KEYNOTES + WORKSHOPS

My wellness keynotes and workshops offer balancing strategies and mindfulness practices to reduce mental, emotional and physical stress, improve confidence and communication skills, manage emotions in a healthy way and develop a keen sense of self-awareness. * Please inquire for specific workshop and presentation rates for your group or organization.  

A Conscious Life

In today’s world we glorify ‘busy’ and our lives are jam packed full of responsibility, obligations and commitments. We are over-worked and under-rested. When the bodymind is in a constant state of fight or flight mode communication begins to breakdown within its systems and both mental and physical health become at stake. The benefits of practicing mindfulness daily to reduce stress, balance emotions and achieve wellness emotionally, mentally and physically are powerful. In this workshop you will learn how to identify key limiting belief systems that keep you stuck in patterns of stress and unhealthy behaviours and help you develop self-care practices to improve all aspects of your health. Participants will be led through mindfulness activities such as ‘the heart check-in’, focused breathing & brain balancing techniques, guided visual imagery & mindful journaling to help you establish an easy, daily mindfulness routine to balance your overall health, improve relationships, bring more joy to your life, and practice a life full of abundance.

Key themes:

*The 4 pillars of wellness

*Self-regulation strategies to de-stress

*Building a mental health tool kit

*Cultivating connection with self and others

TESTIMONIALS

“This came at a perfect time. I have felt stressed about life, struggling for months and haven’t had a clue what to do so haven’t been doing anything. You gave me a foundation today to worth with and I thank you so much for it. I will be at a session in the future again!” - Travis

“It was like I was meant to be here. I was so stressed everyday but it was my mindset. The experience today was so wonderful and I learned so much so thank you!” - Albert

“These mindfulness exercises made me really realize where my pain is and why it’s there. I will definitely use them again!” - Chasidy

The Conscious Workplace

The relationship dynamics within a workplace play a key part in the mental health of the people within it. With most adults spending more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, addressing issues of workplace mental health is vitally important. 70% of employed Canadians are concerned with the Psychological health and safety of their workplace and 30% of short and long term disability claims are attributed to mental health. Mental health in the workplace affects employee productivity, abseentism, and turnover rates. (mentalhealthcommissuin.ca) This mindfulness based workshop is designed to help improve the relationship dynamics within a staff, by addressing key mental health factors that affect the workplace, and implementing specific strategies and practices for both employees and employers to achieve Intentional wellness. Participants will be led through a series of mindfulness practices such as ‘the emotional check-in’, focused Intentional breathing & brain balancing techniques, guided visual imagery and more. The goal is to help all contributing people within the workplace develop healthy self-awareness, effective communication skills and consistent self-care practices that contribute to an overall positive shift in the work group dynamic itself. 

Key themes:

*Living consciously vs. on autopilot

*Overcoming limiting beliefs

*The 3 keys to building resiliency

*Learning how to “change your lens”

The Conscious Home

Raising tiny humans is hard! Parenting is one of the most difficult, high pressure, high stress jobs that exists and one of the most important aspects of parenting that influences the development of our children, is the state of our own mental health and the managing strategies we incorporate to achieve balance and wellness in our lives. Our little people are watching and learning from our actions, not our words, and this workshop is designed to help you identify your belief systems about parenting that drive your own parenting behaviors. Awareness of the belief systems and emotional programming we are attaching to, is crucial to understanding the behavioural patterns of your children. In this workshop you will learn mindfulness practices to use in the home to develop healthy relationship & communication skills within your family. In mindfulness practice we have a saying that goes like this. ‘Parent yourself first’ With a focus on modelling healthy self-care behaviours and incorporating mindfulness strategies for your own mental health, you will influence a positive mental and emotional shift in your children.

TESTIMONIALS

“Your presentation was fabulous! I’ve always found you easy to listen to but WOW! You covered so much in that hour. We feel other pre-K programs could really benefit from all of that information. Thank you for making time for us!” Marilee Taylor, Pre-K Educational Support Professional

Tech Talk: Effects of Social Media, Online Harms

Key themes:

*How social media impacts the mental health of youth

*Online harms & App awareness for youth

*Setting healthy boundaries with tech use

The Conscious Classroom

With an increasing awareness of the importance of mental health with our youth, providing them with opportunities to explore their emotional programming and develop skills and strategies to process their emotions in a healthy, mindful way, is necessary and powerful. This workshop for all ages will help your child improve self-regulating behaviours, natural conflict resolution, focus and concentration, problems solving skills, confidence, compassion for others, self-awareness, communication skills and much more. Through Journaling, Mindfulness activities & practices and discussion they will engage both their left and right brain for exploring a deeper awareness of the physical, mental and emotional aspects of their minds and bodies. They will learn life long skills of how to take their body out of emergency mode, help de-stress and manage anxiety and emotions.

TESTIMONIALS

It was a pleasure to have Laura present to early years teachers in Saskatchewan! She provided easy-to-use and relevant mindfulness strategies, and spoke eloquently about the importance of mindfulness and self-regulatory tools. I appreciated that she read both of her books to the audience and provided background details about them. I have purchased both books and look forward to using them in the classroom in the future! - Kara Fidelack, Saskatchewan ECEC

“Thank you for giving our staff practical examples and ideas of how to support our students’ emotional needs. You did a great job at delivering the content and we have already been implementing the strategies in a meaningful way in our school. I use the breathing and calming techniques everyday with students who come into my office!” - Trevor Norum, Principal, Wagner Elementary School

“The information presented was very well received by the students. Some left planning to try some of the exercises immediately! I’m hoping we can use some of these stress relieving activities prior to exams.” - Cheryl, Cumberland College Instructor

“The strategies shared were simple but effective. The students were engages and it is very clear that Laura knows how to relate to students of all ages as well as keep things moving at a pace that keeps them interested. I give this workshop a 10/10!” - Brandi, Cumberland College Advisor

“Great introduction to get to know the students! The students and I felt like it was more of an engaging talk than a presentation with a great variety of written, listening and engaging activities. The handouts were very good too!” - Cora, Elementary teacher

“The techniques that Laura teaches are simple enough that anyone can do them but so powerfully effective!” - Kara, Elementary teacher