- Workshops range from 1-1.5 hours.
- Workshops are always interactive and designed for a variety of learning styles.
- Workshops are tailored for the audience: Suzanne is versatile and can offer workshops accessible to a variety of people from different backgrounds.
- All workshops include handouts and an online presentation overview for participants.
- If requested, an evaluation form can be distributed to workshop participants with evaluative data shared after the presentation with the host organization.
- Presentations are available on three different major topic areas: health prevention/promotion, parenting and chronic disease prevention.
- Custom topics are always available. Suzanne loves to keep current and fresh by creating new presentations!
Presentation Samples
Workplace and Community Health
- Moving for Wellbeing: Unique Evidence-Informed Approaches to Challenging Sedentary Behaviors and Promoting Physical Activity for the Whole Campus Community
This more academic style workshop was designed for health promotion and medical professionals working on campuses across Canada and the U.S. It was presented at the American College Health Association’s Annual Meeting in San Diego in May 2015.
- Moving to Learn and Teach: Practical Ways to Sneak in Physical Activity
This was one of Suzanne’s favourite workshops ever. She designed this for early childhood educators, as she was a professional presenter at the BC Aboriginal Childcare Society’s Conference. It was standing room only! This presentation led her to be invited to the 37th BC Elders Gathering in Prince George the following summer. - Being Male: Avoiding the Risky Business
A practical workshop designed for men on how to build protective factors and minimize risk factors for key preventable diseases: prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression. Originally designed for Stantec Inc, an architecture and engineering firm. - Action Planning for Healthy Lives
Learning how we can move from “should” to “did,” this interactive workshop teaches practical goal-setting skills that can be applied to a holistic health approach.
- Catering to Your Health
Discover how to promote health through food at work. This presentation was originally designed for UBC but would be adapted to focus on the catering options in your workplace.
- Making Mental Health a Priority: Practical Skills in the Workplace
Learn more about mental health at work, how to talk to a colleague, and where to refer.
- A Well Workplace
Explore how a workplace culture can contribute to the health of employees and how to foster it.
- Moving to Learn and Teach: Practical Ways to Sneak in Physical Activity
This physically active workshop was designed for early childhood educators on how to get children (and teachers) moving their bodies more often.
Parenting and Tweens/Teens
- Keeping Teens and Tweens Out of Trouble
Using the research-based 40 Developmental Assets, this workshop teaches parents and guardians to build on teen strengths to help them avoid violence and substance abuse.
- Teaching Your Teen to Cope: A Parenting Workshop
Coping skills mean resiliency, yet most teens lack ideas on how to cope with life’s stressors well. - Cyber-Bullying In Today’s Teen World
Parents and guardians can learn more on how cyber-bullying work, current legislation and how one might prevent such issues from occurring.