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Workshop Descriptions

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Ann motivates and empowers audiences with tips, information and resources on how to improve their personal effectiveness and have more satisfying lives. Her most popular presentations include:

De-Stress: 10 Steps to Better Living
This participatory workshop is designed to help identify common sources and types of stress, typical response patterns, and factors that influence your stress tolerance. You will also learn practical stress management techniques, such as deep breathing, worry control, relaxation, and challenging negative thinking. Managing stress is not only a lifestyle choice – it can be a life-saving choice. (3 hour workshop; can be broken into two 90 minute segments)

Stress Management First Aid Kit
Life IS stress! This interactive workshop takes a look at how our thoughts and thought patterns influence stress. We will share some easy-to-use stress reducers that you can put into your stress management “first aid kit” to have ready any time you need them. (90 minute workshop)

Running on Empty: Everyday Ways to Fill Your Inner Well
Are you a member of the sandwich generation or a caregiver? Do you work in a helping profession like teaching, health care, or the service industry? If so, you are at a greater risk for burnout. Come learn about and share strategies for self–renewal and maintaining a healthy life balance. (90 minute workshop)

The Helping Relationship: Staying Healthy – Staying Balanced
This workshop is specifically geared for the healthcare profession and focuses on the helping relationship and the pitfalls inherent in health-related care. Through this workshop you will gain a better understanding of a) how our individual purpose, goals, & expectations influence care giving and the team process, b) how, as helpers, our ambivalence towards our power creates boundary issues for the team process and ourselves c) the importance of maintaining good boundaries, d) your current burnout potential, and e) maintaining compassionate detachment. (90 minute workshop)

The Empowered Leader
Do you have supervisory responsibility over others at work? Are you looking for ways to improve your leadership capability? This workshop is designed to help you gain insight into your own leadership style and learn valuable strategies for getting the kind of behavior and results you require and expect. (90 minute workshop)

Are You My Type? Self-Discovery through a Look at Personality
Ever wonder why you clash with some people and click with others? This highly interactive and fun workshop is designed to help you understand yourself better. You will learn about your personality preferences and how they influence every aspect of your life. This can be especially helpful workshop for interdisciplinary work teams, teams experiencing trust issues or individuals looking to understand themselves better. (90 minute workshop)

The Elephant in the Room: A Conversation about End-of-Life
Woody Allen once said, “I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.” Talking about our own death or the death of our parents makes us baby boomers uncomfortable, as if we are tempting fate by even thinking and talking about the “D” word. This workshop provides a safe and supportive place in which to explore the importance of end-of-life planning to ensure that we or our loved ones can live our lives to fullest until the very end. (90 minute workshop)

How Do You Live Your Dash?
Sometimes life seems like a race that never seems to end or slow down. We get so caught in the business of life and work that there aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done. Learn some key life management strategies that will help you run your life rather than have your life running you. (90 minute workshop)

The Art of Saying “No” – Life Beyond Being a Guilt Riddled People Pleaser
Are you overworked, overcommitted, and, perhaps, underappreciated? Do you have a hard time saying “no” to family, friends, co-workers, your church or the PTA? If you are always putting your own needs and desires last and are beginning to resent it, this workshop is for you. You are not alone. Join other “people pleasers” as we explore how care for others begins with care for self. Learn to say “no” without guilt or anger.

For more information, or to have Ann customize a presentation for your next conference, team retreat, or community event, contact Ann at SageWorks at (816)525-4739 or ann@sageworks1.com.