7:00-8:00 AM		Optional Laugh & Learn Sessions
7:30-9:00 AM		Breakfast
9:00-10:15 AM		Concurrent Sessions: Round Three Please indicate on the registration form your first choice to attend from the following 6 sessions:
9:00-10:15 AM	13	Life Coaching and Life Make-Overs: Moving Through Transitions with Intention, Grace, and Humor Margie Ingram Are you ready for a change in your life? Or are you facing a change that has arrived uninvited? Are you wondering what you want to be (and do) when you grow up? Join Margie in a highly interactive, productive, and fun workshop that will focus on: how to move gracefully through life transitions; calling on your signature strengths as allies for growth and intentional visioning; 6 key questions to help you navigate through any changes in life; and specific ways to shift from a "What's happening to me?" mentality to a "Let's go for it!" attitude. Drawing on her coast-to-coast life coaching practice, Margie will help you make the most of current and future life transitions. Margie Ingram, Co-Director of The HUMOR Project, is one of the pioneers in the fields of stress management and the humor-resilience connection. Margie is a popular speaker and workshop leader throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is also a very successful life coach helping individuals and small groups to create fulfilling lives, move gracefully through life transitions, identify and build on personal and professional strengths, and overcome obstacles by optimizing optimism with a touch of humor. Margie has been an educator for the past 42 years. A public school teacher from 1968-1975, she went on to supervise student teachers and teach grad courses at many colleges on effective teaching methods and developing effective classroom environments. Margie's speaking career, which began 35 years ago, grew out of her love of teaching. Her programs are lively, engaging, and practical as she creates opportunities for participants to apply the content to their immediate lives and jobs. Margie has also served as coordinator of The HUMOR Project's international conference on "The Positive Power of Humor, Hope and Healing" and international workshop on "HUMOResilience: Tickling Stress Before It Tackles You," which have attracted 21,000+ people from all 50 states, 6 continents, and the Moon (Moonwalking astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell). Margie was honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the Reed Foundation and the Prevention Council as well as the Hometown Hero Award. In her spare time, Margie loves kayaking, walking, completing challenging puzzles, and spending time with family and good friends. She practices what she teaches about creating intentional balance in life.
9:00-10:15 AM	14	When Life Throws You a Punch, Make Punchlines Brett Leake Here's a funderful chance to entertain and empower yourself by discovering the gift of humor within you. After sharing some of his side-splitting slice-of-life comedy, Brett will encourage you to develop your comic x-ray vision and to use humor as a tool to take the mess out of stress. You will learn how to "play the cards" that life deals you... and how to play the jokers up your sleeve. You will also realize that life can be fully lived not in spite of problems... but because of them. Part of this session will involve a Q&A with Brett- you'll see that he is more than a funny guy- Brett is a credible and incredible inspiration to all who meet him. Brett Leake and his clean, inspiring comedy have been featured everywhere from the American Comedy Awards, the Kennedy Center, IBM corporate programs, and at an Australian humour conference. Brett made television history when he became the first comedian with disabilities to appear on The Tonight Show (five times). Others have added their applause: on Entertainment Tonight, Jerry Seinfeld observed: "He's funny. There's a great common denominator in the comedy industry: funny is funny." Last year, Brett was honored to receive the statewide Governor's Caregiver Recognition Award, which is a magnificent reflection of the wonderful human being he is.
9:00-10:15 AM	15	The Likeability Factor: Skills to Increase Your Likeability Quotient Rick Segel People tend to do business with people that they like. It doesn't matter how good the product is, how low the price is, how effective the service is, or how convenient the business is, we avoid doing business with people we don't like. Yet, we tend to trivialize the importance of learning the skills to become more likeable. This program will pay lifetime dividends on your path to mastering likeability. Rick delivers substance in a very unique style as he focuses on: the Likeability Awareness System to increase your Likeability Quotient; ways to have people like you, treat you nicer, and do extra things for you naturally; the five killer categories that turn people off; and secrets to creating funatic followers. Rick Segel holds the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association, an elite rank held by only 7% of professional speakers. He has been a featured speaker over 1900 times in 49 states and 4 continents. A seasoned retailer of 25 years, Rick currently serves on the Board of Directors for five corporations and associations. He is the author of nine books, two training videos, and an audio program- including Laugh & Grow Rich: How to Profit from Humor in Any Business, Retail Business Kit for Dummies, and The Essential Online Solution: The Five Step Formula for Small Business Success. Rick's down-to-earth, streets-smart approach to business makes him a crowd-pleaser wherever he goes.
9:00-10:15 AM	16	The Clown Nose All!: Discovering the Wit and Wisdom of the Clown Within You Steve Kissell Steve has been clowning around for a long time. Drawing on his 30+ years of performing and presenting, he believes that adults can play too! This former kindergarten teacher now teaches adults to act like children by learning to be a clown in plain clothes! Along the way, you'll discover how juggling and comedy magic can help you reduce stress and how to use the playful innocence of your childlike perspective to see the humor in life. You will literally walk away equipped with a clown nose for every occasion! Steve Kissell has presented more than 1500 keynotes and workshops throughout North and Central America. He was awarded the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association in 1998 for his professionalism, program content, and ability to present important information in a fun and memorable manner. Prior to becoming a professional speaker, Steve served his country in the Navy and as a Navy Reservist for 21 years. As an elementary school educator, Steve was honored with the School Bell Award for Teaching and Excellence (Steve wore a tuxedo to his first formal evaluation- he definitely practices what he teaches about bringing humor to the workplace). Steve's many books include Surviving Life with Laughter, Just Plane Funny, Humor By the Dozen, and Never Take Comedy from a Stranger.
9:00-10:15 AM	17	The 21st Century Leader: Managing Across Generations Johnny Campbell Today's workforce includes an unprecedented mix of generations - traditionalists, baby boomers, generations X & Y - each with a unique set of values and behaviors. For your organization to survive and shine, you must learn how best to motivate, manage, and retain this increasingly diverse workforce. In this entertaining and informative program, you will learn strategies, techniques, and tactics needed to effectively lead the growing Gen X and Gen Y workforce. You'll gain insights on: Gen X & Y's communication styles, how to build loyalty and credibility with the Gen X & Y demographic, ways to manage Gen X & Y's expectations in times of change, and tips to use technology more effectively with Gen X & Y. Johnny Campbell (a.k.a. "The Transition Man") holds the honor of being an Accredited Speaker, a designation given by Toastmasters International for excellence in public speaking (only 58 professional speakers in the world have this). He is the youngest person in the world to ever achieve this mark of respect and the only American in the past three years to earn it. Johnny also received the DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) Award, was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, and also accepted the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for outstanding service in business. In addition to his widespread speaking, Johnny is the author of five books- including his recently-released Becoming the Agent of Change: Strategies for Getting People to Embrace Change Without Losing Your Mind or Bank Account.
9:00-10:15 AM	18	Tricks of the Trade for the 3 T's: Teaching, Training, and Therapy as Performing Arts Sr. Anne Bryan Smollin Here's an opportunity to learn ways that the performing arts can be a meaningful model for the 3 T's. Anne will share examples and demonstrate ways that you can sail the 3 C's of communication, creativity, and comedy in making classrooms and counseling sessions more effective and enjoyable for everyone. Anne's rapid-fire delivery will inspire you with lots of sure-fire ideas that you can put into practice on Monday to help re-charge your teacher, trainer, and therapist batteries. This is the workshop for you if you would like to inject fun, curiosity, and creativity into the classroom and counseling sessions. Sister Anne Bryan Smollin, Ph.D., is a popular international speaker who receives enthusiastic reviews for her enormous energy, keen insights, and sense of humor. Anne is presently Executive Director of Counseling for Laity and serves as a therapist, consultant to hospitals, and adjunct professor at several colleges. She has also served as President of the Board of Clowns on Rounds and has authored six books including Tickle Your Soul: Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often; God Knows You're Stressed: Simple Ways to Restore Your Balance; and Live, Laugh, and Be Blessed: Finding Humor and Holiness in Everyday Moments.
10:15-10:45 AM		You Deserve a Coffee, Juice and Tea-Hee Break Today
10:45-12:00 AM	Keynote	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Rest of My Life Martha Bolton Bob Hope said it best: "Martha Bolton finds the fun in the familiar, the mirth in the mundane, the belly laughs in the bellyaches of everyday living." Wrapping up the conference, this Emmy-nominated staff writer for Bob Hope will share fun and moving behind-the-scenes stories of writing for the legendary comedian, as well as writing for Phyllis Diller, Wayne Newton, and many other entertainers. Martha's career journey will inspire you to believe in yourself (whether or not anyone else does), take a chance on your dreams, roll with life's punches, move beyond your failures and shortcomings, get all the laughs you can in life, and never, ever give up. Martha Bolton is an Emmy- and Dove-nominated writer who was a staff writer for Bob Hope for more than fifteen years. The recipient of four Angel awards for excellence in media, she writes several magazine and internet columns and has written for other entertainers such as Phyllis Diller, Ann Jillian, Wayne Newton, Jim Stafford, and John Davidson. Her 50+ published humor books (with several co-authored New York Times best-sellers), include such titles as: Didn't My Skin Used to Fit?, Cooking with Hot Flashes, Living It Down By Laughing It Up, It's Always Darkest Before the Fridge Door Opens, Race You to the Fountain of Youth, and Maybe Life's Just Not That Into You. Martha is currently writing a screenplay and is co-authoring a book with The HUMOR Project's own Joel Goodman and Margie Ingram. The Laugh Round-Up: TGIF: Thank God It's Funday!: Dr. Joel Goodman. This closing segment will help you make your mirthful memories last a laughtime!
12:00 Noon		Lunch (either in the dining hall or a bag-lunch-to-go if you need to hit the road)