Wellness Workshops
LMA Wellness Workshops and Webinars provide practical tools for living with greater control.
When we gain control, we reduce our experience of stress, and take another step closer to wellness and happiness. (LMA's Wellness Workshops are open to all individuals, however, employees of organizations with LMA-EAP may use EAP sessions for program payment).
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Anger Management in the Workplace
Changing Self-Defeating Patterns
Completing the Puzzle - Individuals Working as One
Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
Goal Setting: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Managing Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Maximize Your Potential with Emotional Intelligence
Parents Guide to Careers - Telling Your Children Where to Go!
Positive Ways to Reduce Negative Stress
Self Care for Helping Professionals
Instructor: Holly Socolow
This interactive workshop presents a comprehensive yet easy way for anyone to learn and remember how to quicly relax. Drawing on the fields of positive psychology and mind-body medicine, participants learn skills to reduce stress through Awareness, Breathing, Concentration, Deepening, Exhaling and Feeling Good.
Anger Management in the Workplace
Instructor: Dave Wauls
To be truly professional when dealing with difficult situations, we must be able to manage our anger. As leaders and employees we need to learn and recognize what makes us angry (our signals), how we respond to anger and how by using good communication techniques we can work through the anger to resolve conflict.
Instructor: Beth Mansfield-Griswold
Are you satisified with how you balance your time spent at work and with family? Unfortunately, many people are not and feel overwhelmed on a regular basis. This webinar will allow participants to assess their work-life balance and to start making changes one step at a time.
This workshop will hep you to :
Instructor: Elaine Boltz
Are you caring for an aging parent or anticipating being in a caregiver role in the future? In addition to caregiving duties, many of today's caregivers are also employed outside of the home. The combined responsibilities of employment, family and caregiving roles at times may be overwhelming.
This webinar will provide participants with information to assist them in their caregiving journey. Topics to be covered are:
Changing Self-Defeating Patterns
Instructor: Ken Ruffner
How many times have you set a goal, then one thing goes wrong and you give up on the whole idea? Sometimes it can be something you have very little control over; at other times you "just might not feel like doing it" one day... then never really get back on trakc.
This webinar will help participants:
Completing the Puzzle - Individuals Working as One
Instructor: Elaine Boltz
Every member of a team is important. Both individual differences and commonalities are important aspects of team strength. This seminar will use interactive activities to show how celebrating our uniqueness and recognizing our similarities can enhance a work group.
Interactive activites include:
Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
Instructor: Ken Ruffner
One of the biggest obstacles to overcome for personal and career success is poor anger management skills. Although anger is a healthy and universal emotion, chronic or unrelated anger can be costly. Research has linked chronic anger with a variety of health problems, including high blood pressure and heart disease and emotional problems, like disrupted relaitonships and loneliness.
This program will help participants to:
Goal Setting: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Instructors Vary
If we are to achieve, we all have to establish goals for ourselves and our organizations. It is a way to motivate. One way to achieve that is through SMART Goals.
This system helps you to establish goals that everyone understands and is committed to making them work. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely (SMART) helps everyone know what needs to be accomplished and by when. Every goal should be clear, challenging, and employee commitment. This training will help you understand how to write SMART Goals.
Healthy Relationships
Instructors Vary
Relationships shape who are are and what we become. Knowing how to build healthy relationships is an important life skill that has benefits for your health, career and social network.
This program will explore the benefits and challenges of relationships, different kinds of personal boundaries, and how to make your relationships stronger.
Holiday Stress Busters
Instructors Vary
The holidays can be a time of added stress for many of us. Honoring family and religious traditions, social gatherings, temptations to eat and drink excessively, gift giving, keeping spending under control, the pressure to have a perfectly decorated home, maintaining self-care, and oh yes, planning and doing all of this on personal time and keeping focused 100% on work.
Using the power of group intelligence, we will come up with creative and fun solutions to these common holiday stressors. How can we focus on those aspects that really matter and create the holiday that has the most meaning for you. This workshop is designed to help you enjoy the holidays more. The program format will include group discussion, creative problem solving, education and supportive resources.
We will cover:
Goal Setting
Budgeting/Finances
Gift Giving
Family & Social Gatherings
Stress Reduction & Relaxation
How People Change
Instructor - Holly Socolow
Would you like to make a change but not sure how to go about it? Take heart, you're not alone! This one hour program outlines how you can learn to make sustained change in your life, whether it is reducing stress or starting an exercise program, or a personal goal. Participants will learn these stages of change based on the work of James O. Prochaska and colleagues, called "Transtheoretical Model of Change." The stages of change are:
Armed with an understanding of the change process, participants will be able to identify which stage they are in and how to actualize the process toward sustained change.
Humor in the Workplace
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
Is there room for work and play? This interactive presentation on how to develop a sense of humor, especially in reframing negative situations
Introduction to EQ
Instructor - Beth Mansfield-Griswold
Traditionally people have believed that a person's intelligence explained his or her success in life. More recently, psychologists and business leaders have proposed that Emotional Intelligence - combination of self-management and relationship skills - plays a greater role than IQ in determining a person's success.
In this one-hour webinar, participants will learn about Emotional Intelligence, why it matters so much, and how to increase their level of Emotional Intelligence.
Laughter Club
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
Experience the joy of laughing in a relaxed, up-beat atmosphere through a Laughter Club program. Pure laughter, without the use of jokes or comedy, is used to provide light exercise for mental and physical flexibility, mood regulation, stress reduction, and an attitude boost.
The benefits of a Laughter program include simple practices that anyone can do to feel good and have a better outlook on life. Laughter Clubs can be used by anyone with virtually any level of physical or mental ability and is great for all age groups as they improve health and healing.
Research shows that laughter strengthens the immune system, improves breathing, arterial blood flow, digestion, and sleep; relaxes muscles, burns calories, reduces pain and helps people get along together better.
In addition to the laughter exercises, attendees with learn the principles of Good Hearted Living - upbeat suggestions for changing attitudes.
Laughing Your Way to Wellness
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
Achieving wellness goals is a serious business. Learning to "lighten up" can provide the humor resilience needed to overcome the many obstacles that block good intentions. In this workshop you will learn the physical benefits of including humor in your life, how to view the humorous side of a situation and how humor increases creativity and opens one's mind to being flexible with those wellness goals.
Participants will learn to:
Managing Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Instructor - Dave Wauls
From time to time we all experience conflict. When dealing with conflict we all react in different ways. One way is through Passive-Aggressive behavior - instead of dealing directly with that individual to resolve the situation they will take alternate actions and pull others into that conflict. This type of behavior does not resolve the conflict. Dealing directly with conflict is a critical skill that we all need to have and practice. This webinar is designed to educate you on dealing with individuals who practice passive-aggressive behavior.
This workshop will help you to:
Maximize Your Potential with Emotional Intelligence
Instructor - Beth Mansfield-Griswold
During these challenging times, business owners and human resource managers are trying to attract and retain the best talent. Traditionally people have believed that a persons' intelligence explained his or her success in life. More recently, psychologists and business leaders are finding that Emotional Intelligence - the combination of self-management and relationship skills - may play a greater role than IQ in determining a person's success.
In this program, participants will learn about Emotional Intelligence, why it matters so much, and how to increase their level of Emotional Intelligence.
Mindfulness Meditation
Instructor - Holly Socolow
Meditation is a practice that can bring deeper calm and happiness into one's life. It is a simple practice of focusing on a single object in the present moment, typically this breath, in a voluntary, relaxed and persistent way, coming back to this breath over and over when the mind wanders. The result is both a strengthening of concentration and gradual calming of the mind-body.
When we work on staying present, we begin to see more clearly how much we are not present, how the mind wanders easily into "past" or "future" with the associated images and emotions of varying intensities.
This class will emphasize staying present through the calming and repetitive practice of meditation, and provide a safe forum for discussing and working with common experiences that may arise during meditation such as high and low energy, physical discomfort, and various emotional states.
Moving Through Change
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
Life is a series of endings and new beginnings but the transition in between can be difficult. Since change is inevitable in both our personal lives as well as our workplaces, this seminar will help participants understand the change process and help them deal with change more easily.
Some of the areas to be covered in this seminar are:
Parent's Guide to Careers - Telling Your Children Where to Go!
Instructor - Barry Davis
The magic question we ask our kids, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" doesn't work. Many don't have a clue, and the employment landscape is becoming more confusing daily. With the count for vocational choices increasing at an exponential rate and the price of education skyrocketing, what's a parent to do? Are there any steps a concerned adult can and should take to help these employees of the future make better choices in their education and work lives?
Yes, there are! Attend this practical seminar for real world advice on how to help your young ones in these momentous decisions.
Topics include:
Personal Financial Awareness
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
This 3-session webinar will help you increase your personal financial awareness through assessing your financial health, learning how to manage your personal finances, developing SMART financial goals and using credit responsibly.
Part I - Expense Tracking, Budgeting, Savings -
With today's economy, it is more important than ever to be able to effectively manage personal finances. In this session, participants will learn:
Part II - Credit Reports, FICO Scores, Responsible Use of Credit -
Credit cards allow purchases to be made more quickly, often without much thought of how to pay for those items or what effect that credit card debt will have on our financial future. In this session, participants will:
Part III - Planning for Your Financial Future -
Many times the focus is on immediate financial needs without much attention given to our financial future. In this session, participants will learn:
Positive Assertivess
Instructor - Dave Wauls
It's OK to be assertive. In fact, Positive Assertiveness will help you create and maintain honest, healthy working relationships. It is a behavior required for win-win outcomes in negotiation, conflict resolution and normal day-to-day business dealings.
As a result of this workshop, you will discover:
Your assertiveness style
How to develop Positive Assertiveness
Positive Ways to Reduce Negative Stress
Instructor - Beth Mansfield-Griswold
Chronic stress can threaten a person's health and job performance. Although we can't control the events around us, we do have choices in how we respond to them. In this webinar, participants will learn how to manage stress more effectively.
In this webinar, participants will learn:
Pre-Retirement Planning
Instructor - Elaine Boltz
Retirement planning is more than financial planning. Do you know what you want your retirement to look like? This seminar will help you discover how to make your retirement years meaningful as you prepare for the next phase of your life. Explore your dreams and find out how to plan for your golden years.
This workshop outlines:
Respect in the Workplace
Instructor - Dave Wauls
Every organization has a diverse workforce which performs best when all employees treat each other with respect. But sometimes individuals' views on issues and concerns negatively impact working relationships within an organization..
This program will help you to:
Self Care for Helping Professionals
Instructor - Holly Socolow
Helping professionals dedicate their work lives to helping others, counseling or responding quickly in a crisis, providing direction to someone who is confused or frightened, making the connection to get a person in need into treatment, or the many supportive roles we all assume. This two-hour program is devoted to helping professionals.
Through discussion, lecture and activities, we will explore:
Your needs to stay refreshed and nourished
What gets you down and how you are coping
What advice you give to others that you might give to yourself
Participants will learn about new perspectives and research into mental attitudes, stress and calming techniques, mindfulness practices, research on happy people and best real-world practices.
Stress Management
Instructor - Dave Wauls
In today's world, we all deal with stress every day - work, home, children, traffic (the list is endless). Some people are great when dealing with stress, while others of us have a more difficult time working through stressful situations. But the fact is, to prevent burn-out, we all need to understand how stress and stressful situations affect us.
As a result of this workshop, you will discover:
Identify what (and who) creates your stress
How stress impacts everyone.
How to deal with everyday stressors.
Gain valuable tips on dealing with stress.
Time Management
Instructor - Dave Wauls
Get organized and manage your time for increased effectiveness and efficiency. As a result of this public seminar, you will discover:
Working Smarter Not Longer
Instructor - Holly Socolow or Beth Mansfield-Griswold
Learn how to stop, think, and re-evaluate your tasks and responsibilities to maximize your time, energy and success. In this workshop, we'll examine right / left brain dominance and work styles, finding the right amount of stress to get into the "enjoyment zone" of working, avoiding situations where you are taking on too much, and how to regain control if you do!
With you every step of the way.
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