Laughter Professor and Coach: Business and Corporate world.
Hendrik Visser brings you Laughter without humour, comedy or jokes. He has been a pre-registered RAD teacher and has had his own ballet-school in Kimberley. He also has been breeding exotic Parrots, Toucans, Scarlet Ibises, waterfowl, Capuchin monkeys and miniature horses.

He is one of a few laughter professionals in South Africa, who is doing laughter coaching on a full-time basis, and is a Laughter Coach that is changing the future of how the business-world is dealing with stress. Laughter Coaching is a natural and highly effective technique that produces instant results, and will help your organisation, to be more stress-free and to shift paradigms in your workforce.

Hendrik Visser works on a holistic fun way with stress, conflict, productivity and leadership skills. He is using laughter exercises, combined with breathing exercises, positive affirmations, childlike – playfulness and gibberish.

Hendrik Visser first qualified as a Certified Laughter Yoga leader in 2008, and started immediately to work in the corporate world by facilitating Laughter Coaching workshops.

In the beginning he did workshops in the Johannesburg area for NPO’s, NGO’s and other small groups to gain experience in Laughter Coaching. In 2009 he moved to Bronkhorstspruit after his divorce and started to work immediately as a Volunteer at Sinzinani Village (St, Joseph Support and Care Trust). He worked at this NGO for nearly 13 months and worked daily with AIDS patients at the Hospice, HIV/Aids Support groups, care-givers, AIDS-orphans and Staff.

In the middle of 2009, he went to India to study and qualify as a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher and Coach. He studied with the Founder of the Laughter Yoga movement, Dr. Madan Kataria and is one of 8 teaching members of the Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga and Laughter Yoga International in South Africa. When Hendrik returned from India, he immediately started and concentrated on corporate work.
In 2010, Hendrik travelled around Southern Africa, facilitating workshops and CLYL’s training in the Durban area, then he moved to Port Elizabeth and has been instrumental in bringing Laughter Yoga to the Eastern Cape, where he facilitated CLYL’s training and workshops in the corporate world.  

He moved to Cape Town in the beginning of 2011, after he have seen the need of Corporate Laughter Coaching in the Western Cape. He has built a very successful Laughter Coaching practice in Cape Town and he is always in big demand. He has been in the press in the following newspapers, The Algoa Sun, Career Times Section of the Cape Times and on the Radio on the following Radio-stations like Radio Algoa, Taxi Radio and RSG.

Hendrik loves to travel and meeting new people, and has a passion to bring Laughter Coaching to everybody that wants to learn how to laugh without reason and to train people to change their lifestyles regarding stress-management and relationship-building.

Dr. Kataria told me during my teachers training, that I have a calling for Laughter Coaching and I need to dedicate myself to laughter coaching, and it would be a challenge in the beginning to build up a successful laughter coaching career. I have been through many challenges and believe me, it was worth it.

Nothing beats the feeling that you get, when you walk into a workshop and all that you, see are stressed out people and at the end all of them are relaxed, have more energy, and are very optimistic about the future.

Client Services:
Hendrik Visser provides the following services to the Corporate and public sectors:

1. Corporate de-stressing workshops.
 Laughter coaching workshops for the Public and Corporate Sector:

The need for laughter coaching in the business and corporate world is increasing, and more and more executives see the need for laughter and playfulness in their busy lives. There is a choice of Laughter Coaching workshops from 60-90 minutes available and it will include the following:

• Fake Laughter Exercises, breathing exercises, Stretching exercises, Childlike –playfulness exercises and some Gibberish exercises.
• Real Laughter Exercises.
• Laughter Meditation.
• Guided Relaxation.
• Grounding Exercise.

2. Ice-breakers for Conferences.

Ice-breakers are available for anyone that wants to bring something special into their Conferences, where people can laugh without reason and still build up energy and a positive environment. It will make the participants feel more energetic and is a perfect technique to motivate them as well.

Laughter Coaching Ice-breakers are available in periods of 15-20 minutes and it can also be changed according to the needs of the Organizers.

3. Laughter Coaching Foundation programs for Corporates.
The Laughter Coaching foundation programs are available to the corporate world, where they want to introduce laughter as a way of life into their existing wellness programs, and it also go hand-in-hand with the 2 day Certified Laughter Leaders program that is affiliated to the Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga and Laughter Yoga International.

4. 2 Day Certified Laughter Leadership programs  especially designed for the Corporate and Business world.
This program is especially designed for the corporate and business world. It is a Certified Laughter Yoga course that has been especially designed by Hendrik Visser and it is certified by the Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga. The course includes the following modules and can be implemented immediately in the company or business after the completion of the course.

• The Modules:

• The History of Therapeutic Laughter and Laughter Clubs.
• Laughter Yoga and the unique features of Laughter Yoga.
• The Physiology and Psychology of Laughter.
• Hard-wired Stress and Laughter systems.
• Benefits of Laughter Yoga.
• Contraindications to Laughter Yoga.
• The Laughter Yoga Session.
• What happens in a laughter Yoga session?
• The legal aspects of a Laughter Yoga session.
• The Laughter Yoga Coach.
• Social Laughter Yoga clubs.
• Getting started as a Laughter Coach.
• Laughter Yoga for the Business world.
• Working as a Laughter Yoga Professional.
• Laughter Yoga best practices.
• The importance of Oxygen.
• The 40 Foundation exercises.
• More Laughter exercises.
• One-on-One Laughter Coaching.

The successful candidates will be issued a certificate and will be registered as a Laughter Yoga Professional, with the Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga and with Laughter Yoga International. The Company or the coach also has the option of becoming a member of the Prozone group for an additional fee of $60.00 per annum.

5. Laughter Team-building workshops.

Laughter Yoga as a technique works with Eye-contact, physical closeness, childlike –playfulness, clapping, positive affirmations and lots of laughter.
In a laughter coaching session the participants will need to trust each other and with the laughter meditation there will sometimes be a release of negative emotions. During these sessions there will be a period where the participants will be trained to speak gibberish and to get rid of pent-up issues and also to make use of gibberish to brain-storm certain ideas in an out-of-the-box scenario.

6. One-on-One Executive Laughter Coaching.

The need for laughter coaching in the business and corporate world is increasing, and more and more executives see the need for laughter and playfulness in their busy lives.

Laughter Coaching can help executives and business people to cope with stress and it can be used as a tool to improve their and to resolve their workplace issues. The program for One-on-One Laughter Coaching is of 3 hours duration and can be broken down in 1 hour sessions. After the successful completion of the Coaching sessions, there will be a 15 minute session on Skype.