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Events HAVE to be fun. It’s the only way we can increase engagement, motivation and productivity. For some of us this is a new approach to event management so to help us along I am sharing four tips in order to get us going forward on this path.

1) Location, location, location! Pick a location that brings you closer to nature, provides healthy food for meals and snacks and gives you enough space to bring in a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher (that’s me) for your morning and afternoon breaks.

We ALL resort to toxic humour at one point or another. “Humour is a tool like any other,” says Robert L. Weiss, a psychologist at the University of Oregon who studies humour in relationships. “People use humour in lots of different ways, including some negative ones. Almost every sweet, supportive way of using it has an evil twin; an aggressive, selfish or manipulative version. And like those teasing comments in the workplace that can just as easily feel like flattery or an attack, the two sides of humour are so intimately intertwined, it almost isn’t funny. ”

Last week I met a friend for breakfast. We were sitting at a table, laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Sitting at the next table was a group of eight sophisticated gentlemen; they where sharing stories, laughing and teasing each other. Between our two tables we created enough laughter to fill a stadium. As the gentlemen got up to go pay their bills, one of them came over to our table and said “it was a pleasure eating breakfast sitting close to you ladies”. We said thank-you, and laughed some more.

The last two months I have been investing a lot of time into my business. Maybe it’s the bad economy that’s getting to me. I have been feeling a bit of pressure to work harder and make more money; consequently I am not spending enough time on doing what’s good for me.