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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS WONDERFUL: Laughter and Survival
Laughter is essential when coping with the stresses of short-term and long-term pressure, when striving for personal achievement and for a shared sense of community, when enhancing self-respect within a new or established community, and when dealing effectively with change. Being able to joke and being able to understand how the humor of others operates is a key to being regarded as an insightful and intelligent risk-taker. It indicates the ability to envision a situation from a number of perspectives as well as suggesting an attractively creative, inventive, and flexible approach to complex decisions and tasks.
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? Humor and a Sense of Community
Humor allows for and even permits a kind of informal interaction between groups of people not otherwise part of a shared circle; it can inspire an important and perhaps unparalleled mobility between groups divided by status, age, hierarchy, gender, ethnicity, or class. How can these interactions be encouraged? What contexts need to be established and understood?
HARASS IS ONE WORD: Laughter, Power and the importance of Making Yourself Heard
How can we enrich our abilities to create and deal with humor created by others – especially on those occasions when the humor initiated by others in more powerful positions seems to be mean-spirited or inappropriate? If we cannot imagine giving up laughter in the workplace (and we should never consider such a thing). Then how can we promote and encourage a healthy, de-stressing (as opposed to distressing) use of humor?
THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Why is nothing more important, more complicated and more fun than a relationship between mother and daughter? You will hear an honest and humorous journey about the complexities of the unique relationship that will lead to a better understanding of mothers and daughters.
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Hailed as "smart and funny" by People magazine, Gina Barreca has spoken to clients all over the world.
She is the author if the best-selling They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted, Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales, Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even, Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful, and, most recently, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy league. Collaborating with Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post, Barreca also co-authored I'm With Stupid: One Man, One Woman, and 10,000 Years of Misunderstandings Between The Sexes Cleared Right Up.
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Dr. Barreca has been a tenured professor for twenty years and has written influential work for major journalistic publications including The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic Journal Constitution, and dozens of magazines. She has appeared on scores of radio and television programs including 20/20, 48 Hours, The Today Show, and Oprah.
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