AATH - 23rd Annual Conference

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What activities did you attend at the event?

Pre - Conference - April 22 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Special Events - April 22 - 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Early Bird Session - April 23 - 7:00 am - 7:45 am

Keynote - April 23 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Concurrent Sessions - April 23 - 10:45 am - 11:45 pm

Concurrent Sessions - April 23 - 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions - April 23 - 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Keynote - April 23 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Early Bird Session - April 24 - 7:00 am - 7:45 am

Keynote - April 24 - 8:15 am - 9:15 am

Keynote - April 24 - 9:35 am - 10:35 am

Concurrent Sessions - April 24 - 10:50 am - 11:50 am

Clowning Outreach - April 24 - 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm / Concurrent Sessions - 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions - April 24 - 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Keynote - April 24 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Keynote - April 24 - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Keynote - April 25 - 8:15 am - 9:15 am

Keynote - April 25 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Good and Welfare - April 25 - 10:30 am - 11:15 am

Agreement

By completing this form, you attest that you have participated in all selected activities in thier entirety.

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Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain:

Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Objective 1: Discuss current research and best practices in humor and laughter.

The above objective will increase my professional competence.

The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.

The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Objective 2: Expand the humor and laughter community.

The above objective will increase my professional competence.

The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.

The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.

Compare the differences between a performing clown (circus, parade, birthday party) with that of a therapeutic clown: one who visits hospitals, nursing homes and similar settings to contribute to the well-being of the patient.

Explain appropriate methods of approaching others with their clowning intentions.

Discuss the benefits (for the staff and residents) of bringing therapeutic clowning into an assisted living center.

Discuss the new science of happiness to discover what happiness is and the many forms it comes in.

Explain the Happiness Decision you'll need to make as well as what good habits create an increase in your happiness.

Explore what meaning, authenticity, purpose and strengths have to do with experiencing happiness.

Discuss what stress is and how it effects our body and mind.

Discuss the barriers that inhibit our laughter response.

Explain how to generate therapeutic laughter through breathing and other exercises.

Describe specific tips on the talent of story telling.

Explain basic skills used by professional presenters.

Discuss the fundamentals required for making audiences laugh.

Discuss information on scientific research and applications.

Discuss positive and healthy humor within the organization.

Compare truth and fiction regarding the benefits of laughter and humor.

Discuss Joke-writing formulas used by top comics.

Discuss techniques to make stories and content funny.

Explain how to get laughs from dead audiences.

Discuss how the conference experience was enhanced by the orientation.

Explain How to build role, relational, and self-competencies through laughter.

Discuss S-t-r-e-s-s reducing techniques for both personal and work related daily stresses.

Discuss how to Improve daily energy and enthusiasm throughout the day.

Explain how to Increase oxygen levels which heightened awareness, which directly relates to making fewer mistakes.

Describe how to Boost physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Explain how to encourage calmness and respect for others.

Distinguish between the physical, emotional, and cognitive benefits of humor.

Discuss the universal triggers that activate the funny bone.

Explain how humor relieves cognitive and emotional distress.

Identify the core human qualities that are essential in order for humor to be therapeutic.

List several physiological events associated with the act of laughing.

Differentiate afflictive and beneficent emotional states.

Discuss Sensory Attention Focused Exercise.

Explain how humor helps decrease stress.

Describe stress as it opersonally relates to each participant.

Discuss a metaphor of stress free living.

Discuss how humor choices can be analyzed, enjoyed and used to enrich one's life.

Explain how to become less judgemental of one's Humor Self.

Discuss how to do a Humor Self Portrait.

Discuss the value of a business plan.

Discuss how to begin the process to start their business plan.

List a goal date for it's finish.

Discuss how to get any audience to laugh.

Explain how the elements of gentle exagergation, minimization and congruity in context of humor, laughter can be used to transend emotional pain.

Define concepts of "reframing",intuitive humor and tensegrity" and practical applications.

Integrate the concepts of humor, laughter, mirth into their professional practice.

Locate and name the parts of the brain that is involves in the incorpation of humor and laughtyer and experienceing concept of God.

Discuss how to Teach Normal Child Development (0 to 7 years).

Explain how humor encouragement and development can occur at each stage.

Discuss the families role.

Differentiate between laughing with and laughing at.

Explain the importance of a positive work place environment on productivity, profitability.

Identify factors influencing work place environment.

Demonstrate model for work place environmental improvement.

Formulate, construct and apply model to specfic participant circumstances.

Discuss how to establish a healthcare/hoispital clown program.

Discuss how to train and equipt each member/clown.

Explain how to promote with little or no cost marketing.

Explain the importance of Norman Cousins early findings relative to his use of humor and Laughter to resolution of his disease and the influence on mind body medicine.

Discuss the scientific evidence that currently exists today in support of Norman Cousins early findings and writings.

Apply emerging knowledge of the biology of hope and the field of psychoneuroimmunology.

Define the role of hope, anticipation, expecation, and placebo effect to benefit the patients healing process.

Discuss the value of humor to promote health.

Explain the value of humor to decrease stress.

Describe how to turn problems into punchlines.

Explain how to respond to negative people & statements.

Discuss a new approch to dealing with issues.

Discuss why both laughter and tears are important in life-challenging situations.

Expalin how patients have used humor in serious illness and loss.

Discuss how comedians, cartoonists, and other creative artists ease our death-related fears.

Discuss the use of various types of props.

Expalin how to design a prop to reflect your personal humor style.

Discuss how to become empowered to take humor risks.

Discuss yourself and your life through a more acccepting lens.

Explain how to use personal stories to teach, find humor and entertain.

Describe your personal stories to live life to the fullest.

Discuss the basics of creativity.

Explain the foundations of Healthy humor.

List methods for encouraging the use of sensory recollections to construct joyful prompts.

Discuss methods to approach challenging situations with positive, joyful approach.

Practice lightening up techniques.

Discuss getting in touch with your inner creativity.

Discuss techniques to commit that expression to creative and business writing skills.

Discuss vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

Explain how humor relates to the topic of suffering.

Discuss how existential psychology relates to topics of freedom, death, meaning.

Apply concepts to their own coping with unwelcome change, returning to fuller enjoyment of life.

Discuss how to combine reality theme lyrics with memorable tunes.

Describe Humor presentations through active audience involvement.

Discuss the dual therapeutic benefits of humor and singing.

Discuss perspectives on the association's past. present & Future. It's role in the field of therapeutic humor in the world.

Discuss how to overcome obstacles throughthe use of humor.

Explore similarities between sex and humor.

Discuss the value of language in connection with sex and humor.

Discuss professional appilcations of humor and sexuality.

Compare the pattern of research on humor and health in the past 5-8 years with the research completed in the preceding two decades.

Discuss recent findings of research on the impact of humor and laughter on specific disease conditions.

Discuss an effective intervention program for boosting humor skills, including skills at using humor to cope with stress.

Discuss the real power of optimism.

Describe what makes up a resilient attitude.

Discuss closure and conference review.

Discuss individual feedback on the conference and on AATH.

Discuss some of the techniques that The Masters use to create laughter.

List the rules of improvisation.

Objective 3: Create extensive networking opportunities.

The above objective will increase my professional competence.

The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.

The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.

Objective 4: Develop a sense of community among people from different areas of the world.

The above objective will increase my professional competence.

The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.

The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.

Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

Was the educational content free of commercial bias?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room while you attended this educational activity?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain.

What did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

My professional competence would be improved if I had training on:

My professional performance would be improved if I had training on:

My patient outcomes would be improved if I had training on:

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient outcomes?

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