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Be a Better You

The following Workshops are available:


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Anxiety to Calm

If anxiety has stopped you from doing your usual activities and living your best life, come learn skills to find calm, challenge yourself and live well.

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Anxiety to Calm for Youth

Everyone experiences anxiety at times. Our body may react with our breath getting faster, heart beating faster and we may even sweat. Once things are safe, our bodies return to normal. If they don’t then we may feel stressed, anxious, worried or overwhelmed. This workshop will provide the skills we all need to decrease our anxiety.

Session coming this Fall 2023.  Please check back in August 2023 for registration or click the 'Learn More' button below to enter your contact information in the 'Notify me when new sessions are added' section, and you will automatically get an email when a new session is posted. 

 

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Best Weight

The Best Weight workshop is ideal for those with excess weight who desire healthy weight reduction through sustainable dietary and lifestyle behaviour changes to improve physical and emotional health.

2 Upcoming Sessions
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Connecting to My Values and Moving Through Challenging Times

This workshop uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and will help participants to connect with their values and implement a plan to move towards these values.

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Craving Change Drop In

The Craving Change Drop-In sessions are open to anyone interested in learning more about how situations, thoughts and emotions affect our food choices and eating behaviours and strategies to change.

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Diabetes Webinars (Online)

Diabetes Canada is pleased to offer a series of online webinars. Join us for a variety of engaging sessions, from the comfort of your own home or office. The sessions focus on learning all about diabetes, such as healthy living, managing complications, and goal setting to inspire you to live well with diabetes.

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GLA:D™ for Osteoarthritis

Good Life with Osteoarthritis Denmark (GLA:D™) is an 8-week evidence-based education and exercise program for individuals with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis (OA). *Physician Referral is required for this workshop*.

6 Upcoming Sessions
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Group Medical Visits for Best Weight

GMVs for Best Weight supports those with excess weight and/or health conditions associated with excess weight and are ready to make behavioural change strategies to support self-management to achieve their best health.

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Group Medical Visits for Type 2 Diabetes

Group Medical Visits for Diabetes supports those with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes who are ready to make behavioural change strategies to support self-management and achieve their best health.

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Happiness Basics

Your guide to being happier.


Our workshops will teach you the skills you need to live a happier life. Our empowering Happiness Basics program will help you understand how happy people think and what they do to create happiness.

Attend the 4-week workshop (a total of 8 hours) and learn 11 practical skills that can bring more happiness into your life.

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Journeying Through Grief – Loss of a Loved One

This workshop provides a safe and supportive group enviroment for people who've experienced the death of a loved one and helps them work through their grief.

 

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Journeying Through Grief – Mixed Personal Losses

The Journeying Through Grief (JTG) - Mixed Personal Losses workshop, provides a safe and supportive group environment for people who have experienced any kind of significant personal loss (ex. divorce, job loss, bereavement) and helps them work through their grief.

 

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Label Reading & Menu Planning

Are you looking to improve your eating behaviors and food choices, but feel overwhelmed or stuck in old habits?  Do you feel confused or frustrated while grocery shopping, not knowing what is healthy or unhealthy anymore?  You are not alone! We have developed a workshop specifically for label reading and menu planning, which are two foundational topics to help you plan with ease, shop with confidence and enjoy healthier eating.

Our Registered Dietitian will guide you through an interactive group session that uses real food labels and provides tools and strategies to:

Choose healthier foods with confidence
Compare similar foods with a nutrition facts table in the correct context
Prevent falling victim to health halos or fancy marketing tricks
Save money and time by planning ahead
Develop a weekly menu that aligns with healthy eating principles
Keep weekly menu plans creatice and enjoyable
Each participant will take away a 1-week personalized menu that is developed while in the class.

Our Label Reading & Menu Planning Workshop is an interactive 2-hour discussion and learning-activities based workshop.

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Mindful Journey

The Mindful Journey is an 8-week class series for participants with recurrent depression and anxiety. The course draws both from mindfulness practice (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy or MBCT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Session coming this Fall 2023.  Please check back in August 2023 for registration or click the 'Learn More' button below to enter your contact information in the 'Notify me when new sessions are added' section, and you will automatically get an email when a new session is posted. 

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My way to Health (Health Basics)

Practice making small steps that lead to big changes. Learn to choose healthy eating, become more active and find balance in your life.

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Pain Medication Fundamentals

Do you know what is in your pain medicine cabinet? Why you take the medicine, when you take it, how it makes you feel and what questions to ask your health team when you see them again? Join us to learn more more. *Physician referral required*

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Relationships in Motion

Alberta Relationships in Motion™ is a no cost 8 week program that empowers you to improve WORK, PERSONAL and FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. It was designed by psychologists, clinical social workers with the support of family doctors.

Session coming this Fall 2023.  Please check back in August 2023 for registration or click the 'Learn More' button below to enter your contact information in the 'Notify me when new sessions are added' section, and you will automatically get an email when a new session is posted. 

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Understanding Type 2 Diabetes: Lifestyle Management

Are you interested in learning more about Type 2 Diabetes? Do you want to take charge of your health and be empowered with a better understanding of Type 2 Diabetes?

If you answered yes, then this workshop is for you!

2 Upcoming Sessions
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Understanding Type 2 Diabetes: Nutrition Foundations

Are you interested in learning more about Type 2 Diabetes and nutrition? Do you want to take charge of your health and improve your blood sugar control?  

If you answered yes, then this workshop is for you!

2 Upcoming Sessions
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​Empowering Strategies For Persistent Pain

Empowering Strategies For Persistent Pain is for people who are ready to learn to change their relationship with their pain through active strategies to cope with their persistent pain. 

 

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