Creating Well-Being: An Exploration of the Inside-Out Nature of Change
August 18, 2009
9:00 AM – 4:15 PM
6 CEU/clock hours
Location: 115 Stillman Hall
This workshop will explore the principles of Health Realization, an innovative approach to prevention, human services and community empowerment which helps people tap internal resources they often don’t realize they even have. This approach has been found to yield healthy changes in people’s lives and constructive community change.
Health Realization is based in an understanding of three principles that combine to create people’s experience of life. As people gain an understanding of these principles, they tend to become more peaceful, more clear-headed, more content and less stressed. Their relationships improve and they are less affected by problems and less likely to engage in problem behaviors.
Health Realization is not a program; it is an understanding. While it can be employed as an entire program, it can also be superimposed over any program/approach to increase efficacy.
Objectives
• Increase understanding of the “mechanism” behind what it takes to live in well-being
• Increase knowledge & understanding of Health Realization principles
• Help participants live lives with less stress, more peace of mind and better relationships
• Help participants to convey and draw out this understanding in others
Allison Sharer, OCPS II, has worked in the prevention field since 1983. She currently works part-time as Assistant Director at Drug Free Action Alliance, and is an independent trainer and consultant. She has worked with programs doing peer, community-based and environmental prevention, and she has developed and presented educational opportunities for a wide variety of audiences.
