Wellness Seminars $400
Ideal for employee groups of 5 – 40 people, these interactive and fun, one-hour lunch and learn workshops target a wide range of health and wellness related topics.
Bodies @ Work
We start our days tall and strong – feeling good. But at some point during the day we start to feel it… the tight shoulders, headaches, achy low back, tingling legs, sore eyes… Many of us sit for extended periods of time working at desks and computers. Although the activities we do outside of the office help us stay strong, the impact of prolonged sitting during a 7 (+!) hour day (and some of the awkward positions we get in to!) can counter our efforts.
Participants will learn correct standing and seated posture, simple desk stretches and how to make ergonomic changes to their workstation that will greatly influence their comfort and health.
Understanding and Managing Stress
In today’s world we are challenged with the need to be able to balance many activities and to take on many different roles. Increasingly we are expected to do more, with fewer resources, and in less time – all while in an environment of rapid change. It’s no mystery why we are experiencing an epidemic of stress-related illnesses in Canada. Learning to effectively manage one’s stress is a critical survival skill of the new millennium. Regardless of the source of stress, the primary strategy for effectively managing is to explore and understand one’s thinking and feeling patterns. This session will focus on strategies for enhancing personal control and for using this information to help maintain manageable levels of stress.
Wellness Starts in the Mind
Wellness is not something that “happens” to us because of something someone else does or says, or because we attend a wellness workshop, or because we read a book about being well. These are all positive influences that may encourage us to think about our own well-being or make it easier for us to make healthy changes. As helpful as these factors are, they are not going to “make” us well – we will “choose” to be well when we have a true desire to be at our best. And to be successful, that true desire must be accompanied with a positive, healthy state of mind. This session will introduce the key factors for creating the positive mind-set, which is at the core of true wellness.
Fit to be Well
Physical fitness plays an extremely important role in achieving total health and well being – and the reasons are numerous. Just a few of the many proven benefits include; reducing the risk of disease and illness, improving the ability to manage stress, and improving self-esteem and body image. The media has been an impetus of the “fitness craze” that started in the 80’s and information about physical fitness is abundant. But depending on what magazine you open or what tv program you watch, you may hear conflicting — and sometimes even downright wrong — information. This session will revisit the basics and challenge some common myths of exercise, nutrition and active living.
Manage your Decisions (not your Time!)
Ask any busy person and they will likely tell you that they need to learn to better manage their time. We’re trying to “find time” to complete a day’s work, “find time” for exercise, “find time” for relationships … and the list goes on. But we all receive the same number of hours in a day so it’s really quite impossible to “manage time”. What we can manage is our decisions about how we choose to spend our time. This session will introduce strategies for analyzing the importance of our daily demands, learning to schedule our days to include our most important things, and leading life with a sense of personal control and fulfillment.
Change, Change and more Change – Personal Transition Strategies
Change is everywhere – it’s continuous, rapid, and a way of life. Whether personally involved in the decisions for change, or impacted by change that has been made by someone else, it is natural to feel overwhelmed, frustrated and confused. Whether positive or negative, all changes will require us to take on additional or different roles from those we had before. Focusing on our personal well-being and learning strategies to manage emotional and behavioural responses to change is a healthy, positive way to limit these negative emotions. This session will provide personal transition strategies for managing change.
Assertive Leadership
Assertive Leadership is a skill that everyone should learn, not just managers or team leaders in a work environment. We all have roles in our lives – parent, partner, friend, volunteer, team member – that require us to communicate in a healthy manner while influencing or leading others. This workshop will explore Assertive Leadership and offer some concrete skills to become an effective, positive, empowering leader.
