Conference Agenda
The International Wellness Coordinators’ Conference (IWCC) offers educational and interactive opportunities to broaden your knowledge and deepen your experience of wellness.
Workshop Topics include:
- Wellness Initiatives in Business: Best practices and ROI (Return on Investment) for your corporate wellness dollars
- Next-Generation Wellness: Expand your understanding of a variety of healing modalities
- Wellness Programs: Meet the personal and professional needs of your employees
- Handling HR Deathtraps: Manage stress, smoking cessation, obesity
Special Events
- First meeting of the International Wellness Coordinators’ Association
- Update from Coalition for a Well America
- Recognition for exemplary wellness initiatives in organizations
Conference Overview
| Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | |||
2:00 |
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5:00pm | Registration |
6:00 |
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8:00pm | Opening Event |
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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6:30 |
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7:30am | Yoga |
8:30 |
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9:00am | Welcome |
9:00 |
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10:00am | Mind, Body, Wellness as the key to the healthy employee - Dr. Ronald Peters |
10:15 |
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11:30am | Finding Happiness in the Chaos of Life - Donna Allen Cover |
| Getting to Balance - Brenda Jaeck | |||
| How to Create Your Own Wellness Program TBA | |||
| Getting your employees to buy in - Jay Pryor | |||
11:45 |
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1:00pm | How Brain Gym Can Make a Difference in the Workplace - Kari Murlowski |
| Wellness 2.0 Next Generation Paradigm to Address the Weightiest Healthcare Cost Issue for Employers: The Obese and Overweight Employee - Hunter Yost | |||
| Healthy, Happy, and Whole: Practical Stress Management for Home and the Workplace - Sharon Cadiz | |||
1:00 |
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3:00pm | Lunch Break |
3:15 |
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4:30pm | Intuition for Productivity - Ellen DiNucci |
| Mind, Body, Spirit Tools… Don't Leave Home without Them - Nancy Pabers | |||
| Wellness Initiatives in Business What's New & What Works - Lisa Rittberger | |||
7:00 |
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9:00pm | Evening Event |
Friday, March 13, 2009
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6:30 |
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7:30am | Yoga |
8:30 |
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9:15am | Welcome & Recognition |
9:30 |
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10:45am | Stress Management and Meditation Survival Tools for the 21st Century - Patricia Luccardi |
| Create Your Success - Dorothy Neddermeyer | |||
| Show ROI TBA | |||
11:00 |
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12:15pm | How to Get Off the Sugar Rollercoaster - Jennifer Moore Howe |
| Happier, Healthier, Luckier, More Productive: 3 Surprising Things You Can Do to Improve Your Workplace -Hollis Polk | |||
| Lunch Break | |||
1:45 |
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3:00pm | Creative Wellness: The Next Generation - Pamela Black |
3:00 |
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4:30pm | First International Wellness Coordinators' Association Roundtable |
Opening Keynote - "Mind, Body, Wellness as the key to the healthy employee"
Dr. Ronald Peters
Dr. Ronald Peters is trained in family medicine and has earned a Masters of Public Health in the prevention of disease. He also has 25 years experience in nutritional biochemistry and integrated health care. His approach to patient care is to restore the natural wisdom of the body and then assist patients in changing the lifestyle and mindstyle factors that contribute to illness. He has had successful medical practices in California and Oregon. Under his guidance, patients have learned that any disease can be successfully treated and chronic illnesses like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, hepatitis C and cancer can be reversed.
Dr. Peters has written extensively for the media, appeared on television, and is the author of ”Edgework: Exploring the Psychology of Disease, A Manual for Healing Beyond Diet and Fitness.” He is an accomplished lecturer and is highly effective in helping people learn from their health problems and restore their health both physically and psychologically.