Influencing
Healthy Choices!
Meeting
Planners, click on each topic for more information.
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
Its not the years
in your life that count. Its 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 hasnt happened
yet. And youre 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-settingand
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 changeby 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 thinkingand different skillsthan
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 styleswhere 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 approacha
win-win approachto managing differences and conflicts! Learn
how you can treat conflict as a great opportunityto get your
own wayand help those with whom youre 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 childrens
character developmentespecially concerning values that contribute
to societal goodhas 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 experienceassess
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 wed
have injected it years ago! But each of us can invite others to
believe in themselvesespecially 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!
Contact Sally for custom-designed programs to fit your organization's
needs!
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