HeartMath™️ – Skills for Personal and Professional Effectiveness

Resilience is the capacity to prepare for, recover from and adapt in the face of stress, challenge or adversity. You can learn to build your resilience capacity and sustain your energy. 

This 1 hour x 4 week training will provide participants with acquiring and practicing skills to strengthen resilience through research-based tools that:

Increase personal resilience and energy levels.
Leverage your ability to think clearly under pressure
and discern appropriate solutions to problems.
Increase your ability to maintain situational awareness.
Diminish symptoms of personal and professional stress such as confusion, fatigue and sleep disturbance.
Improve reaction times and coordination. 

Who should participate in this training? Anyone who wants to increase their ability to think and act with more confidence under pressure, such as first responders, healthcare workers and parents who unexpectedly find themselves homeschool teachers.  If you’re a health educator or health and wellness coach you’ll be glad to know you may earn 4 continuing education credits while learning valuable skills for both personal and professional applications.

Cultural Competency is a developmental process defined as a set of values, principles, behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable health professionals to work effectively across racial, ethnic, and linguistically diverse groups.

This CE course is approved by ICHWC for 1 continuing education units (CEP #100095).

with Raffy R. Luquis Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• After completing this presentation, you will be able to:
• Define cultural competence and linguistic competence.
• Identify racial and ethnic groups disproportionately affected by diabetes.
• Describe cultural influences on health and health-related outcomes.
• Identify barriers to culturally competent care.
• Describe strategies for achieving cultural competence for educators teaching about diabetes prevention.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is 100% online.  It’s a collaborative, client-centered counseling style for helping people make good decisions and healthy behavior change. MI works by eliciting clients’ own internal motivation and resolving ambivalence within a collaborative working relationship. MI is a tool used by successful DPP Lifestyle Coaches and other health care professionals to foster learning and healthy lifestyle decisions.

This 100% online, approximate 6 week, 12 module training is designed for people with little or no experience with MI as well as for those wishing to improve their MI skills. Each week’s lessons include a brief post-test and exercises to complete.

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The Mindfulness style of NeuroMeditation will help you learn to balance your nervous system.

You may have heard that balanced state referred to as: heart/mind coherence or a part of the flow state. For people managing the effects of stress and anxiety it may be especially helpful

In this live, interactive, experiential online meditation class, you will learn:

• How Mindfulness NeuroMeditation influences your brains functioning.
• Learn and experience a variety of seated and movement-based Mindfulness meditations strategies & practices
• Tools, tips and strategies to customize your personal practice
• Each Neuromeditation style class includes both evidence-based research related to the science of mindfulness meditation, practical experiences, and group discussion. Between classes, you’ll practice specific exercises to advance your learning.
• A more balanced nervous systems results in a calmer awareness. Who wouldn’t appreciate more of that.

with Michaela Conley MCHES NBC-HWC dipACLM NMI2

After completing this training, you will be able to:

• Define the and differentiate the Mindfulness  neuromeditation style
• Demonstrate a new/enhanced approach to self-care
• Discuss how you may integrate your mindfulness  meditation into your daily life

This CE course is approved by ICHWC for 12 continuing education units (CEP #100095).

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Open Heart NeuroMeditation® style is an umbrella term for the cultivation of positive feelings towards others and self, Sometimes referred to loving kindness, by generating positive feeling such as gratitude, compassion, generosity and joy.

This training will promote self-care by cultivating kind and loving feelings toward family, friends and even others in distant locations who may be in need of your positive thoughts.

According to the Neuromeditation Institute, Open Heart practices activate regions of the brain involved in sustaining attention, synthesizing communication between thoughts and feelings, increasing accurate empathy, and cultivating body-based emotional feelings. These practices can help with mood concerns, resentment, perspective taking, and unresolved grief.

with Michaela Conley MCHES NBC-HWC dipACLM NMI

After completing this training, you will be able to:

• Define the open-heart meditation style
• Demonstrate a new/enhanced approach to self-care
• Discuss how you might choose to integrate open-heart meditation into your life
• This CE course is approved by ICHWC for 12 continuing education units (CEP #100095).
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Many consider the Focus style of NeuroMeditation to be a wonderful starting point for anyone, but especially helpful for those seeking to manage symptoms related to ADHD, anxiety, depression and cognitive decline.

Each week we’ll review the evidence related to the science of Focus meditation and experiences designed to provide each participant with the opportunity to pick & choose the tools and techniques that work best for them. Finally we will provide opportunities for all to share and learn from fellow group members.

Between classes, you’ll practice specific exercises to advance and refine your learning.

Wonder what’s going on in your brain when you practice Focus?

• Strengthening concentration & focus, resilience, Self-Awareness, mental toughness
• Define the focus meditation style
• Experience a variety of tools and techniques which you’ll learn to tweak to work best for you.
• Discuss how incorporating focus into your daily life can shift from a state to a trait.

For those who with: chronic pain, symptoms associated with OCD, Body Image or substance use/abuse, Quiet Mind NeuroMeditation may help.

After completing this training, you will be able to:

• Define the quiet mind meditation style
• Demonstrate a new/enhanced approach to self-care
• Discuss how you might choose to integrate quiet mind meditation into your life

This CE course is approved by ICHWC for 12 continuing education units (CEP #100095).

12 CHES/MCHES cech