Look, Feel, Think, Work, Be Your Very Best.
Jill’s workshops promote healthy lifestyle habits, social bonding, morale and stress reduction. They involve research-proven methods for helping high-achievers to work, think, feel, look and be their very best. Comedy, camaraderie and friendly competition can be incorporated to make the lessons impactful and memorable.
Every workshop is designed to be engaging, interactive and highly practical. Participants leave with an action plan, so that they can get started reaping the rewards of their new knowledge.
All workshops are designed to be approximately one hour long, but can be fitted to your time frame. Workshops can also be combined to create a half-day seminar. Jill will always work with you ahead of time to learn about your group, goals and event, so that she can best meet your needs.
Below is a list of Workshops. If you don’t see the specific subject you want, let us know. Jill is masterful at creating workshops to fit your needs.
Cost: $165 per hour, but special pricing is available for non-profit groups.
If applicable, travel expenses and fees will be agreed upon ahead of time and charged additionally.
Workshops for Top Mental & Overall Performance:
Eating to be Awesome: Nutrition for your brain
With life’s many demands, you may feel you are running a daily mental marathon. And just like your muscles, your mind can either run all day feeling energized and happy, or it can “hit the wall” at mile 17. We discuss nutrition for top brain performance—easy ways to improve memory, concentration, creativity, energy, mood and productivity. It’s amazing how quickly you (and your co-workers & family) will notice the improvement. Everything feels easier when your mind is running strong!
10 Magic Minutes: Daily habits for excellence
This workshop is for busy people with limited time, energy and will power to devote to nutrition. We have good news for you—there are lots of painless habits that pay off big in terms of improving your work, weight and wellness. We’ll discuss the habits that “kill 3 birds with 1 snack” by improving your health, appearance and performance all at the same time. This is the good kind of multi-tasking!
The 7 Eating Habits of Highly Effective People
How is it that some people are always energetic, calm, and ready to conquer the next challenge? It's not luck! Great energy, zest, creativity, and mood are not an accident. You can cultivate your mental performance with nutrition strategies that keep your mind and spirit fueled for high performance. Surprisingly, these nutrition strategies are simple, but depend largely on timing. A few "High-Yield Habits" make all the difference!
Workshops for Taming Stress:
Stress-Busters you can Swallow
What, when and how you eat can have a huge effect on your mood, anxiety level and energy. In this hour, you’ll learn to use food as a powerful tool to help you be your most happy, relaxed and energetic self throughout the day. Then, while tasting these healthy treats, you’ll create your own menu and grocery list so you can get started right away incorporating these tools in your life.
Tennis Ball Tension Tamer
Stressed? We’ll discuss how mind follows body when it comes to stress and then you’ll meet your new masseuse, Wilson T. Ball. It’s amazing how you can work the tension out of your muscles—and mind—with a well-placed tennis ball. It’s cheap, easy, and gives you the power to ease tension at the drop of a mat. Wear your gym clothes ‘cause we’ll be on the ground.
*This workshop requires space for participants to lie on the floor/ground.
Laughter Yoga
This seemingly silly exercise is a very smart way to lower stress, boost mood and produce endorphins. It’s amazing how well this works! In fact, research shows that laughter yoga can be as effective as prescription drugs for lowering blood pressure, reducing anxiety and boosting mood. Don’t miss it! This may be one of the most odd, exhausting & FUN things you’ve ever done.
*This workshop requires space for participants to lie on the floor/ground.
Workshops for Better Physical Health:
Maximize your Metabolism: Strategies for people who like energy & eating!
Starting around age 30, the average metabolism slows down 5% per decade. That doesn’t sound too bad until you do the math and realize how much food you don’t get to eat if you want to maintain your weight! What’s more, your declining metabolism can take your energy level along with it. Luckily, there are plenty of healthy and painless ways to boost your metabolism and we’ll cover them all. We’ll also cover the unhealthy ways (e.g., diet pills) that you want to avoid and explain why you don’t need them anyway.
*If desired, we can measure metabolisms of attendees and produce printouts listing each individual’s exact daily resting caloric expenditure. It takes about 10 minutes per person and requires us to bring some equipment, so there is an extra $25 fee per metabolism test.
Sports Nutrition Tricks: Get more out of every workout
Serious athletes and casual exercisers alike benefit from sports nutrition because it can make every minute of your workout more productive. A few smart tricks can help you burn more fat, build more muscle, improve performance and prevent injury. We share the latest findings in sports nutrition and promise to give you countless practical tips that you don’t already know. You’ll leave excited for your next workout, knowing how to make it feel easier and produce better results!
Revolutionary Resolutions: 10 smarter ways to get (or stay) slim
95% of people who diet gain back their weight (and then some!) because dieting lowers your metabolism and alters the hormones that make you feel satisfied. We’ll talk about the psychology and body chemistry that makes conventional weight loss fail for most people. Then we’ll discuss what does work. We’ll give the top 10 most painless ways to lose weight...and, most importantly, keep it off.
When Knowing Better Doesn’t Help: Smarter strategies to eat right
“How can an intelligent, ambitious, high-achiever like me eat poorly when I know better?!” If you’ve had this thought, this workshop is for you. We discard your guilt and find your solution using fun new research findings in environmental psychology. This research finds that you are not unique—in fact, for most people, knowing better doesn’t help that much! We’ll discuss what does help—“environmental engineering”—and the findings will surprise you. For example, who knew that an opaque versus transparent candy jar can make all the difference?! Finally, you’ll make your own game plan to eat right choosing the smarter strategies that are right for you.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Nutrition Fads vs. Facts
Is it true that you shouldn’t eat after 7pm? What about low-carb versus low-fat? Do potatoes and carrots make you fat? What about supplements, protein bars, cleanses & vitamins? Come find out the truth, so you don’t waste your time, energy or will-power (not to mention health!) on bogus nutrition claims. Find out what honest science has to say.
Wiser Weight Loss: Finding your long-term solution
The average person has 5-10 weight loss failures before they succeed. We’ll discuss why and how to make sure you beat that average. Interestingly, loads of research shows that when it comes to nutrition, knowing what to eat isn’t very helpful....except for making you feel guilty when you don’t eat right! We’ll discuss what does work and then you’ll create your own personal game plan using research-proven strategies. Then we’ll talk about staying on track, and that most-important skill for lifetime success: How to get back on the wagon, quickly, stronger & wiser, every time you get thrown off.
Taming your Biology: How to get your appetite, taste buds, cravings & will power working for you instead of against you.
Eating right is hard when your body is crying out for the bad stuff! Luckily, new research is finding surprisingly easy ways to reduce appetite, calm cravings and change your taste buds. We’ll address each of these areas of “biology management” and then, based on your own goals and challenges, you’ll create your own personal game plan.
1-2 weeks later, we’ll follow-up with a second workshop to monitor your progress, fine-tune your game plan and keep you motivated to continue. Then we’ll teach you the fascinating facts about will power—how it works, when & why it fails, and how to strengthen it. This workshop is chock-full of the best information for people who struggle with healthy eating. Don’t miss it!
Valentine’s Heart Healthy Work Break
A fun and interactive hour devoted to the various and sometimes surprising habits that are good for your heart, like nuts, fish, jokes, puppies, healthy touch, soluble fiber, interval training, volunteerism, holding pencils in your mouth (huh?!) and everything but the red wine.