Wellness
Seminars and Workshops Wellness
Seminars and Workshops
Engagement in the Workplace: The Key to Organizational Wellness
When it comes to performance in the workplace, it seems that engagement is more important than raw talent. Understand the science of attention and how it affects people's ability to regulate self awareness, empathy, patience and co-operation. Attention helps us be aware of and manage our impulses and emotions, helps us stay on task, and avoid accidents and injuries. Attention to one's self and to others is the key to effective leadership, emotional wellness and personal balance. Learn more about brain chemicals such as serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is the neuro-chemical of attention, but it also regulates self control, motivation, stimulation and reward. Understand low dopamine syndromes such as workplace inattention, rage in the workplace, chronic pain, personality disorders, addiction and burnout. How can you assess and manage your dopamine levels to bring out the best in yourself and in others.
Emotional
Intelligence: Leadership and Beyond
Dr. Daniel Goleman has raised our awareness of the role of emotions in the workplace. This seminar is based on three of his latest books. Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership. This seminar will help you define your characteristic coping and management styles. Learn how to move from affiliative supporter to democratic communicator to counselor to coach to commander, as the situation requires. Understand why some people are difficult to deal with and how to style shift to accommodate them. Learn how to recognize and manage emotions in order to increase self-esteem and improve self-care and improve work performance. Learn to support and motivate and develop others. Improve your management and negotiation skills in this fast changing workplace. Learn assertiveness, boundary setting and conflict resolution. Learn the psychology of teamwork. How can we make wellness “personal” as we aim to improving workplace culture?
Integrating
Wellness:
Finding
Balance,
Managing Stress, Staying Motivated in Times of Change
Understand the performance curve and how to manage workplace distress and maintain balance in your life. Understand the brain chemistry of the mind-body connection and how genetics, experiences and lifestyle can affect mood, motivation, focus, productivity, leadership, versatility and resilience. Understand toxic stress and how it can decrease your resistance to infections and your propensity for addiction and burnout. Learn what you can do to balance your work-life using mindfulness, breathing, activity, self-care, play, expression, group support, deep relaxation, guided imagery, nutrition, herbs and if necessary, medication.
Sleep Thieves: Six steps to managing Sleep, Fatigue and Pain
Understand how nutrition, activity, mood, herbs and medicine affect your sleep. What is the connection between sleep, fatigue and pain? Do you have any idea how much money poor sleep management is costing you, your family and your organization? Learn about circadian rhythms and how their disruption can cause changes in mood, sleep, energy, pain and eating patterns. What is healthy sleep architecture? How do genetics, experiences, and lifestyle affect your sleep-patterns? What role does light, noise and a toxic workplace play in insomnia? How do you recognize sleep deprivation, and what do you do about it? How can you make shift-work a less toxic part of your life?
Nutrition for Peak Performance: Harness the power of food, supplements and natural remedies
Learn which natural remedies, vitamins and nutritional products really work, using an evidence-based approach. Which foods for energy, sleep, disease prevention, immune stimulation, performance, weight loss. Learn how to manage mood with food. Review the principles of intelligent supplementation. Integrate the latest research in this fast growing field to your daily life. Explore time tested natural remedies including: Ginger, Aloe, Licorice, Cranberry, Saw Palmetto, Vitamin C, Ephedra, Hawthorn, Honey, Garlic, Gingko, Vitamin E, Antioxidants, Green Tea, Valerian, St. John's Wort, Tryptophan, Glucosamine Sulphate, Calcium, Magnesium, Soy, Flax, Essential fatty acids, Echinacea, Ginseng and Acidophilus.
What causes heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes? What’s the evidence that you can prevent and reverse these diseases? What do you know about cholesterol, triglycerides and low density lipoproteins. Learn about Syndrome X and how blood glucose, insulin, obesity and blood pressure affect your risk of heart attacks, strokes and vascular disease. What are anti-oxidants and how do they work to prevent disease. Learn about the glycemic index and how slow release carbohydrate foods can help you to manage appetite, blood glucose, weight and disease. How can you use nutrition, exercise, natural remedies and the mind-body connection to decrease your risk of our number one killer?
Why
Weight? Winning the Inside Game of Emotional Eating
Why are we getting bigger when we're eating less fat? How can you prevent carbohydrates from making you gain weight? Learn the inside game of healthy weight loss. You know what to do, so why can't you do it. What is the role of impulsivity in overeating and other "addictions"? Understand the role of genetics, family dynamics, life experience, activity and psychology on overeating, food choices and metabolism. How can you change the eating and activity habits that have plagued you for years? Learn about weight loss medications such as Meridia®, Wellbutrin SR®, Xenecal® and Dexedrine SR®.