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laughter club
noun
- a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
Example Sentences
"I've had people say to me after Laughter Club, 'I didn't even think about cancer for the last hour,'" she says.
Once, she says, an 8-year-old girl whose mother was a patient came to Laughter Club and reported back: "I didn't know you could still laugh when you're feeling sad."
Julie Gum stumbled into her first laughter club meeting earlier this year after seeing a sign in the library.
In addition to attending club meetings, people can go through a two-day course to become certified laughter club leaders through various laugh organizations: followthelaughter.com, laughteryoga.org or worldlaughtertour.org.
Dr. Madan Kataria, 45, explains that when he started his first laughter club in 1995 after reading about the medical benefits of a good giggle, he ran out of funny stories in a week.
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