Laughing At & Understanding Good Humor Seminars (LAUGHS) is a program that explores ways that humor can be used appropriately in health care settings. During these troubled times of managed care, downsizing, mergers and ongoing restructuring, many health care professionals are dangerously close to becoming "Crispy Critters."

Historically and traditionally medicine and psychiatry has been viewed as serious professions where the staff take their roles very seriously. And because of this, humor was not a very positive character trait. However, recent scientific studies and research on humor and laughter have discovered that humor is one of the healthiest and most powerful methods to help people deal with stress. It is nature's natural stress buster.

Program Objectives

Explore ways that humor is used appropriately in health care settings

Learn about new discoveries and current developments in humor and laughter as they relate to health

Learn to access humor resources

Learn the therapeutic power of humor

Learn the difference between stress and stressors

Explore different types of humor

Learn how to put humor and laughter into their professional and personal lives