The FSAP Work-Life program invites you to attend our workshops on various Work-Life topics. For additional information or to register for a session please contact our office at 303-492-3020 or email Yee.Chan@colorado.edu
Summer 2013 Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Work Life Workshops
Topic: Getting Ready to Quit (Smoking Cessation)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013/ UMC 382-386
Wednesday, June 26, 2013/ UMC247
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Program Overview:
Come learn effective ways to quit smoking and begin to evaluate your readiness for change. Cessation methodologies from the behavioral health and medical fields will be presented in this 1.5 hour workshop.
Presenter:
Janeen Haller-Abernethy is a graduate-level social worker focusing on behavior change to support healthier lifestyles. Her work with the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at CU-Boulder has focused on behavior changes that create healthier lifestyles as well as stress reduction in relationships and in the workplace.
For more information or to register for a session please contact our office at 303-492-3020 or email
Yee.Chan@colorado.edu
Topic: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Weight
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Locatio: UMC 382-386
Program Overview: Wondering if our Change Your Behavior, Change Your Weight workshop might be helpful to you? Come to this one-time workshop where we’ll hit the highlights of the 8-week group program. We’ll explore behaviors that contribute to excess weight and tools that can help extinguish these behaviors. You’ll leave with an idea of helpful behaviors that can improve health outcomes.
Presenter:
Janeen Haller-Abernethy is a graduate-level social worker having earned her MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She spent many years advocating for women and children living with violence and abuse. In addition, she’s worked with at-risk children and older adults. She currently works as a counselor with the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program providing individual and couples counseling. She has a strong interest in behavior change related to health risks as well as the intersection between physical and emotional health. She works as a personal trainer, wellness coach, and mom outside of FSAP.
For more information or to register for a session please contact our office at 303-492-3020 or email Yee.Chan@colorado.edu
Topic: Excessive Eating: Disorder or Addiction?
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: UMC 382-386
Program Overview:
We eat for many reasons – hunger, entertainment/socialization, and as an emotional response. Learn how eating can be dictated by emotions and strategies for ending this behavior. We’ll identify healthy reasons for eating, types of emotional eating, and behaviors that can replace eating when faced with stressful or difficult situations. We’ll also talk about the new idea of ‘food addiction’ and look at indicators that may identify if food consumption is disrupting daily life.
Presenter:
Janeen Haller-Abernethy is a graduate-level social worker having earned her MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She spent many years advocating for women and children living with violence and abuse. In addition, she’s worked with at-risk children and older adults. She currently works as a counselor with the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program providing individual and couples counseling. She has a strong interest in behavior change related to health risks as well as the intersection between physical and emotional health. She works as a personal trainer, wellness coach, and mom outside of FSAP.
For more information or to register for a session please contact our office at 303-492-3020 or email Yee.Chan@colorado.edu
Topic: “The Rules of Engagement” - Tools for Healthy Communication in all Relationships
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: UMC 425
Program Overview:
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) is offering a new “Communications” workshop. It has been said that: “We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only have of that and, remember only half of that”. Communicating effectively helps group members build trust and respect, foster learning and accomplish goals.
In this workshop you will learn:
Why active listening is important, and how to do it well
How to express yourself directly
How to express and receive anger In a healthy way
What dialogue is and why it is important
Presenter:
Ben Leonard is a counselor working with faculty and staff for FSAP (Faculty and Staff Assistance Program) at the University of Colorado on the Boulder Campus. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and completed his graduate work at The University of Denver. He worked in elementary schools, community mental health centers and in private practice before coming to the University in 2010.
For more information or to register for a session please contact our office at 303-492-3020 or email
Yee.Chan@colorado.edu