"Empowering you and your family with information to make healthy choices to enhance health, wellness and vitality."

8 Week Workplace Wellness Program

​Over eight weeks, participants are taken on a structured path of learning to provide a holistic education around their health.  It is an empowering program which nurtures the long-lost skill of developing self-intuition (really listening to your own body). 

Each week a group meets for between 60-90 minutes (depending on numbers) and a topic is explored.  Accompanying notes are provided for each topic.  At the end of each session a goal is set by each participant to focus on over the coming week.  Additional support throughout the week is provided in a private forum where questions, tips, discoveries and stories can be shared.    
Intentions & Outcomes:
  • To educate employees about their personal health, how to listen to their body and how good health improves quality of life 
  • Encourage through goal setting employees to take “ownership” of their behaviors and be accountable for their health  
  • Improve productivity in the workplace 
  • Develop a sense of workplace morale 
  • Reduce absenteeism due to illness
  • Help employees develop an awareness of their health which can be shared with colleagues and peers and also the wider community through  families and friends. 

Course Content

Week 1:  Introduction and “What is Real Food?” 
  • Comparing our health today to 200 years ago 
  • Changes to our diet in the Western World over 200 years 
  • Looking at food labels – ingredients and the nutritional panel 
  • How to navigate the supermarket 
  • Menu plans for 4 weeks and accompanying recipe book are provided 
  • List of pantry essentials 
  • Tips for cooking and shopping 

Week 2 and 3: Looking at Inflammatory foods 
  • Sources of inflammatory foods: 
  • Refined carbohydrates 
  • Refined sugar 
  • Processed / Toxic fats and oils 
  • Preservatives/additives  
  • How they impact hormones, mental health, gut health, moods and stress  
  • How to make sustainable changes to the diet 

Weeks 4 and 5: Gut Health 
  • All disease begins in the gut” Hippocrates 
  • Link between gut health and depression, anxiety, moods, energy and weight 
  • Optimal digestion 
  • Leaky gut 
  • Supporting our gut bugs for optimal health 
  • Healing and supporting foods for everyday health 
  • Recipes and link to cooking demonstrations provided 
Week 6: Toxins 
  • Awareness of the different sources of toxins and how they impact our health  
  • Sources include food, beauty products and toxins in our home  
  • Choosing healthier products  
  • Supporting the liver and gut from the effects of toxins 
  • Supports will be provided to take home and try 

Week 7:  Sleep 
  • The role of sleep in our health (hormones, weight, disease prevention) 
  • Ways to improve sleep hygiene  
  • The role of screens, blue light on sleep 
  • Greater quality sleep = greater productivity 
  • Our circadian rhythm and how to incorporate down time into the day 

Week 8: Stress 
  • This module ties together the entire content of the course and describes the effect stress has physically on our health 
  • Ways to manage stress 
  • Nutritional supports to help in times of increased stress 
  • Mindfulness in daily work life 

Why Is This So Important?

In order to make changes in our lives to improve our health, we need to possess not only the motivation but the inspiration to do so.

This is the difference between having the knowledge of how to “eat well” and exercise for health and actually applying this information in our daily lives.  

“Only three in ten Australians indicated lack knowledge about how to implement a healthy lifestyle prevented them from maintaining a healthy lifestyle at least sometimes over the past twelve months”
- APS Stress and Wellbeing in Australia Survey, 2014. 

Guiding people with the tools to explore both their motivation for health and their inspiration (what it is that makes them tick) has been the key to developing a successful group program.  

​Over eight weeks, a topic of education is presented and there is the opportunity for discussion around each of these topics.  At the end of each session, each person sets and shares a goal for the coming week to focus on which can be specific to any area of their life.   

Time Allocation

Each session runs for 60 - 90 minutes weekly.
(depending on the size of the group - this can be further discussed)

Between sessions we keep the health focus alive with a private group forum where participants can post questions, share stories and any tips they may find.  

Additional resources are provided to participants to explore out of work hours also in their home and with their families.  

These additional resources include a dedicated website which recaps the content of each topic and also includes cooking demonstrations, meal plans and recipes. 

About Anita

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​Anita has a vested interest in health and a passion to educate and inspire others.  As a scientist and nuclear medicine technologist for 14 years, she was surrounded by the increasing health statistics.  Then she and members of her family also became statistics.  With the development of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, severe depression and autoimmune disease, Anita merely existed.  But the discovery of multiple health challenges in her children saw her embark on a journey of research and lifestyle changes which has seen not only improvement but removal of the label of most diagnoses in herself and her family.  This was the change that prompted post-graduate learning in nutrition and the study of health coaching.  
  
With an early approach of solely providing nutritional education and advice, she quickly recognised that true nutrition is not just food and exercise.  She started to explore the reasons behind why people may be resistant to making changes and why there could be self-sabotage patterns that blocked people improving their lives. 

Group programs became one of the most powerful ways of information sharing and developing sustainable change that Anita recognised.  They provide a safe setting for participants to discover the “why” behind the education being presented.  It incorporates an opportunity for reflection time where these patterns and resistance could be identified and during this process, slow and steady changes both in individuals and workplaces evolve.   
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science (Monash University) 
  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Radiations) (RMIT University) 
  • Graduate Diploma Human Nutrition (Deakin University) 
  • Health Coaching Certificate (Institute of Integrative Nutrition – USA) 
  • Practitioner training with MINDD Foundation
  • Practitioner training through ACNEM
  • Practitioner training with Fitgenes
  • Practitioner Certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Therapy, Timeline Therapy and Emotional Freedom Technique.