Lisa Alabaksh
Lisa is a former headteacher, community support worker and now specialist foster carer who has lived in Haringey, North London for pretty much all of her nearly 50 years. She is passionate about empowering young people and helping them to understand their individual worth and how they can positively contribute to their wider world.
After a diagnosis of MS in 2004, Lisa left teaching and began a new life path that has included stand-up comedy, life coaching and the creation of a new social movement- hahalala. Hahalala means Health and Happiness and Love and Laughter all.
Having healed many of her physical and emotional scars over the years, Lisa realised that we must start with ourselves and look after our hahalala in a conscious and daily way, starting with health and growing from there. Using the strapline “it’s a mood, it’s a mindset, it’s a moment”, Lisa has had thousands of 30 second conversations about how to be hahahlala with people all around the world. She has also worked in schools on hahalala projects.
Bridging mind, body and spirit by connecting with herself and others, Lisa has worked out that if we all took time to nurture our hahalala, the world would be a better place. She has spent years promoting this as a way of life for everyone.
Following the devastating death of her partner Denise Marshall in 2015, Lisa learned further lessons in love, loss and rebuilding her life. She has written a book, “It’s a Case of Having to my Darlings” which is a series of Facebook posts following her her journey through loss, grief and a new life in widowhood. She continues to support her community through friendship and finding what connects us all.