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Did I Really Just Eat That?! The “Silent” Skills that Impact Physical Health and Weight Loss
Length: 30 to 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Adults of all ages
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
While portion control and healthy food choices are essential in physical health and weight loss, a crucial element that is often overlooked is what lies beneath: mood and stress level! This presentation will explore the more “silent” factors related to physical health and weight loss, as well as introduce practical and easy-to-implement skills relating to boosting mood and managing stress levels, and their effect on physical wellness. This presentation goes beyond the common health regime—it explores our relationship with food, our bodies, and how our mental/emotional state might be one of the most powerful tools to utilize in overall wellness.
Notes: This presentation is suited to any health/wellness event, weight loss meeting, gym promotion, or sporting/physical health event.
How to be a Kid of Character
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Each presentation can be tailored to fit a specific grade level
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
This classroom presentation will focus on building positive life skills and help to promote character values in students from a Christian perspective. Presentations are designed to reflect how God’s Word guides our behavior using interactive and multi-sensory activities. The goal is that students can then take these skills from the classroom into their homes, extracurricular activities, communities, and daily lives.
Topics for presentation can be selected from, but are not limited to, the following life skills:
- Honesty
- Respect
- Self-control
- Courage
- Patience
- Self-confidence
- Initiative
- Conflict resolution
- Responsibility
- Gratitude
Notes: This presentation is available in person only to schools (not via video). Travel expenses are additional.
Kids and Sports—Finding Your Family’s “Sweet Spot”: Balancing Your Family’s Emotional, Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Well-Being
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
Participating in athletics can provide some of the best experiences and memories for both children and their parents. Yet the demands that come from sports can make it difficult to also balance school, family, and faith. This presentation looks at identifying challenges that athletes and their families may face, making intentional choices, and finding strategies to improve overall well-being while juggling so much. It is possible to find a healthy balance between sports and life, and this presentation will give families the practical tools they need to find that balance!
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. This presentation can also be delivered via video-conferencing.
Recognizing and Dealing with Depression in Called Workers and Other Believers
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
This presentation gives an overview of the signs and causes of depression, and looks at the topic of depression from a uniquely Christian perspective. We discuss treatments options, and talk specifically about ways we are able to help a loved one who is struggling with depression. This presentation looks at factors specific to called workers, but can be adapted to other populations as well.
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. This presentation is also available by live video-conferencing.
Rocks & Playdough
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Tailored by age group to include adults, young adults, and children
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
Sorting problems into categories is an important skill to improved mental wellness. Often people continue to work on problems they can do nothing about or ignore or avoid things that they could improve upon. Why does this happen, how do you begin to notice, and what do you do with problems? With 5 simple questions, individuals in this workshop will learn to sort out problems that cannot be worked on right now from those that can, and learn what to do in the meantime so that things do not get worse. This presentation is scalable to various audiences and can include a pictogram for younger children.
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. Available for in-person or video-conferencing presentation.
Self-ish or Self-less: Taking the “I” Out of Service
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Adults, Adolescents, Service Groups
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
In most instances, we serve others selflessly—or at least we think we do. This workshop is designed to help participants examine motivation, payoffs, boundaries, relational issues, and other obstacles that sometimes stand in the way of true service to others. Through a series of scenarios, participants will reframe thoughts and actions to practice coming from a more self-less position in service to others.
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. Available for in-person or video-conferencing presentation.
Self-Esteem vs. Christ-Esteem
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Adults, Adolescents
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
The world loves to discuss the importance of self-esteem and its ability to improve mental wellness. True—how we see ourselves will impact how we proceed through life, but it is not the sole answer to a life well-lived. Being smart enough or good enough or well liked is all relative and fleeting. Because we are redeemed children of the King, we can untwist that thinking and look at ways to build ourselves up in ways that are truthful and useful to our purpose for our time of grace. In this workshop, we will focus on untwisting some of the negative thought patterns, or “distortions,” that reduce our ability to see ourselves and others in the light of grace.
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. Available for in-person or video-conferencing presentation.
The Lens of Gratitude: The Mind, Body, and Spiritual Effects of Cultivating Joy
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Young adults/adults
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
An attitude, practice, and way of life: gratitude. This presentation will introduce the concept of gratitude and explain how it relates to mental, physical, and spiritual health. Specific topics addressed include the empowerment we receive from utilizing gratitude to structure personal thought processes, ways to implement gratitude thoughts and gratitude practices in everyday life, and the mental and physical benefits that come from this implementation. Finally, this presentation will explain how living in gratitude looks for Christians, in order to support God’s desire for his people to cultivate joy.
The Best Yes Time and Boundary Management Tools for Busy Women
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Women’s Groups
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
Based on the Lysa TerKeurst book, this seminar will work through the struggles Christians face when trying to balance being kind and of service with the vocations of their daily life. Individuals will work in groups to identify better ways of using the powerful words “yes” and “no,” how fear plays a role in our use of these words, and how building a pattern of wisdom for life balance is an important life skill. Centered on exploration of God’s instructions in the book of Proverbs, women will be refocused on building the best and wisest life that God would have them live.
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. Available for in-person or video-conferencing presentation.
What’s Best Next Time Management Tools
Length: 60 minutes
Intended Audience: Adults, Men’s Groups
Cost: MAP: $250/Non-MAP: $350 (plus expenses)
This seminar is based on the best-selling book What’s Best Next by Matthew Perman and focuses on practical skills to ensure individuals make the most of their time. Through discussions, participants will examine why God would want us to be productive, ways to focus in on time, and the gifts and challenges of managing it. Ultimately, we want to learn that “being effective in good works makes us of greater service to others; everything we learn about productivity and every practice we implement and tool we use ultimately exists to help amplify our effectiveness in good works, to the glory of God” (author Matthew Perman).
Notes: This presentation is available to organizations throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Please contact us to arrange for travel fees/accommodations. Available for in-person or video-conferencing presentation.
