Eating Your Way to Better Health: Mind, Body and Soul
March 3, 2010
Title: Eating Your Way to Better Health: Mind, Body and Soul
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, March 15
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Are you overwhelmed by the abundance of confusing nutrition messages? Frustrated with trying to put together a healthy meal for yourself and your family? Unsatisfied by flavorless yet “healthy” meals? Eating well doesn’t have to be difficult, flavorless or unsatisfying. Join Rhonda O’Brien, Registered Dietitian, as she shatters some common nutrition myths, teaches strategies to put together delicious, nutritious “meals in minutes,” and helps you feed your soul at the same time. Free workshop presented by Rhonda O’Brien, RD, CDE
Rhonda O’Brien, MS, RD, CDE is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator. She has a nutrition consultation private practice in Boise’s North End, and has over 21 years experience providing nutrition education and counseling for individuals and groups. Her specialties include: Assisting in the nutritional recovery of people with eating disorders and disordered eating. Empowering individuals to self-manage their diabetes. Nutrition for preventive health, particularly heart health, targeting cholesterol and blood pressure. Rhonda teaches Diet-Free Living, a 6 week class series for people who are ready to recover from chronic dieting and develop a peaceful relationship with food and their body. For more information, please visit her website at www.dietfreeidaho.com
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-15
Monthly Conversation: Keep Calm and Cool in Chaotic Times
February 23, 2010
Title: Keep Calm and Cool in Chaotic Times
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, May 10, 2010
Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting
2nd Monday of Every Month, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Learn a variety of ways to manage the stressors life presents. May’s topic: “Keep Calm and Cool in Chaotic Times” presented by Cheryle Jones Andrews, LCPC, LMFT.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-05-10
the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
February 23, 2010
Title: the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: 6 week group presented by Susan Reuling Furness, M.Ed., PTR
Mondays, 5:15pm – 6:45pm. April 19 – May 24, 2010
Registration cost: $175 before April 1. $215 after April 1.
Creative inspiration lives in everyone, but it is often dulled by criticism and comparison. Through a series of playful and serious writing assignments beginners will learn to trust their voices and experienced writers will blast through doubt and writer’s block.
Join the fun and change your life. All ages . . . junior high school through octogenarians.
Start Time: 17:15
Date: 2010-04-19
the write path: Writing The Winds Of Change: Women’s Journaling Group
February 23, 2010
Title: the write path: Writing The Winds Of Change: Women’s Journaling Group
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: 8 week group presented by Susan Reuling Furness, M.Ed., PTR
Wednesdays, 5:15pm – 8:30pm
March 31 – May 26, 2010 *no group on April 7.
Registration cost: $290 before March 20. $320 after March 20.
When one door closes another door opens. – Alexander Graham Bell.
Regardless of the source of your loss or change, your own words will help you navigate toward the discovery of a bright tomorrow. Join other woman-explorers as we untangle the confusion, upheaval, and mystery of riding and writing the winds of change. Let go of the past. Trust yourself through transition. Find optimism about change and new life adventures. No need to be a “writer.” The group provides tools and encouragement for a successful experience.
Start Time: 17:15
Date: 2010-03-31
Monthly Conversation: Learning to Trust Your Intuition: Waking Up to Your Own Intuitive Potentials
February 23, 2010
Title: Monthly Conversation: Learning to Trust Your Intuition: Waking Up to Your Own Intuitive Potentials
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, March 8, 2010
Time: 2nd Monday of Every Month, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
We are all born with Intuition. This discussion will cover the basic types and how we can start to learn to interpret them in order to benefit most from their full impact. How many times have you had a “gut” feeling, and decided not to listen to it? How often do you use your “knee jerk reaction” to make important decisions in your life. Perhaps it’s time for you to pay more attention, and begin to explore intuition with a deeper awareness. March’s topic: “Learning to Trust Your Intuition: Waking Up to Your Own Intuitive Potentials” presented by Randall D. Meenach, LPC.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-08
the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
January 20, 2010
Title: the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Mondays, January 25 – March 15, 2010
Time: 5:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m
Early Registration: $180 before January 15. After January 15 – $210
Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous.
– Garrison Keillor.
Creative inspiration lives in everyone, but it is often dulled by criticism and comparison. Through a series of playful and serious writing assignments:• Silence uncertainty • Uncover your true thoughts & feelings • Learn to trust your voice • Open the door to your creative self. In an always-supportive-environment, beginners will learn to trust their voices. Experienced writers will blast through doubt and every vestige of writer’s block. Join the fun and change your life. All ages . . . junior high school through octogenarians. For more information and to register for this class, call 208-385-0888 or email: writing@writepath.org
* Ask us about insurance reimbursement, scholarships, and senior discounts.
Start Time: 17:15
Date: 2010-01-25
the write path: Reviving Hope
January 20, 2010
Title: the write path: Reviving Hope
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Time: 10:00am – 3:30pm.
One-Day Class with Susan Reuling Furness, LCPC, LMFT, PTR
Registration cost: $85 Before February 1; $110 After February 1.
An interactive day dedicated to re-learning the language of hope. When health problems, opportunity, or life itself become difficult, your attitude is the strongest predictor of your future. Through the elixir of poetry, reflection, and facilitated journal writing, Reviving Hope will help transform despair into revitalized living. Join us for a day that may, indeed, save your life. *Lunch provided. For more information about this class, send us an email: (writing@writepath.org)
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-02-13
Organizing the Paper of Life
January 20, 2010
Title: Organizing the Paper of Life
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Why is organizing paper so hard for all of us? You will learn systems, strategies and tactics to help you on your journey of taming your paper piles. Relax and take comfort that you will join other courageous individuals who are ready to learn how to take control of paper clutter. Free workshop presented by Perfect Order
The Perfect Order team believes that clarity begins with organizing. For the past 9 years, they have been developing and fine tuning ways to help families balance their things, time and energy, and assist clients who are entering a new phase of life. Perfect Order helps Seniors, families, couples and individuals mentally, physically and emotionally through some of life’s most stressful situations including sorting, moving, organizing, or simply re-modeling their relationship with the things around them.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-02-18
Principles of Parenting from A to Z
January 20, 2010
Title: Principles of Parenting from A to Z
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Friday & Saturday, February 19 & 20, 2010
Time: Friday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm & Saturday, 9:00am – 3:00pm
2-day workshop presented by Lorn Adkins, LCPC, LMFT
Registration cost: $240 individual/ $360 couples*
Registration will close: February 15.
* A couple is any two people concerned about the same child.
Parenting is the most important job for which we receive no formal training. This class will utilize new brain research about parenting a child from the inside out. Parents will also learn developmental stages of growth that are necessary for a healthy childhood. Why is it that we invest our time and money in so many places, but not in helping us become better parents? Contact Heather @ 385-0888 for further details.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-02-19
Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
January 20, 2010
Title: Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Changing the pattern of criticism and defensiveness in your relationship is essential to its long-term stability and success. While empathy and understanding go a long way toward maintaining a healthy connection with your partner, it is the zingers, the negative behaviors, which are truly destructive. This program will explore some of the negative ways many couples inadvertently use these with each other and help find healthier, more useful ways of communicating to help insure the long term stability and success of your relationship. Free workshop presented by Timothy J. Furness, LCPC, LMFT
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-02-22