What are Workplace Wellness Programs all about?

Workplace wellness programs are designed to help you move ahead with the skills and information needed to translate knowledge into action. Here's where the foundation of real change strengthens. They range from single session 'fundamentals' talks to a 3 or 6-part skill development series'. Or another option is to hold a yearly mini Wellness Fair that displays information and promotes and samples different natural ways and tools to be proactive and preventative in your heath and wellbeing.

Workplace Lunch ‘n’ Learn Seminars

Wellness is the focus of many workplaces lately, and there are many reasons why. An article entitled Overweight And Obesity Linked To Increased Short-Term Disabilitypublished in the November 2006 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concludes “Successful weight management & wellness initiatives should reduce short-term disability expenditures, improve worker productivity, and lessen the indirect costs associated with overweight and obesity.” A healthy workforce means less sick days, higher productivity, and less stressed employees.

Benefits of Lunch ‘n’ Learns

Helping Employees Grow and become empowered over their own health

There never seems to be enough time during the day to get everything done. You can't spare people to go to training because there is so much work to be done, but you also can't neglect their training and development. Lunch and Learn is a way to get more training done by making the lunch hour multi-tasking.

Benefits of Nutrition & Wellness Lunch & Learns  
The biggest benefit of a lunch and learn program is that you are able to get more training delivered to your employees at minimal additional cost. 

• A lunch and learn program doesn't make more hours in the day, but it makes better use of the time you have.

  Employees appreciate the voluntary nature of the training. Treating them like adults, makes them feel better about the company and the benefits it has to offer to make their lives better (in and out of the office environment)

  Bottom line, a lunch and learn nutrition and wellness program will give you empowered employees who are more motivated in helping themselves.

  There are many topics to choose from, including: 

1. Boost Your Nutrition 
2. Top 9 Nutrition Tips  
3. Five Changes for Wellness
4. Nutrition 101  
5. Show Me The Way (Weigh)  
6. Nutrition To Go  
7. Detoxing your diet and life 
   
   Or find a topic that is of interest to your staff and a workshop can be build to suit.  Examples:

Managing Cholesterol with Diet  

How to Change the Family Eating Habits  

Change your believes – achieve success with your thoughts 

$150.00 for 1^st session* 40 Minute presentation and 15 minute discussion. (*handouts are extra depending on topic and number of copies required).

After the first session, price is dependent on duration, number of people, and location (negotiable).

Based on the sample menu to choose from.  Custom presentations require a quote.  Email: Karen@WhisperWellness.com 

Sample Nutrition Workshops: 

1. BOOST YOUR NUTRITION!
   No More Conflicting Info!
   Get the goods on balanced nutrition to enhance your health, manage a healthy weight, and optimize your energy. Learn what, when, why, and how much to eat to feel and be your best! Take home practical tips for real people, and start feeling better today…one bite at a time. 

    

2. TOP 9 NUTRITION TIPS
   For Health, Energy, & Weight Management
   How can I incorporate good nutrition into my busy lifestyle? What is the best strategy for managing a healthy body weight? What can I do to improve my long-term health? Explore the top 10 tips to answer these questions and more!

    

3. SHOW ME THE WAY (WEIGH)
   What Really Works?
   Looking for safe and effective ways to really lose extra pounds and keep them off? See through nutrition quackery by learning proven principles of weight-loss that really make a difference. Discover the top 5 weight management strategies essential to your success.

    

4. NUTRITION TO GO
   The Healthy "Quick Fix"
   Hungry? Running behind? Looking for healthy meals you can prepare in a hurry? A little planning can go a long way to improve your overall diet. Learn to eat out without a doubt and take home new ways to fit nutrition into your busy lifestyle.

    

5. FITNESS 101
   'Basic Training' tips to help you get a good start to physical activity
   Inactivity is an increasing problem in our society, and with so much 'how to exercise' information out there, it's hard to know what to believe anymore. In this session Karen explains the difference between active living, physical activity and exercise (and which is best for you). She outlines the components of fitness, helps you determine reasonable amounts of exercise, and gives you ideas for getting active starting today.

    

6. RESISTING THE WEIGHT
   No weight room required!
   Every year, from the age of 30 onward, we lose one-third of a pound of muscle! We also gain an average of 5 pounds a year if we are not conscious of what we eat.  Learn how you can get active in normal daily routines and understand how some foods can help you with this.

    

7. START SMALL EXERCISE IDEAS TO 'FINALLY FIT IN FITNESS'Your busy schedule is no excuse for skipping your exercise program! Make your new goal for fitness to do  'more than what is normal for YOU'. You can achieve this through creatively adding activity into your day! In this session Karen will show you easy 'Desk Yoga' and 'Desk Stretch' exercises you can do at home or in your office with no equipment! She'll share ideas for fitting in efforts at activity, and she'll provide guidelines for progress.

Sample Wellness Workshops & Programs:

Yoga at Work
No More Yawning!
Get the tips and skills to feel balanced and energized to enhance your health, manage a healthy weight, and optimize your energy. Learn what, when, why, and how to feel and be your best! Take home practical tips for real people, and start feeling better today…one stretch at a time. A 40 minute session that focuses on the benefits of yoga at your desk, in your car, or at your work station. Breath work, stretches, nutrition, brief relaxations and strategies to relieve stress and enhance vitality. An ideal seminar to introduce a new yoga program into your office.

Meditation at Work
No More Scattered Thoughts
Get the tips and skills to feel balanced and energized to enhance your health, manage a healthy weight, and optimize your energy. Learn what, when, why, and how to feel and be your best! Take home practical tips for real people, and start feeling better today…one relaxing breath at a time.  

Brain Gym® Anyone?

 An introductory level program in Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K), a form of applied kinesiology previously known as Edu-Kinesthetics Do you want to use your whole brain?  

Currently studying to become a Cancer Coach and  a Healthy Breast Coach.

Mind, Body & Spirit Wellness

Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Registered Nutritional Consulting Practioner, Certified Hatha Yoga/Meditation Teacher, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, and Energy Medicine Practioner. 
Member of IONC – International Organization of Nutritional Consultants, and Alumni Member of CSNN, Canadian School of Natural Nutrition

Karen specializes in educating individuals to honour themselves through making wise nutritional choices, assisting them through being ‘stuck’ in their life and coaching them on how to see things in a positive light  to encourage and inspire change, growth and overall vitality and wellbeing.

Karen worked in the fast paced telecommunication field for 14 years as a Company Trainer, District Sales Manager and an Area Manager leading her teams in sales, marketing and training.  She decided to change direction into the health and wellness field and went back to school full time to study nutrition, yoga and meditation.  Realizing the knowledge she was armed with she began to share and assist others in a wellness path.  She opened her own company in 2005 as a Holistic Health Practioner and knows this is her true passion and purpose.

For more information call Karen directly at 416 579 9642