WELLNESS WORKSHOPS

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New Vision is currently offering VIRTUAL (online) AND IN-PERSON workshops! These sessions are led by our interdisciplinary health providers and are aimed to help you manage your health, enhance coping strategies and meet with others who may be having similar concerns. No referral is needed. All of our wellness workshops are open to the public except as marked for New Vision patients only. 

Current Wellness Workshops:

Strategies for Better Sleep (3-week series): Do you have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep?  Do you wake, but don’t feel refreshed or energized? This 3-week series focuses on strategies that decrease insomnia, help you to relax and get a better night’s sleep! 

Intro. to Solids: Learn how and when to introduce solid foods to your baby. Month by month instructions on what types of foods should be introduced first and when the right time is for your baby. Parent’s and babies are welcome!

How to Feed a Picky Eater: A workshop to offer parents/guardians practical strategies to help their children become competent eaters and make mealtime a positive experience for all! Open to parents/guardians with children of all ages.

Craving Change (4-week series): This how-to workshop is for changing your relationship with food. This 4-part series helps you to understand why you eat the way you do, identify personal triggers for problematic eating and how to respond to those triggers differently. Craving Change is a workshop for those who “know what to do, but just can’t do it!”.

Eat Well, Live Well: Do you want to live a longer, healthier, more energized life? The food and nutrition you choose to put into your body has a significant impact on the quality of your life. Through this hour and a half workshop, our Registered Dietitians will provide information about current research as well as focus on practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to improve your overall health and reduce your risk of developing chronic disease.

Walk and Talk (6-week series): Looking to boost your energy? Do you want to be more active, but have difficulty getting started? If "yes", then join us for this 6-week group. Facilitated by our Social Worker and Reregistered Dietitian, this group focuses on nutrition/stress management, boosting energy and engaging` in more active lifestyle.

Improving Boundaries in Relationships(4-week series): This series provides you with new knowledge and skills to help you decrease feeling unheard or disrespected in your relationships, decrease stress, and increase your communication skills, authenticity, and self-esteem.

  • Session 1: Communication 
  • Session 2: What are boundaries?
  • Session 3: Boundaries in action
  • Session 4: Creating healthy boundaries

Anxiety & COVID (4-week series): This series provides you with new knowledge and skills to help you decrease feelings of isolation, hopelessness, and anxiety, and increase being present in the moment, self-esteem, and feelings of acceptance. 

  • Session 1: Self-care and Mindfulness
  • Session 2: Distress Tolerance
  • Session 3: Understanding our emotions and communication 
  • Session 4: Radical acceptance 

Emotional First Aid (4-week series): This series provides you with new knowledge and skills to help you increase feelings of control, of being present in the moment, and improve your overall emotional well-being, as well as decrease feelings of anxiety, and emotional dysregulation. 

  • Session 1: What is DBT?
  • Session 2: The Three States of Mind
  • Session 3: Distract and Self-Soothe
  • Session 4: Pros & Cons and Improve the Moment

 NEW: Play-based Yoga and Mindfulness Program for Kids (4-weeks):

Facilitated by our Registered Social Worker and Certified Children's Yoga Instructor, this 4-week program for kids in grades 4 - 6 is designed to:

  • Foster compassion& kindness
  • Build skills and confidence for managing emotions, stress & anxiety
  • Promote a growth mindset in children

Please note - this workshop is open to patients of New Vision FHT only. 

CLICK HERE to register for a wellness workshop!