Barbara Ann Michaels Jester of the Peace

Putting Humor Back in the Medicine Cabinet Humor has been relegated to the entertainment shelf when it belongs in the medicine cabinet. Humor is sanity. Humor puts space around pain, freeing up energy for resilience - for both individuals and communities. Until we laugh with (not at) what has troubled us, those situations own us emotionally. We can help each other get to the first laugh about a past challenge when it's clearly time for a change of perspective. We also can compassionately know when it's too soon for laughter. Humor is the harbinger of healing for all people. Remember how to create positive humor with each other and further relationships of all kinds, professional and personal. Turn to laughter on purpose as a tool by learning the clear rules of humor. Enjoy an audience-interactive masterclass in using humor for resilience.

Harnessing Humor for Extraordinary Communication Working life can be overly serious, out of sheer sincerity, and trying hard while worrying about relationships and results. Yet, the hidden languages of business, humor and body language, hold the missing keys to enjoying warm and trusting professional connections - to the very vibe that actually makes business thrive and grow. Paradoxically, we all know the rules of body language and humor, yet we know them subconsciously. Bringing facility with body language and humor into your conscious awareness and action, you unfurl your natural, positive magnetic confidence and influence, solo and as a team.

The Paradoxes That Make Love Grow REV BAM, Jester of the Peace, officiated over 550 weddings, including some of the first legal same-sex marriages in New York State. Thus, she interviewed 1100 people about why they feel at home with another person. REV BAM distilled 3 paradoxes at the core of growing, healthy love, plus key questions that point to a good quality relationship - whether with colleagues, families, ;partners or ourselves. This talk is audience-participatory - as love itself is participatory! REV BAM shares her wisdom and takes questions about what makes love grow.