Programs available as Interactive Presentations (2-3 hour programs) or Workshops:

· Write Your Self Well—This interactive journaling workshop helps patients get in touch with the stresses that contribute to their suffering and tap into their healing strengths. Ina Albert and Zoe Keithley, both experienced teachers and facilitators, have developed a unique journaling process that makes it easy and fun to explore important issues and experiences in your life, to write about them and put yourself on the road to health. The workshop is based on 20-plus years of clinical research that demonstrate the positive benefits of expressive writing.

· Write Your Relationships Well—A couple’s workshop that uses interactive journaling as a tool for understanding one another. The goal of the experiential exercises is to build a family vision by identifying shared social and spiritual values while designing your family culture. Led by Ina Albert and her husband, Rabbi Allen Secher, a nationally recognized leader and counselor in assisting interfaith partners integrate their separate heritages with each other and their families.

· Write Your Life Well—Our stories are our legacies. Older adults explore their life experiences through journaling and discover the positive effect expressive writing has on their health and on relationships in the family and community. This inspiring intergenerational program, led by Ina Albert, is available as an interactive presentation or workshop for seniors and healthcare, civic, religious organizations and schools.

· Vital Aging—This one-day workshop explores the 21st century senior’s expanded role as longevity increases. No previous generation has lived longer, been healthier, wealthier or more powerful. The program offers a framework for enjoying these benefits by creating positive change, a healthy lifestyle and exciting growth through life’s transitions experienced in later years. Ina Albert presents a roadmap to use these benefits to live with vitality.

· Private Paths, Common Ground—An adult rite of passage. Gain a new perspective on aging. Together with your fellow workshop participants, step into a place of self-discovery and self-expression and rediscover the creativity and imagination that can guide you through life transitions and help you create your vision for the future. A certified trainer in this groundbreaking experiential work, Ina Albert asks that you take time to stop and step out of your daily routine to assess where you are and where you are going.

· Age-ing to Sage-ing™—A Profound New Vision of Growing Older—In this Age of Aging, everyone needs to learn how to grow older with dignity, wisdom and a sense of value as a human being. This workshop teaches participants how to live consciously and plan for the end of life as a natural part of the aging process. Ina Albert is a certified seminar leader for the Spiritual Eldering Institute, dedicated to the work of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, theologian, philosopher, teacher, rabbi, and creator of this work.

Communication Coaching for Healthcare Professionals

· The Space in Between—How to Be Good Medicine—Explore how healthy communication can become good therapy for both patients and health care providers. Improve team performance, patient satisfaction and relationships with colleagues by learning to use the principles of energy communication that are a crucial to patient care and a healing environment. Facilitated by Ina Albert, this is a valuable introductory program to customer service program or staff training for schools, hospitals and healthcare organizations.

Stress Management and Self-Care for Health Care Professionals

· HEALING THE HEALER: Caregivers derive particular benefit from this program.  Accustomed as they are to putting others' needs ahead of their own, they learn here that they need not make an either/or choice.  They can attend to their own wellness without diminishing their ability to attend to others.  In fact, they generally find that improved self-care makes them better at their duties—less subject to burnout, irritability or distraction.  Most important, feeling better physically and emotionally will result in improved teamwork and patient care.

Structured either in four 3-hour or six 2-hour modules, this course can also be presented consecutively over a two-day period or distributed over several weeks.  Six general topics are discussed:

          •     Breath
          •     Water
          •     Nutrition
          •     Movement
          •     Relaxation
          •     Self-expression

     Different aspects of each topic are covered in each module, consistently deepening each participant's understanding of how the basic elements affect the body, mind and spirit in integrated ways that reduce stress and increase wellness.