Joan Murphy RN, Ph.D

Programs/Seminars

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony

Thomas Merton

It's A Wonderful Life

Asks the question, 'What is a Wonderful Life?', and by focusing on what we need to increase our appreciation of life:  gratitude, optimism as well as valuing other people.

Living Life’s Moments with Gratitude

This spiritual and energizing program helps one to recognize the positive aspects of life and to bring gratitude into the conversations with oneself and others.

This Is Your Life

This program helps us look into our past with perspective and appreciate the present moment. A review of the 'How To's' in determining our purpose and goals in life.

Customer Service With Ongoing Wisdom (WOW)

Focusing on giving our customers the very best in service as well as enhancing business; this program also offers skill building on recruiting customers and developing growth

Political Savvy or Personal Savvy at Home and Work

Addresses different types of personality styles at home/work life, and dealing with personality types. Discussions will include being an effective team player, power of verbal/non-verbal communication.

Stepping Lightly

Humorous presentation--using 'dance' as a metaphor, looking at differences in our own dance steps, leading to better results in life.

Power of Humor in Communication

This program explains the different types of humor, how to utilize them throughout the life cycle, and develop methods/tools to enhance our interactions with others.

Finding Joy, Freeing The Spirit Within

Thought provoking program that helps one to search within and find the center of our joy. Learning these principles of joy can help bring peace and happiness throughout a lifetime.

Magical Me

This program is about the development of magic in becoming the person we choose to be, and how gratitude, fun and staying connected to ourselves bring these feelings to life.

The Millenium Superwoman

The psychological and interpersonal symptoms of the 'Superwoman' syndrome will be discussed. Communication skills will be taught to women in order to develop clarity in achieving their goals .

Dealing with The Difficult Person

This workshop will help look at individual styles to manage our emotional responses to difficult people in our lives. By focusing on our initial responses, we can navigate these dynamics effectively.

Managing Anger Before It Manages You

This workshop with help define the emotion of anger, its triggers and how to use it effectively. Included will be time spent on exercises related to anger management in the home and workplace.

Youngest To Oldest-The Power of Birth Order

Addresses the characteristics of birth order, and how a family rank can effect how and why we behave the way we do. This program looks at our developing knowledge of family relationships.

Keeping The Heart in Marriage

This program will help renew our commitment to marriage by reflecting on the myths of marriage & pathways to success. New ideas will be offered to enhance a couple's listening/speaking skills.

Angels In Our Midst

This program addresses the wisdom and beauty of past/present angels that have touched our lives. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the spiritual meaning of angels.

Opt for Optimism

This workshop will help us understand our own daily version of Optimism, through personal stories & everyday observations of life.

Bloom Where You Are Planted

This workshop helps us with the realization that "Wherever we go, there we are", through laughter and stories to help illustrate that there is "no place like the present."

The Upside of Murphy's Law

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" takes on a new pattern of thinking in this workshop, through positive visualization and wisdom of 'Murphy's Rules for Living.'

Chicken Soup for CHEER

Chicken soup can raise spirits; this along with CHEER (Choices for Humor Enhancement Education Renewal) helps participants learn powerful lessons to inspire and motivate themselves, continuing to nurturing your soul.

Happiness Happens: It's An Inside Job

This workshop explores the idea of one's own happiness, and finding ways to develop it on a daily basis. Participants will learn to build their daily creativity to be happy inside and out.

In Joy

The presentation is about using our minds, hearts and souls to explore moment to moment joy. The concept of joy will be brought to life through stories; it will bring fun and energy in participants' lives.

The Resilient Person

She will share her wisdom on how to become a more emotionally resilient person in everyday life, using the 'Five Beatitudes' to explain the concepts of self motivation.

The Gift of Five

This workshop will help define how to get the best use of our time to enhance one's personal wellness goals through 'Five Special Gifts', through stories, humor and practical advice.

The Enthusiastic Person

This program combines storytelling, humor and music to help participants see the importance of a daily dose of enthusiasm to continue to make life's journey more joyful and positive.

Do You See What I See?

This program is about recognizing that we are all in this world together, and through hope, healing and laughter, participants will learn how to take a risk to help others see their best selves.

Grandmother's Pearls: Focusing on the Wisdom of Grandmothers

This program reveals the wisdom of grandmothers that can be passed on to others, through reflection on grand-parenting to create meaningful relationships with one's grandchildren of all ages.

Miracle Grow For The Soul

Participants will learn to tap into our immune systems for inner balance and wellness. This workshop will provide information to take health breaks and re-energize ourselves during the day.

Hoisting Your Sails

In this trip called 'life', we need to learn to use our sense of humor to 'hoist our sails' to the challenges we all face. Through stories, participants will develop positive reflections about their lives.

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Participants will learn how to use their attitude and energy in their personal and professional lives, through stories, interactive fun and props like 'energy enhancement' to illustrate specific points.

Dancing with Life

This program focuses on the 'dance steps' that we learn from others in our lives; through stories and insights, it will offer encouragement, optimism and growth to make our futures brighter than our past.

Walking on Sunshine

Participants will listen to stories about the world that we all live in and find the sunshine to help us all remember the present moment and stay there for the ourselves, families and community.

How Sweet It Is

This workshop will help in remembering the good ingredients of the past, savoring the present and adding some flavor to our future, through motivational activities and laughter.

I'm Exploring and Not Lost

When we get lost in life, we can have an interesting experience. This workshop will deal with possibilities of exploration in life when we are lost and illustrate the benefits of exploring with insightful stories.

How to Improve Good and Challenging Relationships

The workshop will ask "Can you please all of the people in your life?" The goal is giving others what they want without giving up a part of ourselves, and learning to 'teaching others how to treat us.'

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