Presentions and Keynotes
For General Audiences:
Knee Deep in Alligators: Surviving and Thriving in an Insane World
When you're knee deep in alligators, you don't stop when you get tired. You stop when the alligators get tired. Learn how to slay the alligators armed with the F.A.C.T.S. of life your parents never taught you. You'll learn simple steps to:
- Regain your lost energy
- Improve your job satisfaction and productivity
- Prioritize your time and your resources
Give and get the most out of life and your career!
Getting Outside the "Box": How Critical and Creative Thinking Skills Can Change Your Life
All humans have the ability to be creative, critical thinkers, but for many of us any chance of being creative was stuffed by the time we entered second grade. Once we learn to "color inside the lines," it becomes more difficult to see all the possibilities that lie outside the lines. This fun and invigorating session helps you learn how to stretch your thinking and develop your own innovative solutions to vexing problems in both your work and personal life.
The Seven Habits of Highly Healthy Women
Most women are so busy that they rarely take the time to care for themselves, always putting other's needs first. This "short course" in healthy self-care will give you the most effective steps you can take to improve your heatlh and help you feel better beginning now!
Walking the Tightrope: Staying Sane as a Career Parent
One foot at work and one foot at home leaves us precariously balancing our lives on a thin tightrope. You'll leave this workshop with real-life techniques and skills to maximize your effectiveness as a parent, an employee, and even learn a few tricks to find time for yourself!
The Ten Immutable Laws of Waist Management
Lowfat? Low carb? High Carb? If you're finding it more than a bit confusing to sort through the "Diet of the Day" in America, you're not alone! Join us to learn the latest science on how to get it off and keep it off as well as fun, innovative tips to energizing your life and your health.
Life's Not Fair: A Survivor's Guide to Managing Adversity
When life deals you tough blows, do you crawl in a closet or chamption the challenge? Survivors aren't born, but learn from life's experiences how to overcome adversity and discouragement. Learn how changing the way you think about adversity, both at home and at the workplace, can help you be happier, healthier and more in control of your life.
Talk to the Doc: Optimizing Life's Lessons
Join us for this lively, interactive dialogue session that personalizes and expands upon the information from the Keynote session. We'll hone in on your specific questions and concerns and discuss more ideas for living your optimum life!
Business/Professional Audiences
The Ten Commandments of Building Healthy Communities from the Inside Out
Communities across the country are mobilizing local assets to build healthier communities for our citizens through policy and environmental changes. Join us to learn more on what's happening at the local, county and state levels to build healthier places to live and what steps you can take to develop or strengthen partnerships to improve the health of both your community and your programs.
Workshop: This six hour workshop expands on this information and communities will leave with completed community mapping assessments and workplan outlines for next steps and future courses of action.
Communicating Change: Public, Politicians and Partners
Leaders in every field are finding themselves at the forefront of change and guiding others successfully through the process by leadership and example. Through this skill-based workshop, participants will learn the importance and mechanics of developing a vision and communicating it effectively in a rapid-changing environment to build strong alliances within their disciplines.
Power Communication Skills for Professionals
Did you actually say what you thought you said or are you speaking in "fill-in-the-blank"—-ese? This hands-on, practical, get-to-the-meat-of-it six hour workshop will help sharpen professional's listening, counseling, presentation and writing skills. Practice old skills and learn new ones to keep your audiences awake, engaged and motivated. (Workshop only)
Beyond Hunger: What's Eating America?
Obesity has risen to epidemic levels while Americans spend billions each year on the latest diet crazes. If it's simply a matter of eating healthier choices and moving more, than what are the forces at work that are hindering 2/3 of our population from doing it? We will examine the larger sociocultural influences at work and how to effectively position health messages to motivate our population.
And For My Quilting Friends...
In Search of Our Elusive Muse
Wouldn't it be wonderful to just dream up fabulous quilt designs and wake up the next morning ready to sew? Although that does occasionally happen, more often than not we have to work a bit harder than that. Our muse, or creative inspiration, doesn't just show up at breakfast every morning ready and raring to go. It needs to be fed, nurtured and challenged if you want to move to the next level in your quilting and your life. We'll discuss the ten essential ingredients for "Creativity Stew" and do some exercises to help hone our skills.
Full Day Workshop: This six hour experiential workshop is a hands-on process of opening creative blocks and discovering new ways of conveying our unique personalities and life experiences through our fabric and thread