Influencing Healthy Choices!

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Healthy People Take Care of Themselves!

 

The Care and Feeding of the Helping Professional

We teach who we are and lead by example, so take stock of your social, physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, career, and spiritual health practices. Set goals to take better care of yourself so you can up your influence with the people who matter in your life!

  • Take inventory of your personal health practices!
  • Set goals to maximize your health and influence!
  • Speak your goals to make them real!
  • Seek out and train allies to support your health goals!

Living On Purpose

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years! Explore a step-by-step process to clarify what you want your life to stand for and learn practical goal management techniques which will allow you to live your mission, express your purpose in life, and enrich your life with meaning every day!

  • Balance who you are with what you do!
  • Connect with purpose and meaning in your life!
  • Commit to an action plan that aligns your ultimate goals and purpose!
  • Learn how to live your mission every day!

Find the Love of Your Life!

You deserve to be happy! You are warm, lovable, and ready for love. But it hasn’t happened yet. And you’re starting to wonder if it ever will. Yes! Love will happen for you! Learn how you can attract the relationship you want by:

  • Clearly defining the relationship you really want!
  • Affirming and visualizing your fondest dreams!
  • Developing strategies to move past the roadblocks to love!
  • Gathering support to keep your search positive and fun!
  • Seeking out other sources of strength and love in your life!
  • And having fun with other lovable souls!

    Based on Find the Love of Your Life! By Sally Crosiar (Canandaigua, NY: Healthy People Press, 2000).

Turn Good Intentions Into Action!

The power of setting goals is well documented, but fewer than 3% of us actually do it! Map out your most exciting future in this fun, and interactive session as you practice the principles of effective goal-setting—and getting!

  • Explore what you want to be, have, and do in your life!
  • Contemplate what goals will help you gain the greatest satisfaction in the personal, professional, financial, and adventure arenas of your life!
  • Learn how to craft a goal that will motivate you to achieve your highest dreams!
  • Learn how to put the power of goal-setting to work for you!

The Courage to Create Change

Change is scary! And none of us grows without it! Discover how you can learn to cope with change—by raising the stakes, welcoming more positive risk in your life, and helping to create change for your own growth!

  • Explore how change affects your health!
  • Clarify personal attitudes toward change, risk, loss, grief, and exhilaration!
  • Develop practical strategies to cope with imposed changes!
  • Assess your changing skills!
  • Create plans to successfully grow through self-motivated change!

Healthy People Work Well!

First Rate Facilitation for Active Learning

Facilitating active learning requires different ways of thinking—and different skills—than prescriptive teaching. Learn the theory and practice of using active learning strategies to promote the development of communication, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills among members of your group.

  • Strengthen your abilities to guide learning!
  • Build your repertoire of involving learning strategies!
  • Strengthen your own group relationship skills!
  • Discover techniques to empower learners while managing group dynamics!
  • Gain resources in a learning community!

What's Your Personality IQ?

Discover your true style with the Personality IQ TM, a simple and fun personality indicator! Learn how you fit with other personality styles—where you connect and where you can anticipate conflict. Explore ways to encourage individual strengths to create a fully effective team!

  • Use the Personality IQTM to gain greater self-awareness!
  • Connect with others who share your personality style!
  • Discover what makes other complementary styles challenging for you to work with!
  • Learn how to appreciate the differences!

Dealing with Difficult People

Don’t let the jerks get you down! Instead, learn how to de-fuse and disarm people who have learned how to push your buttons! And learn how to control your own tendencies to push other people’s buttons so you can become a truly motivating leader who creates fully effective teams!

       • Gain greater self-awarenessabout your own personality style!
       • Discover what makes other styles difficult for you to work with and 

          learn to appreciate the differences!
       • Learn how to work with know-it-alls, snipers, gripers, super-agreeables,

          and other contrary characters!
       • Practice defensive techniques that tell difficult types not to mess with you!

Let Someone Else Get Your Own Way: Conflict Management that Builds Relationships

Take a positive approach—a win-win approach—to managing differences and conflicts! Learn how you can treat conflict as a great opportunity—to get your own way—and help those with whom you’re in conflict to also get their way!

  • Take inventory of your own conflict style!
  • Learn to be an excellent conflict manager from your own experiences!
  • Discover practical conflict management models you can use!
  • Practice anger and conflict management skills!
  • Learn how to teach a win-win approach to conflict to others!

Healthy People Work for Kids' Health!

Raise Healthy Active Kids: Prevent Childhood Obesity

How can you influence healthy attitudes toward food and activity?  Learn six healthy behaviors that research indicates are most important for healthy weight in children and adults.  Explore how you can adapt a home or classroom environment to make it easier for kids to make healthy choices!

  • Explore how to implement a supportive parenting and care-giving style that helps children develop healthy attitudes toward food and activity!
  • Learn tricks to encourage children to eat vegetables and fruits! Discover ‘hidden’ calories and portion distortions found in sweetened beverages and fast foods!
  • Explore ways to reduce screen time and encourage active play!

Character and Values Education: A Primer

Influencing children’s character development—especially concerning values that contribute to societal good—has become an important element of public schooling and community planning. Some experts even proclaim it to be a necessary component in comprehensive programs to prevent violence. Explore the issues of effective character education: How has it evolved from earlier educational initiatives? What does it look like in schools, communities, and families? How does it relate to other current youth development and educational initiatives? What skills do teachers need? What values should be taught in school? At home? In the community?

  • Examine the roots of values education in American public schools!
  • Discover fun ways to engage others in values discussions!
  • Explore various values education theorists and learn how to use the best from each!
  • Explore how character education fits into youth development models!
  • Learn from experience—assess and share how your school and community are promoting character development!

Esteem Engines: Boosting Your Own Self-Esteem to Inspire High Self-Esteem in Children

No one can increase the self-esteem of another person! If we knew how to do that we’d have injected it years ago! But each of us can invite others to believe in themselves—especially when we show them what high self-esteem looks like!

  • Discover tools to explore self-esteem issues with kids of all ages (grown-ups too!)
  • Explore self-esteem research
  • Creating an esteeming environment
  • Practice modeling high self-esteem!


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