Darryll Tonemah's Six Workshops Workshop 1: Motivating Ourselves for Powerful Health Behavior Change Workshop 2: I know what I should be doing, so why ain’t I?: Understanding the Emotions behind Change Workshop 3: The Community and the Diabetes Prevention Program Workshop 4: Wellness from Home to Work Workshop 5: Defusing the Stress Workshop 6: Physical and Lifelong Activity for Youth (P.L.A.Y.)					Return to Aboriginal initiative home page Return to Workshops page Six New Workshops Application Form
	Workshop 1: Motivating Ourselves for Powerful Health Behavior Change This 2-4 hour workshop is mostly lecture. It can be for 10-800 people. This workshop can benefit both providers and patients. Basic methods for motivating yourself or your client for powerful change are discussed. As with all my workshops I incorporate interactivity, humor and storytelling. The participants will leave with increased understanding of motivation, more personal motivation and a plan for change.   Workshop 2: I know what I should be doing, so why ain’t I?: Understanding the Emotions behind Change This 2-4 hour workshop is a lecture with a few activities. It can be for 10-800 people. Change is hard! We have very personal reasons why we do not commit to health behavior change. Our families eat certain ways, we have been doing it “this way” forever, “this is how we eat”, fear, anger, denial. There are so many reasons! This workshop will “peel the onion” on the reasons why we do not change and prepare us to move forward with a direct plan. This workshop is directed toward the community.   Workshop 3: The Community and the Diabetes Prevention Program This 2 day workshop is the training which was done for the actual Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) curriculum. It is usually taught to Diabetes Program staff, generally 5-20 people depending on the community. In 2000, a ground-breaking study on diabetes called DPP changed how pre-diabetes is treated around the world. The DPP is a 24 week, 16 session protocol that includes: nutrition, activity and emotional barriers to change. I was the behavioral scientist for the southwest sites of the DPP (the Native sites). I can train the community clinic on how to implement the program within the community to create better outcomes for those with pre-diabetes.   Workshop 4: Wellness from Home to Work This is a very interactive 2-4 hour workshop. Ideally 25-50 people attend. We are a holistic community. We understand that one thing affects others and that no one thing lives “in a vacuum”. This highly interactive workshop will discuss personal wellness as it relates to our spirit, emotions, physical wellness and mind. We will discuss how the good things that have happened affect us as well as the not so good things. We will discuss how we can become “weller” both for ourselves and for our community.   Workshop 5: Defusing the Stress This is an interactive 2 hour workshop. Ideally between 25-50 people. Not all stress is bad stress. We need a little in our lives to keep us moving forward. This workshop will look at stress in our lives and how it can help us or hinder us. It is very fun and interactive. It is appropriate for both professionals and laypeople.   Workshop 6: Physical and Lifelong Activity for Youth (P.L.A.Y.) This highly interactive 1-2 day workshop is directed toward those who work with youth and would like to get them more active. It can be for 10-50 people. The old model for working with young people is to throw out a few basketballs and let them play. But not everyone is a good player and has limited success, or there are those sitting on the sides waiting to play. In PLAY every one succeeds at their own levels and nobody has to sit around. I have a co-trainer on this one named Scott Robison.   For more information about the workshops offered by Dr. Tonemah, contact him at dtonemah@yahoo.com.
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