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The Prairie View Health & Wellness Speakers’ Bureau offers an excellent menu of presentations for the business community, civic groups and healthcare organizations. These presentations, which last from 45 minutes to 1 hour, are available for $150 per hour, including travel. (Reduced rates are available for Prairie View Employee Assistance Programs contracted companies.) Negotiable rates may also be available for organizations located in our tri-county area (Harvey, McPherson and Marion Counties).
Select a Category:
 Anger Management
Title: Life Skills
 Description: Anger is a normal emotion that tends to be secondary to another negative emotion such as fear, pain or sadness. Getting acquainted with your personal anger opens the door for making the changes that are desired.
What to learn: You will learn to identify anger triggers, how your body responds to anger and techniques for reducing the intensity.
CEU's Available: No Children's IssuesTitle: Meditation & Imagery for Children
Description: Parents and their children ages 6-10 will learn skills to help them relax, focus, and discover how to use their strengths and gifts to meet their challenges and create what they want in life. The course will include guided imagery as well as visual art, drama, creative writing, and other expressive arts experiences.
What to learn: Develop and practice relaxation skills.
Learn different meditation techniques.
Discover how making art can enhance meditation experiences.
CEU's Available: No Family Life IssuesTitle: Creating a Workable Family in Today's World
Description: Creating a Workable Family in Today's World:
*Playing indoors, not outdoors
*Playstations, Xboxes, and Game Cubes vs Tinkertoys, Parcheesi & Mud Pies.
*Getting children to contribute vs being entertained.
*Who cleans the bathroom: when both parents have careers.
*I need a TV in my room--all my friends....
*What happens if I say, "No"?
*A good swat never hurt anyone.
* 24-7 is just not enough.
*How do we get good behavior and confident children?
*Will a divorce harm my children?
What to learn: What makes families run well?
Most common mistakes couples and parents make.
Skills needed for lasting relationships.
Guidelines for successful parenting.
Communication differences between males and females, parents and children.
Strategies for coping with teens.
CEU's Available: No Title: Wrinkles, Wisdom and Wellness: How to Live a Joyful Life after your Warranty Runs Out!
Description: This presentation looks at the challenges of aging and offers suggestion on how to meet them with courage and grace. Maintaining intellectual vigor, developing emotional intelligence, coping transitions, adapting to change and finally acknowledging our mortality are all evidence of joyful living after our warranty runs out.
What to learn: Attendees will be able to identify three general "challenges" of aging. They will be able to list actives that promote intellectual vigor and emotional intelligence. Participants will be able to identify strategies to cope with life transitions. Attendees will learn several actives that can assist us in coming to terms with mortality.
CEU's Available: No Grief and DeathTitle: Saying Goodbye: A Journey Through The Valley
Description: Though we are all aware that death is a natural part of life we cannot help but feel shock and great sadness when faced with the life threatening illness of someone close to us. Exactly what we feel and how we choose to cope with these feelings will vary greatly depending on our particular situation and the past history we bring to our current circumstances. This presentation is meant to offer general guideposts for this difficult journey as well as support as we rebuild our lives after a loss.
What to learn: -dealing with intense feelings
-managing family involvement
-changes in roles and relationships.
-saying goobye
-adjusting to a new "normal" after a death
CEU's Available: No Managing Medical ConditionsTitle: Creativity as a Path to Health and Wellness
Description: Learn the basics about how to use visual art as a tool to promote health and wellness with people of all ages and with a variety of medical and emotional needs. This class includes a mixture of experiential and didactic components. Many students report this has been one of the most fun and helpful classes they have ever taken.
What to learn: Become knowledgeable about the differences inherent in different art media.
Understand what types of visual art experiences are best suited to people’s needs.
Learn how to present art experiences in a manner that is ethical and therapeutic.
CEU's Available: Yes Organizational WellnessTitle: Inviting Creativity & Spirituality into the Workplace
Description: This full day in-service retreat will help businesses who are interested in strategic planning and team-building to develop an organizational stance that will set them apart from their competitors. This workshop is highly experiential in nature, and will involve the use of expressive activities such as creating visual images, journaling, and discussion.
What to learn: As a result of attending the workshop, organizations will be able to:
Identify specific things that give their employees a sense of meaning and purpose.
Name ways employees can incorporate their values/passions into their work.
Identify things that support and inhibit employees’ peak work performance.
Explain how their employees’ passions can enhance the organization.
Describe an overall strategic plan that incorporates employees’ passions/gifts.
CEU's Available: Yes Title: Maintaining Heart Space in the Workplace
Description: This half-day in-service retreat is an introduction designed for businesses interested in helping their employees feel passionate and inspired about their work and more connected with their co-workers.
The workshop can also be offered to a group of people who come from different organizations, in which case the focus is on incorporating life passions into work & maintaining a sense of balance.
This workshop is highly experiential in nature, involving the use of expressive activities such as visual art, journaling, and discussion.
What to learn: As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Identify two things that give your life meaning and purpose.
Name three ways you can incorporate your values/passions into your work.
Describe how the things that give your life meaning & purpose can enhance your life & work.
CEU's Available: Yes SpiritualityTitle: Nurturing Your Inner Creative Fire
Description: Recover or discover the creative force that is innate in all humans, and essential to living a life filled with passion. Primarily experiential in nature, this workshop will give participants the opportunity to take part in: the creation of visual images, drama, movement, and creative writing as tools to access their Inner Creative Fire and breathe new meaning into life.
What to learn: Identify creative blocks and discover how to overcome them.
Develop skills for nurturing creativity.
Explore ways to ways to incorporate your passions into your daily life and work.
CEU's Available: Yes Title: Receiving Spiritual Guidance Through Nature
Description: This personal growth workshop is designed to help people find answers to life’s questions and challenges by drawing upon the wisdom and metaphors that nature provides. Course components will include creative writing, visual art, and time spent in nature. The spiritual perspectives included are not related to any particular dogma or faith.
What to learn: Develop or strengthen a personal sense of being connected to nature.
Practice using this connection as a source of personal & spiritual wellness and growth.
CEU's Available: Yes Tools for Lifestyle ChangeTitle: A Three-Dimensional Approach: Health and Wellness in Mind/Body/Spirit
Description: For centuries, society has made a clear separation between physical health and health of the mind and spirit. However, recent studies show a clear connection between these three areas. Come and learn more about how people of all ages are creating a well-rounded lifestyle.
What to learn: As a result of attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
Name three links between health in mind, body, and spirit.
Identify five ways individuals and families can foster physical, mental, and spiritual health.
CEU's Available: No Title: Creativity and Nature as a Path to Health &Wellness
Description: This course builds upon the experience & knowledge gained through Creativity as a Path to Health and Wellness. This course is actually a mini-retreat that helps participants learn about and experience how to use the connections between personal and planetary challenges to create healing experiences for people of all ages. Art making, time spent in nature, and a final ceremony are all components of this course.
What to learn: Understand the basic premises of ecopsychology
Discover how connection with nature can promote healing of mind/body/spirit.
Develop or strengthen a personal sense of being connected to nature to enhance one's own sense of wellness.
CEU's Available: Yes Title: Family, Life and Money - An Introduction to Financial Management for Women
Description: At some point in their lives 90% of all U. S. women will be on their own ---single, widowed, or divorced. Women typically earn less, save less, and live longer, making it even more important that they focus on their finances now. Learning about money ---- managing it, talking about it with your loved ones, using it to bring about social change ---- is as important today as it was for our mothers to learn to drive and our grandmothers to secure the right to vote . . .
What to learn: Learn:
The basics of investing your money.
Your personal money "style".
Planning for retirement.
How to talk to your children about money.
CEU's Available: No Title: Journaling & Imagery for Insight and Personal Growth
Description: Whatever big questions you have about your life, this workshop can help you discover that the answers lie within yourself! Participants are provided with concrete Self-Empowerment tools they can use to access their Inner Wisdom long after the course ends.
What to learn: Learn how to use journaling and visual images as a tool for personal growth.
Explore techniques that can increase the flow of creativity.
Enhance skills in problem-solving and prioritizing.
CEU's Available: Yes Title: Meditation & Imagery for Adults
Description: Are you interested in relieving stress and bringing more peace and stillness into your life? This course includes instruction in traditional and alternative meditation techniques, relaxation skills, and the creation of visual images to enrich and strengthen what is learned and experienced.
What to learn: Develop and practice relaxation skills.
Learn different meditation techniques.
Discover how making art can enhance meditation experiences.
CEU's Available: No
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