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Healthy Habits: An Adventure Approach to Teaching Health and Wellness (2 day workshop)

Categories: Specialty Workshops
Skill Focus: other


Who should attend:

Health educators, counselors, residential counselors, or anyone who wants to incorporate an activity-based approach to teaching health and wellness or prevention to children, youth or adults.

You will:

  • Learn how to teach a health program in an adventuresome and experiential way.
  • Learn how to apply an adventure approach to teaching current health and wellness curriculum, using fun and engaging activities from Creating Healthy Habits:  An Adventure Guide to Teaching Wellness.
  • Receive a copy of the book.
  • Learn activities that address:  Nutrition; Fitness; Diversity and Cultural Awareness; Substance Abuse and Prevention; Violence Prevention; Stress Management; Community Building.
  • Use a variety of easily accessible props and equipment.
  • Be able to integrate adventure activities and methods into their health and wellness class or program.

This 2 day workshop begins at 9:00 A.M. the first day and ends by 5:00 P.M. the final day.  Registration begins at 8:30 A.M. the first day.

Offer this workshop at your site for your staff of six or more.  Call 1-978-524-4554 or email info@pa.org for details.

Other workshops to consider are:  Advanced Facilitation Skills, Adventure Curriculum for Physical Education, Achieving Fitness, Engaging Activities for Social and Emotional Learning and Debriefing Tools.

Graduate Credit:  2 or 4   
CEUs:  1.6

 

 


Tuition: $315 Meals: $30

For workshops located in Beverly, MA or Covington, GA, meals are required; lodging is optional. Other workshop site policies on the availability of meals and lodging vary. Please refer to site locations for more information.

Listed are the current dates and locations for Healthy Habits: An Adventure Approach to Teaching Health and Wellness (2 day workshop) . To register, simply click on the desired workshop date and location. To offer this workshop at your site, call 978-524-4554 or email info@pa.org.

Dec. 2-3, 2010, Beverly, MA

You can register for this workshop online by clicking on the date and location you desire, or call us at 1-800-468-8898 or email us at registration@pa.org or:

Download a Registration Form to fax. (size: 472K) Files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), which means you must have an Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x program to display the file. If you do not have an Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free from Adobe's Web site.