Stress and Wellness Seminars

  Seminar 1 | Let’s Talk About Stress

For many, a demanding job, financial woes or a global pandemic immediately come to mind as sources of stress. However, today’s working professionals add stress to their bodies and minds in other ways too. In this informative and thought-provoking presentation, Nicole re-defines today’s definition of stress and reveals the Top 10 daily habits that may be keeping you from optimal health, happiness and productivity – at work and at home.

  Seminar 2 | The Top Ten Food Mistakes

Are you confused by the masses of diet and nutrition advice in the media? In this eye-opening and fact-based seminar, you’ll learn the top 10 food mistakes that could be keeping you from getting the results you want. Whether you struggle to maintain a healthy weight, or regularly deal with fatigue, headaches, brain fog, or other chronic health complaints, you’ll walk away with a fresh and informed outlook on what, when, where and why you eat.

  Seminar 4 | Good Food. Good Mood.

Did you know that what you eat affects how you think?

Your brain is made of billions of cells, all of which must be fuelled with proper nutrition in order for your body and mind to optimally function. In this thought-provoking, evidence-based presentation, Nicole explains how dehydration, dieting, processed sugar, caffeine, artificial ingredients and other nutritional stressors play a key role in today’s growing mental health challenge. You’ll walk away understanding how the food you eat affects your brain, how the health of your brain affects your physical and mental wellness, and which foods to consume (or not) in order to best manage your mood and mindset. It just might be time to shift the way you think about how you fuel your body.

  Seminar 5 | The 7 Sleep Factors for Optimal Health

The “rule of threes” states that our bodies can go three minutes without oxygen, three days without water, and three weeks without food. But how long could you go without sleep?

Whether you struggle to get to sleep, stay asleep, or wake up feeling rested, you’ve likely realized that not getting enough rest can affect your mood, productivity, and other aspects of your physical and mental health. In this eye-opening presentation, Nicole reveals the seven factors that contribute to a restful sleep, while providing practical solutions to help you create and maintain a sleep routine that reduces stress on your body and mind.

  Seminar 7 | Overcoming Overthinking

Are you an over thinker? If you are, you’re not alone.

In our personal and professional lives, analysis is necessary. But over analysis – the act of rumination, worrying, or being ‘stuck in your head’ – can have a negative impact on your psychological, mental and physical health. It is, however, a habit that can be broken. Combining science with mindfulness, this presentation will demonstrate that overthinking is a stressor that not only keeps you from paying attention and being present in life, it can also contribute to imbalance and disease in the body, affect mood and productivity, and prevent you from mastering one of the most invaluable habits – the ability to listen to your innate intuitive sense.

  Seminar 8 | The Stress-Less Routine

Previously called The Quarantine Routine

We’ve been thrown into an extreme situation, requiring us to immediately adapt to new work environments and routines, but also testing our abilities to stay physically and mentally healthy despite extreme mental and emotional stress. In this straightforward, practical, and information-packed session, Nicole describes the ideal stress-reducing routine (for the at home, at office or hybrid worker), integrating small things you can do every day to free yourself from physical and mental stress.

  Seminar 10 | Train Your Brain for Habit Change

How do you change habits? How long does it take to change habits? Should I replace new habits with old ones? Can I change my habits if I have no will power? 

These are common questions when it comes to transforming behaviour. But the simplest way to answer them is with these words from Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Because no matter how you look at it, habit change starts in the brain. Habit change is, without a doubt, a mind game. 

In Train Your Brain for Habit Change, Nicole takes a fresh approach to habit change, helping participants discover how habits are created, which ingredients are necessary for behaviour change, and why changing your habits to transform your life doesn’t have to be an insurmountable feat.

  Seminar 11 | Managing Mood to Better Manage Life

The recent shift in the world has created a unique and challenging situation. And although the pandemic has provided us with opportunities to reflect and re-evaluate, it has also created consistent uncertainty and ongoing stress. But it’s not necessarily one additional event that makes life overwhelming. Instead, it’s the cumulation of multiple, consecutive events for which we were not able to prepare. Discussing the importance of language, how to increase control over your mood, changing your relationship with emotions, and the neuroscience behind emotionality and how it can change our worldview, this 60-minute session will help you de-stress in the moment and sustain ways to move forward – beyond a pandemic – with less pressure and more ease.

  Seminar 13 | Multi-Tasking: The Next Health Epidemic

We’ve been trained to believe that multi-tasking means we can get more done in less time. And in this day and age, the expectations on our productivity are higher than ever.

But have you ever considered that doing more than one thing at a time adds stress to your brain, which adds stress to your body, which not only prevents you from being productive and efficient, it can also negatively impact your hormones, mood, memory, and mindset.

Combining neuroscience, stress, and mindfulness, Nicole provides realistic tips for today’s busy, working professional who wants to be productive without sacrificing their health.

  Seminar 14 | The RE-Organization – Navigating the New Normal

Just as quickly as Covid disrupted our personal lives, it disrupted the workplace. But after 2+ years of a global pandemic, the time has come for us to adapt to a new normal.

In this 60-minute seminar, Nicole Porter, Stress Coach and Wellness Educator, shares a unique view on how and why specific stress-reducing habits must be prioritized in order to create the balance and routine necessary for optimal physical and mental health.

Whether you work remotely, on-site, or in a hybrid workplace, you’ll walk away with realistic and practical advice for how to optimize your health, while best adapting to this post-pandemic life.

Have questions? Contact us.