Laughter Coaching with Shareen Richter

Reset the room.
Reconnect the people.

The Human Reset is a laughter-led corporate experience for tired, stressed or disconnected teams. No jokes. No forced performance. Serious impact, delivered with joy. This is Laughter Coaching, powered by The Felt Shift Method™.

Shareen Richter, Laughter and Happiness Professor
50,000+people reset
since 2009
50,000+
people reset
500+
organisations
Since 2009
17 years
TEDx
+ 2× Amazon author

Trusted by 500+ organisations including

  • Standard Bank
  • JP Morgan
  • Nedbank
  • Investec
  • Discovery
  • Sanlam
  • Pfizer
  • Vodacom
  • MTN
  • Anglo American
  • Eskom
  • Estée Lauder
Quick answer

What does Laughter Coaching do?

Laughter Coaching is a South African facilitation business run by Shareen Richter. It delivers professionally facilitated laughter, team-building, workplace-wellbeing and stress-reset sessions, plus conference keynotes and energisers, for organisations in Johannesburg, across South Africa and online. Shareen has been facilitating since 2009, for 50,000+ people at 500+ organisations including Nedbank, Standard Bank, Investec, Discovery, PwC, Pfizer and Eskom.

The flagship corporate experience is The Human Reset™, built on The Felt Shift Method™. Sessions require no jokes, no performing and nothing personal to share, which is what keeps them workable for mixed teams and senior leadership.

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The science, honestly

The difference they feel is real.

Laughter is more than entertainment. Research suggests that laughter-based activities can support stress relief, mood and social connection. The Human Reset applies those ideas as a facilitated workplace wellbeing experience, not as medical treatment.

Lower cortisol in research

A 2023 systematic review found that laughter interventions were associated with lower cortisol compared with control conditions.

Mood and stress support

Studies in specific populations suggest that structured laughter activities may support mood and stress. Results depend on the group, format and duration and should not be treated as a guarantee for a workplace session.

Findings vary by population and programme length

Shared laughter and bonding

Research has linked shared laughter with higher pain thresholds, used by researchers as an indirect marker associated with endorphin activity and social bonding.

Dunbar et al., University of Oxford · Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2011

Laughter may support stress relief, mood, connection and wellbeing. It is not medical or psychological treatment and does not replace professional care.

"Within minutes the entire room was filled with joy, connection and genuine belly laughs. We left lighter, brighter and more connected than ever."

Audrey Alexander · University of Johannesburg
Real rooms, real laughter

Seen it once, you get it.

Shareen laughing with a delegateShareen in her Choose Joy shirtShareen teaching at the whiteboardShareen Richter portrait
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Reset the room. Reconnect the people.

The Human Reset™ is a laughter-led, professionally facilitated experience for teams carrying too much pressure and too little real connection. Three formats, from a 20-minute meeting energiser to a conference keynote.

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