Free Self-Improvement Topics in Chicago
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Love on Trial: When Relationship Therapy Feels Like a Courtroom
Susan Close, LCPC, LMHC, Owner | Psychotherapist, Susan Close Psychotherapy & Wellness
Request This Free SpeechMany couples come into conflict believing they are arguing about the same issue—but often they are trying to solve entirely different problems. One person is fighting for reassurance. The other is fighting for fairness. One wants understanding. The other wants the argument to end. In this witty, eye-opening presentation, psychotherapist Susan Close shares what she has learned from years in the therapy room, where conflict can sound less like connection and more like cross-examination. MORE >
With humor, relatable stories, and practical tools, Susan helps audiences recognize common traps like mindreading, defensiveness, scorekeeping, assumption-making, and trying to win instead of understand.Attendees leave with strategies to slow conflict down, communicate more effectively, and move from opposition to partnership.
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Beyond Blame: How Men and Women Are Both Struggling in Modern Love
Susan Close, LCPC, LMHC, Owner | Psychotherapist, Susan Close Psychotherapy & Wellness
Request This Free SpeechModern relationships are full of confusion, pressure, resentment, and mixed expectations. Instead of blaming one another, this refreshing and balanced presentation explores how both men and women are navigating new emotional realities, changing roles, and unmet needs. Susan offers practical insight into communication, connection, and how couples can move from conflict to understanding.
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Wait… Could I Have Trauma? The Hidden Ways Survival Shapes Adult Life
Susan Close, LCPC, LMHC, Owner | Psychotherapist, Susan Close Psychotherapy & Wellness
Request This Free SpeechMost people think trauma only refers to extreme events, but unresolved survival patterns often show up as anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, emotional reactivity, and repeating painful relationship dynamics. In this eye-opening and hopeful presentation, Susan helps audiences understand the overlooked ways trauma can shape adult life and offers practical first steps toward healing, regulation, and change. MORE >
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Reducing Deadly School Violence
Katazyna Weresz, Clinical Director / Executive Director, Counseling Speaks / In Her Shoes Foundation
Request This Free SpeechLearn from Kasia Weresz about reducing deadly school violence in a thought provoking presentation that focuses on prevention through understanding behavioral health.
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New Beginnings
Natoya Johnson, Entrepreneur, Musician, and Aspiring Evangelist, Live for Christ Ministries
Request This Free SpeechOur ministry provides encouragement to youth and women that need love, support, and ways on how to recover.
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The Science and Fun of Hypnosis
Joe Rosner, Sales Success Trainer, 1st Ayd Corporation
Request This Free SpeechKey Learning Points include-
What is Hypnosis?
What Hypnosis is not.
The Human Brain Consciousness, Unconscious and Focused Attention
Practical Benefits of Hypnosis.Willing participants will have an opportunity to experience hypnosis in a fun, entertaining experience.
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The Power of Your Story: How to Interview with Confidence
Tim Reynolds, Co-Founder, Clover Lane Partners, LLC
Request This Free SpeechInterviewing can be nerve racking. You can worry about what questions you'll be asked or fret over whether you have sufficient experience for the position. MORE >
This presentation/workshop will change your perspective from what you are going to be asked to what you get to share about yourself and why you are what they are looking for.We do this by first by getting you comfortable with the process by training you how to interview others.Then we will identify your core unchangeable adjectives that a company, organization or school will get on day one. Then we practice the first question you most likely will be asked that will set the tone for the entire interview.
Here is where you where you will come to understand the power of your story.
This presentation/workshop also helps those who want to become better interviewers.
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Running, it seems that now days people are either running towards some thing or away from it.
Adam Johnson, Dynamic Life Strategist, Asjohnson Agency
Request This Free SpeechI am a recovering runner—not in the athletic sense, but in the race of life. For years, I ran toward success, love, and new opportunities while also running from my past, my fears, and even myself. I chased achievements in real estate, trucking, Insurance, and supply chain distribution, but true fulfillment only came when I stopped running and embraced my purpose. MORE >
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Discover 3 self-sabotage patterns, stopping YOU
Claudia Braun, Holistic Mindset & Lifestyle Coach, Claudia Braun Holistic Lifestyle Coaching
Request This Free SpeechResearch shows everyone daily sabotages themselves. Uncover the saboteurs stopping YOU from experiencing: well being and peace of mind. This presentation will help you see what's actually going on, and guide you to make small changes, to live in greater ease. Awareness is power, and if it's hidden you're daily being undermined from your true well-being. MORE >
Your current ways of doing things are so ingrained in how you do your life, you don't see it and you believe "it's just how you are".In this presentation, walk away knowing: what accomplice saboteurs are, how they’re in your way. And be introduced to a simple practice you can activate to recover your natural inherent success and well being that is currrently hidden from you.
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Own Your Yes & Your NO
Claudia Braun, Holistic Mindset & Lifestyle Coach, Claudia Braun Holistic Lifestyle Coaching
Request This Free SpeechIn this busy complicated world with so much going on it’s easy to feel pulled by guilt and obligation and find there’s no time to take care of you. When you're the go to person it's easy to secretly resent others not being there for you. Even though you've pride in being able to do it all, it starts to come at a price... MORE >
• Not remembering what fun, play or joy feel like.
• Struggle taking time for you, without feeling guilty.
• Notice your health being compromised.During this workshop, you'll uncover thinking holding you back and you'll learn a daily practice to bring back inner peace and be reminded of another way of doing things that offers you greater well-being.