Workshops & Presentations
Topics are taught at your request individually or in a group setting.
Contact Vickii for details. 443-244-1232. or vickii@centerfor-healingarts.com
All workshops and presentations can be tailored to address the specific interests or concerns of your group, organization, staff, or faculty. The length of time for any of the topics can vary from an hour to several hours depending on your needs.
Book talk on “Creating Calm – 3 Powerful Models for Navigating the Rough Seas of Midlife” by Vickii Engel
Explores three simple and powerful models to help you understand and sail through these transformative years to create a calm, smooth passage instead of a crisis. This is my first book and was published in the fall of 2016. Available on Amazon in paperback or kindle versions.
EFT Meridian Tapping for a Better Life – Easing Anxiety, Stress, and Limiting Beliefs – with Vickii Engel
EFT, otherwise known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a type of meridian tapping that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology with startling results. Learn to tap on 9 specific acupuncture points to release pain, ease anxiety and stress, or help to change the way you think. Simple to learn and easy to use. Great for all ages!
Living Meditation – 6 Easy Ways to Make Meditation a Part of Your Every Day – with Vickii Engel
Living in a meditative state is simple when you follow the nature lead of your body. This workshop covers tools, techniques, and technology that make mindful meditation easy to both understand and practice.
Victim + Villian + Hero = The Drama Triangle – How to Stay Out of the Equation and Off the Triangle – with Vickii Engel
In 1964, Psychiatrist Dr. Eric Berne, creator of the psychological theory known as Transactional Analysis, published the book Games People Play. A worldwide bestseller, Games uncovered some of the fundamental dynamics in human relationships. Though the book was published over 50 years ago, the patterns of human behavior it reveals remain unknown to many. Like the proverbial elephant in the room, these patterns happen every day, right before our eyes, exhausting and confounding us in the dynamics of relationships. The three players in human drama are the villain, the victim, and the hero. When in play, the three form “The Drama Triangle”. Learn how this simple model can be used as a tool to transform your life. Get out (and stay out) of the game. Set yourself free!
Getting to Happy…by Making Friends with Your Anger, Sadness, & Fear – with Vickii Engel
Real happiness requires taking care of all our emotions. To stay out of drama and not drown in our emotions, we must make friends with our anger, sadness, and fear. This workshop explores how each of these emotions show up in the body focusing on patterns, areas, and organs they can directly effect. Learn what each emotion needs and a variety of body-centered approaches to tend, release, and resolve them so your life can move forward in ease and peace.
EFT Meridian Tapping – with Vickii Engel
Discovered in 1979 by psychologist Dr. Roger Callahan and further refined by Gary Craig, EFT is a simple tapping-on-acupuncture-points protocol that signals the brain’s fight or flight response to turn off. Rather than sending a stress-inducing impulse from the amygdala to the nervous system, EFT helps create calm confidence in the mind and ease in the body.
The EFT protocol uses ones own fingertips to tap on nine acupuncture points on the hands, head, and torso. It can be taught in just a few minutes and has been proven to be helpful in relieving both physical and emotional pain. EFT can offer life-changing effects that create resiliency for children and adults of all ages. It is easy, quick, effective, and free to use any time, anywhere. EFT should be in everyone’s self care toolbox!
Body Language – Understanding and Using Positive Nonverbal Communication – with Vickii Engel
Research shows that more than two thirds of all communication is nonverbal. Learn to read attitudes and emotions through behavior in order to enrich understanding of and communication with others. The seven keys for using positive body language as presented at the end each workshop. Highly engaging and lots of fun!
Body Language I – Smiles, Handshakes, Lying, Seating Arrangements,
plus the Seven Secrets to Positive Body Language.
Body Language II – Arm & Legs, Hands & Feet – What They Say.
Body Language III – Polishing Your Body Language for Your Professional Life.
Body Language IV – Love Signals, Courtship Behaviors, and Gender Differences.
Saying the Tough Stuff – How Your Body Can Help You Deliver Challenging Communications – with Vickii Engel Thomas
We all have times when what we need to say is difficult, confrontational, or just plain scary. While our head is doing the talking, our conscious use of body awareness and supportive body language can help us deliver the information with the least amount of stress and the greatest potential for positive outcome. This workshop explores body-centered practices that make saying the tough stuff easier and easier. Guaranteed to change your life!
The Body as Portal for Conscious Change – with Vickii Engel
When we are trying to make a change in our life, we often work on changing our way of thinking or feeling. It is our physical that offers a wonderfully simple and easily supportive means for making and assessing our relationship to the change we seek. Learn to partner with your own body so that it may both guide and support your growth consciously.
Breathing Well, Living Well – with Vickii Engel
The fundamental act of breathing has immense power to center, calm, and heal. This experiential workshop teaches the basics of breathing to create and sustain a state of relaxation that nurtures the flow of life in our body and our life. Several breathing patterns are introduced.
Mindfulness Meditation – with Vickii Engel
Meditation offers many known health benefits. Get started learning the basics of mindfulness meditation – a practice that assists us in living in the present moment. Consciously choose a body-centered focus to calm the mind and release stress. A wide variety of meditation options offer everyone a place to begin. Very simple and very powerful, especially when practiced over time.
Making Friends with Change – with Vickii Engel
Change is the one constant that continues throughout all of our life. Often we spend enormous amounts of our time and energy resisting it. This workshop explores the essence of resistance and discusses simple strategies to help us reduce it, so we can experience more ease in embracing changes of all kinds.
Midlife – Shifting from Crisis to Transformation – with Vickii Engel
Living through our middle years, consider age 35 to 65, offers each of us an opportunity for transformation. We can choose to shift this experience from that of distressing crisis to enlightening transformation. Regardless of your age, explore what midlife can do (or has done) for you.
Your Midlife Journey – Creating a Healthy & Holistic Perspective – with Vickii Engel
Midlife is always a transformation. Making it a crisis is an option. Midlife invites you to make at least 7 shifts in your beliefs and the way you interact with the world. This workshop helps you step back, take a look at the big picture, and explore these shifts as they show up in your own life.
Stress & Self Care on the High Seas of Life – with Vickii Engel
The waves of life do not stop. We all must learn to sail the high seas. Looking at the root of our stress and tending our thoughts and emotions, body and spirit brings balance and smooth sailing through many dynamic changes. This workshop explores a holistic approach to the art of self care.
Self Care for Caregivers – with Vickii Engel
Caregivers often neglect their own needs as they focus on caring for others. This workshop explores beliefs that contribute to this pattern and how to change them. Simple self care practices, that are free and easy and can be done anywhere and anytime, are taught. Short term and long term self care are also explored.
The Chakra Energy System as a Path to Create & Liberate – with Vickii Engel
The seven primary energy centers along the spine known as the “chakras” are a practical model for understanding how we create and how we grow. Since they are located in the physical tissue of our body, they can also offer insight into the patterns of health and disease. Looking through the window of the chakras gives us clear and simple steps with which we can create what we really want in our lives with ease.
“Living Your Whole Life ~ Deeper, Fuller, & More Alive” Workshop Series – with Vickii Engel
What does it mean to create a life that is deeper, fuller, & more alive?
What would it mean to create your day so that you feel healthy, balanced, and satisfied?
What choices would you make to reallylive your life in a whole and conscious way?
These are some of the questions we will explore in this five-week series. Each week begins with a body-centered exercise to relax and come present. Drawing upon a variety of healing models, we will look at who we are, what we want, and what we offer (or want to offer) back to the world. Discover more of your own capacity to live a whole, rich life with this inquiry into the gifts and challenges of our mind, body, spirit, and emotion.
A Brief & Broad Overview of Holistic Healing Modalities – with Vickii Engel
Take a big look at some of the basic principles of holistic healing modalities. Differences between alternative, complementary, integrative, and functional medicine are discussed. Get your questions about many healing modalities (acupuncture, massage, Reiki, meditation, reflexology, T’ai Chi, guided imagery, EFT,…) answered. Creative joint play, progressive relaxation, and a relaxation breath practice are taught. Fun and easy! Leave with a few stress-relieving practices and lots of insights. Can be custom tailored for your group’s interests.