Workshops and Keynotes for all Audiences
Practicing Presence Keynotes and Workshop Topics
Title: Practicing Presence: Writing Your Prescription for a Joyful Life
Description: Designed to incorporate writing and reflection as a catalyst to uncover unconscious 
habits and exchange them with sustainable self-care strategies, this session provides practices to cultivate simple routines to protect against burnout and boredom. We need a systems approach to wellness, and it begins with us. Bring a pad and paper for this interactive session.
Title: Fuels and Drains
Event Description: This workshop offers a chance to take stock of what’s draining you in your life and what fuels could be added to replenish and revitalize your day-to-day life.
Title: Bucket List: Looking Forward
Event Description: This presentation isn’t traditional bucket list searching. You’ll entertain the idea of the Power of Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Doing Nothing. We’ll look at “possibility thinking” and explore my top 10 coaching questions.
Title: Life Balance: Finding the Median between Living to Work and Working to Live
Event Description: Please join Dr. Lisa J. Lucas, author of the book, Practicing Presence, who will share evidence -based research to support stress reduction. Discover how to train the mind and establish healthy habits and simple self-care strategies that can easily be incorporated into everyday life. In a world where everyone seems overly busy and overextended, practicing presence offers a much-needed change of pace.
Title: Self-care, Self-Compassion and Stress Reduction Strategies for Resilience
Event Description: Do you feel as if you’re tired, wired, and running in circles? You are not alone; however, there is another way. When we care for ourselves deeply and deliberately, we can care for the people who matter most in our lives, our colleagues, friends, and families. Discover what the research says about the positive impact self-care, self-compassion, and stress reduction have on our quality of life. Through lecture, discussion, meditation, and experiential exercises, you will walk away with concrete tools to incorporate into your life.
Title: Overwhelmed and Overextended?
Event description: Have you gotten signals to slow down? Do you ever wonder why you have to stay so busy? Take the time to truly tune into those signals and take a look under the hood to see if you can determine what would really make you truly happy. This research-based workshop is based on the science of happiness and is designed to foster joy and well-being. Discover simple strategies to raise your happiness set point.
Better Days Workshops
The Better Days workshop series is a different kind of Professional Development. Not just a Professional Learning Community but also a Personal Learning Community focused on strategies for teachers and their students.
Teachers don’t want to be told to take care of themselves; they want time to care for themselves. Better Days offers a solution. A healthy change of pace from the constant screen interaction and to-do lists. Connecting with others- face to face is believed to improve productivity and enhance well-being.
Better Days workshops and Keynotes are based on the book Better Days, published by ASCD. Workshops are designed based on the ten themes, one for each month of the school year. The frequency and theme choices are customized to meet your needs.
Themes:
- Attention and Intention
- Authenticity
- Change
- Common Humanity
- Feelings and Emotions
- Kindness and Gratitude
- Mind Management
- Presence
- Routines and Rituals
- Self-Care
A 24-minute protocol is provided. Each inspiring workshop offers a choice of creative SEL activities to help teachers and students stay present and optimistic while integrating healthy habits into their lives. The monthly workshops foster connections among staff – with time allotted for a short, guided restorative practice followed by reflection, sharing, planning, and discussion. Embedded in each session, teachers can experience and learn cooperative learning engagement strategies that can be replicated with students.
Each month provides the following 24-minute protocol as a guide. Of course, modify as needed and make it work for your setting and team. The idea is to be present in the moment and open up to what shows up.