Nira Berry: LaughingRx Interactive Speaking Services
Interactive Key-note speaker
At a conference or meeting:
use the fun atmosphere generated by Nira's high energy, high impact experiential LaughingRx sessions to relax and motivate your employees! LaughingRx is a unique approach to fun, healing & stress management that combines simple laughter exercises with gentle breathing techniques. No prior experience is necessary. It's a fun experience for everyone of all ages and ability!
Nira does not use jokes. It is not entertainment in the common sense. Participants get to experience free-flow laughter on their own terms. You do not need to be happy or have a sense of humor to laugh.
Laughter is not only good medicine, it's good business. People who have fun on the job are more creative, more productive and get along better with co-workers.
We offer fun, inspirational and experiential laughter programs
When To Consider Us
When you are looking for "something different" – in any meeting where you need to motivate and / or energize people, learn stress reduction - or just to lighten the experience, leave them feeling upbeat!.
Conferences
Energize your group with laughter. Use Nira's engaging sessions as a dynamic, fun-filled opening activity; as an after lunch or mid-conference energizer; or as high energy, send-them-home-with-a-bang closing session.
Workshops
Have people working cooperatively and collaboratively from the start.
Training Days
Create memorable, enjoyable events that encourage everyone's participation. LaughingRx is a fun and powerful way to help participants leave their inhibitions at the door and get into serious creative & learning mode.
Meetings
Revitalize staff.
Quarterly Review / Kick-Off / New Anything
LaughingRx sessions help to dissolve tensions within a group. Just after the session may prove to be the best time to promote new initiatives and strategies.
Stress Reduction Technique Workshop
Continuing Education Credits provider for hospitals, nurses, social workers, general health related fields.
Nira also leads LaughingRx sessions specifically geared towards teaching laughter stress reduction techniques.
LaughingRx opportunities:
*Key note speaker
*corporate ice-breaker - 15 or 30 min. session following or preceding training
*Conference interactive 1 to 1 1/4 hour presentation
---with or without powerpoint presentation
*Seminar/ class sizes from 1 to 1000
*Individual laughter coaching (weekly or bi-weekly)
*30 minute bi-weekly or weekly group session
-can also be combined with 1/2 hour writing session followed by 1/2 hour laughter session
*classes for seniors / cancer patients / physically /visually impaired / hospitals
*30 min. , 45 min. , 1 hour, 1 1/4 hour classes
*1 1/2 hour, 2 hour and 3 hour workshops
*1/2 day, 1 and 2 day workshops
*Continued education program for the medical professions
Laughing Nira is available to travel to your location. The organizers of the seminar are responsible for reserving the location or retreat center and promoting the event; seminar and travel expenses. Please contact Nira if you wish to discuss possibilities and what your needs are for your event. ----------------------------------------------
Copy and paste this link to read article about
Nira and LaughingRx class written about in the Washington Post Newspaper:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/17/AR2008121701805.html
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Nira was selected to be on a NIH panel
& led interactive laughter presentation at NIH forum: Humor and
Healing, with scientist, Dr. Lee Berk and 2 other world renowned
laughter experts. Nira often quotes Dr. Berk's studies on the health &
well-being benefits of laughter. April 5th 2011
Dr. Lee Berk and Nira Berry
TESTIMONIALS:
October '09
As co-chair of the conference, I booked LaughingRx as the closing commentary of the program. Allowing the audience to participate in an exhilarating, happy and mood altering experience was truly the best medicine for ending the conference.
Alidz T. Khachaturian, President
Maryland Respite Care Coalition
Annual Conference
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January '09
Thanks so much,
Rev. AllysonJones, AMC Church, VA
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May 18, 2009
Dear Ms. Berry:
On behalf of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), I would like to thank you for your excellent presentation during the Innovations in Recovery Seminar, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rockville, MD. Your presentation “Laughter is the Best Medicine – Let’s Laugh!” helped to make the event a success and a time of learning for all. We thank you for sharing your knowledge, time and expertise at the meeting.
Again, please accept our appreciation for your thoughtful and valuable presentation. We look forward to continuing our partnership in promoting mental health recovery.
Sincerely,
Stacey Lesko, M.S.W.
LT, U.S. Public Health Service
Consumer Affairs Specialist
SAMHSA/CMHS
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
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December'08: Women's Circle, Chabad of Potomac
"By the end of the class, I was in a better mood, and I have been more lighthearted and prone to laughter ever since."
--Judy Teitelbaum
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August '08: Montgomery College Staff Training Workshop
It
was a blast! We had a 9AM meet yesterday and one of our other
administrators asked about our session with you and five of us broke
out into a spontaneous clapping of Ho Ho Ho , Ha Ha, Ha! She was
impressed and you would have been proud! Let’s hope we get you back here!
Regards,
Ed Palaszynski Ph.D.,
Senior Program Director, Information Technology Institute
Work Force Development and Continuing Education
Montgomery College
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May 2010:
The "Women's Group" loved our laughing session!
I am actually practicing the exercises in the morning and I think it
may be working. Thanks for all the info and
laughter! JOY Marcus, Potomac, MD
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May 2, 2008
"I
just had a miracle!" Louise L. said to everyone in Nira's LaughingRx
class at The Wellness Community, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2, 2008.
I
haven't been able to bend my right knee to sit down or stand up for the
past two years. I've had so many treatments that haven't worked. I've
had water removed from my knee, I've had cortisone shots, nothing has
helped me. After 1 hour class with Nira and participating in her
LaughingRx class, I am able to stand and sit down without any pain. I
am able to stand and sit down using my right knee! It's miraculous.
I've always heard that laughing is the best medicine, but this is a
miracle. This will change the quality of my life. I can't wait to get
to the next LaughingRx class with Nira."
Louise L.
Wellness Community, Bethesda, Maryland
LaughingRx
For More Information: call 240-888-6555 or email: Nira@LaughingRx.com