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Essential Skills for WorkEssential Skills for Work--life Balancelife Balance
Nov 7 & 8 9am-4pm Ko`olau Ballrooms
Join us for an two day seminar and learn how to create balance in your
life. Brian Luke Seaward is renowned nationally and internationally as
an expert in the field of stress management, mind-body-spirit healing
and health promotion. The wisdom of Brian Luke Seaward can be found
quoted in PBS specials, college lectures, medical seminars, boardroom
meetings, church sermons, keynote addresses, and graduation speech-
es all over the world.
Pōhai Nani invites you to its first annual ‘Aha Kūka Kūka Mālama Workshop
Featuring Dr. Brian Luke Seaward. This two day workshop is designed for health care pro-
fessionals, social workers, caretakers and anyone else who are no strangers to the stress of
burnout. Not just a basic workshop in stress management, this approach is what is currently
referred to as a holistic approach to the current stress paradigm.
Ko`olau Ballrooms, Kaneohe, HI
Free Parking. Breakfast & Lunch included.
$275.00 if you register before October 1. After October 1, $300.00
EMAIL [email protected], call 808 236-7807 or
go to www.pohainani.org for more information.
SAVE THE DATE www.brianlukeseaward.com
Class Curriculum Day 1 Class Curriculum Day 1 -- November 8November 8
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast Buffet - Breakfast Pastries, Fresh Seasonal Fruit, Chilled Juice, Hot Coffee and Tea
9:10 - 10:00 Stress and the Caregiver: Finding Balance In times such as these where change is ever present in the global culture, balance is necessary to stay grounded, cen-tered, and connected. Based on Seaward’s popular bestseller, Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water, this presentation weaves theory and story, personal experience and humor, wit and love in a poetic synthesis that both educates and inspires audiences of all ages. This presentation has become one of Dr. Seaward’s most popular talks.
10am - 10:30 Addressing Compassion Fatigue “This presentation highlights the nature of 21st century stress, caregiver stress, the quadrants of holistic wellness, signs of mismanaged anger (compassion fatigue), the relationship between stress and physical health, digital toxicity, and several effective (timeless) coping skills and relaxation techniques proven to help restore one’s personal energy levels, including: resiliency skills, creating healthy boundaries, humor therapy, energy vitamins, diaphragmatic breathing, guided visualization, and many other effective techniques for personal growth and professional development.
10:30 - 10:45 Break - Fresh Baked Cookies
10:45 - 11:30 Dangers: Digital Detox & Digital Dementia
Experts from MIT and Stanford University are now expressing concern with our love affair (screen addictions) with technology (known as FOMO: Fear of Missing Out, and Digital Dementia), citing and increased compromise of cognitive skills including short term and long term memory, attention span and critical thinking. Enter the age of Mindfulness, an ancient practice to quite the mind from sensory overload. This presentation examines the scientific data of “screen addictions“, FOMO, as well as the newest research of neuroplasticity; regeneration of brain tissue produced from med-itation and relaxation.
11:30 - 12:00 Relaxation 101: Essential Skills for Work Life Balance This presentation offers wisdom, insights and practical life skills for both personal growth and professional develop-ment. Topics to be discussed include establishing healthy boundaries, achieving a work-life balance, and essential cop-ing and relaxation skills to help create and maintain a sustainable work-life balance. Included in this presentation are valuable take-home tools and skills for all participants, based on his WELCOA book, The Road to Wellness. In the past two years, this has become Dr. Seaward’s most popular corporate wellness presentation.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - Fresh Sub Sandwiches with Sun Dried Tomato Aioli, Meditterean Pasta Salad, Chips, Bottled Water or Soda, Cookie
1:00 - 2:00 The Healing Power of Humor
This one-hour multi-media presentation highlights the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of humor therapy, dating back to the Ancient Greeks up to the remarkable recovery of humor laureate, Norman Cousins and beyond. Reasons why we laugh and smile, types of humor that make us giggle, and 10 ways to tickle our funny bone are included in this topic. This presentation is filled with colorful images, hilarious cartoons, video clips, memorable quotations, and a wonderful narrative created by a scholar of humor therapy and comic relief. Perhaps because the nature of laughter is infectious, this is one of Dr. Seaward’s most popular presentations.
2:00 - 3:00 The Low Stress Diet: Eating for a Healthy Immune System
Stress greatly impacts everything: from digestion and absorption to metabolism and elimination. Is there a relationship between nutrition, stress and disease? Sadly, the answer is yes, and it is not a pretty picture. But knowledge is power. Learn the latest facts regarding nutrition, stress, disease from Dr. Brian Luke Seaward, who served over 10 years on the faculty of the University of Colorado, teaching his popular course, Nutrition, Health and Performance.
3:00 - 3:15 Break - Chocolate Walnut Brownies, Seasoned Furikake Popcorn
3:15 - 4pm Relation 201: Essential Skills for Work Life Balance
Continued from Relaxation 101.
Class Curriculum Day 2 Class Curriculum Day 2 -- November 9November 9
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast Buffet - Breakfast Pastries, Fresh Seasonal Fruit, Chilled Juice, Hot Coffee and Tea
9:10 - 10:00 The Art of Calm: Relaxation Through the 5 Senses This one-hour presentation briefly explores the how’s and why’s of relaxation in a simple, straightforward process that can be learned and practiced just about any time, anywhere. With a 10-minute prelude of theory, the remainder of this session involves 4-5 ten-minute relaxation (experiential) sessions including diaphragmatic breathing, guided visualiza-tion and mental imagery. Everyone will walk out relaxed and re-energized. The secrets of relaxation are no longer se-cret, yet the benefits of quiet solitude are immeasurable—at many levels. Take some time to learn the simple steps of solitude that help promote a sense of inner peace in everyday life and incorporate these into your life for optimal well-being.
10am - 10:30 Creating Healthy Boundaries “This presentation highlights the nature of 21st century stress, caregiver stress, the quadrants of holistic wellness, signs of mismanaged anger (compassion fatigue), the relationship between stress and physical health, digital toxicity, and several effective (timeless) coping skills and relaxation techniques proven to help restore one’s personal energy levels, including: resiliency skills, creating healthy boundaries, humor therapy, energy vitamins, diaphragmatic breathing, guided visualization, and many other effective techniques for personal growth and professional development.
10:30 - 10:45 Break - Fresh Baked Cookies
10:45 - 11:30 Mindfulness 101
Continued from day 1 Digital Detox: Enter the age of Mindfulness, an ancient practice to quite the mind from sensory overload. This presentation examines the scientific data of “screen addictions“, FOMO, as well as the newest research of neuroplasticity; regeneration of brain tissue produced from meditation and relaxation.
11:30 - 12:00 Relaxation 301: More Essentials Self-Care Life Skills Continued from Day 1 Relaxation 201: This presentation offers wisdom, insights and practical life skills for both person-
al growth and professional development. Topics to be discussed include establishing healthy boundaries, achieving a
work-life balance, and essential coping and relaxation skills to help create and maintain a sustainable work-life balance.
2:00 - 1:00 Lunch - Fresh Sub Sandwiches with Sun Dried Tomato Aioli, Meditterean Pasta Salad, Chips, Bottled Water or Soda, Cookie
1:00 - 2:00 Getting a Good Nights Sleep
Poor quality of sleep translates into poor work habits, poor communication skills, performance deficits, and compro-mised health, especially the immune system. This presentation outlines the three categories of insomnia (transient, intermittent and chronic), the stress-prone behaviors that contribute to poor sleep quality and poor sleep hygiene, and several suggestions to improve the quality of one’s sleep. Two relaxation techniques will be demonstrated and taught at the end of this session.
2:00 - 3:00 Relaxation 401 : More Essential Self-Care Life Skills
Continued from Relaxation 301: This presentation offers wisdom, insights and practical life skills for both personal
growth and professional development. Topics to be discussed include establishing healthy boundaries, achieving a
work-life balance, and essential coping and relaxation skills to help create and maintain a sustainable work-life balance.
3:00 - 3:15 Break - Chocolate Walnut Brownies, Seasoned Furikake Popcorn
3:15 - 4pm Letting Go of Stress
Essential Skills for Work Essential Skills for Work -- Life BalanceLife Balance
Registration Page
Register online at: www.pohainani.org or complete the following and email to
[email protected], or mail to:
Pohai Nani Retirement Community
Kelika Ishol, Sales and Marketing
45090 Namoku Street
Kaneohe, HI 96744
Call 808 236-7807 for more information
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