UNITEDMIND LIMITED

Business Description

UnitedMind was founded in 2002 and since then has delivered a large number of therapies, training courses and workshops to individuals and organisations in both public and private sectors.

The core of UnitedMind's work is empowering people to embrace positive change and communication.

The vision of the company is to enrich people's lives through laughter and joyfulness by providing a holistic platform for anyone to benefit from regardless of background, age, ability or perspective.

In 2007 UnitedMind's training programme took off and since then the company has become one of the most popular Laughter Yoga Leader Training providers in the UK. There are many Laughter Professionals in the country offering laughter training but only few with the background and experience that is brought to the table by Lotte Mikkelsen and UnitedMind.

In 2008 UnitedMind founded the Telephone Laughter Club as a means to offer a life changing service to people across the UK. People dial in Monday to Friday at seven in the morning to laugh for a full 10 minutes in order to harvest the full benefits of laughter.

In 2009 UnitedMind became the number one provider of Laughter Yoga Leader Training in the UK with the highest number of newly trained Laughter Yoga Leaders venturing into the market of therapeutic laughter across the country.

In 2010 UnitedMind joined forces with The Regency Training Foundation, a local charity, to provide training programmes for the community in order to combat social exclusion. Read the full story.

In 2011 UnitedMind teamed up with communications experts, Sole Developers, in North-East England to provide transformational communication workshops based on Gibberish and Laughter techniques - a unique way of empowering individuals as well as teams in sales department, management floors, marketing etc.

UnitedMind work in accordance with the current legislation outlined by the government in order to comply with requirements for working with the public sector as well as private organisations. All of UnitedMind's policies and procedures are available on request, these include

UnitedMind Terms and Conditions
UnitedMind Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy
UnitedMind Equality and Diversity Policy
UnitedMind Policy Statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders
UnitedMind Health and Safety Policy
UnitedMind Environmental Policy
UnitedMind Complaints Policy
UnitedMind Compliments Policy

Our continuity and strategy planning follows the guidelines set out by the British Standards. Furthermore, UnitedMind is registered with the Information Commisioner's Office (ICO) who outlines handling and safequarding of personal data, and data protection.

Business Services
UnitedMind provides workshops, training, seminars and holistic therapies that make a difference to people and organisations. Our programmes are based on laughter and happiness techniques for positive, long-lasting and sustainable change both profesionally and personally.

Our workshops and training programmes are being held at

privately held sessions
charity events
internationally organised shows
team building facilitation
confidence creation
mental health programmes
relaxation workshops
mother's and father's groups
special needs workshops
local fairs and other events

Business Products
UnitedMind offers a whole range of workshop and training programmes for professional and personal development. The workshops include

One-on-One Laughter Coaching - 8-week programme
Breath Awareness workshop - breating freshness into the business
Gibberish Communication workshop - powerful communication with an edge
Laughter Alone - boost self-confidence and creativity

The Laughter Yoga Leader Training programme gives individuals and teams the advantage of powerfully dealing with stress, communication challenges, self-esteem issues, team work and general management.

Business Qualifications
The World Laughter Tour awarded UnitedMind their Website Award in 2005 for promoting laughter to everyone.

In 2006 Lotte Mikkelsen, Founder of UnitedMind, was appointed Laughter Ambassador by Dr. Madan Kataria (Founder of the International School of Laughter Yoga) because of her work in promoting laughter for improving health and wellbeing throughout the UK.

Business Staff & Management
Lotte's experience comes from more than 20 years of working for national and international corporations mainly in the IT sector. Through her work in technical, sales and marketing environments she has gained experience in dealing with people and stress at all levels in any organisation.

In 2002 Lotte completed her training as Holistic Therapist specialising in Reflexology, Reiki Healing, Crystal Healing and Personal Laughter for health and well-being. She founded UnitedMind in April 2002 as a laughter and holistic therapy providing organisation.

From early 2003 Lotte ran a daily laughter session on the phone with a friend and Laughter Colleague. The background for this experiment was to fully experience and understand the benefits of laughter for no reason in order to promote the techniques to the general public and start transforming communities based on health, happiness and well-being.

Since 2004 Lotte has facilitated laughter workshops for team building, stress management, improved communication, motivation and confidence boosting. She has trained individuals and teams within organisations as Laughter Yoga Leaders and is, to date, the most successful Laughter Yoga Leader Training Teacher in the UK.

In 2005 the Laughter Club International celebrated its first anniversary. Running a laughter club is an adventure that requires perseverence and stamina when specticism is the top of the agenda. However, the years have shown that it is a worthwhile pursuit that makes a true difference to people who engage in laughter.

In 2006 Lotte was appointed Laughter Ambassador by Dr. Madan Kataria (Founder of the International School of Laughter Yoga) because of her work in promoting laughter for improving health and wellbeing throughout the UK.

Lotte is a Trustee of the Laughter Network whose aim is to promote therapeutic laughter and better health through laughter.

She is also a Member of FSB (Federation of Small Businesses), a Member of Enterprising Women, and a Gold Member of AATH (Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humour). Lotte has also become an Affiliate Member of the IfL (Institute for Learning) and is affiliated to the Dr. Kataria School of Laughter Yoga.

Furthermore, she is a Member of the Hertfordshire Training and Development Consortium Management Committee.

Lotte's ambition is to make therapeutic laughter and complementary therapy available to everyone. Today, she offers a broad palette of corporate services for wellbeing of individuals and organisations.

Business Clients
Clients include organisations in the following sectors

private and public healthcare
banking and financial services
consultancy and professional services
retail and wholesale
IT and telecoms
housing associations
charity organisations
transportation
public services
education

Business Memberships
Society of Holistic Therapists and Life Coaches, Guild of Holistic Therapists, Institute for Learning, Federation of Small Businesses, Laughter Yoga International