Workshops

Personal, Professional, and Organizational Development

Workshops and Special Events for Adults and Kids

The event we create for you is specially tailored to suit your group’s needs.

Planning a business meeting, celebration, convention, or lifelong learning session? I can help make it special by designing a program custom-made for you and your group. Take a look at the offerings and feel free to combine topics or modify them. In our initial consult, you and I discover what is best for YOU! All workshops and special programs are offered as either a one-time presentation or a series of classes.

People say that my style is conversational, interspersed with humor. I believe that motivation without information is an empty promise. Knowledge without action won’t get us anywhere. I consider myself an informational/motivational speaker and workshop leader. Sharing information people can use immediately to enrich their lives is my passion. And, of course, the learning must be enjoyable!

Whether in person or online, when I hear comments such as, “It was as if she was talking to me alone” or “Now I have the tools I need to help me take the next step,” it makes my day! 

I work with a broad range of clients including:

  • medical institutions
  • business groups
  • schools
  • non-profit organizations
  • senior facilities
  • community groups
  • religious or spiritual organizations
  • kids and families

One-on-one or small group coaching is available for most workshop topics. Also, customized recordings are available to support ongoing reinforcement of some of the workshops.

Japanese ZEN garden with stacked stones in sand
Relax, Renew, and Re-Energize:
Dealing with Tough Stuff
and Beyond
(all ages)

Think of what you could do with less stress and more energy.

Adapted for adults, teens, or young kids.

Relax, Renew, and Re-Energize:
Pain Management Strategies
(adults and teens)

Adaptation of the Relax, Renew workshop with an emphasis on managing pain.

Sunny Side Up:
Create a "Sunshine" Book
(all ages)

Get started in a life-enhancing journaling adventure.

An experience suited for adults, teens, or young kids.

Drawing-Collage-Painting-Mixed media-Poetry-Prose

Boost Your Creativity and
Awaken the Artist Within
(adults and teens)

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. – Arthur Koestler

An experience suited for older teens and adults.

Drawing Inspired by Music and Movement: Creativity in Action
(all ages)

Put your creative energy to work and “dance” on paper. All art is interconnected. Let the rhythm of the music move your body and your hand as you express yourself through drawing and/or painting. 

An experience suited for adults, teens, or young kids. 

Dance to De-stress
(all ages)

Go from “freaked out” to calm using movement and “stress relief” tools.

An experience suited for adults, teens, or young kids.

And just for fun, we can also do:

Salsa Line Dance 

and 

Clogging For Joy!

Smart Words - Smart Moves for Self-Defense: Avoid Conflict
(all ages)

Manage conflict and avoid escalating verbal or physical confrontation.

Tailored for any age group. Workshops are available with special adaptations for kids, families, people with physical limitations, older seniors, women only, corporate groups, health care workers, and those who are visually impaired.

Dramatize Your Story:
Create and Act Out Your Story
(adults and teens)

A multi-disciplinary workshop series integrating storytelling with writing a skit and acting it out.

Designed for teens, adults, and a special adaptation for seniors since they have more life experience.

Why Choose Me

  • Trained as a psychotherapist with over 25 years experience in the helping profession.
  • Work with individuals, groups, corporations, and families.
  • Published self-help articles in many international magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Industry Week, Woman’s Day, Working Woman, The Writer, and many more.
  • Was one of the first practitioners in the country certified in biofeedback. Trained at the Menninger Foundation.
  • Paper accepted for the initial Biofeedback Society of America’s international conference. I coined a term “psychophysical passivity” and discussed the efficacy of biofeedback treatment for becoming more confident and assertive.
  • Conducted workshops and/or classes for numerous organizations including Cleveland State University, UNC School of Dentistry, Dupont, Metrolina Association for the Blind, Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, Kennesaw State College, Aldersgate, Carolina Orchards, and Tree Tops Senior Living communities, and more.
  • Recorded programs for an international biofeedback company and a seminar company. Also make customized recordings for my clients.
  • Attend numerous continuing education courses in various counseling and psychotherapeutic treatment modalities to broaden my knowledge base and be as effective as possible with clients.
  • Received a grant from the Arts and Science Council to pursue my inspirational artwork and my writing on self-help and personal development with the goal of publishing my children’s books and my book on creativity and problem-solving.
  • Affordable fees.