches, temples and many others to realize that laughter truly can be the best medicine for whatever ails you, your colleagues, your associates, your family, your staff and your friends.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2017
Tuesday Mar 07, 2017
This week on Laughbox we talk to Dr. Ed Dunelblau, Past President of AATH and Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Ed shares very candidly about strategies he used to cope recently with his own bout with cancer. Listen in. You’ll laugh and learn some things to make a positive impact for yourself and others.
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Dr. Dunkelblau is a licensed clinical psychologist and nationally known speaker on the topics of social-emotional intelligence, humor, and health. Dr. Dunkelblau has two master's degrees from Columbia University: one in psychology and the other in vocational and rehabilitation counseling, and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Kansas, where he was recently recognized as a distinguished alum.
Even more on Ed...
He has been in clinical practice for 25 years, is past president of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), is approved supervisor for the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and director of the Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning. Ed was recently selected as a primary speaker by the US Department of Defense's Yellow Ribbon Program. This honor is conferred on a select group of speakers whose talents assist members of our armed forces and their families in dealing with the challenges of military service.
Want more on Ed? http://www.teacheq.com/welcome.html
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Klein's books have been published in eight different languages (English, Spanish, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, and Turkish) with over 500,000 in print.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017
In today's episode, I have a wonderful conversation with Women’s Health Advocate, Breast Cancer Survivor and author, Eileen Kaplan.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2017
Wednesday Feb 15, 2017
Wednesday Feb 08, 2017
Wednesday Feb 08, 2017
What’s a neurohumorist? You’ll find out in this episode of Laughbox as we talk to Karyn Buxman about what happens in our brain when we encounter humor and when we laugh.
Karyn is in the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame and is a Diplomat at the American Institute of Stress. She is a proud recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. She serves on the advisory boards of the Invisible Disabilities Association and the American Happiness Association. She’s the co-founder of World Laughter Tour. That’s why Karyn Buxman is the best person to teach your team how they can lead with laughter!
More on Karyn can be found at www.karynbuxman.com.