Peace Lab 2020

Episode 14 - Dave Berman, Finding the Inner Light through Laughter and Hypnosis


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In this episode of Peace Lab Conversation, I spoke to Dave Berman, an original New Yorker who has since left the Big Apple, travelling around the world and have been staying in Melbourne Australia since January 2020.  

Graduated from one of the Ivy League - the Cornell University, Dave spent his first 10 years career in radio DJ (I keep picturing Dave as Dr Frasier Crane in another dimension), then the next 10 years as a businessman in California.   


However, since 2011, led by the beautiful dance of life Dave has been working as a coaching expert and hypnotherapist, whereby he bridges these with intentional laughter as a useful tool to help his clients find peace, acceptable and innate joy.  This led to a nearly 3.5 year daily video series, world travel, countless in-person and online laughter sessions, and many training programs, classes, webinars and the creation of a new technique called "Laughnosis" (Laughter + Hypnosis). 

When I learned about that Dave has been in Melbourne since January 2020, I was curious how 2020 has been for him.  I thought it must be tough for him to stay alone in a foreign country.  Although initially challenging, Dave has turned 2020 to be one of his most fertile years of creativity and creation!  Not only that he has finished his latest book - "Laughter Lost and Found", also in 2020 he created "Laughter Gym" and was laughing daily with others online as a way to let go of our daily stresses of 2020.  This then has paved the foundation of his new programme - The Principles of Laughter.  

As Dave explained to me, once we let go of the illusion that we humans can predict the future, we become truly free, as we can finally accept the very nature of our existence is uncertain, is unknown and is constantly changing.  

So, I hope you will enjoy this 2021's first conversation.  For me, after my own monologue of calling 2021 as "the Year of Not So Planning", the conversation with Dave just solidified my willingness to experiment more with surrendering, letting go and just flowing! 

To find out more about Dave: https://davebermancoaching.com

Dave currently facilitates the Principles of Laughter membership program and recently founded the Inner Light Discovery Center:  https://davebermancoaching.com/join

While living in Saigon in 2018, Dave wrote a short book called 5 Ways Laughter Will Change Your Life - https://davebermancoaching.com/5ways

Dave's first book, the 2015 collaboration with Kelley T. Woods called Laughter For the Health of It - https://davebermancoaching.com/health

Dave's newest book "Laughter Lost and Found" -  https://DaveBermanCoaching.com/found

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Peace Lab 2020By Elva Zhang