Workshops

You will leave a Healthy Discoveries workshop with a personal plan to immediately implement information and changes into your life. These engaging workshops offer a high level of participation, activities and motivation.

Current workshops

• The Wellness Wheel
• Healthy Eating Workshop
• The Fundamentals Of Paleo, Primal Eating
• Stop The Vicious Diet Cycle
• Unfolding Your Life Vision Workshop

Custom-designed workshops are available for individual group and business needs.

Workshops are presented in 1.5 hour and 3-hour formats. Fees are based on the length of the workshop, size of the group and travel distance required. To schedule your on-site workshop please contact Healthy Discoveries at 720-971-0776 or

The Wellness Wheel

Learn the 10 fundamental elements needed for optimal health. Healthy eating and consistent exercise are critical components in your health but they aren’t the only piece.

This is Healthy Discoveries signature workshop and these core philosophies are emphasized throughout: Health is about balance not perfection.Everything is interconnected. There is no cookie-cutter approach to health. Focus on adding healthy things into your life more than taking things away.

The areas covered are: nutrition, exercise, relaxation, leisure, emotions, relationships, finances, career, service, and spirit.

By the end of this workshop you will know:

• Optimal ways to eat and exercise during busy, stressful times.
• Relaxation techniques and ideas about how to incorporate them into your day.
• Learn how to manage your emotions and discover how emotions (positive and negative) can have a direct effect on your health.
• Develop and commit to a plan that will increase your energy and decrease stress for the next 30 days.

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Healthy Eating Workshop

Do you ever wonder if you are really eating the “right” food? Diet information and trends bombard us daily, yet the most common items purchased in supermarkets are still cigarettes, soda pop and potato chips. What best-selling author, expert should you actually listen to? People spent billions of dollars in search of the miracle cure last year, yet obesity is still on the rise.

Learn how to decipher marketing techniques and food labels. Determine how to shop for and eat a “balanced diet.” Explore some practical, effective steps to healthy eating that can be easily incorporated into your lifestyle.

By the end of this workshop you will know:

• What ratio of protein, fat, carbohydrates works best for you.
• How to interpret food labels and the hype surrounding terms like: “free,” “healthy,” “light,” “a good source of.”
• What foods enhance or suppress your energy, metabolism and general health.
• How to expand your grocery lists and snack options.
• What foods to choose in restaurants and when you’re eating on the run.

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The Fundamentals Of Paleo, Primal Eating

Have you heard all the Paleo buzz? Are you considering trying it? Or do you think it’s just a silly diet trend? This workshop explores the history, the science and a comprehensive overview of the Paleo Diet.

Jolene Park, founder of Healthy Discoveries, heard Loren Cordain speak in the late 90′s before he ever published The Paleo Diet. She has studied this way of eating for over a decade and wrote about her own Paleo Challenge. If the Paleo way of eating is for you, this workshop will help you succeed in your own 30-Day Paleo Challenge.

By the end of this workshop you will know:

• Why grains, gluten, pasteurized milk and legumes are frowned upon.
• Why exercise, sleep, stress and cortisol plays a major role.
• Which foods to avoid versus which foods can be eaten on an unlimited basis.
• Debunking calorie, cholesterol, saturated fat myths.
• Menu ideas, especially breakfast.
• Trouble-shooting weight loss plateaus, eating out, and eating on a budget

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Stop The Vicious Diet Cycle

Learn how low levels of serotonin, dopamine, erratic blood sugar levels and food intolerance can cause weight gain, depression and increase compulsive eating, emotional eating, cravings and yo-yo dieting. Discover why aspartame, fat-free food products and wheat/gluten can actually increase your desire to eat. You’ll learn why certain fats are absolutely essential for weight loss.

You’ll also explore the emotional components of food and dieting. What feelings are you swallowing with food? What situations or people do you protect yourself from with an extra padding of weight? Discover how a sense of emptiness can literally and figuratively weigh you down and what you can do to change it.

By the end of this workshop you will know:

• How to repair physical imbalances using whole, real food and nutrients.
• Techniques to honor your “gut instinct” and alternatives to swallowing your emotions.
• Discover fundamental addictive patterns and their internal source.
• Learn how to not substitute things like relationships, work or alcohol when healing food issues.
• Begin to nourish and feed all parts of your life, not just the physical.

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Unfolding Your Life Vision Workshop

Craft a new course for your life! Are you wondering what’s next in your life? Do you have a clear vision of where you’re headed? Are you craving more creativity and fun? Jolene is a licensed facilitator for Unfolding Your Life Vision Workshop which was created by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right Brain Business Plan In this playful, out-of-the-box workshop, you’ll gain fresh perspectives about your life vision and you’ll make a simple and unique collaged accordion book.

It’s arts and crafts with meaning and mission!

By the end of this workshop you will have:

• A beautiful 24 page full color booklet.
• Your very own personal, portable collage accordion you created to serve as a visual reminder of your values, goals and vision.
• More clarity.
• Determine which values are important to you.
• Create an action plan to make your vision real.
• A resource list for more inspiration.

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