YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! WHAT DOES HUMOR HAVE TO
DO WITH HEALING?

Wouldn't life be funnier without conflict, pain, and doubt? Not really. Because humor is based on these
things. Healing is focused on eliminating these "problems," but humor uses pain, and conflict to get
laughs! Using what is already there: pain, conflict, etc., it is sometimes easier to get a healing than to get
a laugh! To do this we use other elements of humor: Distance, detachment, perception, and perspective.
In this workshop, you won't (necessarily) learn how to tell a joke, but you will learn that you can move
through the "negative" aspects of humor directly to the "positive" aspects. Like taking the direct route
instead of a detour, you can move directly from pain to peace, conflict to conciliation, uncertainty to
clarity, and contradiction to creativity. You will practice some new ideas, perspectives, and techniques.
You will also experience the benefits when all of this is combined during a group healing.