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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3
About the Author……………………………………………………………………..3
#1 Instant Stress Busters…………………………………………………………………..4
#2 At Your Desk Exercises…………………………………………………………………5
#3 Be A Healthy Road Warrior…………………………………………………………….6
#4 Going Beyond Diet and Exercise…………………………………………………….7
#5 The Right Foods for You…………………………………………………………………8
#6 Break Through the Exercise Slump…………………………………………………9
#7 Raising Healthy Kids in a Fast Food World………………………………………10
#8 Components of a Healthy Diet……………………………………………………….11
#9 It’s About Time: Time Management…………………………………................12
#10 Fitness on the Fly: Using Resistance Bands………………………………….13
#11 Grocery Shopping for Your Health………………………………………………..14
#12 The Power of Flexibility………………………………………………………………15
BONUS: Decoding Food Labels……………………………………………………………..16
6 Keys to an Effective Lunch and Learn……………………………………………..17
The Trek Wellness® Philosophy…………………………………………………………18
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Introduction
In the following pages I’ll be sharing with you 12 Lunch and Learn ideas that go
beyond the traditional diet and exercise fare. You’ll walk away with a dozen innovative
ideas that all include a complete and wholesome view of health. My topics and
presentations incorporate the latest research as it relates to improving health,
increasing energy, and improving productivity. I base my health and wellness practice
on these ideas and teach them to my clients every day.
About the Author
Ashley Leake is the founder of Trek Wellness and is a
fitness personality, nutrition professional and personal
trainer, whose force in life is to support men, women,
and children around the world in understanding how to
take hold of their life today and transform it for the
better. Early on in life Ashley struggled with a negative
body image and went to extremes to try and achieve
what her mind thought was “perfect”.
God graciously opened her eyes to the beauty of her full
potential, and she was able to create balance in her
mind, body, and soul. Ashley is paying it forward by
using the gift God has trusted with her to open others
eyes to their full potential.
She is a Certified Personal Trainer with Specializations in Fitness Nutrition and Youth
Exercise, through the NCCA-accredited National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Ashley teaches these lunch and learn topics regularly at organizations around Tulsa,
Oklahoma and the surrounding areas and would love to speak at yours.
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#1. Instant Stress Busters
Managing stress is a huge challenge in the
workplace, with 77% of employees reporting being
stressed on the job. And, 44% of those people
report being more stressed now than five years
ago.
We know that stress makes us less productive,
more reactionary, and isn’t good for our overall
health. And in an interesting stress management
paradox, while most people are eager for stress-
busting solutions or ideas, at the same time
don’t feel they can make time to be more
relaxed – after all, there is simply “too much
to do.”
Traditional stress management techniques
revolve around suggestions that urge
people to get out of work at a reasonable
hour, turn off the email on their phones, and
to get to the gym after work to reduce
stress. And I’m a fan of all three. But,
people often resist making those types of
changes – they seem too big, too
unattainable, and unrealistic. They aren’t, of
course, but perception is reality – so we
need to work with where people are at.
Because of the resistance to making bigger
changes, it becomes important to provide
employees with quick-fix solutions for
stress. Are they perfect? No. Can they
prevent unnecessary outbursts, reduce
health risks, and make people feel better?
Absolutely. And, these incremental
changes are a gateway to the bigger
changes.
Lunch and Learn Program
The instant stress busters workshop includes topics
such as:
What is stress and why does it makes you
reactionary, and less productive
5 ways to manage overwhelming moments
of stress
How to identify areas of stress and change
how you react
Stress-busting alternatives to hitting up
the vending machine
Why the Pomodoro timer is your friend
Simple, quick moves you can do to beat
stress and get back to work
In this conversational-style workshop, I also
include a process for finding an individual’s
personal stress-busters so they can
immediately implement what is discussed. As
with all behavior change, the hard part is never
imparting the knowledge, it’s doing something
with it.
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#2. At Your Desk Exercises
You probably know from first-hand experience the impact
of being stiff and achy from sitting at a desk all day – and
it’s not just you. A startling 68% of all office workers report
aches and pains as a result of their desk-bound lifestyle
and the National Pain Foundation reports $100 billion
dollars is lost to people working while sick in the U.S.
alone as a result of chronic pain.
All of that is more than a bit terrifying, but there are very
few solutions offered that still allow a business to function – after all, your team still has
a job to do. What’s the answer? For most
desk-bound office workers, some precise
movements targeted to common areas of
immobility is what’s needed.
Spending a lot of time at a computer causes
some very distinct movement patterns (or
more accurately, immobility patterns) – stiff
hands and wrists from being curled over a
keyboard and around a mouse all day,
shoulder aches from holding the arms over
the keyboard and mouse all day, a neck
ache from being held still (or cradling a
phone), a sore back from a slouched
posture, and stiff hips and pelvis from
prolonged sitting.
For as frustrating as those things are, that
discomfort does not need to be something to
just learn to live with. When the problem is
immobility, movement becomes the answer.
Small, precise, targeted movements that can
be done at your desk in minutes a day. Just
that small amount of effort will undo that
stiffness and alleviate – or stave off – any
aches and pains.
Lunch and Learn Program
My most popular lunch and learn, we cover:
Why sitting saps your energy and
reduces productivity
The 6-10 at-your-desk exercises that
benefit most office workers
An on-the-spot assessment process to
help each person identify areas of
immobility
Alleviating computer eyes
Using these exercises in the day-to-
day
A Quick Guide handout to aid with
remembering these exercises after the
workshop ends
Participants leave with a personalized at-your-
desk exercise program that can be done in
minutes a day that will leave your team feeling
more energized, less achy, and better able to do
their job.
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#3. Healthy Road Warrior
With over 400 million business trips taken
annually in the U.S., that is an awful lot of people
on the road for work. And odds are a number of
them are in your organization. Clearly there are
benefits, or companies wouldn’t pay for it, but it
also takes a toll on the organization and the
individual.
Between potential time zone changes, fast food,
disrupted sleep patterns, and long days from
clients that want to “make the most of the trip,”
business travel can wear down even the
healthiest traveler.
Dealing with the challenges on the road
range from “deal with it” to “easy, if you are
prepared” – and the purpose of this
workshop is to help your road warriors
handle the “easy, if you are prepared”
challenges as well as some of the “not-so-
easy” challenges.
While I’ve heard of some people who pre-
ship their “healthy food” to the hotel so they
can always be prepared, the solutions
offered in this lunch and learn aren’t
anywhere close to that extreme.
Instead, it’s about having a few tricks up your
sleeve, spending a few minutes doing recon
and preparation, and implementing some
techniques to make the best of a suboptimal
situation.
Lunch and Learn Program
To best bulletproof your traveling workers,
workshop topics include:
The one hotel room trick that will help you
get a great night’s sleep
Workout options that can be done in your
hotel room, in just minutes
How to manage your energy levels and get
home without feeling so tired
Your very best options for doing business
but eating clean at the same time
Navigating the maze that is otherwise
known as eating on the road
Appropriate for both veteran road warriors and
newbies alike, this roundtable style lunch and
learn ensures that everyone in the room walks
away with new tips and tricks they can
implement the next time they head to the
airport (or train station).
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#4. Going Beyond Diet and Exercise
Diet and exercise are two very important parts of
overall health. And, unfortunately, they are two of the
most difficult habits to change – there is a lot of
emotion and belief wrapped up in food and most
people have never learned to like exercise.
Fortunately, they are far from the only two variables
that we have in the war on obesity and other lifestyle
diseases. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of other
positive lifestyle changes that we can make to begin
the domino effect of better health – with higher
energy and increased productivity being happy side effects.
But, to say that all of the health information floating around out there is confusing (and
conflicting) would be a massive
understatement – people become
overwhelmed by the paradox of choice,
there are simply too many choices, so
they choose to do nothing.
The challenge becomes breaking the
myriad of options that are available down
into a simple formula to help find the
personalized, relevant information.
Fortunately, individuality isn’t as tricky,
nor as time-consuming, as the so-called
experts would lead you to believe.
Because the body already knows the
answers – you just have to know what
questions to ask. Once you start asking
the right questions, the answers are
obvious and the changes almost start
happening on their own.
Lunch and Learn Program
The Going Beyond Diet and Exercise lunch and
learn covers:
A complete look at real lifestyle changes
you can make to begin bettering your
health
A close look at how to close the gap
between mind and body integration
Self-Evaluations to allow attendees a
greater understanding with how to be their
healthiest self
A customized jumpstart program for each
attendee – built right into the workshop
With a focus on individualized, incremental change,
attendees will start seeing near-immediate
improvements – creating a solid platform of success
to build upon.
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#5. The Right Foods for You
There is no such thing as the perfect diet – there
is far too much individuality when it comes to both
food sources and people for us to be able to say,
“yes, this is what everyone must eat.” If you ask
what diet I follow, I’d say that I eat “clean” – not
because it’s the new trendy thing, but because I
discovered through trial and error that I simply feel
better when I cut out processed foods, eliminate
sugar, and use dairy sparingly.
Yet, I have friends who would have a hard
time if they ate what I ate. Due to allergies,
intolerances, gut imbalances, and other
factors no two people are going to thrive on
the exact same foods. And that is the idea
behind The Right Foods for You workshop.
Instead of a prescriptive, “eat this, not that”
style of workshop, this lunch and learn
focuses on providing a template so people
can customize their food choices so it’s not a
diet, but a lifestyle.
It’s about identifying trade-offs so we can
clean up some places in the diet and leave
room in other places for favorites. It’s about
changing the definition of “not good for you”
from the media’s definition of “bad for you” to
a personalized “this doesn’t make ME feel
good” version of “bad for you.” The net is
better food choices, weight loss, increased
energy, and other tangible, visible markers of
increased health.
Lunch and Learn Program
This popular workshop agenda includes:
The common symptoms of food
intolerances and food allergies
The top 8 foods that cause food allergies in
the U.S.
Eating for energy- foods that give your
body what it needs
Learning to say, “No” to foods that don’t
make you feel good
How to find the right foods for you – a
step-by-step process
Participants walk away with a step-by-step process
to help them find the right foods for them along
with a deeper understanding of how making poor
food choices, even of “good for you” foods, can
adversely affect their health, their job, their skin,
and more.
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#6. Break Through the
Exercise Slump
For the majority of Americans, exercise is something we’ve
dismissed to the past – it’s what we did in high school or
college but it’s not something that makes the cut in our
day-to-day lives. Less than half of Americans exercise
even three days per week, and the number who exercise
on a near-daily basis is in the low single digits.
Given that exercise is the one thing that has been
repeatedly proven to be the only real fountain of youth, has
cancer-fighting properties, makes us smarter, reduces anxiety and depression, helps us
sleep better, and controls our appetite it’s a bit surprising that more people don’t do it.
But for many of us, the idea of exercise
conjures up unpleasant memories of high
school gym class or slogging it out on a
treadmill. Fun, enjoyable, and
rejuvenating are not words we typically
associate with exercise. And that’s too
bad, because not only is exercise truly a
miracle drug, but it can be fun, build
friendships, and increase confidence.
Employees who exercise regularly have
improved immune systems, more energy,
increased productive, less sick time,
lower health care costs, and are happier
overall.
So the key is to turn exercise from a
“have to” to a “want to” activity, which
means making it something enjoyable,
because when we think of human nature,
we know that we are more likely to make
time for what we enjoy – and when you
find the right kinds of activities it can be
fun.
Lunch and Learn Program
To help participants truly bust through their
exercise slump, topics include:
The reasons behind why exercise should be
fun
The Drive theory of motivation, and why
it’s important when it comes to exercise
The incredible benefits regular exercise
provides
A step-by-step process to find, or
remember, what you love, knock down the
roadblocks to making it happen, and
actually get started
How to appropriately set goals that are
attainable
At the completion of this workshop, we will have
reframed the dreaded “exercise” word and given
participants a step-by-step process to discover what
they love – and make it practical to implement.
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#7. Raising Healthy Kids in a Fast Food World
Scary fact: French fries are one of kids' favorite
vegetables. Even scarier: Research has found that
up to a third of young children eat virtually no
vegetables at all. Desperate to get healthier food on
your child's plate? Raising kids with healthy eating
habits is becoming more difficult by the day.
We live in a preprocessed and prepackaged
world, and getting kids to choose healthy
snacks can be a real challenge. It’s quite
obvious, with a quick stroll down the perilous
middle aisles of any grocery store, that a lot of
food marketing targets children.
It is no secret that obesity and type 2 diabetes
rates are skyrocketing in kids and appearing at
younger and younger ages… Could there be a
connection?
While most parents agree that basic foods like
healthy proteins and green veggies are
important staples for the little ones, the issue
of child nutrition is hardly a clear cut one
anymore. Today’s rapidly paced lifestyle
makes it easier to justify quick food, even if it is
devoid of nutrients.
Lunch and Learn Program
My Raising Healthy Kids lunch and learn includes
topics such as:
Reasons why vegetables matter and how
do your children benefit from eating them
Ways to encourage smart snacking to
develop healthy eating habits for a
lifetime
Tips on how to make fast food a little
friendlier for children when fast food is
your only option
Encouraging strategies on how to deal
with picky eaters
How to create a supportive environment
where your children develop a positive
relationship with food
Getting your child to make healthy
nutritional choices on his/her own
Participants will walk away with a step-by-step plan
on how to raise healthy eaters. Attendees will feel
confident they have found a solution that fits their
family’s needs.
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#8. Components of a Healthy Diet
Proper nutrition can help prevent a number of
health conditions including diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and
obesity. Understanding the importance of the
primary six components of nutrition helps you
plan a balanced diet and understand food’s
nutrition labels.
Protein is required for healthy muscles, skin
and hair. Complete sources of protein,
primarily meats, contain the nine amino acids
essential for human health.
Carbohydrates are necessary to supply your
body with glucose, which is its primary source
of energy. They are generally divided in two
categories: simple carbohydrates, which
digest quickly, and complex carbohydrates,
which digest slowly.
Despite the belief that fats are bad for you,
they are required for general health. Fats help
your body synthesize fat-soluble vitamins,
such as vitamin D. Healthy fats include
monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.
With my lunch and learn about components of
a healthy diet attendees will walk away with
further knowledge about all six areas of a
healthy diet and how to incorporate those
areas into everyday life.
Lunch and Learn Program
This popular lunch and learn includes topics such
as:
What are the six components of a healthy
diet and why are they important
Ways to incorporate the components into
meals throughout the day
Participants will learn exactly how much
they need of each component to help their
body run the most effectively
Understanding the importance of a
balanced diet in terms of energy intake
Understand and calculate body mass
index, and use calculations to predict
desirable weight ranges for individuals
Participants will walk away with a number of
practical tips and a step by step understanding of
how to immediately incorporate these components
to have a balanced diet
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#9. It’s About Time: Time Management
Do you ever feel like there are not enough hours in
a day? You run and run around the clock, busy all
day long, yet at the end of the day the list of things
that you’ve accomplished leaves you feeling
unfulfilled.
Tired and frustrated, you write another to-do list for
the next day and hope you can manage yourself
better. And then – surprise – work, kids, bills,
laundry, gym, and yet again you find yourself at the
end of the day exhausted and with a dozen of unchecked boxes on your to-do list.
When life gets busy, things tend to pile up
especially fast.
Time management is not about having all
of those things done; it’s about having
enough time for what matters most to you.
Time management is really “personal
management” and it is a skill necessary for
achieving better quality of life.
By managing your time in a more efficient
way, not only you will get the right things
done, but you’ll also have enough time to
relax, de-stress and breathe more freely.
Most people think they can manage time
effectively by just tagging a few extra
hours on – sometimes forfeiting sleep in
order to do so. This might sound like a
good idea to increase your productivity,
but it’s not.
In this lunch and learn we will look at the
most common time management mistakes
and uncover strategies and tips to
overcome them. Participants will walk
away with a handful of ways to
immediately begin utilizing better time
management.
Lunch and Learn Program
My time management centered lunch and learn
covers:
We will look at the most common time
management mistakes as well as strategies
and tips to overcome them
A list of hacks and tricks to manage your
time effectively
How to improve your productivity
performance
We will discuss ways to allow you to feel
more in control- to help you feel more
positive and powerful in every part of your
life
How dividing your day in to zones will get
you in the mood of productivity
Appropriate for students needed skills to better their
study habits or for professionals needed to manage
priorities better. This lunch and learn is useful for all
who are interested in organizing their life.
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#10. Fitness on the Fly: Using Resistance Bands
Whether you work in an office, cubicle, travel for work, or need
to get a quick workout in at home resistance bands provide
muscle-building tension, and can be used nearly anywhere.
While weight-bearing exercise is important for your health,
muscle and bone development, resistance bands are a great
alternative when convenience calls. Resistance bands are
made of strong, thin rubber with handles at the end, and come
in a variety of resistances depending on your fitness level.
With resistance
bands, you can do
just about any type of strength training
exercise -- chest presses, rows, shoulder
presses, tricep extensions, bicep curls, and
even squats -- without the need for heavy
weights.
Resistance bands come in a variety of types,
lengths and tensions. Some are flat in
composition, while others consist of a tubular
band that's often surrounded by a protective
material. The latter option comes with
handles for gripping, while the former type
lacks hand grips.
Depending on your specific needs, you can
use a band that offers tensions anywhere
from 15 lbs. to over 200 lbs. of resistance.
Many companies color code their bands to
easily distinguish between levels of tension.
Like free weights or weight machines,
resistance bands provide a force against
which your muscles must work. This action causes muscles to contract, which
stimulates bone as well as muscle growth. As you stretch the band the tension
increases, bands can, in some ways, be superior to free weights.
Lunch and Learn Program
This popular topic covers:
The truth behind resistance bands vs. free
weights
A list of endless total body exercises you can
do with resistance bands to get your muscles
burning
The many benefits of resistance training and
how it pertains to linear variable resistance
How resistance training better prepares your
body for functional movements
This hands-on lunch and learn is for experienced
athletes to those looking to begin a workout regimen.
Participants will walk away with a greater
understanding of how to incorporate resistance band
training into their routine.
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#11. Grocery Shopping for Your Health
To make smart choices in the grocery store,
it’s important to understand what’s in the
food we eat. Fortunately, food labels do all
the legwork and contain the information you
need to make the best choices for you and
your family.
At first glance, food labels might be a little
confusing, but once you learn a few key
things about how to read them, you’ll be able
to easily determine if a particular product is
right for you.
The front of the label is a great
place to gather information. This is
where you can find claims that a
food is low-fat, low-sodium, or high-
fiber. Understanding some of the
more common claims can help you
make smarter choices in the
grocery store.
To make certain claims on a label,
a food must meet specific
requirements. In my lunch and
learn I will cover common claims
and the requirements that must be
met to make each claim. I will also
discuss how to divide your time in
each section of the grocery store to
maximize your healthy food
choices.
Lunch and Learn Program
My lunch and learn centered around smart grocery
shopping will cover:
What Organic really means
We will give you the true definitions for
nutrient claims on food labels
The truth behind dietary supplements and
what retailers say they are good for
Selecting and preparing foods to maximize
vitamin content
Finding your way through the grocery store
to maximize your time and budget
Layout secrets of big supermarket stores
Attendees will leave this lunch and have a firm
understanding what foods to reach for and what the
payoff truly is. Participants will walk away with a step-
by-step process to help them discover how to select
the right foods.
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12. The Power of Flexibility
Flexibility is needed to perform everyday
activities with relative ease. To get out of
bed, lift children, or sweep the floor, we
need flexibility. Flexibility tends to
deteriorate with age, often due to a
sedentary lifestyle. Without adequate
flexibility, daily activities become more
difficult to perform.
Over time, we create body movements
and posture habits that can lead to
reduced mobility of joints and
compromised body positions.
Staying active and stretching regularly help
prevent this loss of mobility, which ensures
independence as we age. Being flexible
significantly reduces the chance of
experiencing occasional and chronic back
pain.
Flexibility comes in many forms and can be
achieved through endless activities. My
presentation will go in to greater detail about
activities such as dancing, yoga, foam rolling,
Pilates, static and dynamic stretching, and
resistance bands.
In my lunch and learn I will give participants
the opportunity to take a flexibility test. A few
weeks after implementing a regular stretching
program I encourage your employees to take
the test again and see how much they have
improved, even in such a short time.
Lunch and Learn Program
The Power of Flexibility topic covers:
Ways to incorporate stretching into your
daily routine
We will cover the methods of stretching and
discuss the duration, intensity, and frequency
recommended
A list of disadvantages and advantages of
each technique of flexibility training and
which one is best for you
A list of stretching routines you can do
anywhere- including routines to specifically
improve range of motion in common
problem areas
In this hands-on lunch and learn participants will have
the opportunity to test their flexibility and will walk
away with a flexibility training program suited to their
needs
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BONUS: Decoding Food Labels
Shopping for healthy foods can sometimes be misleading. When you see labels
that read low fat, low sodium, or high protein, you may be more inclined to
purchase that product right away without
further investigation.
Understanding food labels can help you
make wise choices for you and your
family. Unfortunately, food labels are not
always factual. For instance, the law
allows a pretty lax margin of error- up to
20 percent. Which means a 100 calories
pack could, theoretically, contain up to
120 calories. The same goes for other
nutrients as well, including carbs. How
do you think that works for diabetic
carb counters?
The most valuable information lies in
the ingredients list. A good rule of
thumb, the shorter the list, the better,
and even better than that, being able to
identify every ingredient.
Once you filter through the ingredient
list it’s important to gain an
understanding how the nutrients in the
product compare to the serving size.
In my bonus lunch and learn I will be
sure to dive into great detail on what to
look for when reading a food label
from the top to the bottom.
Lunch and Learn Program
To help your team understand nutrient labels, topics
include:
Decoding basics- a look at serving sizes,
calories and what calories from fat actually
mean
Understanding the footnote at the bottom of
the nutrition facts label
A quick guide to percent daily values and how
to distinguish one claim from another
A look at artificial colors, synthetic dyes,
artificial preservatives, artificial and chemical
sweetener substitutes
Participants will leave with a hand out for future
reference and be able to make wiser choices when
shopping for healthy food
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6 Keys to an Effective Lunch and Learn
As a former teacher I’ve sat through my share of lunch time trainings, or after work
meetings that left me with the very distinct “an hour of my life I’ll never get back” or
“why couldn’t this have been an email” feeling. And I know you have, too.
So, what are the keys to finding a lunch and learn topic and presenter that your team
will love?
1. Makes it Relevant.
A good presenter is capable of speaking to the audience from an up-to-date perspective, that
presents the topic in such a way that the attendee immediately understands why it matters to him
or her and what problem it’s going to solve.
2. Makes it Interactive.
Finding a middle ground between interactive and lecture that leads to conversation and
teambuilding exercises. The speaker should be able to engage the room, facilitate conversations,
and leave people feeling their questions have been answered, so you will have a higher rate of
return and leave people wanting to come back again.
3. Reads the Room.
A good presenter is someone that can read the room, adjust on the fly, handle questions and
interruptions, and make sure his or her audience is engaged. They can intuitively read the energy
level in a room and dynamically change topics or tactics to keep things from becoming
uninteresting.
4. Provides Practical. Actionable Tips.
Advice sometimes given can come across too unclear, tedious, or daunting to be easily
undertaken. In many of those cases attendees won’t adopt or implement a topic which brings
them back to the feeling, “I just wasted an hour of my life, that I’ll never get back”.
5. Speaks at Your Level.
A good presenter can meet the audience where they are, and they can come across as relatable
yet not overly simplistic. They truly own the material that they are teaching and are familiar to a
variety of audiences.
6. Gives you Takeaways.
I always leave my audience with handouts and action plans, which are great, but I also leave
them with overall challenges to think about and consider. So that when the handouts end up in
the trash, they will still have something to hold on to.
18. 12 LUNCH AND LEARN IDEAS YOUR TEAM WILL LOVE
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The Trek Wellness Philosophy
I created Trek Wellness as a response to my own health, wellness, and fitness journey in the
workplace, during challenging seasons of my life, learning how to balance it all. My career
as an educator was stressful, and exhausting not only for me but my coworkers alike. After
all, teaching, though rewarding caused me to sacrifice my health; going extended periods
without drinking water, sometimes an entire day. There were countless days that I would
have to pass up my twenty-five-minute lunch to make extra copies, or deal with a behavior
incident. Needless to say, there was a point when enough was enough.
Lifestyle Changes
I decided for myself and in the name of educators to
dedicate my life to find a way for all of us to find
optimal health. As it turns out optimal health really is
possible- and requires a lot less work than you would
think. Sure it will take some dedication, and trial and
error to find out techniques that work for you. Being in
good health goes way beyond diet and exercise, and at
Trek Wellness I liken good health to being a lifestyle
change. One that can be sustained.