Educational, truly informative, yet fun seminars and speaking engagements. These workshops look at the humour of everyday disaster. Our problems aren’t funny, but we need humour to survive.  Contact me for more information.

For: caregivers/ professionals/ people with disabilities/ seniors/ and everyone. 

Disability 101

New issue? Nope! Google Disability 101 you’d be amazed. Everyone is afraid of disability on some level. Why is this? This fears stands in the way of all of us – on a public level it keeps disability from being on the agenda. On a personal level it can become more of a barrier than the actual disability.Are you uncomfortable around disability? Your own or that of other people? Don’t know what to do? Don’t know what to say? Are you somehow caught in wanting the triumph over tragedy model to prevail? Then this workshop is for you!
What is helping anyway?: Helping: from the perspective of the helped

A workshop for care givers, Remember: We do not want your help - We need your help but that is not the sameOften we resent the help - And resent that things are not done how we would do them. We resent our loss of control. A workshop to help you learn how to not take this personally.

About Re-establishing place

Where are we now? Who are we now? Coping with loss. We do leave things behind. What do we grieve? What do we celebrate? How do we grieve the losses when they are ongoing? No sooner do you get to acceptance of one loss and then some time passes and there is another loss to cope with. And re-inventing ourselves once again. Creating change.
Finding the humour in all it 

Creative Whining 101

When a problem in one’s life is a chronic reoccurring one [i.e. work, money, children, marriage, chronic illness, health problems, aging etc], most of us need to whine and complain about it out loud. It is good for our health, an easy outlet and gives voice to our woes. The question is; how to do this and keep your friends. I believe Whining is an art form. Healing is like houseworkIt is like housework because it is endless; it is invisible when you do it and a disaster when you don't. And like housework, one needs to take control. Also like  housework it can take over your life, which is very boring. So, like housework you have to decide what you really need to do? While healing is like housework in many ways, I differs in that you can't pay someone else to do it. 

Can't you just…??    A workshop about boundaries

Many of us are trying to cope with a limited store of energy while functioning in a world where the model is unlimited energy. You do all you can and somebody asks but "can't you just…???" This is a strategy workshop on creating your boundaries without locking yourself inside them. 

Land of Disability: The travel guide [or immigration and you]

Being in the land of disability is another world; different culture, different customs. What is different about this trip is that none of us chose the journey. Yet here we are. Some of got here via accident some via illness some via age but since we are here it would be good to learn to live here .