Laughology’s founder Stephanie Davies says, “Humour helps shape outlook. It allows us to detach emotionally from a situation and instead focus on solutions. It can help us to live the present moment and not be distracted by the negative”
About us
About Laughology
Laughology presents individuals with new ways of thinking and acting that can be learnt and then applied to every area of life. To promote creativity and imagination, Laughology for Life® encourages a more open and positive state of mind, allowing us momentarily to put our feelings to one side for a moment and look objectively and rationally at challenges.
Laughology for Life® offers a flexible approach that brings about fast, positive change in individuals and organisations - empowering them to adapt to an ever-changing world.
Laughology - putting humour to work
We deliver cognitive-laughter training events throughout the UK. Our services are bespoke and our customers are from the health, education, charitable, leisure and business sectors.
What people say
“a rich and intensive experience.”
Dr Denise Peerboy, Liverpool John Moores University
“full of energy that radiates through the room.”
Buzz Media Promotion,
Manchester
Laughology are currently working with:
- criminal justice organisations
- banks and financial services
- legal services
- IT and media companies
- community groups
- schools throughout north-west England
- public health organisations throughout the UK
“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose’”
(Woody Allen)
But seriously, folks
Laughology works in partnership with charitable, private and public-sector organisations to improve best practice along with health and well-being for all.
We also offer bespoke cognitive-laughter consultancy throughout the UK to improve development, delivery and evaluation to healthcare, education and business. Laughology provides fun and motivational speakers for staff away-days, inset training, team-building events and after-dinner speaking.
Why not contact us to talk through your ideas? kirsteen@laughology.co.uk
About to perform
Laughology’s trainers and consultants have a wide range of skills and qualifications that cover all aspects or individual and organisational needs. Below we have listed just a few of each individuals talents and skills, please contact us if you require any further information about the team.
Stephanie Davies
Creative Director and Laughology’s cognitive laughter and humour consultant, Stephanie Davies has over 10 years experience which has gained her an unsurpassed reputation for designing and delivering interventions for businesses, practitioners, clients, young people and adults. Stephanie is recognised as one of the world’s leading voices in laughter and humour. She was recently invited to develop and deliver the UK’s first MA courses on Humour in the Workplace and has an Honorary Lectureship at the University of Chester, Department of work-based learning.
On leaving Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in 2002 she began performing stand-up comedy, firing her fascination with the power of laughter and humour. After attending Dr Kataria’s Laughter Leader course Stephanie was accepted as a participant in world-renowned, Dr Patch Adams’s Health Care Intensive Training in the USA. She worked with Patch exploring the relationship between health, humour, community and the arts.
Stephanie is often booked to speak and provide Laughology training, in Britain and overseas. She has delivered training at the famous Gesundheit Institute in Virginia, to medical students in Israel, and to organisations nationally and internationally. Stephanie has developed interventions that have been applied in a wide variety of environments dealing with complex public health.
Her qualifications include: An M.A in Laugher, Humour and Personal Growth; B.A Hons in Community Arts; Advanced Skills in Creative Teaching and Cognition, JMU; Graduate of The Health Care Intensive Programme, with Patch Adams MD USA; Graduate of Dr Madan Kataria’s Laughter Techniques Programme; NLP Practitioners Diploma; and is currently working towards her CBT diploma.On top of her busy training schedule, Stephanie is often asked to contribute to popular television programmes, such as Trisha, The Bank of Mum and Dad, BBC’s Heaven & Earth and ITV’s Stand-up Jenny. She is also a regular on BBC Radio
At night Steph frequents dimly lit bars as a....... stand-up comedian
Kirsteen Sheppard
The other driving force at Laughology is Kirsteen Sheppard, our Development & Business Manager with an outstanding track record from the private sector, delivering specialist public health targets. She is the original people’s person, an outstanding project manager who will ensure that your every need is met, on time and within budget.
Kirsteen is an expert in social marketing and communication, with a background in psychology, media, teaching and youth work. Kirsteen has worked for over a decade providing information, training and consultancy services in the field of specialist public health concerns. To keep her skills up to date, she has recently qualified as an Advanced Skills Creative and NLP practitioner.
In her spare time Kirsteen tries to fathom how to answer her three year old son’s questions about life and the universe
