WHO ARE WE?
Our School has been creating joy since 2007 with the purpose of accompanying people, groups, teams and organizations on their journey towards health and empowerment. We do this through workshops, training courses and motivational talks.
We are part of a great international movement of institutions, schools and professionals dedicated to creating well-being experiences from joy, tenderness and pleasure.
We unite the world of laughter therapy and art therapy because we see they are interrelated worlds that enrich each other and speak languages of the same family, that of creativity and spontaneity. Our tools are: play, laughter, movement, art in its different forms and guided meditations.
Our languages are: Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Russian, Arabic.
VISION
My rights = My responsibilities
Rights and responsibilities always go together; They are inseparable. Everything I consider my right to receive from the world is my responsibility to give to the world. We consider this to be essential for integrity.
We defend the right of human beings to joy, tenderness, pleasure, as well as acceptance, respect and beauty. These qualities are manifestations of the connection we long for with life. We have the right to live them and the responsibility to share them to continue growing on a personal and social level.
MISSION
SOW SEEDS OF JOY AND TENDERNESS AROUND THE WORLD.
VALUES
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Cooperation and enjoying the process.
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Celebration of “Yes”. We focus on the positive: yes I have, yes I can, yes I know.
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The power of “And” instead of “Or”. We invite to Inclusion.
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The mastery of “How”. How ≥ What. (What we do is important, how we do it is even more important.)
WHAT IS LAUGHTERAPY?
Laughter therapy is a method to go deep in ways that are easy, light and playful. It is the art of guiding people to experience the energy of their heart.
This energy is a potential that we all have and that deep down we all long for because it is innate for human beings to live from there.
Click on Know more to read about laughter therapy and our method.
TESTIMONIALS
Mercé Vendrell
"It is a gift for the soul that opens the heart and connects you with your most beautiful and tender part. How nice it is to grow while growing!"
Violant
"For me, training has meant opening myself up to our horizons, a journey in which the essences of people are contained, an exploration of the immens oreá that is love."
ABOUT US
NAILA QALQILI
I am a citizen of the world. I have lived in 11 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. I studied at 9 academic institutions in 4 countries. I speak 5 languages. I worked as a teacher, translator, TV correspondent, diplomat. Life for me is movement. And just as everything changes, it's not strange that I change!
For many years I felt like I had a sea of roots all over the world. I belonged everywhere and nowhere. Over the years, my geographical pilgrimage around the world became a inner pilgrimage. Living in war zones, where there is a lot of sadness, fear and anger made me value joy, tenderness and beauty.
I began to open new doors of consciousness. I trained in Emotional and Relational Intelligence, Laughter Therapy, Art Therapy, Play and Creative Coaching. Also in Executive Coaching aimed at companies, Gestalt Therapy and LNT. This way I was able to make a change in my professional career, to align it with my inner life, and I now accompany other people on their transformation journeys.
Taking over the Escuela de Risoterapia de Barcelona (the School of Laughter Therapy of Bcn), founded in 2007, is a gift and a privilege for me. I wish to share this gift of joy and tenderness with all the people who want to connect with their hearts through play, art and laughter.
LOVE IS JOY, TENDERNESS, PLEASURE, ACCEPTANCE, RESPECT AND BEAUTY.
CARME LARIO
I collaborate with the School as a trainer and coordinator of the Department of Education. I also facilitate laughter therapy workshops locally and internationally.
Secondary School Teacher with 33 years of experience. Trained in Playful Coaching: Expressive Play, Laughter Therapy, and 'Essence Process' for the development of human potential. Master in Personal and Multipersonal Structural Coaching. Trained in Transactional Analysis and Humanistic Psychology.
I help people connect with their essence, with the most genuine part of their Being.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
CLAUDIA DAKHIL CARCOVICH
I collaborate with the School by accompanying and co-creating its internal development. I specialize in the area of Communication, attention to the Press and Organizations.
I direct Meet and Map, an association dedicated to supporting the development of communities internationally based on the alignment of conscious purpose in each person.
My mission is that the School's message reaches and nourishes the world.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
RAMON BACH
· General health psychologist.
· Psychologist (col.7662) Specialist in psycho-social rehabilitation).
· Social educator.
· Gestalt therapist.
· Psychotherapist Member, recognized as a didactic member and supervisory member of the AETG.
· NLP training.
· Training in Body Therapy Energy Center System.
· Psychotherapist recognized by La Fea.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
ALBERTO JIMENEZ DIAZ
Laughter therapy facilitator, playful coaching and personal coach, passionate about human development.
With experience in international projects based on non-formal education with young people within the Erasmus + program, thanks to that and because I love to travel, I believe that cultural and intergenerational diversity is important in personal development. Certified in laughter yoga by laughter Yoga university, trained Laughter Wellness with Sebastien Gendry, comprehensive coach at the higher coaching institute and Life Coach at Asha Center. Trained as a clown with Pau Rosell, OhFélix and Ivan Prado.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
CELIA PEREZ MUÑOZ
Lecturer, Trainer and Director of Diversity and Inclusion Projects at INTRAMA. Founding Partner of Changemakers. Trained in Playful Coaching and Creative Problem Solving.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
SUSANA TERÉS ALONSO
I develop my tasks at the School within the areas of administration, customer service and communication, with the press, individuals, companies and Organizations.
La verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
IVÁN PRADO
Spokesperson for Pallasos en Rebeldía, an international collective in support of Human Rights. Co-Founder of ‘Los Pringados’ Theater Productions. Director of Culturaactiva SCG. Trained in NLP, School of Dramatic Movement, Clown and Theater at Ecole Philippe Gaulier and Laughter Therapy at Smart Health.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
ANA DOMINGO RAKOSNIK
Coach, from the EFIC school and Graduate in Journalism. Currently accompanies therapeutic and personal growth processes at an individual and group level. Co leads a meditation and channeling space and a circle of entrepreneurial women. She collaborates with the school as a channel, therapist and communicator.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
PAULA BAUMGARTNER
Gestalt and Body Therapist. Specialized in Expressive Movement, Psycho-corporeal Techniques and recovery of Playful Attitude in adults.
Trained as an Expert in Playful Coaching and Laughter Therapy, in the Body, as well as in Integrative Body Therapy (IBT) and in Free Movement and Meditation in Movement (Terp). Process in Psychology of Enneatypes by Dr Claudio Naranjo. Graduated in Journalism, she began in the world of Gestalt Therapy more than 15 years ago. He currently accompanies processes in individual therapy, in movement groups and in companies.
la verdadera alegría depende en gran medida del significado profundo que damos a nuestra vida.
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
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TRAINING, COMPANIES, INDIVIDUALS
T. +34 689 612 350
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T. +34 689 612 350
Carrer del Robí, 18, Mezzanine
08024 - Barcelona