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Darlene Lancer is an experienced lecturer and group facilitator. She has taught seminars and led groups and workshops at colleges and universities, hospitals, treatment centers, and private organizations. Fees & Schedule Available on Request

Building Self-Esteem: Group discussion, exercises and practical tools to learn about and develop their self-esteem, much like strengthening a muscle. Topics covered:
  • Achieving Self-Awareness
  • Taking Responsibility
  • Finding Your Power - There are No Victims
  • Trusting Yourself
  • Overcoming Guilt
  • Self-Acceptance - Love Yourself Everyday
  • Living Authentically
  • Expressing Your Self, Your Passions, Your Creativity
  • Achieving Your Goals

Stress Management: Combines lecture, group discussion and exercises to explore of the symptoms and causes of stress. Participants identify beliefs, values, and behaviors that contribute to stress, and learn new coping strategies to achieve greater balance and ease in their lives.

Codependency: Designed to identify and change ineffective responses and individual behavior patterns that block happiness and fulfillment in relationships and work. Exercises and group discussion to learn various aspects of codependency, such as:
  • Low self-esteem
  • Caretaking Self vs. Enabling Others
  • Setting Limits and Boundaries
  • Self-direction vs. Dependency on Others
  • Reacting to and Controlling Others
  • Moving out of Guilt and Blame
  • Self-Nurturing
Transformation Through Relationship: For individuals and couples. Relationships provide an opportunity to heal dysfunctional family patterns and grow in compassion for self and others. This seminar will explain:
  • How couples project their shadow and parents
  • How fears of abandonment and closeness create the dance of intimacy
  • How to transform power struggles into compromise
  • How to improve communication
  • How to avoid becoming a parent or child to your partner

Moving On and Letting Go: At some point we all experience loss, whether loss of a loved one, a relationship, health or career. Group discussion and techniques help participants better understand their experience and move on. Topics include:
  • The stages of loss
  • Effects on identify and self-esteem
  • Coping with anger, guilt and depression
  • How to handle triggers and memories
  • The meaning of Acceptance
  • Healing and return of pleasure
  • How to create a new life
Chronic Pain: Learn about the latest research and Mayo Clinic approach to chronic pain and the mind-body link in the negative feedback loop that can make pain chronic. Participants join in discussion and experiment with techniques using breath, sound, touch, and visualization to interrupt this cycle and reduce pain.
Substance Abuse: For those wanting to learn more about addiction, including family members. Topics include:
  • Latest research on addiction
  • Recognition of the symptoms and patterns of substance abuse
  • Understand the progressive stages from substance abuse to dependency
  • The role of denial and control
  • The impact of addiction on all family members
  • How to avoid enabling
  • Tools and steps of recovery for the addict and family members
  • Relapse prevention
Divorce: Lecture and group discussion covering the stages of divorce and the emotional and physical effects on parents and children, as well as suggestions for better communication, parenting and a smooth the transition to a new family definition. Topics covered:
  • Coping with loss and separation
  • Balancing emotional, legal and parenting concerns
  • Adjusting to new family units
  • Cooperative custody and visitation arrangements
  • Effective parenting and co-parenting techniques
  • Moving beyond divorce to healing
Women's Issues: For women only, this is an ongoing women's group that focuses on:
  • Balancing Work and Family
  • Why women get depressed
  • Nurturing Self and Family
  • Career Challenges for Women
  • Self-esteem and Women's roles
  • Health, Aging and Sexual Issues

Meditation and Spiritual Practice: Introduction to a variety of meditative techniques from Buddhist, Yogic and Western traditions, and an explanation of the chakra system. Guidance for improving practice and avoidance of common pitfalls. Participants experiment with sound, breath, mantras, yantras, movement and visualizations to create a practice that feels right for them. Individual consultations are available upon request.

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