Workshops
- Whole-Community / Individual Workshops for All Ages
Small Habits, Big Life
Learn how simple daily choices around food, movement, stress, and connection can protect your brain and improve long-term well-being.
Participants will:
- Identify three daily habits that support brain health and longevity.
- Understand how small behavior changes create long-term health impact.
- Choose one habit to practice consistently after the session.
Explore how brain health directly impacts mood, energy, and resilience—and what you can do starting today.
Participants will:
- Explain the connection between brain health, mood, and emotional regulation.
- Identify common habits that negatively impact brain health.
- Commit to one brain-protective strategy they can apply immediately.
Discover practical ways to reduce stress and calm your nervous system using proven Blue Zones and brain-based strategies.
Participants will:
- Recognize how stress affects the brain and body.
- Practice at least one simple downshifting technique.
- Identify personal stress triggers and one healthy response.
Understand how your brain drives habits, reactions, and choices—and how small shifts can create big change.
Participants will:
- Describe how the brain influences behavior and decision-making.
- Identify patterns that lead to reactive or unhealthy choices.
- Apply one brain-based strategy to improve daily habits.
Parents & CaregiversRaising Kids with Strong Brains and Strong Values
Learn how brain development, connection, and consistent boundaries work together to support lifelong success.
Participants will:
- Understand how brain development impacts behavior and learning.
- Identify parenting practices that support emotional regulation.
- Apply one strategy to reinforce values while building responsibility.
Discover how staying regulated as a parent helps children build responsibility, confidence, and emotional skills.
Participants will:
- Recognize how adult regulation influences child behavior.
- Practice strategies to stay calm during challenging moments.
- Identify one change that supports independence and confidence in children.
Explore why parent self-care is essential—not optional—for healthy families and developing brains.
Participants will:
- Understand how stress and burnout affect parenting effectiveness.
- Identify self-care practices that improve emotional regulation.
- Commit to one realistic self-care habit that supports family well-being.
Learn Love and Logic strategies that reduce conflict while supporting healthy brain development and independence.
Participants will:
- Identify common triggers for power struggles.
- Learn Love and Logic tools that promote cooperation and accountability.
- Practice reframing challenges into teaching opportunities.
Understand why connection is the foundation for learning, behavior, and emotional regulation in children.
Participants will:
- Understand why connection is critical for learning and behavior.
- Identify ways to strengthen connection during daily interactions.
- Apply a connection-based approach before addressing behavior.
Gain practical tools to teach accountability while preserving relationships and reducing stress at home.
Participants will:
- Identify age-appropriate ways to teach responsibility.
- Learn how natural consequences support brain development.
- Apply one strategy that reduces conflict and builds accountability.
Learn how Blue Zones-inspired family routines can support health, connection, and purpose across generations.
Participants will:
- Identify family routines that support health and connection.
- Understand how modeling influences long-term habits.
- Choose one family habit to strengthen or implement.
Learn how lifestyle changes at any age can improve memory, mood, and overall brain function.
Participants will:
- Understand how lifestyle choices affect brain health at any age.
- Identify habits that support memory and emotional well-being.
- Select one change to support cognitive health.
Discover why strong social ties and meaning are essential for brain health and a longer, healthier life.
Participants will:
- Understand how social connection impacts longevity.
- Identify personal sources of purpose and meaning.
- Choose one way to increase connection or engagement.
Understand how small, consistent daily actions can protect brain function over time.
Participants will:
- Understand how daily routines impact long-term brain health.
- Identify one habit to adjust for better brain support.
- Commit to a sustainable daily practice.
Learn how understanding the brain helps you pause, regulate emotions, and make better choices under stress.
Participants will:
- Understand how the brain responds under stress.
- Practice pausing and regulating before reacting.
- Apply one technique to improve emotional responses.
Discover simple downshifting practices that support emotional balance and brain health.
Participants will:
- Identify factors that contribute to emotional overload.
- Practice simple calming strategies.
- Develop a plan to incorporate calm into daily life.
Supporting the Health of Your Family: Family Fun, Family Food, Family Fitness
Health is a family matter. This workshop focuses on creative ways to make nutrition, exercise, and spending time together a priority to help participants maintain the health of the family.
Strategies for Creating Work, School, & Life Balance for You and Your Family
With our busy world, it is difficult to balance your work, children's school and sport activities and life personally. Learn simple you can apply - and share with your family too.
Sleep Your Way to Better Health
Sleep is important to many aspects of one’s health. It is not just the quantity of sleep, but also the quality of sleep that matters. This seminar focuses on how sleep affects health and explores strategies to help attendees improve the sleep they are getting.
Proven Stress Management Techniques
Just as everyone responds to stress differently, there is no single approach to stress management that works for each person. Participants will learn proven ways to manage stress and decide which stress management techniques might work better them as individuals.
Back to School: Helping your child succeed in school
This workshop helps you understand how children view learning and what parents can do to instill the joy of learning in their children. You’ll learn how focusing on children’s effort, rather than the grade they get, helps them enjoy the learning process during class time and homework time. Also includes solutions to make returning to school after vacation breaks less stressful.
Healthy Made Easy
It’s easy to make healthy living complicated with so much information coming at us. Eat more vegetables, move more, stress less, and find a work-life balance. We will break down the basics of health and wellness, discuss what healthy is, and help you define what healthy means to you. We’ll show you just how easy it can be with ideas for eating healthy, tricks to fitting in fitness, simple strategies to stressing less, workspace wellness hacks, shortcuts to creating healthy habits, and tips to striking a work-life balance.
Parenting with Love and Logic: 4-Session Workshop
This 4-session workshop is designed for parents with children of all ages. It dives deeper into practical skills that parents and families can use immediately. Tools & techniques emphasize respect & dignity for both children & adults. This 4-session workshop provides real limits in a loving way while teaching consequences & healthy decision making.
This 4-session workshop is designed for parents with children of all ages. It dives deeper into practical skills that parents and families can use immediately. Tools & techniques emphasize respect & dignity for both children & adults. This 4-session workshop provides real limits in a loving way while teaching consequences & healthy decision making.
Additional Workshop Topics
- Effective Parent / Child Communication
- Creating Calm through Connection & Communication
- Establishing and Maintaining Routines and Limits
- Building Resilient Children and Families
- Listening and Responding to Children
- Helping Your Child Succeed in School
- Resolving Conflicts at Home
- The Power of Praise