Wellness & stress management

A wellness day people
take part in.

Give your people time to pause, reconnect and try something they can use beyond the day.

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Quick answer

What is a corporate wellness workshop?

A corporate wellness workshop is a facilitated session, run during the working day, that gives a team a structured chance to step out of pressure, do something restorative together and leave with tools they can use again. Laughter Coaching runs these for organisations in Johannesburg, across Gauteng, onsite anywhere in South Africa and online. Sessions run from a twenty-minute energiser to a full wellness day, and use guided laughter, breath, gentle movement and connection rather than a slide deck. No one has to tell a joke, perform, or share anything personal. People can take part seated or standing, and access needs are planned for in advance.

Tell us about your day and Shareen will come back with a shape and a cost for your day.

Who this is for

Built for the people who carry the wellbeing brief.

Most enquiries come from someone who has been asked to do something real about how the team is coping, and who has a date, a room and a budget to justify.

HR, People & Culture

You need a wellness day that people actually turn up to, that works for a mixed group, and that you can report on afterwards without overclaiming.

Employee wellbeing and EX

You are running a wellbeing campaign, Women's Day or a wellbeing week and you want one anchor session people remember, not another webinar.

Learning & Development, leadership

You have a team that is technically fine and humanly flat. You want connection restored before the next stretch of work, not a team-building day people dread.

What it addresses

The problems people bring us.

People are not broken, they are carrying too much. These are the situations a session is usually booked for.

A team running on empty

Sustained pressure, restructures, or a long delivery push. Everyone is still functioning and nobody has any slack left.

A room that has stopped talking

Hybrid working, a merger, or teams that only meet on calls. The work gets done and the relationships have thinned out.

A wellness programme nobody engages with

The EAP exists, the newsletters go out, and attendance is poor. People need an experience, not more information.

How the session works

Built on Human Reset

Sessions follow the Human Reset arc: arrive, shift, connect, play, notice, anchor and take it with you. The experience is shaped to the people, purpose and time available. See how a session moves.

Arrive

People land, the room settles, and the terms are set out plainly: nothing to perform, nothing to share, and choices at every step.

Shift

Simple guided breath and gentle movement with seated, standing and observation options, adapted to the group.

Connect and play

Structured laughter and playful exercises done together, without forced disclosure.

Notice and anchor

Participants are invited to notice their own experience in the room and choose a small cue or practice to take with them. What changes, and whether a tool remains useful afterwards, varies.

Formats

Shaped to the time you have.

All formats are delivered onsite at your offices or venue, or online for distributed teams. Pricing depends on format, group size, location and context, and is quoted per enquiry.

Room Reset
30 minutes

Dropped into a leadership meeting, a shift handover or the middle of a long agenda. Enough to change the pace of the day.

Human Reset session
60 minutes

The standard wellness-day slot, or 90 minutes as a Team Reset. Works for a single team or for several groups run back to back through the day.

Wellness day anchor
half or full day

The centrepiece of a wellbeing day or offsite, alongside your other stands and speakers, with sessions repeated for successive groups.

Where

Johannesburg, and wherever your people are.

Laughter Coaching is based in Johannesburg and works throughout Gauteng, travelling onsite to organisations across South Africa, and delivering online for teams that are spread out or working remotely. Shareen works across South Africa and internationally. Travel outside Gauteng is quoted with the session.

Why Laughter Coaching

What makes this different from a wellness talk.

A talk informs. This is experiential. Participants are invited to notice their own experience in the room. What changes, and whether a tool remains useful afterwards, varies.

Designed with choice

Nothing to perform and nobody singled out. Every exercise works seated or standing, and joining in is always a choice.

Facilitated, not performed

Shareen has run these sessions for 17 years, for more than 50,000 people. She is the creator of Human Reset and a TEDx speaker.

Honest about what it is

This is a facilitated wellbeing experience, not therapy and not medical treatment. We do not promise clinical outcomes, and we say so on the day.

Built for the moments that matter

One session, shaped to your day.

A wellbeing campaign, Mental Health Awareness Month, Women's Day, staff appreciation, a leadership offsite or a year-end. The experience is shaped to the people, purpose and time available.

In South Africa, October is Mental Health Awareness Month, with World Mental Health Day on 10 October. It is one of the most popular times for teams to book a session, so it helps to plan early.

Facilitating since 2009
Johannesburg-based
Across South Africa
Onsite and online
Good to know

Frequently asked questions

How does laughter help workplace wellness?

Research suggests laughter can support stress relief, mood and social connection. In a workplace session, the aim is a brief pause and practical tools, not a clinical outcome.

What's the difference between a wellness talk and a wellness session?

A talk informs; a Laughter Coaching session is experiential. People take part, try practical reset tools and leave with more than notes.

Can you run a session for our wellbeing campaign?

Yes. Tell us your campaign dates, team context and intended purpose. Shareen will recommend a suitable format and confirm availability.

Do you run corporate wellness workshops in Johannesburg?

Yes. Laughter Coaching is based in Johannesburg and runs wellness workshops throughout Gauteng, onsite across South Africa, and online for distributed teams.

How long is a corporate wellness session?

Three formats: a 30 minute Room Reset, a 60 or 90 minute Human Reset session, and a half or full day wellness-day anchor with sessions repeated for successive groups.

How many people can take part?

From a single team of ten to a conference hall. Larger groups are usually run as repeated sessions through the day so everyone gets the experience rather than watching it.

Is this therapy, or a medical intervention?

No. It is a facilitated workplace wellbeing experience. It is not medical or psychological treatment and does not replace professional care.

What does a corporate wellness workshop cost?

Pricing depends on the format, group size, location and how many sessions run on the day. Send the details through and Shareen will quote on it.

What your people get

From depleted to lighter and reconnected.

No single session can promise a fixed result. This is what the experience is designed to make room for.

People may arrive

  • Depleted, mentally overloaded or running on empty
  • Sitting through another wellbeing talk they will forget
  • Carrying more than they show at work

What happens in the room

  • An experience rather than a lecture
  • Laughter, breath, movement and play, all by invitation
  • A genuine pause from the pace of the working day

They may leave

  • Lighter and more aware of their own state
  • More connected to the people around them
  • With practical reset tools to take back into the week

Participation is always a choice. This is a facilitated wellbeing and learning experience, not therapy or clinical treatment.

Who is holding the room

Warm enough to land. Careful enough for everyone.

Shareen Richter has facilitated since 2009, for more than 50,000 people. That includes packed conference halls, boardrooms, staff rooms and small teams, across South Africa and internationally.

She reads the room before she asks anything of it, adjusts the pace and intensity as she goes, and makes it easy for quieter or unsure people to take part at their own level. Nobody is put on the spot, and nobody has to be funny.

TEDx speaker · Amazon bestselling author of Expert Mavericks · Laughter Yoga teacher training in India, 2009

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Workplace wellbeing

Corporate wellness activities people can actually take part in.

Suitable for employee wellness days, workplace wellbeing programmes, staff wellbeing campaigns and teams needing a practical pause under pressure. Sessions are experiential rather than lecture-led and can be shaped for an onsite wellness day, a focused team session or an online workforce.

Human Reset at Work

Practical, participative experiences for teams navigating pressure, change or disconnection. Created by Shareen Richter and delivered through Laughter Coaching, Human Reset draws on laughter, play, movement, breath, awareness and connection. The experience is shaped to your people, with participation by choice and practical ways to reset beyond the room.

Explore Human Reset at Work

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Tell us the date, the size of the group and what your people are carrying, and we will shape the day around them.

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