“It really [was] a transformative experience. It changed my view of my childhood experiences and created a lot of self-compassion, and doing the laughter exercises [was] really fun, particularly starting with creating laughter with no reason whatsoever and I found it quite contagious...”

“I find it particularly helpful in looking at my errors of judgement, misperceptions, incongruities and so on...While previously I would try and argue with myself or with the others to try and find an acceptable position, I now discovered that in fact I could completely do none of that and just laugh at it.”

“[Referring to the theories of laughter] I didn’t realise that laughing is such a complicated business. So for me, I find that the most important thing [is] that I need to learn to laugh a bit more...to learn to relax and laugh about some of these things that I did [that] was very silly.”