Lifestyle and Stress Management Themes (include, but are not limited to the following):

• Gain insight and strategies for lifestyle and stress management that you can use immediately in yourlife,whether it be at home, at work, and/or in your creative life.
  
• Become authentically reconnected and reacquainted with your true self.
  
• Enrich the relationships with those around you including family, friends, co-workers, and spouse.
  
• Understand the cycle of stress and how it impacts life’s outcomes and the relationships with one's self and others.
  
• Find balance, meaning, and purpose in your life.
  
• Recognize the various stages of stress.
  
• Increase your personal awareness of your unique response to stressful situations.
  
• Realize the value of universal reciprocity and mutuality.
  
• Learn to listen to, trust in, and believe in your authentic self and your resounding intuition.
  
• Identify and appreciate the fundamental messages revealed during our most difficult experiences.
  
• Exercise authenticity and integrity to promote permanent solutions to personal conflicts in your life.
  
• Awaken your creative self as a means to manifesting happiness now.
  
• Discover the innate power that is realized when exercising the complete self (mind, body, and spirit).
  
• Seek out and acknowledge the enlightened individuals in your life.
  
• Connect with the influential and universal energy that is inherent in laughter, music, and creativity.
  
• Begin writing your own personal and unique life story.
  
• Find meaning and purpose in all that you do.
  
• Reframe and reinterpret life’s challenges and adverse experiences as powerful opportunities for learning
  
• Substitute negative and self-destructive “crutches” with empowering and supportive “crutches”.
  
• Learn how to move away from judgment and disparagement and towards encouragement andempowerment.

Relational Parenting Themes (include, but are not limited to the following): *

• Become a positive influence in your children’s life.
• Incorporate CRUTCHES in your parenting experience.
• Communicate effectively with your children.
• Explore various parenting strategies.
• Understand the harmful affects stress has on parenting and families.
• Apply strategies to effectively manage stress in your life in order to positively enhance your parenting experience.
• Discover the influence of encouragement and empowerment versus the detriment of enabling and criticism.
• Explore the emotionality of parenting.
• Apply the concepts of RUTH (Respect, Understanding, Trust, Honesty).
• Correct negative behavior by employing RUTH.
• Help your children develop a positive self-concept.
• Engage in relational mutuality and reciprocity.
• Create impressionable learning opportunities during challenging moments.
• Become familiar with the “18-year-old newborn” perspective.
• Explore how you were parented and how you parent: making the connection.
• Prioritize taking the time; having fun.
• Make sense of attachment styles.
• Become aware of the various environmental factors that impact parenting.
• Recognize and understand children as mirrors.
• Encourage creativity.
• Lead by example; setting the tone.
• Promote a sense of belonging and contribution; feeling connected.
• Understand the effectiveness and empowering outcomes of distant parenting.
• Distinguish your role as a unique and irreplaceable guide versus a friend.

Positive Youth Development and Leadership Themes (include, but are not limited to the following): *

• Acquire lifelong developmental assets.
• Discover your meaning and purpose.
• Declare ownership of aspirations and dreams.
• Develop strategies for effectively coping with daily stressors.
• Understand the impact of stress and its various stages.
• Establish healthy relationship with peers and adults.
• Positive attitude; maintain never giving up.
• Reframe and reinterpret adverse life circumstances.
• Appreciate the value of character and the privilege of leadership.
• Exercise self-discovery and exploration.
• Practice healthy exposure: step out of your comfort zone.
• Take responsibility for your life’s outcomes.
• Be the author of your life.
• Making connections; find a mentor.
• Value resourcefulness, relationships, and resiliency.
• Applying CRUTCHES/RUTH in your life.
• Managing life’s challenges head on.
• Get connected with your community—make a difference.
• Understand intrinsic and extrinsic motivation/internal and external locus of control.
• 7 E’s (Empowerment, Encouragement, Enlightenment, Environment, Entertainment, Exchange, and Education).
• 6 C’s (Competence, Confidence, Character, Centered, Connection, and Contribution).
• Embrace your uniqueness; write your life story.
• Practice goal setting.
• Develop your own value and belief system.
• Ask the right questions.
• Most importantly…Have fun!

* Incorporates Lifestyle and Stress Management