Educational Workshops

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I believe in the importance of education and prevention efforts to help prevent problems before they arise.  Below is a list of sample workshops for prevention of mental health concerns and enhancing life skills.

Body Image/Eating Disorders Workshops

  • Learning to Love the Body You Have: Developing a positive body image
  • Loving Your Body Every Day: Daily ways to build a better body self-esteem
  • Body Image across cultures
  • Eating Disorders I: What are they?
  • Eating Disorders II: Why do they develop?
  • Eating Disorders II: How do I help someone I love?
  • When Does Body Size Matter?  Understanding and combatting weight prejudice

LGBTQ Workshops

  • LGBTQQAI:  How to make sense of the alphabet soup
  • Putting the T in LGBT: Understanding transgender issues
  • Myths and Facts of Bisexuality
  • Coming out I: Introduction to the process and evaluating readiness for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals
  • Coming out II: Preparations, choices and challenge for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals
  • Race and the Rainbow: Understanding LGBTQ issues for people of color
  • Understanding Homophobia and Heterosexism: Why these issues are important for everyone

Diversity –Affirmative Workshops

  • When Does Body Size Matter?  Understanding and combatting weight prejudice
  • Cultural Privilege I: What is it and how does it work?
  • Cultural Privilege II: What do I do with my unearned cultural privilege?
  • Understanding Class Issues: So much more than money
  • Understanding and Challenging Lesser Known Privileges and Oppressions: It’s not just about race

Self-Esteem/ Assertiveness Workshops

  • Learning to Say No
  • Pushy or Pushover?  How to increase healthy assertive behavior
  • Learning to Love Yourself As You Are: Building a healthy self-esteem

Relationship Workshops

  • Healthy Relationships 101: Identifying relationship wants, needs and dealbreakers
  • Healthy Relationships 201: When is it abuse and how can you help yourself
  • The Intimacy Builder: Learning the 5 categories and methods to strengthen intimacy in couples
  • Why Can’t You Understand Me? How to improve understanding and communication
  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: How to increase your self-understanding and improve your relationships

Sexual Education Programs

Trained to facilitate Our Whole Lives Program for ages 12 to adult.  Topics include:

  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Relationship skill building
  • Assertiveness and healthy communication
  • Conception, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy
  • Masturbation and other sexual behaviors
  • Sexual decisions and unintended pregnancy options
  • Relationships and the internet

Please call 706-389-8161 to request a workshop for yourself, your business or community group. Note that workshops are not limited to the topics above. Efforts will be made to tailor the information to your specific audience.

 

706-389-8161