Keynotes/Workshops

Lucy MacDonald continues to inspire and motivate audiences across Canada, with her stress, burnout, work-life balance, emotional intelligence, and wellness seminars, keynotes and presentations.

Customized Seminars and Keynotes
All seminars, keynotes, and presentations are customized to meet the needs and objectives of your audience and can range from a one hour keynote to a full day seminar to weekend retreats. Speaking fees are dependent upon location, duration and type of presentation.
Please contact Lucy for a description of any speaking topics that interest you.

The Power of Optimism
Optimistic people have more fun, are healthier and achieve more of their potential. Optimistic thinking is a skill that anyone can learn.  Discover how the power of optimism creates purpose, passion and possibility.

Outline:

• What is optimism?
• How optimistic are you?
• Realistic optimism
• How pessimists think
• Characteristics of the optimist
• How optimism affects your physical and mental health
• Optimism and burnout
• How to boost your optimism

Total Teambuilding
Build a strong, effective staff through Total Teambuilding.  This program creates and strengthens connections between staff members.  Through a variety of fun, interactive activities you will learn how your staff functions as a team and how to continue to build on the strengths of your group.

Outline:

Each Total Teambuilding day is customized to meet the needs of your staff. Some elements that have been included in other Total Teambuilding seminars:

• Identifying Stressors – personal and professional
• Getting to Know You
• Pulling Together or Pulling Apart
• Communicating Clearly
• Stress Management and Relaxation Techniques

Creating Wellness
Lucy presents the six areas of wellness and a unique method of incorporating the “be well and live well” approach to a meaningful and fulfilling life both at home and at work. Wellness is a framework that can be used in many ways to help us organize, understand, and balance our own human growth and development. Everything we do, every decision we make, every thought we think, and every attitude and belief we hold fits into this framework made up of six basic concepts.

Outline: The six areas of wellness are explored in this interactive seminar:

• Social Wellness
• Physical Wellness
• Emotional Wellness
• Intellectual Wellness
• Spiritual Wellness
• Occupational Wellness

All Work and No Play: How to achieve balance in your family life
All work and no play makes for cranky, unhappy families. Achieving the correct balance between work and play is important to the health and well being of parents and children. The impact of the lack of balance on families will be presented along with practical strategies for getting your family life back on track

Outline:

• What is stress?
• The stress of family life
• The stress of children
• The stress of school: homework wars
• The stress of work: impact of adult stress of children
• The stress of time: work, family, individual
• Family Time: Fun and games
• Carving out couple time
• Stress management for the whole family