Learning to Laugh at Yourself
Social Science/History | Available (Membership Required)
Research suggests that laughing at yourself has many benefits. It can help people to cope with the challenges of everyday life. It can heal us deal with self-doubt. It can make it easier to own our mistakes. It is a form of self-awareness. It is correlated with happiness. It can help us be humble. In this workshop, we will talk about our own
experiences with laughing at ourselves and how we learned to do that.
Duane has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also recorded their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He is the founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts.
Duane Roen
Duane Roen has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He also is founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU.