Workshops and Presentations

Do you belong to a group that would benefit from a presentation on hope? We customize workshops and presentations for professional development days, support group meetings, etc. Rates vary according to the length of presentation and amount of preparation required.

Please meet some of our talented and informative speakers:

Wendy Edey
Lenora LeMay
Dr. Denise Larsen

Wendy Edey, M.Ed., R.Psych

Wendy is a hope expert whose presentations are laced with humour and storytelling. Book a conference keynote, banquet speech or staff development workshop. Your audience can expect information with inspiration.

Click here to Hear Wendy’s address at St. Stephen’s College 2010 convocation.

Click here To hear a short clip of Wendy’s Christmas luncheon address to the Women’s Canadian Club

Click here to read Wendy’s hope blog www.thehopelady.blogspot.com

Hope moves us forward when times are tough. It helps us flourish while coping with obstacles life puts in our path. We can foster hope by paying attention to language, symbols and actions. Drawing on a wealth of experience as a hope educator, counselling psychologist and group facilitator, Wendy Edey offers research-based hope presentations that are practical, relevant, and fun.

RECENT TOPICS

  • Hope Tools That Make a Difference: Strategies To Foster Hope In Your Counselling
  • The Power and Peril of Audacious Hope: Balancing Hopeful and Realistic
  • Fun and Games in Group Work and Counselling: Activities That Bring Out The Positive
  • Positive Group activities For Adults With FASD
  • Being Hopeful In The Face Of Chronic Pain
  • Finding Hope In The Fog Of Depression
  • The Compelling Power Of Hopeful Leadership: What Would A Hopeful Manager Do?
  • Compassion Fatigue: Staying Healthy When Your Work Is Hard
  • What Would A Hopeful Parent Say: Positive Language for Families of Children With Disabilities
  • Hopeful Beginnings For Storytellers: Audaciously spreading Hope Through Story
  • How To Stay Positive When You Can’t Fix absolutely Everything
  • Hopeful Care Giving in the 21st Century: When Alzheimer Disease Strikes Someone You Love
  • Positive Perspectives In Palliative Care: Magnifying Hope and Shrinking Hopelessness

RECENT AUDIENCES

  • Alberta College of Social Workers Annual Conference
  • Alberta Clinic Managers Association
  • Alzheimer Society of Edmonton Family Care-Giver Training
  • Compassion House Retreat for Breast Cancer Survivors
  • Delaware Substance Abuse And Mental Health
  • Elk Island Public Schools professional development
  • FASD Network of Saskatchewan
  • GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health
  • Grey Nuns Palliative Care Rounds
  • Health For 2 Partner Agencies Professional Development
  • High Level First Nations Conference
  • Mill Woods Resource Centre Post-Partum Depression Support Group
  • National Storytelling Network Los Angeles Conference
  • Pathways To Housing, Mental Health Team
  • Sunny Hill Children’s Health Centre, Vancouver
  • Victory Chronic Pain Group

REVIEWS

  • "Lots of examples of how to instill hope in others"
  • "Great strategies for hope"
  • "I left more encouraged to foster hope in my work & kids."
  • "Really enjoyed Wendy’s presentation. Excellent job. Thanks."
  • "You are an excellent facilitator and my hopes for the day were definitely met. I’ve enjoyed your sense of humour."
  • "Thank you! It was great."
  • "It was a fun, invigorating day. I feel more hopeful."

To contact Wendy, phone (780) 492-7330 or e-mail wendy.edey@ualberta.ca

Lenora LeMay, M.Ed.

As the Hope Foundation's Director of Educational Services, Lenora has enhanced the hopeful community service model for youth. Her thoughtful insights provide a knowledge base to build upon in a variety of settings.

Lenora's expertise in working with groups provides individuals with an opportunity to experience and reflect on hope in a supportive learning environment. Working from the belief that, "It is imperative we feel our knowing is honoured and validated to be hopeful," Lenora ensures workshops focus on creating spaces to learn more about one's hope through thoughtful reflection, dialogue, and creative learning activities. Lenora's thesis entitled "An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry: My Hope as an Educator" uses writing and photography to reveal how certain professional development activities work toward sustaining one's hope.

Lenora was the 2003-2004 Horowitz Scholar in the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta. Her research as the Horowitz Scholar was “Naming and Making Hope Visible: Towards a Hopeful Pedagogy”.  In addition, she was the principal developer for the “Hope Studies Certificate Program” for NorQuest College.

Lenora received the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow in 2008.

RECENT TOPICS

  • Making Hope Visible
  • The Power of Hope with Youth: The Hope Kids Program
  • Nurturing Hopeful Souls
  • Dare to Hope

RECENT AUDIENCES

  • GETCA (Teachers) Convention
  • Zing into Spring Women’s Conference in Delburne, Alberta – keynote address
  • Alberta Correctional Education Association Conference – keynote address
  • Children’s Services Ministry Employees
  • Leduc Family Community and Support Services
  • Hawaii International Conference on Education

REVIEWS

Bringing hope into people's awareness helps them to be more reflective of their experiences and gives them more control over their situations.  It was a unique learning experience for my workers in that they were able to look within themselves for answers instead of being lectured on the facts. 

I felt some very positive energy at the end of the day.

I enjoyed the informal atmosphere and the hopeful and encouraging tone of Lenora’s guidance.

The strategies were great and I can see myself using them in my personal and professional life.

Thank you ~ I had a blast!

To contact Lenora, phone (780) 492-6106
or e-mail her at llemay@ualberta.ca

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