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Unlock the Excellence of Your Workforce

All Courses Provide:

  • Real Results
  • Simple tools to apply to everyday situations.
  • Micro-practices that soothe the nervous system, getting your brain back on track.
  • Interactive, engaging, instructional workshops with supportive dialogue.
  • Customized delivery: Live, online, in-person, or on-demand.

Courses and Services for Your Organization

NEW! Mindful Stress Management for Caregivers

61% of caregivers work full-time. We work across industries and socioeconomic status. Along with a strong sense of purpose, caregivers report feeling physical, emotional, and financial strain. This course offers evidence-based, practical stress management tips and strategies for the millions of people caring for (or preparing to care for) a loved one. As a caregiver for my mother, I share my personal experience as well as professional training.
(4 Hours Over 4 to 8 Weeks)

  • How Stress Impacts Your Body, Brain, Behavior
  • Cultivating Mindfulness for Engaged Care
  • Breath Work, Gentle Movement, and Simple Practices to Ease Stress
  • Reflecting on Loss and Change
  • Caring for Yourself With Adequate Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise, Connection, Breaks
  • Sustainable Compassion
  • Healthy, Effective Communication
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An Introduction to Mindful Stress Management

An interactive one-hour introduction to Mindful Stress Management. Get a taste of what we offer and walk away with a few practical tools to help you deal with everyday stress.
(1 Hour)

  • Learn how stress impacts your body, brain, and behavior.
  • Learn how attitude about stress can change your relationship to stress.
  • Understand the impact of stress management on your health and well-being and that of your organization.
  • Learn proven mindfulness and stress management techniques based on neuroscience and mindfulness research.
  • Gain the opportunity to practice techniques to help soothe your nervous system.
  • Focus on applying strategies into everyday routines, improving relationships and overall health.
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POP Stress Now: Stress Management for Daily Life

We don’t hesitate to plug in our phones, our devices, and our cars when energy is low. But how do you recharge? How and with what do you “plug in” to regenerate? This course provides science-backed tips and strategies to help you manage everyday stressors so you can live with more ease and focus. Learn to POP throughout your day: Pause, Observe, and Proceed.
(8 Hours Over 8 Weeks)

  • Learn how stress impacts the body, brain, and behavior (the good, the bad, and the ugly).
  • Develop the capacity to address personal and organizational stressors.
  • Practice simple stress management tools you can apply immediately.
  • Reflect on the Fab Five: Sleep, nutrition, exercise, recharging during the day, and connection.
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Effective Communication in Times of Stress

Have you ever said something that you wish you could take back? In a stressful moment, we may feel overwhelmed and defensive and want to protect ourselves, our ideas, and our status. As a result, our communication can suffer, and in a moment, trust can be broken. Learn to communicate more effectively even in times of stress.
(4 Hours Over 4 Weeks)

  • Focus on developing clear communication skills to foster a collaborative environment.
  • Recognize the impact of stress on communication.
  • Understand communication styles and recognize yours.
  • Practice mindful speaking and listening.
  • Incorporate strategies to improve communication.
  • Cultivate compassion and kindness to facilitate better communication and relationships.
  • Practice interception skills to calm your nervous system and get your brain back on track in moments of stress so you can interact more effectively.
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Mindfulness for Daily Life

Mindfulness is a shift from autopilot to present-moment awareness. In this way, you can pay attention to what’s at hand and respond more effectively. Mindfulness can be integrated with ease in the workplace.
(8 Hours Over 8 Weeks)

  • Debunking myths and misunderstandings of mindfulness.
  • Benefits of mindfulness - beyond supporting stress management.
  • Practices include: “Formal” practices such as focused attention, mindful breathing, body scan, gentle movement, and mindful walking.
  • Practices include: “Informal” practices such as bringing mindfulness to everyday correspondence - written or verbal, preparing for a presentation or meeting, eating, waiting for a meeting to start, and problem-solving.
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Sleep Your Way to Better Health

We know that sleep helps with mental and physical health, mood, immune function, resilience, clarity, and weight loss. We also know that most people are not getting enough of it. Assess your sleep and apply solutions that fit your lifestyle.
(8 Hours Over 8 Weeks)

  • What happens when we sleep – restoration to the body and brain
  • Common obstacles and challenges to falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting enough sleep.
  • Effects and danger of sleep deprivation.
  • Working with common sleep disruptors you can control – including food, alcohol, and behavior.
  • Working with common sleep disruptors that you can’t control – working night shift, caring for children, and menopause.
  • Improving your bedroom hygiene and behavior hygiene.
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Strengthen Your Mental Fitness

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Manage stress by replacing saboteurs with sage practices to soothe the nervous system and build mental fitness. To change any behavior, we need simple, consistent practices. This six-week program offers consistency and accountability. The Positive Intelligence Program©, created by Shirzad Chamine, provides an accessible approach to lasting change.
(12 Hours Over 6 Weeks)

  • Focus on habit formation to build new neural pathways.
  • Recognize the saboteurs that impede your well-being and ability to access your strengths.
  • Receive daily notifications that help you create habits that support your mental fitness.
  • Receive a robust app, Positive Intelligence®, that guides you through the process and tracks your progress.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

A deep dive into mindfulness, developing a solid practice to take with you for life. A scientifically backed eight-week program created by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts, Center for Mindfulness.
(24 Hours Over 8-10 Weeks)

  • Explore your conditioned behaviors and beliefs that no longer serve you.
  • Increase emotional regulation.
  • Shift from reacting to stress to responding to stress.
  • Practice “formal” practices of mindfulness: body scan, focused attention, gentle yoga, walking meditation, and sitting meditation.
  • Incorporate “informal” mindfulness practices in daily routine activities.
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NEW On-Demand Course

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7 Practices to Change Your Relationship to Stress

This 30-minute self-paced course offers practical strategies to manage stress, continuing the momentum of this important focus on mental health. Join me and learn how to:

  • Identify sources and impacts of stress.
  • Manage stress effectively.
  • Cultivate mindfulness and stress management practices in everyday life

If you are seeking a life with more ease and with the capacity to deal with daily stressors, this course can help you.

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NEW Coaching for Mindfulness and Stress Management

Are you ready for personal attention where YOU are the main character? Do you seem to never have time for yourself? Is this impacting your health, work, and relationships? Make recharging and self-care a priority. If you don’t do it, no one else will.
(50-Minute Sessions)

  • Learn to recognize your stressors and identify ways to recharge in the midst of a busy life.
  • Honest assessment – start where you are.
  • Develop strategies customized to your unique lifestyle and needs.
  • Evidence-based tools to strengthen the health of your brain and body.
  • Micro-practices that increase focus, connection, and resilience.
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Testimonials

“Terre’s course has been inspiring and life-changing. Thank you [Terre] for leading the way (with patience) toward developing my own, more consistent mindfulness practice. I’m more grounded and I recognize more quickly my reactions/feelings to things and people.”
- Technology Executive
“Nearly a year after Terre’s workshop and we’re still using POP [Pause, Observe, Proceed] practice at the beginning of our meetings! It helps us get focused.”
- CEO, Software Company
“By going through Terre’s different exercises you can literally feel yourself relax and refocus on your most important tasks.”
- Data Storage Engineer
“Applying the mindfulness practices [helped me] to optimize myself at work, study, and in life, from pleasant to good to meaningful.”
- Director, Sales and Management
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