2013 AATH Conference
Special E-Zine
Dear
Friends of AATH,
Surf’s
up…are you amped and aggro for the ginchiest great time carving with smiles
& laughs???....Ready for an epic, choka clean up set of chuckles that will
have you hollering ‘shakka, dudes!’ as you kick out the gnarly bummers wiping
you out? This conference 2013 special edition E-Zine will have you sing ‘cowabunga‘
until the conference begins in San Diego on April 4th …so get stoked
for this heaviest, happiest, learningest time of the year! If you are an
old-school AATH conference go-er, then you know exactly the party wave I’m
talking about…if you are a frube and haven’t attended before, AKAW!…you have a
rad & sick going off for April 4-7. Get out your board shorts and hang ten
(or eleven), pop-up, rock dance, shove-it, turtle roll, kick flip, or beach
break it to the Xtreme AATH Conference 2013 hanging loose in San Diego. Don’t
be a kook…check out the hecka presenter links below that will have you lining
up!
Cheri Gidget Campbell,
Editor; former AATH Ezine
Glossary: for newbie surfer dudes
A look back at 25th AATH
Anniversary Conference 2012 in Chicago
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at
life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always
brought me out of unhappy situations.
—Red Skelton
AATH MEMBERS in the NEWS: Spotlight on 2013 Conference Presenters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hurray for our
fabulous conference Chair: Jill Knox who with help from the conference committee & our rockin’
AATH staff have produced the 2013 Conference in San Diego that will deliver the PERFECT
WAVE!
Thursday,
April, 4, 2013
Enroll in AATH’s Humor
Academy. Special classes are held 4/4, 4/7, and beyond. Double your
pleasure & earn Humor Certification & CREDITS!
Humor
Academy
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Orient Express - Laughter-filled Welcome Session for all new
members and first time conference attendees. WELCOME!
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Welcome Reception meet & greet us
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Humor Jams AATH's got talent
No
matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few
seconds.
—Red
Skelton
Friday,
April 5, 2013
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
General Session: Welcome From El Presidente Chip Lutz
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Keynote – “How Your Personal Mess is Someone’s Message”, - Judy Carter
In this hilarious new keynote presentation, Judy Carter
illustrates how the worst messes of our lives, not only contain a message of
inspiration, but can be turned into comedy gold. Carter’s “mess-into-success” presentation
is LOL funny AND gives audience members specific skill-building tips on how to
turn their problems into punch lines and make a living as a paid professional
speaker. As Carter says, “Speak your message and change lives… including your
own.”
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Break Surfs Up!
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Keynote – "We
Gotta Fail…To Succeed!", Milo Shapiro focuses on
risk-taking and our attitude toward what failure really is (versus what we turn
it into). Through stories and interactive improv games from 18+ years of
improvisation work, Milo leads attendees in recognizing where they may be
holding themselves back...and cheating themselves and their organizations of
their brilliance! The games also bring awareness to issues of
communication.
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM
Break: Get in the swim!
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
• “New Frontiers in Laughter” , -Albert Nerenberg Detailed
description will be posted @ AATH website soon.
• “How to Get an F in Laughter”, -Sporty King
Sporty will
transfer creative mindsets and deliver an inspirational, interactive and
empowering look at the Five F's participants can use to share their laughter
during tough times. We will use a fun team exercise that can be duplicated at
the office, center, hospital, school... Attendees will be inspired to continue
to Find happiness within themselves; Focus on their health; have Fun; keep the
Faith; make Friends; and Free their minds. Oops, that's 6! Not really. I'm not
finished giving out F's.
• “Happy
People Don’t Get Sick: The Link Between Joy and Health”, Patricia Raymond , MD, FACG
Doctor Deepak Chopra writes: “Most people say that they would
be happy IF they were healthy. The truth is, that if they WERE happy, they WOULD
be healthy.” The distinguished Doctor Seuss agrees, saying: “In my
world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
Are YOU a pony? Or just someone who wishes they could be both happier and
healthier? Today we’ll explore the science of happiness— whether you are
born with a happiness set point, and whether you can alter your happiness
level without winning the ‘Mega-Millions’ lottery. We’ll discover the
physiological effects of happiness on the body, what diseases are helped
with laughter, and the few that are actually worsened by a good guffaw.
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Fiesta Lunch… OLE! & Research Poster
Presentations
• Tabatha
Mauldin , RN,
MSN, CPN, MT (ASCP)
Winston-Salem
State Univ. & Brenner Children’s Hospital
Title: Reducing Nursing Student Anxiety in Pediatric Clinical: Enhancing
Communication with Pediatric Clients Through the Use of Humor
• Gurinder Singh Bains MD, PhDc
Loma Linda University (CA)
Title: Effectiveness of Humor on Short Term Memory Function in
Age-Matched Elderly and Diabetic Subjects vs. Control Group
• Amy
Puderbaugh, Ph.D.,
SPHR, GPHR
Walden University (WA)
Title: The Relationship Between Humor Styles of Supervisors and
Subordinate Job Satisfaction
• Alyssa Frederick
Northern Arizona University
Title: The Psychophysiological Effects of Adaptive Sense of Humor
and Laughter During the Trier Social Stress Test
• Siobhan
Kavanagh, PhDc
National University of Ireland, Galway
Title: Laughter within a Theoretical Framework:
Fredrickson’s Theory of Positive Emotions
“Display Only,” not showcased:
• Sebastian
Niessen
University
of Zurich (Switzerland)
Title: Clown Interventions in Dementia: Embarrassment or Exhilaration?
• Anthony Biduck, M.A.
Alliant International Univ., California School of Professional Psychology
Title: The Role of Humor in the Therapeutic Process
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
• “Your Life
is a Joke! Getting Laughs with your Life Story” Judy Carter Judy Carter
The story
of your journey from "Mess to Success" can not only inspire others,
but get laughs if you know some comedy formulas. In this workshop Judy Carter,
the Goddess of Comedy, will show you how to turn your Eureka Moments into
comedy gold.
• Switcheroo:
Have I Got A Song for You!” , Catherine Sembert, RN
- In this
session we will take familiar easy tunes and change the words to make them
hilarious. The process itself can be lots of fun. Catherine especially likes to
use serious subjects to make fun of (aging, motherhood, marriage, illness),
anyone can do it. It is amazing what can come out when a group accesses its
improvisational skills. Everyone will leave the session with a new song
to sing. This can really build confidence as it brings out the witness in all
of us.
• “What’s
Droll About Dementia?” ,Kathy Laurenhue
When people
develop dementia, they lose much more than their memory, but amazingly, they
retain their sense of humor. This presentation focuses on how to tap into a
healthy expression of humor to enhance the well being of both the people with
dementia and their caregivers. Healthy humor helps us to belong, to fit into a
group. It overcomes isolation, builds trust, and renews hope that we can cope.
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Transition Break: Get Down!
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
• Public
Speaking: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!", Milo Shapiro Milo Shapiro
With
his playful, story-filled approach, Milo covers these topics and more: capturing
the power of story to make points sizzle,setting the stage with your body to
help people visualize,the Seven Variants of Vocal Variety™, the Four Stages to
Successful Speech Structure™
, common ways that we alienate / distract
our audiences, taking control of Q&A
Full of fun and loaded with
juicy aha's to avoid learner burnout
• Laugh Your
Fat Off, – The Role of Humor in Weight Management Heidi Hanna, PhD
Traditional
dieting and exercise can increase the stress response, making sustainable
weight loss nearly impossible. Relaxation and laughter have been shown to help
support healthy behaviors by increasing positive energy, thereby eliminating the
energy deficit that often triggers survival based behaviors such as overeating
and a sedentary lifestyle. Specific weight management strategies that
incorporate humor, positive emotion and social connection will be discussed and
incorporated into a Laugh Your Fat Off tool-kit.
• Cooperative
Games, Initiatives and Activities To Promote Engagement, Learning, Smiles and
Functional Forwardness, Robert Valle - There are two goals – to learn
and to have fun. This Presentation will have participants learn activities they
can utilize in their area of meeting students, clients, and working with
people. Session participants will learn by doing and while 100%
participation is requested all activities will be 100% “challenge by choice”
and participants can choose their level of involvement. With only 1 hour
of presentation time, this time will be limited to play (defined differently
dependent on group involved) and leaving only a few minutes for debriefing and
offering options for reflection, processing and connection making.
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Break: Who you gonna call?
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Keynote: You Must Remember This: The Power And Joy of
Remembered Laughter, Don Baird. Psy.D- Each year at
the AATH banquet, Don has paid memorial tribute to friends of humor and
laughter. This year, in this special presentation, he pays honor to others who
brought so much laughter to him, to us, and to the world, to demonstrate that
even remembered humor and laughter from the past have a powerful effect in the
here-and-now! Remembered laughter offers its creator a kind of immortality and
its recipient a joyful release from current suffering. Participants will have
an opportunity to remember, share and take renewed pleasure from their own
memories of those who brought laughter to their lives.
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Cocktail Reception: Cheers!
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Awards
Dinner: EPIC !
Annual
Memorial Tribute by Don Baird, PhD
Special 100th
Birthday Tribute to Red Skelton
Entertainment
Everybody Dance!
Everybody!
Red
Skelton Museum of American Comedy
Vincennes,
Indiana
RedSkeltonMuseum.org
All men make
mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
—Red
Skelton
Saturday,
April 6, 2013
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
General
Session – Welcome & Announcements
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Keynote: Happiness and Humor: Two Estranged Relatives, Matthew Della Porta, PhD- Using his
background in positive psychology (particularly in happiness-boosting
activities), Dr. Della Porta will review the relationship between happiness and
humor. The mood-boosting effects of laughter and smiling will be discussed, as
well as the theoretical importance of incorporating humor into one's daily
life.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Keynote:
Emergence--After 2012—What’s Next?, Howard Martin-A new world
is birthing itself in the midst of the old one. It is a world based on new
values and new intelligence and despite the many challenges we face it offers
the promise of a more fulfilling future. It is a world fueled by the
intelligence of the heart. The much anticipated year, 2012, is past and
we are now tasked with taking our hopes, dreams and ideas forward in a
practical way. It’s now our time to answer the call. Join Howard
Martin, co-author, The HeartMath Solution, Executive Vice President, HeartMath
and steering committee member of the Global Coherence Initiative, for this
up-lifting program. You’ll hear about keys to the next phase of planetary
evolution and learn how to take your wisdom and awareness to new levels that
allow you to be a true custodian of the planet and its future.
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Break: All in the game...
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
• Necessary Roughness:
New Rules for the Contact Sport of Negotiating, Mimi Donaldson- Successful
negotiations are crucial in today’s hard-fought personal and professional
success. Negotiating in changing times is a question of ability.
Master negotiators are not born – they are skilled. Mimi, the author of
the new book, Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life,
uses football, the ultimate team game, to highlight the skills you need in every
negotiation.
• Laughter and
Tears: Expressive Meditation, Pragito Dove, MA, CCH- Re-ignite
your passion for work and play. Unleash your creative fire. Tap your sense of
humor at will. Open your heart to love, happiness and wealth. Revitalize your
energy and well-being. Sound good? It gets even better. Come see how our
experiential workshop improves your personal and professional life! You’ll
experience the powerful and playful laughter meditation that unlocks your
authentic spirited self. Also practice the tears meditation which deepens your
capacity to heal and transform your grief and pain into emotional stillness,
love, and wisdom. Perfect for anyone in high stress situations, including nurses,
therapists, physicians, professional or family caregivers. De-stress and teach
others how, too.
• Homegrown
Humor: Prospecting Your Past To Uncover Humorous Story Treasures, Craig Harrison- You've got
stories! Some you remember, some you forgot, and others are tragedies you can
finally laugh about. Prospect your past for humorous personal stories for your
keynotes, ice-breakers, workshops, training, coaching, and consulting. Identify
universal truths within stories from childhood, school, travels and past work
experiences to share from the platform, classroom or virtually. These stories,
uniquely yours, work in speeches, comedy bits, and sets! This interactive,
fast-paced session will set your stories free!
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch and Annual Business Meeting
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Join the Clown on Down Experience- Off Site
Program
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
And…
Concurrent Sessions
• Laughter is
in the Details, Matthew Della Porta, PhD- In this
session Dr. Della Porta will review techniques for finding humor in everyday situations.
Beginning with a review of the happiness-related benefits of humor and
laughter, the session will then focus on mindful observation and how it can be
used to more carefully examine a mundane experience. By focusing on the details
that we often don't notice, session attendees will come away with a better
understanding of how to find humor in the places we least expect to find it.
• Starting and
Running an On-Going Humor Support Group, Linda MacNeal- Of course
you’ve all heard of Book Clubs whose members get together to discuss books.
Well, did you ever think to start a Humor Club where people gather to
learn to add more humor to their lives? I did. And it proved so
useful that I have continued to implement programs at several corporations as
well. In this breakout session, I will give
you:
• Sample agendas for
meetings
• Specific meeting content
and sample assignments
• Rationale for
each element of a typical meeting
Developing new habits takes time and
attention, that’s why this structure works so well. Humor Clubs really do
change lives. I’m so grateful that it transformed mine!
• Seeing
Demise Thru Humorous Eyes, Allen Klein– Death and
dying situations are not funny. Still comedians, cartoonists, and
cinematographers show us that it is possible to laugh during times of
loss. In doing so they not only help us get a different perspective on
our situation but also help us get the upper hand on the inevitable. In
other words, through laughter comedians, cartoonists, and cinematographers show
us that death doesn’t have to be such a grave matter.
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Break: New School
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
• Activating
the Heart’s Intelligence Activating the Heart’s Intelligence, Howard Martin- Activating
the Heart’s Intelligence is an energizing and up-lifting
session that incorporates HeartMath’s innovative understanding about the
heart’s role in accessing the new awareness and intelligence that is emerging
on our planet. You’ll learn about break-through research on human performance,
techniques needed to improve your health and well-being, and how to greatly
increase your ability to affect global change.
• What to Know
Before, During, & After Writing Your Book, Kelly Epperson Simmons- Many
first-time authors make the birthing of their book harder than it needs to be.
It doesn’t have to take 9 months and it doesn’t have to be painful! We’ll cover
the very first steps you need to know - your WHO and your WHY - and we’ll
discuss the HOW TO of getting your book into the world, and all the ways a book
creates opportunities for you, even before it’s written.
• “Teaching
the Tricks of The Trade”, Mark Collier- Attendees of
this breakout session will be able to demonstrate and teach several magic
tricks and sight gags. This will be a very hands-on workshop with 100%
participation. This workshop will give participants not just knowledge but
practical skills in magic, and comedy. The lessons are modular, accommodating
all skill levels with the emphasis on not just being able to perform the stunts
but to teach them as well.
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Baby Break
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Keynote: “The Laughing Brain”, Albert Nerenberg
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Laughter Contest-
Facilitated by Albert Nerenberg
Explore San Diego’s Best !
My
wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the
carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, “In the lake.”
—Red
Skelton
Sunday,
April 7, 2013
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast: All
Scrambled Up in San Diego
Sponsored by Cheryl Fell, RN-BC "Nurse
FUNshine" whose sunnyside is always
up!
General
Session – Welcome & Announcements
Humor
Academy Level II Project Application Presentations
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Keynote:
Research Update Panel – The Funny Thing About Research Is...., Gurinder Bains MD, PhD
& Lee Berk DrPH, MPH
- Moderated by Dr. Joyce Saltman -Join our
leading experts, Lee Berk Ph.D. and Gurinder Bains MD., for an
enlightening panel discussion facilitated by Joyce Saltman Ph.D.
They will be sharing the most current research in the field of
psychoneuroimmunology. There will be time for questions and
answers.
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Laugh Break
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Keynote: Make the Whole World Smile; The Bucks Come
Shining Through, Mimi Donaldson– Mimi’s
presentations are based on years of corporate experience training managers and
employees to build successful teams and communicate with trust. She has the
extraordinary gift of demonstrating how to “find the funny” while delivering
solid content. She will deliver this topic setting up the audience to watch it
with “two heads”, first for the actual content and second, how humor can be
added to increase your connection with the audience and hence, your
profit. The audience gets the benefit immediately and can apply and jump
start any of their marketing presentations.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Good and
Welfare
Final Wrap-up 
Why
can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then
just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would
leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say
good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more
hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
12:00 PM-2:00PM Humor Academy
Member’s Graduation, Lunch,
Levels I, II, III meet.
Heard
about the young deaf boy who used sign language? One day he told his mother a
dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap.
—Red
Skelton
Catch a wave
& register!
Say
goodnight, Gracie.
Goodnight.
