Trevor Smith of Blue Sky Consulting will present a program called "Laugh for the Fun of It: Creating a Healthy Life Balance through Laughter.  

Participants will learn a systematic method of chuckles, chortles, giggling and guffawing that promises to help reduce stress, prevent hardening of the attitudes and contribute to world peace. The laughter routine, designed to make anyone feel better, works without using jokes or comedy to stimulate the laughter. 

Smith has completed training offered by the World Laughter Tour, Inc., to become a Certified Laughter Leader and has organized and facilitated Therapeutic Laughter programs for a variety of community organizations.

"There can be many sensitive issues around humor, such as people not getting jokes or being offended by them," Smith said. "So we skip jokes altogether. We laugh with each other, never at each other. Peals of genuine happiness-and-health-boosting laughter ring out and roll on."

Smith leads Laughter Clubs across the region in workplaces, schools, health clubs, senior centers, libraries and nursing homes. A physician in India originated the laughter club idea in 1995, and three years later, it was taken up by an American psychologist, Steve Wilson of Columbus, Ohio, who borrowed some ideas from yoga and founded the World Laughter Tour, Inc.

Smith said laughter is proven to be a healing and a factor in happiness and good health.