Keynote Speaking & Education

🌀 Keynote Speaking & Education 🌀

We are dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their fullest potential through education. Our educational workshops and programs are designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their personal and professional lives. From mindfulness and emotional intelligence to communication and leadership, we offer a range of topics tailored to meet our clients’ unique needs. 

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

As an experienced DBT Skills Trainer and keynote speaker, I offer engaging and informative presentations on the benefits of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I aim to help individuals and organizations better understand the principles of DBT and how this practical and rich curriculum  can benefit their personal and professional lives. From improving emotional regulation to enhancing communication and problem-solving skills, DBT offers a practical and effective approach to managing stress and increasing resilience. If your organization or office is interested in learning more about how DBT can benefit your team and improve overall performance, please get in touch with me to discuss scheduling a session, workshop or keynote presentation. 

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Public Speaking

As an experienced keynote speaker, I bring my passion for storytelling and engaging audiences to every event. My talks are designed to inspire, motivate, and empower individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Whether it’s a conference, workshop, or corporate training, I offer customized presentations tailored to your specific needs and goals. With my unique blend of humor, insight, and practical tips, I’ll leave your audience feeling energized and ready to take on the world.

Team Building with Laughter

Team building is a serious and challenging undertaking, and in order to succeed requires a large contribution from everyone. Using humor and laughter during the process causes oxytocin to be released, which stimulates bonding and group cohesiveness. Laughter also relieves tension and makes the whole process fun.

In this training, you will learn the core ideas for these techniques:

  • How to use humor to create a collaborative team environment where people are motivated and ready to contribute.
  • How to use humor to stimulate listening, trust, cooperation, creativity, and spontaneity.
  • About organizational humor and how to use it to increase morale and team spirit.
  • Practical techniques to “lighten up” the office environment.
  • How to have more fun at work and easy stress management techniques.
  • How to use humor to examine and overcome obstacles…how to turn defeats into victories!

Each session also includes a relaxing sequence of Laughter Yoga and Laughter Meditation. These techniques are proven to be easy and workable, and they relieve office stress, relax muscles and give your insides a good laugh-induced massage.

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Wellness Programs

Distress Tolerance: Many Paths Up the Mountain

Based on the mind/body premise that every thought becomes a chemical reaction in the body, this workshop uses a multimodal approach to learning how to relax and renew body, mind and soul.

Processes include kinesiology demonstrations, learning new wordplay for better self talk, healing with sound, laughter meditation, guided imagery and body work using chair Reiki. Also included are a couple of useful skills from the Dialectical Behavior Therapy training for releasing intense emotions (DBT).

[For spiritual learning centers, this program includes non-denominational forgiveness and gratitude meditations.]

Good-Bye to Guilt: Improve your Communication with Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

When do you feel close to someone? What makes you feel safe? How to set healthy boundaries? How can you communicate more honestly about what you want? In this interactive workshop, it is possible to learn how to become more authentic in your relationships.

Learn to be more relaxed when negotiating with colleagues or loved ones; practice the release of guilt and other shame-based emotions. Learn to say yes when you mean yes and no when you mean no, without having a meltdown. Learn to become bulletproof to others judgments or disapproval of you.

Declutter Your Mind, Home & Office: A Holistic ApproachSM

Having clutter at home or at work is a personal challenge that can distract, overwhelm and sometimes disable the clutterer and those around him/her. This keynote discusses some characteristics of a person who clutters and how excess clutter affects health, energy, relationships and prosperity.

Successful strategies are explored, including techniques for the release of clutter, stress reduction and guided imagery. All participants receive tip sheets and an annotated bibliography to help create a more harmonious and balanced life.

Therapeutic Laughter for Caregivers

Therapeutic Applications of Humor and Laughter for CaregiversSM

An academic and experiential workshop for institutions, incorporating humor and laughter in four parts.

Part I: Overview of the history of therapeutic laughter, with a literature review of the most recent psychological and physiological benefits of laughter from peer reviewed journals.

Part II: Constructive vs. destructive humor; case studies on the successful use of therapeutic laughter in business or clinical settings.

Part III: Experiential segment of laughter yoga, laughter meditation and Laffirmations (no yoga mats needed, but wear comfortable clothes and bring water).

Part IV: Aftercare suggestions for the further study and maintenance of your daily laughter practice.

**Optional viewing of 20 minute video, displaying the use of laughter yoga in treatment centers and prisons. Formats are customized, available in 60 minute, 90 minute, or two to six hour formats.

Let Go & Lighten UP: Laughter is the Best Medicine!

How can you use humor and laughter to overcome obstacles? How can you shift your focus and turn your defeats into victories?

In this interactive, multimedia event you will learn about the physiological, psychological and spiritual benefits of extended laughter sessions and the difference between constructive and destructive humor.

You will also learn some extraordinary joy-making techniques, including Laughter Meditation, Laughter Yoga and the power of Laffirmations (includes slide show, one to three hour formats available).

LaughĀnanda Yoga and Meditation

Ānanda (Sanskrit: आनन्द) literally means bliss or happiness. In the Hindu Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad gita, ānanda signifies eternal bliss which accompanies the ending of the rebirth cycle.

As one of my favorite laughter yoga teachers has said:

Laugh so that your whole body, your whole being becomes involved, and suddenly, there will be a glimpse. For the moment, the past disappears, the future disappears, the ego disappears, everything disappears – there is only laughter.

– Osho
Philosopher, Mystic and Teacher
(1931-1990)

Through laughter you can experience Ānanda!

Lisa Wessan’s Metaphysics of Weight Loss

Are you a food medicator? Do you use food for reasons other than to nourish and strengthen your body? Everyone who has food issues already knows it is better to eat less, exercise more, and avoid your specific inflammatory foods and possibly whole food groups.

Instead of focusing on our baffling resistance to appropriate, healthy eating habits, we will learn to use holistic methods to reach a more helpful, loving level of consciousness in relation to food, fat and body size. We will learn helpful processes we can practice so we can move up the vibrational emotional scale to be able to go down the weight scale.

The Food FuneralSM

Many food medicators, uncontrolled diabetics and compulsive eaters need to begin a grieving process as they let go of their unwanted foods or food groups. The Food Funeral is an exercise in letting go of these foods. The Food Funeral uses interactive group role-playing to get to the origin of the core feelings concerning certain mystified, stigmatized and/or abused food groups.

Many useful tools and processes are explored to cope more successfully with food and body image issues. We learn to do our griefwork, but also laugh and have fun in the process. As the poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran once said, “If you don’t cry all your tears you can’t laugh all your laughs.”

This program addresses the relapse/recovery syndrome and provides the emotional, spiritual and inspirational support to reach your goals. (Full weekend retreats available in combination with the Let Go & Lighten UP program.)

JOYROBICSTM

Interfaith, post-denominational spiritual aerobic workout including 45 minutes of cardio and 15 minutes of dance meditation with beautiful structured movements of empowerment and grace. This program is accompanied by a multimedia presentation so attendees can sing along as we dance and move together. Music includes selections from Jewish, Christian, Hindi, Buddhist and Muslim traditions (wear comfortable clothes and bring water).

Multidimensional Marketing TechniquesSM with Lisa Wessan

Whether you are seeking to grow your business or receive more quality publicity for your company, my multidimensional marketing techniques will enhance your success and expand your reach in the world. Multidimensional techniques involve methods that rely on metaphysical and/or spiritual principles that have tremendous practical applications.

Atheists and agnostics are welcome, these techniques will work even if you are not affiliated or connected with any metaphysical or spiritual ideas. I invite you to come with an open mind, be a scientist, observe your results and then make your judgment.

My many years as a science journalist and network syndicated talk show producer in New York City coupled with my long term study and practice of multidimensional principles provide a rich resource for increasing your productivity and revenue, too. So whether you are seeking to get a new job or grow your business, these multidimensional techniques will enhance your success. Take a risk… you’re worth it!

Let's Ignite Your Team's Passion for Learning

At the heart of my approach to education is a commitment to joy and empowerment. Contact me to schedule a call and discover how we can work together to create a culture of enthusiastic learning within your organization.

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