Workshops
HVRC provides workshops on various aspects of building personal resilience and developing vitality and well-being for groups and organizations. These workshops, based on HVRC’s resilience and well-being offerings, provide an overview of resilience and well-being topics and can be tailored to fit your organization’s needs.
The CliftonStrengths tool to help you discover your talents, and HVRC offers professional coaching to help you develop those talents into strengths, maximizing your potential at work, home, school, and in your community. CliftonStrengths has been shown to enhance productivity and create a positive workplace culture, boost personal and team performance, and increase employee engagement. It is used by businesses, academic institutions, government, and others, including 90% of the Fortune 500 companies. Group coaching and coaching for managers helps teams to maximize productivity. CliftonStrengths coaching is available to individual employees, managers, and teams.
Managing Stress in Turbulent Times
Political division and acrimony have increased in recent years, particularly in the U.S., and this bumpy ride could continue for some time. This has caused many people to feel stressed, anxious, angry, and fearful. When we have these strong emotions, it can lead to feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, causing inaction because of the false belief that there is nothing we can do. Imagine how you would feel if you could take control of your reactions to these external provocations and restore inner calm and serenity in your life. Come join us for a conversation about how to master your emotions and stay resilient in unsettled times. You will learn techniques and practices based on the latest research to help you manage the negative intrusions of the outside world, maintain your composure and take back your power so that you can function effectively, act thoughtfully and positively engage with others amid the discord around us.
Why Healthy Democracies are Vital for Our Happiness and Resilience
In this unique and research-based discussion, you will learn why living in a free society is essential for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. This session explores the connections between freedom and happiness and how democratic ideas have increased human well-being. We will examine heart-centered principles at the foundation of democratic societies and discover why it is so essential for our well-being to protect and promote democracies and democratic values. Ideas for what you can do to increase your and others’ well-being and happiness through participation in civil society are explored.
Quick Resilience for Stress Relief and Restoring Calm
Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Anxious? Building your resilience can not only ease your stress and restore calm and balance, but also recharge your energy, renew your focus and revive your passion for what you love to do. This workshop introduces participants to fundamentals of resilience based on scientific research and provides tools and techniques that can be done anywhere, anytime. You will learn practices which quickly boost your emotional resilience and help you find your calm center. You will recognize how your brain reacts to stressful situations and discover how to shift to a more positive response, preventing burnout and restoring balance.
Increase Your Happiness While Building Your Immunity
Our bodies are often exposed to viruses, bacteria and other illnesses, so it’s important to do what we can to boost our immunity and maintain our resilience. Many practices which we know from research that increase our well-being also boost our body’s immune system. In this session, we learn these practices and discuss their benefits, giving a boost to both our happiness and our immunity.
Resilience from the Heart: Introduction to the HeartMath Resilience Advantage Program™
This high impact program delivers a practical skill-set of easy-to-learn self- regulation tools and resilience-building practices developed by the Institute of HeartMath™ . Based on HeartMath’s peer-reviewed research on the science of resilience, you can experience the immediate benefits of bringing more ease and balance into your life and develop skills for greater personal and professional effectiveness. In this seminar, you will learn to identify why your energy is drained and how to renew it, achieving optimal functioning through a state of coherence. Easy to master techniques for boosting your resilience to keep you centered are introduced. You will see the benefits of energy self-regulation such as reduced stress, fatigue, anxiety, and frustration, and will be able to have more control, better handle challenging situations, protect your health and increase your vitality.
Train Your Brain to Savor the Good: Introduction to Positive Brain Fitness
Would you like to grow a more positive outlook on life and overcome the natural focus on negative events and feelings? This workshop shows you how to skillfully use your mind to encode positive experiences into the physical structure of the brain, creating a lasting positive mindset. Science has shown that our brains constantly change through experience. To get positive experiences to “stick” in our brains, we must create and savor beneficial experiences. Autumn is a particularly wonderful time to take a step back and savor the beauty around us, and in this introductory session, we will explore how we can use this special time to make lasting positive mindset change. We will train our brains to concentrate on life’s positive aspects, enhancing our happiness and helping us to develop enduring inner strengths such as vitality, resilience, positivity, emotional balance, confidence, and compassion. These inner strengths are vital for managing stress and life’s challenges and will enable you to give more to others while maintaining your own self-care.
Increase Your Happiness by Nurturing Democracy
In this unique and research-based discussion, you will learn why living in a free society is essential for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. This session explores the connections between freedom and happiness and the development of democratic principles which have increased human well-being over the centuries. We will examine heart-centered principles at the foundation of democratic societies and discover why it is so essential for our well-being to protect and promote democracies and democratic values. Ideas for what you can do to increase your and others’ well-being and happiness through participation in civil society are considered.
Holiday De-Stress: Bring Comfort and Joy Back to Your Holidays
As we enter the holiday season, we become full of anticipation and excitement for all of the wonderful things the season promises – reuniting with friends and family, relaxation with some well-earned time off from work, delightful sights, sounds and smells and delicious treats. But this anticipation can quickly turn to stress and overwhelm. Too much to do and not enough time, cranky and argumentative family members, and someone always gets sick. Have you ever experienced this? If so, come join us to discover how to bring the joy back to the holidays and keep it going throughout the season. You will learn how to restore calm and balance, manage your feelings of being overwhelmed, and increase your resilience and immunity.
