Wellness is the hot topic of the decade. 
 If you're prepared to address the issue, you'll get plenty of opportunities. If you creatively involve people in the learning process, reflecting, assessing, prioritizing, sorting, planning for change and affirming progress, your teaching will be much more helpful than even the most entertaining lecture. 
 Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion Volume 2 provides 36 new designs you can use for getting people involved, whatever the setting and time constraints, whatever the sophistication of the audience. To aid you in the selection of appropriate content and process to meet your objectives, the exercises are grouped into five broad categories: 
<ul>
<li>
Icebreakers: These short (10-20 minutes) exercises are designed to introduce people to each other and to open up participants' thinking process regarding wellness. They are lively! All five engage people actively in the topic and with each other. Try combining an icebreaker with an exercise from the wellness or self-care section for an instant evening program.</li> <li>
Wellness Exploration: These exercises explore the issue of wellness from the whole person perspective. Rather than focus merely on the physical, these five processes help people examine their lifestyle. You'll find a mixture of moderate length assessments (30-60 minutes) and major theme developers (60-90 minutes). Any exercise can easily be contracted or expanded to fit your purpose.</li> <li>
Self-Care Strategies: These eleven exercises promote personal responsibility for well-being. Participants examine their self-care patterns and explore specific self-care strategies in different life dimensions: physical (diet, relaxation, fitness), mental, relational, spiritual and lifestyle well-being. (10-60 minutes)</li> <li>
Action Planning/Closure: These five exercises help participants draw together their insights and determine actions they wish to take on their own behalf. (20-40 minutes)</li> <li>
Energizers: The ten energizers are designed to perk up the group whenever fatigue sets in. Sprinkle them throughout your program to illustrate skills or concepts.</li> Try one for a change of pace - everyone's juices (including yours!) will be flowing again in 5-10 minutes.
</ul>

Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion (Vol 002)

Tubesing, Donald A.

Tubesing, Nancy L.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Whole Person Associates, Inc.

A training resource for educators and group leaders containing structured exercises in wellness promotion. The user can mix and match the exercises to create workshops for groups of any size. Wellness is the hot topic of the decade.
 If you're prepared to address the issue, you'll get plenty of opportunities. If you creatively involve people in the learning process, your teaching will be much more helpful than even the most entertaining lecture.
 Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion Volume 3 provides 36 designs you can use for getting people involved, whatever the setting and time constraints, whatever the sophistication of the audience. To aid you in the selection of appropriate content and process to meet your objectives, the exercises are grouped into five broad categories:
<li>Icebreakers: These short (10-20 minutes) exercises are designed to introduce people to each other and to open up participants' thinking process regarding wellness. They are lively! All eight engage people actively in the topic and with each other. Try combining an icebreaker with an exercise from the wellness or self-care section for an instant evening program.</li> <li>Wellness Exploration: These exercises explore the issue of wellness from the whole person perspective. Rather than focus merely on the physical, these six processes help people examine their overall lifestyle. You'll find a mixture of moderate length assessments (30-60 minutes) and major theme developers (60-90 minutes). Any exercise can easily be contracted or expanded to fit your purpose.</li> <li>Self-Care Strategies: The first exercise helps participants examine their self-care patterns. The next eight focus on specific self-care strategies in different life dimensions: physical (alcohol use, diet, relaxation, fitness), mental, relational, spiritual and lifestyle wellbeing. The last exercise promotes personal responsibility for selfcare.</li> <li>Action Planning/Closure: These four exercises help participants draw together their insights and determine actions they wish to take on their own behalf. Some of the activities also suggest rituals that bring closure to the group process.</li> <li>Energizers: The ten energizers are designed to perk up the group whenever fatigue sets in. Sprinkle them throughout your program to illustrate skills or concepts.</li>
 Try one for a change of pace - everyone's juices (including yours!) will be flowing again in 5- lO minutes.

Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion (Vol 003)

Volume 4 of Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion contains 36 field-tested teaching designs, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and reproducible worksheets -- everything you need to create an effective wellness presentation. These exercises will help you achieve your training goals and build on your own expertise, regardless of your training experience.Wellness is the hot topic of the decade.  If you're prepared to address the issue, you'll get plenty of opportunities. If you creatively involve people in the learning process, reflecting, assessing, prioritizing, sorting, planning for change and affirming progress, your teaching will be much more helpful than even the most entertaining lecture.  Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion Volume 2 provides 36 new designs you can use for getting people involved, whatever the setting and time constraints, whatever the sophistication of the audience. To aid you in the selection of appropriate content and process to meet your objectives, the exercises are grouped into five broad categories:   Icebreakers: These short (10-20 minutes) exercises are designed to introduce people to each other and to open up participants' thinking process regarding wellness. They are lively! All five engage people actively in the topic and with each other. Try combining an icebreaker with an exercise from the wellness or self-care section for an instant evening program. Wellness Exploration: These exercises explore the issue of wellness from the whole person perspective. Rather than focus merely on the physical, these five processes help people examine their lifestyle. You'll find a mixture of moderate length assessments (30-60 minutes) and major theme developers (60-90 minutes). Any exercise can easily be contracted or expanded to fit your purpose. Self-Care Strategies: These eleven exercises promote personal responsibility for well-being. Participants examine their self-care patterns and explore specific self-care strategies in different life dimensions: physical (diet, relaxation, fitness), mental, relational, spiritual and lifestyle well-being. (10-60 minutes) Action Planning/Closure: These five exercises help participants draw together their insights and determine actions they wish to take on their own behalf. (20-40 minutes) Energizers: The ten energizers are designed to perk up the group whenever fatigue sets in. Sprinkle them throughout your program to illustrate skills or concepts.  Try one for a change of pace - everyone's juices (including yours!) will be flowing again in 5-10 minutes.

Structured Exercises in Wellness Promotion (Vol 004)

Move beyond diets! Explore mental, physical, and spiritual issues related to eating and self-care. Develop a whole person approach that advocates health and fitness for people of all sizes. In response to requests from wellness professionals across the country, we ve taken our trustworthy and familiar structured exercise format and applied it to the complex and painful issues your clients are concerned about: dieting, weight, healthy eating, fitness, and body image. 
 Each of the 36 step-by-step teaching processes included in this volume were contributed by 34 respected leaders in the field who have worked successfully with individuals and groups in community education, workplace wellness programs, eating disorders treatment groups, counseling, and consultation. 
 The easy-to-use format includes everything you need to lead a support group, make a presentation, conduct a workshop, or develop a program. 
<ul>
<li>Step-by-step instructions for each exercise</li> <li>Reproducible worksheets and handouts</li> <li>36 mix-and match, field-tested exercises to fit your audience and time frame</li> </ul>
Table of Contents Icebreakers 
<ul>
<li>What kind of food am I</li> <li>It s my body</li> <li>Pyramid</li> <li>As I see it</li> <li>Diets I ve known</li> <li>My problem is . . . .</li> <li>Work of Art</li>
</ul>
Focus on Food and Eating Issues <ul>
<li>Easy as pie?</li> <li>Influencing factors</li> <li>Clean plate club</li> <li>Sensational diet</li> <li>Food house fantasy</li> <li>Spiritual hunger</li> <li>Food: the feeling plug</li> <li>Whole person snack pack</li> <li>Ideal patterns</li>
</ul>
Focus on Body Image and Movement <ul>
<li>Body parts</li> <li>Finding center</li> <li>Mirror, mirror</li> <li>Moving attitudes</li> <li>Physical activity continuum</li> <li>Sensual walk</li> <li>Past connections</li>
</ul>
Focus on Attitudes, Cultural &amp; Personal <ul>
<li>What s my focus?</li> <li>Fat attitudes</li> <li>Myths and realities</li> <li>Beauty chant</li> <li>Fat chance</li> <li>Who says so?</li>
</ul>
Group Energizers <ul>
<li>Pleasant thoughts</li> <li>Body count</li> <li>Fans of Mozart</li> <li>Fight song</li> <li>Snack cafeteria</li> <li>Mindful eating experience</li> <li>Empty calories</li>
</ul>

Working With Groups to Explore Food & Body Connections: Eating Issues, Body Image, Size Acceptance, Self-Care (Structured Exercises in Healing)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Sandy Stewart Christian

Special Diet

A powerful medium for conveying your message Tap into the magic of the mind-body connection with 40 feel-good activities that generate surprisingly deep results. Whether you're looking for an effective way to illustrate a point, an evocative spark for creativity, an effective prelude to problem solving, or a memorable closing, Mind-Body Magic provides a professional bag of tricks for engaging, energizing, and motivating audiences of all ages and backgrounds. 
 Sections include: 
<ul>
<li>Stretching Our Body/Mind</li> <li>Activating Our Energy</li> <li>Opening Up Our Creativity</li> <li>Relaxing into Stillness</li> <li>Recommended Reading</li> </ul>
Also included, Martha's recommended reading list! Martha Belknap's vivid guided imagery, powerful mnemonic devices, and affirming metaphors for life make every presentation a memorable one.

Mind-Body Magic: Creative Activities for Any Audience

Business & Money

Martha Belknap

Management & Leadership

37 Mind-Stretching Activities Warm up their engines. Tap creativity, build cooperation, and promote problem solving with 37 thought-provoking activities guaranteed to create a climate for change! 
 From keynote speeches to staff meetings to group presentations, use these fun and creative icebreakers to help your audience members: 
<ul>
<li>Relax </li>
<li>Focus on your message </li>
<li>Connect with one another </li>
<li>Look at a problem with a fresh pair of eyes </li>
<li>Get a grip on difficult concepts </li>
<li>Rethink preconceived notions </li>
<li>Work as a team</li> </ul>
 Whatever your topic may be, you ll love the way these exercises prepare participants for learning by energizing minds and bodies, engaging different learning styles, and facilitating free thinking. 
 Table of Contents 
 Energizers 
<ul>
<li>Fill Up Your Energy Pool Breath! </li>
<li>Group Back Rub </li>
<li>Heel, Toe, Stomp, Stomp! </li>
<li>Soothe the Savage Beast </li>
<li>Whistle Dixie </li>
<li>Hula-Kalula</li> </ul>
Creating a Learning Place <ul>
<li>Our Learning Playground </li>
<li>Ritual for Learning </li>
<li>One Learning Place </li>
<li>Check-In </li>
<li>My Favorite Learning Environment </li>
<li>Learning Collage </li>
<li>Relax, Get Ready to Learn </li>
<li>Admit One to Learning </li>
<li>Creating a Learning Story </li>
<li>Learning Cheer </li>
<li>The Feedback Loop </li>
<li>The Emperor s New Learning Clothes</li>
</ul>
Learning Creatively <ul>
<li>The Zen of Learning </li>
<li>Who I Am? </li>
<li>The Learning Puzzle </li>
<li>Things I Know for Sure </li>
<li>Escape to Learning </li>
<li>How is an Orange Like a Barometer? </li>
<li>I m a Chicken Pluckin , Orange Peelin , So-and-Sp </li>
<li>What is a Fireplace Table? </li>
<li>The Mind Rules </li>
<li>Earth Angel </li>
<li>Personal Learning Journal </li>
<li>Eyes of a Fish </li>
<li>Your Personal Learning Consultant </li>
<li>Your Choice </li>
<li>If I Were. . . </li>
<li>Food for Thought </li>
<li>Escaping from Habit </li>
<li>Project Yourself into Tomorrow </li>
<li>I m Creative</li>
</ul>

Creating a Climate for Power Learning: 37 Mind-Stretching Activities

Carolyn Chambers Clark

As many as 20% of girls are sexually abused. When they reach adulthood, they may suffer from: <ul>
<li>Depression </li>
<li>Anxiety </li>
<li>Interpersonal problems </li>
<li>Dissociative experiences </li>
<li>Sexual dysfunction </li>
<li>Suicide</li>
</ul>
 In Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, you will find a complete 12-session program for treating clients whose problems stem from the sexual abuse they experienced as children. The step-by-step program was developed and thoroughly tested by experienced therapists who have treated this population for many years. Some of the sessions are: 
<ul>
<li>Breaking the secret of abuse </li>
<li>Understanding and releasing the shame </li>
<li>Getting to know the child within </li>
<li>Expressing repressed feelings </li>
<li>Confronting the abuser </li>
<li>Grieving for a lost childhood</li>
</ul>
 Issues of social isolation, intimacy, and mistrust of others issues best dealt with in a group setting are addressed. As part of a group, participants learn they are not alone and gain acceptance from others, experience the opportunity to engage in meaningful social relationships, practice intimacy, learn to trust, and find support for their journeys. 
 A 13th session for significant others provides an opportunity to gather support from friends and family members. 
 Therapists providing services in a managed-care environment will appreciate the assessment tools, follow-up letters, and intake, recording, and review forms that are included. 
 Also available: Reproducible Digital Worksheet Masters (PDF) (only available with purchase of book)

Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Bonnie J. Collins

Kathryn Marsh

Psychology & Counseling

The ultimate resource for health promotion professionals "If you build it they will come" does not apply to health education. It is common for great wellness programs to go unattended. This causes great frustration for novice and experienced managers alike. How to Add Sparkle and Pizzazz to Your Health Promotion Program focuses on administrative and programming strategies that create a structure and culture that supports each individual program and packs in participants. 
 Some of these strategies are so simple that they require only one or two paragraphs to explain. These suggestions appear in the "Quick Tips" chapter at the beginning of each section. Complex strategies receive more explanation in the subsequent chapters. Kathy often includes variations on the activities, as well as cross-references to activities and ideas in other chapters of the book. You can implement virtually all the ideas with a modest working budget.

How to Add Sparkle and Pizzazz to Your Health Promotion Program

Kathy K. Cash

This book offers 39 interactive activities to assist individuals in developing meaningful relationships. Each activity offers a safe environment for individuals to build communication skills, encourage cooperation, and rekindle companionship in the committed relationships. 
 The fresh and creative ideas help individuals: 
<ul>
<li>Build lasting relationships</li> <li>Notice styles of communication and reframe criticism</li> <li>Practice sharing and responding</li> <li>Develop respectful curiosity</li> <li>Understand differences</li> </ul>

Working With Groups to Enhance Relationships

Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin

Sue Walden

Do you have a disruptive child in class or home - a child who neglects homework, comes unprepared for school, fails to finish assignments, vies for attention, fights with other kids, and acts as the class clown? If everything you've tried so far has failed, why not try something different? Guided visualization with children is a new approach that brings proven results. Children who see themselves as failures are guided to transform negative images into positive ones. In this way they can successfully reverse many years of discouragement and disillusionment. Guided visualization takes little time to learn, and results are seen almost immediately. Just minutes a day can make a major improvement in the classroom or at home and save your sanity.

Guided Imagery with Children: Successful Techniques to Improve School Performance and Self-Esteem

Sarah Berkovits

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