Events : Lectures-and-Workshops
Finding Your Way: A lecture series on the psychology of everyday life
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February 1 - 27, 2010
251 Dundas St.
london, ON
N6A 6H9
Location: London Central Library (Stevenson & Hunt room A & B)telephone: (519) 661-4600 website: http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca
Finding Your Way: a lecture series on the psychology of everyday life
All lectures are in the Stevenson & Hunt room A ( Feb.11 and Feb. 25 – Stevenson & Hunt room B)
Monday February 1, 2010
7:00pm
Parenting: Developing Healthy Relationships with Your Children: This presentation focuses on the attachment relationships between children and important people in their lives, and how these bonds can impact social and emotional development throughout childhood and adolescence.
Thursday February 4, 2010
6:30pm
Mindfulness Meditation: also on Saturday Feb.13at 1pm
Participants will be offered a brief introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, including background information, core principles and potential benefits of Mindfulness Meditation. Different forms of Mindfulness Meditation will be practiced during the talk.
8pm
“I just don’t have the willpower!”: Strategies for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for People Living with Diabetes
This presentation will focus on why healthy choices are so challenging for all of us, and strategies for how you can make changes to your habits to help make healthy choices become part of your lifestyle.
Saturday February 6, 2010
10:00am
Tools for Caregivers of Children with Learning Disabilities
This talk will introduce you to the concept of LDs, and provide some background information on how LDs affect children. Tools and strategies for children with LDs, and the people that support them will be discussed. This talk is appropriate for parents, children with LDs, and even teachers.
11:30am
Learning About Learning: What You Wish You Knew
Come explore some of the theory behind effective learning and pick-up some useful techniques. Find out what active learning means and why changing your approach to education could help you succeed. Learn motivational and time management technique to help you get things done. Take home some tools and ideas to help your children achieve more academically.
1:00pm
Getting Past Personal Barriers to Good Study and Work Habits: "I Can But I Won't, I Should but I Don't"
This talk is aimed at understanding and addressing motivational, emotional, and behavioural barriers to implementing good learning strategies and good habits generally. Our coping patterns for stress and the way we reward ourselves can act for or against us in the long run. Often, refining our sense of identity and clarifying our motivations can help us get started on what will ultimately be the most rewarding use of our time.
2:30pm
2:30pm
Friends and Loved Ones of Addicts: Is There Help for Me?
Join us to learn and discuss strategies for identifying addiction issues, taking care of yourself, and providing a supportive environment for the addict to heal, whether he or she is in or out of recovery.
Thursday February 11, 2010 – Stevenson & Hunt room B
6:30pm
Managing Stress in the Real World: This talk will explore what stress is, how our bodies respond to stress, and why it happens. Practical techniques on how to manage stress will be discussed, including relaxation exercises, coping strategies, and self-care.
8:00pm
Collaborative Problem Solving with Children
In this presentation, participants will learn the basic principles of collaborative problem solving, how to identify situations which are most appropriate for collaborative problem solving techniques, and its benefits for both children and parents.
Saturday February 13, 2010
10:00am
How do I Look? Understanding Human Interest in Body Image
This presentation will discuss why body image is so important to us, uncover common myths about how men and women perceive each other, provide information about some disorders of body image (e.g. eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder), and give tips on how to maintain a healthy image.
11:30am
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Understanding WHAT it is and HOW to deal with it
In this talk, I will describe the common features of OCD, in both adults and children, debunk some of the myths about OCD, and talk about common strategies for coping with OCD.
1:00pm
Mindfulness Meditation also on Thursday, Feb.4th at 6:30 pm. Participants will be offered a brief introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, including background information, core principles and potential benefits of Mindfulness Meditation. Different forms of Mindfulness Meditation will be practiced during the talk.
2:30pm
Helping a Friend or Family Member with Depression
This talk will discuss things you can do to help; such as educating yourself about the illness, helping them seek appropriate care, offering support, and learning how to take care of yourself and manage the impact of the disorder on your own life.
Saturday February 20, 2010
11:30am
The Road to Success: How to Promote Healthy Brain Development in Children
This talk will explore ways to promote healthy brain development in children through learning early interactions, language, a nutritious diet, and a number of other strategies. The human brain has the remarkable capacity to change, but timing is crucial. There are specific periods during which a child’s brain is particularly sensitive to certain types of learning. This can actually affect how the brain is “wired”.
1:00pm
Kids and Stress: Understanding What Stresses Kids Out and How to Help Them
In this talk, Patricia Jordan will review some of the common factors that contribute to stress in children, and how to recognize signs that your child might be stressed. The talk will also review some basic strategies that parents and kids can use together to help children cope with stress. The talk will be geared towards parents, but others working with children are welcome.
2:30pm
How to Have a Good Night's Sleep
Having trouble getting your child into bed at night or up in the morning? This talk will provide an overview of sleep in the first two decades of life and ways to improve sleep for the whole family.
Tuesday February 23, 2010
6:30pm
Childhood Cancer: Effects on the Family
This presentation focuses on how lives are changed when a child is diagnosed with cancer and the importance of supporting the entire family.
8pm
Dementia: What to Expect and How to Cope
This talk will focus on common features of Dementia, as well as the typical progression of diseases causing Dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. It will also address the community resources available to assist the patient and family caregivers in the management of Dementia.
Thursday February 25, 2010 - Stevenson & Hunt room B
7pm
Gender Identity: Redefining "She" and "He"
What is gender identity? How does it differ between someone's sex or sexual orientation? What happens when gender identity conflicts with biological sex? This talk will examine these issues (and more!) from both psychological and social perspectives.
Saturday February 27, 2010
10:00am
Understanding Bullying: What is it, Why Does it Happen, and How Can Adults Help?In this presentation, Emily Simkins-Strong will describe the different forms of bullying and cyber bullying, and will explain how these problems can develop. Ways for adults to recognize when bullying is happening and tips for preventing or intervening in bullying situations will also be discussed.
11:30am
Building Youth Self Esteem: An Interactive Seminar
Are you looking for hands on activities to do with your child/teenager to boost their self-esteem? Are you wondering what the causes and consequences of low-self esteem are? Are you looking for observable ways to differentiate healthy self-esteem from low self-esteem? This interactive seminar will provide tools, resources, and exercises that you can use with your child/teenager.
This presentation is CHILD FRIENDLY – Youth (ages 6-15) are welcome and encouraged to attend with their parents or adult mentors!
1:00pm
Monkey See Monkey Do: How Does Your Behavior Affect Your Child?
This talk will review ways in which the behavior of parents can influence their children behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively and is designed to promote parental awareness of their own behavior in interaction with their child.
2:30pm
Understanding and Reducing Difficult Child Behaviour
This presentation reviews some of the most helpful strategies for changing difficult behaviour and clears up some common misconceptions about how to apply strategies correctly.
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