
Oi! Stop laughing! We’re at work!
A few years ago, I qualified as a Certified Laughter Yoga leader/instructor with United Mind. ‘What on earth is that?!’ I hear you say… Laughter Yoga is a non-bendy, non-intrusive, all-inclusive, fun ‘workout’ that helps individuals manage and deal with stress. Originating from India, combining yoga breathing technique and laughter, it was created by medical Dr Madan Kataria and is based on the simple (and proven!) hypothesis that laughter has huge both psychological and phys

Take your team to the mechanic
Let’s consider your car for a minute. It’s your reliable workhorse that you have created quite a dependency on. It gets you to work, your kids to school, takes you for your leisure time. In return you look after it. You take it to the garage at least once a year for a service and testing. When it starts to make funny noises you get anxious and take it to be looked at and any problems resolved. You clean it, check the tyres and keep its tank filled with fuel whenever it needs

Team offsites – not a luxury…
Getting away from it all is often really helpful to shift the mind from the day to day to the important issues. This can be of particular importance to global and remote teams spread across borders, time zones and cultures. Our belief is that bringing people together is both a privilege and critical to business success. We have run team off sites for globally dispersed teams in the UK, USA, Singapore and the Middle East – and everyone hugely appreciated the effort and the