Welcome to May 2025
…and news, stories, upcoming events and event reviews from UnitedMind Ltd. Laughter Yoga, Laughter Yoga in London, all over the UK and world, The Laughter Club International (UK) and The Telephone Laughter Club.
UnitedMind is on the forefront with laughter, happiness and joy!
In May News we share the following…
- Bricks and Laffs for Real from Yours Truly
- World Laughter Day 4th May 2025
- Mental Health Awareness Week
- Second to None Laughter Yoga Training
- Welcoming Laughter Therapist Roddy Haswell
- Laughter Club (St Albans) and Telephone Laughter Dates and News
- Training Dates and News – are you delaying your laughter booking?
Important training and laughter club dates are listed at the end
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Bricks and Laffs for Real from Yours Truly
I completed my Brick by Brick Facilitator (LEGO Therapist) certification.
What is so exciting about this is that it cates for play and laughter, quiet and creativity, elements we know from Laughter Yoga, and from life itself.
So I went rampaging through charity shops in Leighton Buzzard and in The Toy Project in Archway, North London, to find LEGO to cater for the new, or should I say old, discovery.
LEGO speaks to my inner nerd, and to my outer joy.
In life we often forget the playfulness we embodied as young people, there are moments where life seems to be nothing except serious, and these are the times we need to find cheerful outlets that can remind us of who we are – joy beings.
The stress we pile on top of ourselves, family, friends, and colleagues, may not be intentional but it all starts weighing everyone down to the extent where it affects our mental health.
Tap into the four elements of joy on a daily basis and you have a recipe for maintaining good physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
Sing, dance, laugh, play!
I spent two days this week in Brighton teaching Mental Health First Aid to a group of people who were full of laughter, inquisitively curious, and fully understanding of the choices we make in life.
Choices are not always condusive to capture good mental health and we can find that we land in problems that accelerate and become un-overcomeable.
This is where laughter and Laughter Yoga comes in handy, problems don’t just vanish in thin air but we can definitely help ourselves bet through tough times when we wear our laughter-coloured spectacles and see through the lens of can-do, that is what laughter gives us – that lens.
If you ever thought Laughter Yoga was something you would like to learn, and then life changed, think back to the reason for thinking it would be great to know and just do it.
Even if you feel your life has moved in a different direction, there is always room for learning how to bring laughter into the darker edges of living, always room to build our resilience and gather the tools in our resource-kit.
Most importantly it connects you with your playful self and other likeminded playful souls.
Looking forward to sharing moments of bliss, joy, laughter, and love.
Wishing you health and many happy hours!
Love, Friendship, Honesty, Kindness, Health, Hope, Goodness, Grace, Gratitude, Understanding, Faith, Peace, Forgiveness, Patience, Diligence, Love, Blessings and Joy from me to you!
Lotte Mikkelsen
Laughter Yoga Specialist and Master Trainer
#youreverydaylaughterqueen
World Laughter Day 4th May 2025
In 2016 I think it was we celebrated World Laughter Day by the feet of Angel of the North, it was cold and stormy and I think it rained some as well but we had a great time sharing laughter.
We are laughing together online in The Laughter Club International (UK) and you can join us via https://us04web.zoom.us/j/132683686 pw 305815.
On Sunday 4th May 2025 we celebrate World Laughter Day so please do join us at 13:00-13:30 for a shared laugh.
If we get it right the laughter will ripple its way around the globe, promoting World Peace through Laughter, the vision of Founder of the Laughter Yoga Movement, Dr. Madan Kataria.
For more information please contact me on lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.
Mental Health Awareness Week
The week commencing 12 May leads us though a week of Mental Health Awareness.
Surround yourself with people who cheer for you and who make you laugh and enjoy living fully.
Many companies and organisations have booked Laughter Yoga on their agenda for nurturing their staff, and it is a good sign that we trust in laughter whilst it helps us bounce back from tougher times in life.
The connection we make with each other when we laugh together becomes alive through the eye contact we share, the smiles we see, and this helps us recover when we experience challenges which affect our mental health and emotional state.
There is nothing to laugh about.
There really isn’t…
‘Nothing to laugh about’ is one of the key recognition features of Laughter Yoga, we do not laugh at anything, we choose laughter as a method to maintain great mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical health.
There are many tools for boosting mental health this day and age, but few are as easy and likeable as laughter.
Laughter takes us out of our heads and into our body, we stop overthinking, ruminating, worrying, and once again we find our ability to problemsolve and seek out opportunities for growth.
It is spring and many people go about their spring clean, perhaps it is a great time to also spring clean our social circles.
I am not saying to dismiss everyone but consider those that drag you down and those who lift you up, consider which people you want in your life, which people help you maintain great health, and which people you are that person for, when you think thoroughly about it.
You probably know the saying, “people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime” – and sometimes they even return.
It is okay to say goodbye, and it is also okay to grieve the losses – as well as celebrate the moments we (re)connect.
Laughter Yoga does not fix things for you, it helps you balance life where balance is needed.
Many of my beautiful friends have shown up in my life after we have laughed together, and it does not mean we are ‘sitting the thighs off each other’…
Speak to me about living with laughter at work and at home.
Please contact me for more information about how we can share laughter for creating memorable moments, improving teamwork, reducing stress, boosting confidence, creating connections that matter, and building strong health and resilience – for you and your team, family and/or friends.
You can email info@unitedmind.co.uk for more information about the UnitedMind training and workshop programmes.
Second to None Laughter Yoga Training
If you ever thought of Laughter Yoga Training, perhaps now is the best of times to reconnect with that thought and simply go and book your place.
The next leader training in person runs in Hemel Hempstead on 1+8 June and in London on 14-15 June, online it runs in April on 2, 9, 16, 23 Junefrom 19:00-21:30. At the end you will receive your certificate and lots of supportive information.
Online Laughter Yoga Leader Training can be booked via www.unitedmind.co.uk/product-category/laughter-leader-training-online/ or in person the course is available via www.unitedmind.co.uk/product-category/laughteryogaleader/. There are many dates listed both online and in person.
Online is a great option if your schedule does not match the in person dates and venues.
There are few natural things in life more connecting than laughter, and we have it within us to share abundantly.
We grow up and forget how laughter used to follow our play, because we forget to play and laughter stops flowing.
Laughter Yoga is simply a method of reconneting the elements of our joy – our playfulness and our laughter.
Once reconnected we start engaging in all sorts of other shenanigans like singing, dancing, in essence loving life.
Becoming a Laughter Yoga Leader holds a big responsibility, and you are that responsibility.
Laughter Yoga does not just work by completing a training course, no, it is a life-long commitment to yourself, your health, and living your life expontially more enthusiastically.
You commit to making a difference for others as you do for you and your near and dear ones.
Is it really that hard a choice when you think about it?
The doors of self-awareness, self-development and self-unfolding open to the profound space of curiosity, creativity, and unstoppability.
Check it out for yourself…
Since 2007 I have been running the entry level Laughter Yoga Leader course in person and since 2010 online
This course is a great way of learning the skillset required to set yourself up as a facilitator of Laughter Clubs and other laughter sessions.
Read about Laughter Yoga Training on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training or simply book via the UnitedMind Shop.
To hear more about the Laughter Yoga courses, workshops, workplace wellbeing, and other events please contact me on lotte@unitedmind.co.uk
Welcoming Laughter Therapist Roddy Haswell
I met Roddy in January 2014 when he came to the Laughter Yoga Leader Training in St Albans, then a month later came to learn Gibberish.
There is a certain twinkle in his eye that is unapologetically Roddy.
Roddy is an extraordinary therapist and Laughter Yoga Leader, the latest addition to his skillset is his completion of a 10,000 work dissertation which included 2 Laughter Therapy case studies, and he has become a Laughter Therapist.
I am so proud to welcome Roddy, an absolute trouper!
‘Willing to do the work’ I am sure has to his motto, there has never been any doubt he was on the right path of learning and exploring, growing and expanding. Super hooray to you, my friend!
The Laughter Therapist Training is a deep and profound investigation into laughter, letting go, and finding your true nature and joy, a programme I created and launched in 2016 and which takes approximately a year to complete.
Mel and I have supported Roddy and other Laughter Therapist over the years in their completion of this super-special programme which requires you to be a practicing therapist.
Here is Roddy and Roddy’s own story:
I believe life is about fun and that all our endeavours are improved and facilitated by a cheerful disposition.
I have a background in IT working in major worldwide businesses.
I have been a psychotherapist/counsellor and also a Kumon instructor.
I am qualified to Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
I have experienced significant depression, trauma, and stress through my 76 years of life, and am convinced that we all have the super-power to choose what kind of day we have – every day.
As Viktor Frankl (an Auschwitz survivor) put it, say “YES TO LIFE In Spite Of Everything”.
Having had a private counselling practice for over ten years, followed by many other professional careers, I am now able to offer Laughter Therapy.
Albert Einstein said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.
A key difference with this unusual form of therapy is the side-stepping of the egoic trouble-filled mind. Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the horrors of the concentration camps in World War II, advocates what he called Paradoxical Intent; rather than running from one’s issues, they can end up being simply disarmed by intentionally moving towards them.
This may start with releasing pent up emotions of all kinds, maybe followed by tears, and then bursting the bubble of the negative thoughts by laughing at them!
This produces a cathartic release followed by freedom from one’s own disturbing thoughts.
If you want to know more about the Laughter Therapist Training please contact me on lotte@unitedmind.co.uk or visit the Laughter Therapist Training page.
Laughter Club and Telephone Laughter
Anyone and everyone is welcome to share laughter with us in the Laughter Club International (UK) St Albans on Zoom – and bring a friend or your whole tribe.
The Laughter Club in St Albans is sharing laughter on Zoom on 1st Sunday every month (except August) at 1pm-1:30pm!
Please register online on https://form.jotform.com/200864136631350.
- Sunday 4 May 2025 at 13:00-13:30 UK time WORLD LAUGHTER DAY
- Sunday 1 June 2025 at 13:00-13:30 UK time
- Please join on https://us04web.zoom.us/j/132683686 pw 305815
Please get in touch about the laughter clubs and other options via email, info@unitedmind.co.uk, mobile/WhatsApp +447736341717.
The Google Map of Laughter Clubs in the UK is on track with up-to-date information about Laughter Clubs.
Note, updated laughter clubs are listed with 2024 at their name, in-person laughter clubs have a blue star place marker, and online laughter clubs have an orange star place marker. Check it out on https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Q-HDOwxlZX1kk7bW4U5haXxrRjM&usp=sharing.
If you know of any laughter clubs that are not listed or need updating please email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk with your information.
In addition The Telephone Laughter Club runs Monday to Friday at 7:00 to 7:10 on
- Dial: 0333 011 2319
- Room number: 33928453 #
- PIN: 8494 #
Please also contact me about The Telephone Laughter Club where we laugh weekday mornings from 7:00 to 7:10 if you have any questions about this service, lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.
Laughter Training Dates and News
There is no way of comparing the laughter that was shared in every group, every one has been outrageously fabulous, and each group has built on top of each other to new heights of laughter and joy. Thank you.
Becoming a Laughter Yoga Leader is the first step on the journey of bringing intentional laughter to your own life and the lives of others.
If you would like to become a Laughter Yoga Teacher or Laughter Therapists these advanced training courses currently take place in Hemel Hempstead, or on your location request with minimum 4 people.
Once you are a Laughter Yoga Leader your (ad)venture with laughter has only just begun and possibilities and opportunities open to the world of Laughter Yoga, and to becoming a Laughter Yoga Teacher as well as Laughter Yoga Coach.
Along the way you meet inspiring people who may touch your heart and move you onto extraordinary pathways.
Some of us become best friends for life whereas others pass through in a gentle, kind, and laughing way.
We create pathways as we walk – and laugh along the way makes them easier to tread.
To learn more about our training programmes, options and requirements, please contact me via email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.
The Accredited Laughter Yoga Training
More information about the different programmes is available on
- Laughter Yoga Leader – from £275 per person
- Laughter Yoga Teacher – from £675 per person
- Laughter Yoga Coach – from £895 per person (including Leader and Teacher training)
Now is a good time to book your training!
UnitedMind is registered with our insurance company as a Training Provider which means that our certificates grant you insurance.
When you choose your training provider please make sure you check their credentials as online training methods and courses are not always covered by insurers.
FHT Accredited courses uniquely from UnitedMind Laughter Yoga and our Accredited Laughter Yoga Teachers are
- 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training or 4-week online or self-study
- 5-day Laughter Yoga Teacher Training or Hybrid 6 online sessions + weekend
- 1-day Laughter Yoga Coach Training
- Laughter Therapist Training
With accreditation we are taking Laughter Yoga seriously and we are bringing the standards to a level of nationwide approval within the education system. The UnitedMind accreditation is the only UK accreditation for Laughter Yoga Training.
Our courses are continued professional development and gives you points to add to your CPD list!
To learn more about how you can become a Laughter Yoga Leader or Teacher please contact Lotte on mobile/WhatsApp +44 (0) 7736341717 or email lotte@unitedmind.co.uk.
UnitedMind teaches Laughter Yoga courses in the following locations:
- Accredited Laughter Yoga Leader Training
This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Teacher- London, Online, Preston, Durham, St Albans, or Your venue your group – minimum 4 people
- Accredited Laughter Yoga Teacher Training
This training is a requirement for becoming a Laughter Yoga Coach- Hemel Hempstead, or Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
- Accredited Laughter Therapist Training
- Hemel Hempstead
- Accredited Laughter Coach and Certified Gibberish Coach Training
- Online, or Your venue, your group – minimum 4 people
Your Self Study
A way to learn at your own leisure, at times to suit. If you are able to come to the in-person training at a later time, the 2-day training is included in the fee of £275 early bird / £325 full fee.
Learn Laughter Yoga online as an almost-self-study, where you will be able to learn at your own pace and finish by presenting a Laughter Yoga session as you will have learned through the lessons, at a face-to-face Zoom session.
Book www.pensight.com/x/unitedmind.
Accredited Laughter Yoga Leader
The 2-day Laughter Yoga Leader Training runs on the following dates and venues (full details are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-yoga-leader/) provided by UnitedMind in the UK since 2007:
- 01+08 June 2025 Laughter Yoga Leader Hemel Hempstead from £275
- 14-15 June 2025 Laughter Yoga Leader London from £275
- 13-14 September 2025 Laughter Yoga Leader St Albans from £275
- 11-12 October 2025 Laughter Yoga Leader London from £275
- 23-24 October 2025 Laughter Yoga Leader Preston from £275
- 14-15 February 2026 Laughter Yoga Leader Durham from £275
- 07-08 March 2026 Laughter Yoga Leader London from £275
- More dates are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-yoga-leader/
- Your workplace or with your group at dates to suit you!
12-hour Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training Online – click to choose your dates:
- Wednesdays 07, 14, 21, 28 May 2025 at 19:00-21:30 from £275
- Mondays 02, 09, 16, 23 June 2025 at 19:00-21:30 from £275
More online training dates in 2024 are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/product-category/laughter-leader-training-online/
Accredited Laughter Yoga Teacher
The Laughter Yoga Teacher Training and Hybrid Laughter Yoga Teacher Training runs on the following dates and venues (full details are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-yoga-teacher/) provided by UnitedMind in the UK since 2012:
- Sundays July+August and 24-25 August 2025 HYBRID online and in Hemel Hempstead from £675
- 22-25 August 2025 in Hemel Hempstead non-residential all days 8:00-18:00 from £675
- 15-18 January 2026 in Hemel Hempstead non-residential all days 8:00-18:00 from £675
- More dates on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-yoga-teacher/
Accommodation is not included.
Feel free to enquire about special offers at any time, info@unitedmind.co.uk.
Accredited Laughter Yoga Coach
The 1-day Laughter Yoga Coach Training for Laughter Yoga Teachers runs online on the following dates (full details are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-yoga-coach-cpd/):
Add-On to Laughter Yoga Teacher Certification
Or you can book your 8-week One On One Laughter Coaching Programme and get closer to your real laughter through the practice of Laughter Yoga exercises.
Accredited Laughter Therapist
The 2-day Laughter Therapist Training is only the beginning of the 6-12 months programme (full details on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/laughter-therapist/)
Accredited Gibberish Coach
The 1-day Gibberish Coach Training for Laughter Yoga Leaders and Teachers runs on the following dates (full details are listed on www.unitedmind.co.uk/training/gibberish-coach/):
All fees listed in the newsletter are early bird fees available until one month before training dates and excluding travel and accommodation costs unless otherwise stated. Other deals may be available as well as special agreements with companies and organisations who wish to train teams and individuals in their workplace.
If you want to be sure to get a place on the course of your choice please book now in the UnitedMind Online Shop.
For more information about accredited training courses please contact us via info@unitedmind.co.uk, phone 0800 1214 714, or mobile/WhatsApp +447736341717.