Workshops

WORKSHOP TOPICS:

• Mindfulness: Awakening Into Our Experience

• Mindful Movement: Love the Skin You're In

• Managing Chronic Pain of the Body, Mind and Heart: Pain Happens, Suffering is Optional

• Feeling Good About Your Self: Self Esteem Across Our Lives, a Work in Progress

• Saying What We Really Mean. Really Meaning What We Say: Communication with a Calm Heart and a Wise Mind

• My Space. Your Space. Our Space?: Growing Boundaries With Ourselves and Others Across Our Lives

• Building Peace in a Frightening World: Conflict Resolution Without Fear

• Changing the Game: Learning to Embrace What We Cannot Prevent and Shift What We Can

• Managing Stress in Our Lives: Finding Calm, Creating Peace

• Working With Anger: Redesigning Our Past. Changing the Future

• Losing and Grieving: Getting Over? Moving on?

• Memory Across Our Lives: And Just Where Did I Put My Keys This Time?

• Aging Gracefully: Making Peace with the Aging Process

• Passion and Mission: Finding Your North Star

• The Four Pillars of a Better World: Self-Esteem, Communication, Boundaries and Conflict Resolution

• An introduction to a few aspects of mindfulness as a tool for personal development and healthy relationships

• Introduction and practice of a few basic mindfulness practices for:

• calming your mind

• connecting to your body

• connecting to your environment

• “The body whispers. The body speaks. The body shouts.” Most folks miss everything in front of the shout

• This workshop offers a more focused, more active, look at some of the body-focused mindfulness practices from my “Awakening” workshop, so that communicating with your body is less cluttered, less confusing over time

• The focus will be on: actively calming the mind to check the story we tell ourselves; and connecting to the body, to check what is really happening in the moment

• With practice, these skills create a deeper body connection that supports self exploration and motivates change

• Pain takes many forms and it shows up in many places in our lives. Many folks do not have the skills needed to manage the chronic aspects of physical, mental and emotional pain effectively. Thus, they suffer

• How folks feel about what they are experiencing, physically, mentally and emotionally has an impact on how well our physical, mental and emotional systems can respond to the pain

• This workshop will introduce a new set of body and thinking skills for mindfully shifting your relationship with your pain in a new, hopefully more positive direction

• This workshop moves more deeply into the story part of Story Coaching. While it is less physically active, this workshop can be emotionally challenging

• The only relationship in your life that you can’t walk away from is the relationship you build with your self. This makes it the relationship that needs the most work. Always

• The root of all positive and negative self esteem stories is what we feel and believe the stories say about us. How many of your stories are positive? How many are not?

• Using mindful practices for self reflection, this workshop is meant to offer a different frame of self awareness that makes it less challenging to own mistakes and successes

• This workshop opens the door to a more mindful, intentional communication process that supports greater personal and relational harmony, strengthens and builds lasting relationships, and offers more effective outcomes

• This workshop weaves information from the Self Esteem workshop into how, what and why we communicate in the ways we do (or don’t) with the people we communicate with, our self included

• Looks at communication patterns in specific relationships in order to identify and shift self stories in a “more accurate to fact” direction in conjunction with hard communication skills to support the development of positive internal and external boundaries

• This workshop builds on some of the hard skills and information from the communication workshop to discover, or rediscover your edges, more readily notice other folks' edges and find and use the space we share in a good way

• Boundaries, visible or not, are about safety. Using mindful practices this workshop tunes into a more sensitive body framework for discovering what feels safe and what doesn’t for you, separate from the story

• Using physical awareness skills from theatre and martial arts, participants will learn to notice the body information more easily and become more able to use the information well

• Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of life in the human experience. It has an evolutionary purpose and a developmental function for all of us. Conflict Resolution is a skillset we are not born with

• How we view conflict is a major factor in how we do conflict. This workshop will offer some skill-based, non-competitive, “Win-Win” approaches to conflict resolution that might change the view

• Building on skills and information from “Feeling Good About Your Self”, “Saying What We Really Mean”, and “My Space. Your Space. Our Space?”, folks will encounter and practice a different set of conflict skills focused on reframing the conflict

• Like conflict, change is unavoidable. Everything changes. Me, you, other folks, economics, relationships, ideas, opinions, politics, (did I mention relationships?!?), climate, emotions, values, beliefs, etc… is in an ongoing process of CHANGE, all the time

• The story that we tell ourselves often leads folks to fear or resist change in a way that jams their ability to adapt and change in the moment and over time

• Using skills from the “Mindfulness” and “Feeling Good” workshops, this workshop is meant to offer some alternative perspectives about change and how we can step into change in a different way

• This workshop offers current information about stress: what it is, how it works, what impacts it can have on folks; and offers a new, more effective set of ideas and skills

• This workshop will strongly emphasize mindfulness practices that are focused on physical, mental and emotional self-regulation as a 1st response to stress. “The body whispers. The body speaks. The body shouts!”

• It will also do a deeper dive into the story folks are telling themselves about their stress. Using ideas from the “Feeling Good” workshop, folks learn to refine their ability to notice and reality check in the moment to reduce stress, and to strengthen and maintain the new awareness over time 

• This workshop is meant for folks who struggle with their own or other folks' anger and want to learn more.

• This session will offer some alternative ideas about what anger really is, what it does, and how much choice we ACTUALLY have in the relationship we create with our anger

• Anger is not what we think it is. Anger is far more complex, powerful and valuable than humans have ever imagined. And, we can learn new skills to build a different relationship with anger, and thus, a different future with and for the folks we love

• Anger is not simple. It has no gender. It has no faith. It lives in EVERYONE. AND it is neutral, just like any other emotion; until we point it and "let" it slip the leash. Or not.

• It's what we do with our anger that makes all the difference.

• This session will offer some new perspectives on the loss/grief dynamic in conjunction with mindfulness practices for accessing and using built-in emotional and physical release processes in order to move forward

• Have you ever been hit by a major loss in your life and had everyone, even nice folks, be no help at all? Have you ever found yourself being the “nice folks” and not knowing how to help or what to offer?

• Welcome to the club. Many of us simply do not know what to do, say or feel in the face of loss, regardless of whose it is.

• Like all human experiences, the event of loss and the grieving that goes along with it, are uniquely different for all of us. Owning that is where we start to heal

• This session will introduce current ideas and information regarding: how our memory works, what might be happening when it doesn’t, and some simple skills and practices to strengthen the "muscle" that is our brain

• Time catches up to all of us and with time our mental process can slow down or even fail. That is not an inevitable end, it is a belief, based in old science, that current science and new technology are proving wrong

• Using mindfulness practices and brain exercises, this session will offer some practical skills and habits to make our brains stronger and more resilient to the wear and tear of time

• We all age. We all move into the past. We all become history. Despite the fact that we all end up at the same destination, our society actively, aggressively resists, denies, avoids and evades the facts

• Like everything else, how you view it, influences how you do it. This session looks at aging in a different way. Self-esteem, communication, healthy boundaries, and our ability to adapt and adjust to change, all play a vital role in how we respond to age and aging

• This session will confront current attitudes and beliefs about aging and offer other, more valuable and empowered frames of reference that have nothing to do with how wealthy you are or how young you look 

• It is a proven fact that having a purpose, a mission, “a reason to get out of bed in the morning” can make a profound difference in the direction and altitude of peoples’ lives

• This session brings it all together. Taking information and skills from the previous sessions, folks will enter into the process of finding their purpose by identifying significant interests, values, and meaning in order to reconnect to their passion

• Folks will come away with a clearer sense of what is important to them and how they want to develop and grow the really important stuff

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• How we feel about ourselves, what we say about ourselves, and how we create safety for ourselves has an impact on how we resolve conflict in our lives. Shifting the future requires that we expand our base skill set

• This workshop offers a brief overview of each of the topics in connection with a few relevant skills for creating shift in our attitudes, ideas and the beliefs we hold about ourselves and what we say and do in the world