Sarah Creegan is a former head teacher, our educational consultant and a lead facilitator. She is also a Mental Health First Aider; has undergone Laughology’s unique stand-up comedy training and has enough psychology books and magazines to wallpaper her house with. Not that she would do that – that would just be silly!

Bringing new teams together can be challenging at the best of times. Throw in social distancing and home working, and team-building becomes even more difficult.  Not for Checkatrade, however. 

We are getting used to working and meeting virtually and there are some positives. Meetings can be recorded, people who might normally shy away from contributing can be engaged through chat and creative use of technology can bring meetings to life.

If there’s one thing everyone agrees on at present, it’s that all NHS workers are heroes.  So, when we were asked if we could support them, we said hell yeah!  

Victoria Maitland led a FLIP-it webinar for Achieving for Children last month. The programme centred on how to use Laughology’s FLIP-it model to think positively and develop resilience in challenging times.

Since lockdown, lead happiness consultant, Dave Keeling, has been looking to challenge himself, but tired of jigsaws and the eternal hunt for flour, he was thrilled to be asked to do some online improvisation to help business leaders think differently.

Sarah’s approach to mental health is refreshing as she talks openly and candidly about the reasons behind her passion for the subject.

Kerry Leigh is one of our lead mental health experts and facilitators. She has trained in Mental Health First Aid, is well-read in psychology and has also facilitated for the mental health charity Manchester Mind. 

With some green shoots starting to appear, there is some optimism about returning to work and school and normality starting to form. There is also understandably some real concern and anxieties about how this will happen safely. 

School leaders from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) are facing a return to classrooms.

Here at Laughology, we have been at the forefront of supporting positive mental health at work.  So we’re not just supporting you with content for Mental Health Awareness Week, but for the rest of the month.  Starting from 18th May, we will be sharing our next learning burst series all about mental health at work.  Here’s what we have planned:

One of the biggest challenges for teams continuing to work during lockdown was adapting and changing quickly.  This is particularly true in the pharma industry.

Over the last two years we’ve been supporting O2’s leadership team to develop skills for having great conversations. Our Big Chats, Little Chats programme is embedded as part of the company’s leadership strategy. The programme has been delivered virtually and face-to-face to over 2,000 people.

Kerry our Lead Laughology Facilitator spoke at the Health and Wellbeing at Work 2020 event and was invited by a new client to run a session at their upcoming workplace Wellbeing event. Then Covid-19 made its dramatic appearance - DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!

Lots has changed for us as a team since lockdown. Our very own Lead Happiness Consultant Dave Keeling now knows that “Zoom” isn’t just a song by the Fatback Band, but also a very effective video conferencing tool.

Here at Laughology Towers we have been beavering away to support you better during these unusual times. We have adapted our content and upped our virtual delivery game to make sure we can still offer our learning workshops and programmes in the playful and positive Laughology way you all know and love.

The word unprecedented gets used a lot nowadays. For good reason. Just a few short months ago, no one could have envisaged how the world would change so much, so rapidly. Even the best prepared and most resilient organisations have felt the strain. We’ve all had to be agile and adaptable. For some businesses, particularly in the hospitality and tourism sector, the future remains very uncertain.

March was an unusual month for everyone.  The world changed very quickly and people are still adjusting to new ways of working and living.

Last week we kicked off our online learning bursts with an introduction to FLIP-it Thinking. We explored focus (the F in FLIP) and how to focus on the positives.  Hopefully you’ve been flippin lovin it! 

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