Free Self-Improvement Topics in Chicago

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  Tapping into your Superpowers Mindfulness and Meditation.

  Jacqueline McCarty, Owner Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, Om At Work

  Mindfulness can be practiced in any aspect and any task in your life! By remembering this tool of focus and awareness you can transform it into pure presence. Your awareness is currency, where your attention goes energy flows. Meditation is a training for your awareness and can have lasting effects on your brain and nervous system when practiced regularly. Learn these practices and transform your work and life. MORE >

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  Speaking with Confidence in any Situation

  Suzanne M. Bracken, Managing Director, Ludicrous Theatre Company

  This lively presentation will address the causes of fear associated with speaking when we are not comfortable doing so. Learn how to make those butterflies in your stomach "fly in formation," so you can get your point across in a confident and effective manner.

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  Childhood Grief

  Lydia Galan, Outreach Coordinator, Pillars Community Health

  Pillars Community Health is available to make presentations regarding childhood grief. Our Buddy's Place is a childhood bereavement program serves the western and southwestern suburbs of Chicago.

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  Where Are You Growing? Cultivating a Growth Mindset

  Susan Neustrom, Ed.D., Leadership Coach, Author, Speaker, Educator, Leading to Action

  Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? Your mindset determines your behavior and thoughts leading to your success, your performance and your impact on staff, co-workers, family, and friends. There are two mindsets, fixed and growth. If you have a fixed mindset you believe abilities and intelligence are determined early in life. Therefore, challenges and failure only serve to support your belief. In contrast, if you have a growth mindset you view challenges and obstacles as opportunities to develop skills and continue growing and learning. Most individuals exhibit a combination of a fixed and growth mindset but intentionally cultivating a growth mindset results in enhanced resilience, increased accomplishments and expanded potential. In an organization, a growth mindset leader creates a culture of innovation, risk-taking, teamwork, and trust enabling others to adopt a growth mindset. MORE >

  In this interactive session, Dr. Susan Neustrom explores how mindsets are formed and the dynamics and strategies involved in shifting mindset to optimize positive impact both personally and professionally. Using the theoretical framework of mindset, grit, and mental contrasting this session will engage participants in a new approach to decision-making, problem solving, teaching, and learning.

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  Get (and Stay) Organized

  Erin J. Kelly, Professional Organizer, Arranged By Erin

  Learn how to live a simple and organized life. Whether it’s your home or office, Erin explains the tools to help you be more productive and save time. Erin has given speeches all over Chicago including corporations, ADD support groups, and libraries.

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  Discover 3 self-sabotage patterns, stopping YOU

  Claudia Braun, Holistic Mindset & Lifestyle Coach, Claudia Braun Holistic Lifestyle Coaching

  Research 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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  Communicate with Credibility

  Jeff Hornstein, President, The Speaker's Choice

  Perception is everything, especially when it comes to public speaking. Learn the secret to what audiences use as their “credibility meter” when they listen to you speak.

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  The Act of Forgiveness: Learning How to Forgive

  Eileen Timmins, Ph.D, Founder, Aingilin

  The ability to forgive allows one to live in harmony. There are 3 types of forgiveness: for yourself, for those you’ve harmed and for those that have harmed you. By releasing the initial harm and the energy you’ve used to hold on to it, you clear your present and future, and move forward.

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  Drop the Emotional Baggage and Get Younger with Age!

  GuruNischan, Owner, GuruNischan Unlimited

  GuruNischan will explore the physical, mental and emotional components that affect our energy level, skin, digestion, sleep, mood and how fast we age and will teach steps and everyday “live-better” strategies to feel and look your best – naturally.

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  Increasing Your Happiness!

  Bette Lawrence-Water, Founder and Principal Consultant, Spectrum Strategic Solutions

  Increasing one's happiness can be done through the power of positive thinking. That is one skill that this presenttion will touch on to teach participants how to be happier. Happiness can spread throughout an organization, and have a positive effect on everyone.
  During this interactive and energetic discussion participants will engage in unique and helpful ways to increase their happiness. This 45-60 minute presentation will have a robust effect on their professional and personal lives, improve their communication skills, increase productivity, and lesson absenteeism. MORE >

  Presentation Objectives:
  •Discuss how planning ahead cultivates workplace happiness
  •Create a nightly routine and daily plan
  •Relate more effectively to others in the workplace
  •Understand how the workspace environment impacts happiness
  •Think more positively
  •Take actions that will create greater workplace happiness

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