| KathyJWard.com | WorldElderLand.com | ElderRecreationTherapy.com | | BetterWorldCommunityAdventures.com | | Publications | Education - Seminars | Recreation - Activities | Consulting Services | | Contact | Blog | Guestbook | Calendar | Photos | Donate | About Kathy Ward | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | [KJW #040] Wellness Series for Elders and Caregivers at Brighton Gardens at Friendship Heights, Chevy Chase, MD presented by WEL, World Elder Land. Colorful flyer printable version Each elder and caregiver attending the seminar will learn how to design and implement an individual whole-person wellness program. Healing and wellness require of us some inward change for the better, and this interactive, creative and fun 3 weeks program will help self-nurture and begin a transformation toward a better quality of life. WEL, World Elder Land has teamed up with Brighton Gardens Assisted Living by Sunrise Senior Living to facilitate The Whole-Person-Centered Wellness Series open to all community members. This interactive workshop focuses on all aspects of wellness and whole-person living; The Physical Body, The Spiritual Body and The Mind. Location: Brighton Gardens at Friendship Heights 5555 Friendship Blvd. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Registration: to the Concierge at 301-656-1900 Registration by: May 2, 2006 Fee: $15/session or $40/ 3 week series Receive a copy of the Journal For A Better Life Workbook and a certificate of completion Receive the book "The Journal For A Better Life" and a Wellness Gift Bag after attending all 3 programs. * * * * * Program Overview Thursday, May 4th Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Daisies High Tea at 4:15 p.m. (Yellow and White Healing Energy) Part 1: The Physical Body Understand how to nurture our physical body to better health and vitality for a better quality of life. Good nutrition, visualization therapy, creativity, social integration, breathing life and the healing power of thoughts. The Journal For A Better Life and better ways to heal our bodies. * * * * * Thursday, May 11th Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Roses High Tea at 4:15 p.m. (The Heart Healing Chakra Energy) Part 2: The Spiritual Body Understand how to nurture our soul and spirituality for a better health. Learn better ways to achieve personal happiness, love and good energy. Our relationship with nature as our extended body, life purpose and more… The Journal For A Better Life and better ways to heal our spirits. * * * * * Thursday, May 18th Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Lavender High Tea at 4:15 p.m. (The Intuitive Healing Energy) Part 3: The Mind Understand how the mind and body always ‘travel together’. Learn how the mind affects the body; explore better attitudes, beliefs and thoughts for a better health and life. Learn how to detoxify the mind and body. (*) Certificates of completion The Journal For A Better Life and better ways to heal our mind. * * * * * The WEL BETTER WAYS AWARD will be presented to Sharon L. Sellers, Executive Director Brighton Gardens at Friendship Heights in recognition for her heartfelt work and sincere dedication facilitating a better quality of life for elders and the community they live in. Presented by WEL, World Elder Land * * * * * Please send inquiries, requests for programs, speaker and consulting services to connection@kathyjward.com Kathy J. Ward President of WEL, World Elder Land™ Therapeutic Recreation Consultant National Assisted Living Administrator Certified Board Member, Activities, Adaptation and Aging Journal Group Psychotherapist Certified Alzheimer's Association Speakers Bureau Cell: (240) 393-5456 www.worldelderland.com Connection@KathyJWard.com www.KathyJWard.com/blog www.elderrecreationtherapy.com *

| KathyJWard.com | WorldElderLand.com | ElderRecreationTherapy.com | | BetterWorldCommunityAdventures.com | | Publications | Education - Seminars | Recreation - Activities | Consulting Services | | Contact | Blog | Guestbook | Calendar | Photos | Donate | About Kathy Ward | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | [KJW #038] WEL, World Elder Land Newsletter - Spring 2006 - Wellness For Our Elders The WEL Family "Better Ways For A Better Life For Elders and Communities Where Elders Live." Vol 3 - No. 1 * * * * * WEL, World Elder Land has teamed up with the United Nations Environment Program, UNEP to celebrate and promote World Environment Day on June 5, 2006. We hope to inspire and help as many elder communities as possible to actively participate in the betterment of our Planet Earth and environments. WEL appreciates the help and support of Elisabeth Builbaud-Cox, UNEP Head of Outreach and Special Events, and her wonderful team. World Environment Day can be celebrated every day. This is a people's event and a community project that promotes better ways toward environmental issues, whole-person living, to ensure all peoples enjoy a safer and better PRESENT and FUTURE life. Please contact us with your ideas and desire to participate and we will send you a kit, in English and Spanish, which includes a booklet and poster. All your projects and activities are going to be included in the UNEP global activity report website. These are the environmental components that we aim at nurturing and improving with your participation: - better communities that are ecologically sound, socially responsive and sustainable "resource-use". - energy - healing energy, solar and conservation - wildlife endangered species - health - alternative medicine, nutrition, air purification, natural light and noise contamination - recycling paper, plastic, metal and glass - water and natural resources What can YOU do? What our elders can do? We are inviting elders around the world to actively participate in the betterment of more responsive and sustainable way of living. Ideas to celebrate World Environment Day with Elders Around The World. - Start an organic herbal and vegetable garden in your community. Take digital photos and send them to WEL, World Elder Land: WEL@WorldElderLand.com - Establish Environmental Elder Clubs in your community to CARE for the environment. Develop guidelines on how the community can undertake environmental protection activities - Elders visiting schools about environmental education pro grammes as part of an education and prevention campaign - Plan and implement a "Keep your community clean week" - Include organic food items in your daily menus - Invite a nutritionist to your community to talk about "Eating healthier - Eating better." - Repair leaky faucets. A dripping faucet can waste 20 gallons of water a day. - Protect marine animals from plastic trash. Don't throw trash into waterways. Plastic trash not only is unsightly, but it can injure, entangle and kill marine animals in our waters. They mistake plastics for real food, ingest them and die. - If you have carried it in ... carry it out. Go one step further. Remove rubbish left by others - if you don't who will? - Repair, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce Campaign - community integration projects - paper, plastic, metal, glass, cars, appliances, TVs, computers and other electronics, building materials including those from natural disasters - Tree planting and rehabilitation of natural habitats in your community - Buy recycled products - Start a recycling program in your community. - Promote and implement sustainable modes of transportation (walking, carpool...) - Elders to manage and guide the development to Elder Environment Corps Please click here and send us an e-mail and register your project with elders for World Environment Day on June 5, 2005. * * * * * Exercises and Fitness Program For Elders. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate there will be 70 million elders by the year 2030. Recognizing this trend, fitness centers are adding more programs for this population. Additionally, more older Americans are realizing the value of exercising (e.g., enhanced functionality as well as heart disease, motor coordination, develop endurance, muscle mass, cancer, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis prevention) and enjoying enhanced social relationships, boots self-perceived health and wellness in the process. Our chronological age can not be stopped or reversed. However, there are many ways we can influence for the better our psychological and biological age, improving our quality of life and longevity. Here is a photo collage of a Meaningful and Inclusive Fitness and Wellness Program at Byron House Assisted Living in Potomac, Maryland, structured and implemented by WEL. * * * * * Human Evolving vs Aging: A Whole-Person-Centered Wellness Program For Elders and Caregivers. Seminar at the Center For Spirituality School of Social Work at Catholic University in Washington D. C. March 2006. Full story and photo collage. * * * * * Better World Community Adventures - New Website BWCA is a project of WEL, World Elder Land. A dictionary define the word "ADVENTURE" as: 1. daring and exciting activity calling for enterprise and enthusiasm. 2. fun exploration of unknown. All our BWCA programs and activities are focused on exciting and unknown better ways to spice our lives, communities and our extended bodies; people and nature. Everywhere there are people that constantly notice that there is something in their communities that can be done better, and without waiting for permission or recognition these wonderful people decide to help, create, nurture and love their communities, families, friends, animals, nature and the entire universe. Then, the most beautiful human values are exposed for the betterment of everyone, humanity and nature. Our dear Earth, our home can be a beautiful and delightful experience for everyone. It is up to us to share our better ways to co-create a better world for everyone. BWCA is dedicated to Robert Muller and his thousands upon thousands of dreams and ideas for a better world and for inspiring day by day a POSSIBLE DREAM -'PARADISE EARTH' in our hearts. BWCA is also dedicated to ALL the people that with heartfelt work and simple ways are making a difference for the better and little by little we are creating a happy and more peaceful world. Let's have FUN together ... Sign our BWCA guestbook and share your message for a better world with everyone. KJW * * * * * THE NEGATIVISM AND UNHAPPINESS OF HUMAN SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED ON A COLOSSAL SCALE BY THOSE WHO BENEFIT FROM THEM. Robert Muller * * * * * Better World Community Adventures Spirituality and Aging: A new PEACE CORNER with Hispanic elders in Silver Spring, MD. Click here to view a photo collage Every Little Thought and Action Do Count What we say and how we think (our attitude) makes a difference on the peacefulness of the world. Every thought created begins to run its course. There are many people around the globe, in our own communities, who spend their time making the world a better place in which to live. We all have something special to offer. Every one of us has worthy ideas. And we all have the choice of acting in ways that do not hurt others, realizing that others are just like us, and even wanting to do those things that are inspiring, respectful, and meaningful. There is strength in unity. What in the world is better because of YOU? IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART THAT ONE CAN SEE WHAT IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE. KJW * * * * * Nurturing an Inclusive Community By Implementing the Whole-Person-Centered Wellness Program for the Well-Being of ALL Community Members. WEL, World Elder Land has teamed up with Bethesda Baptist Church in Washington D. C. to offer all community members a two-part wellness series, re-envisioning a better quality of life on dynamic integration of mind-body-spirit, the dimension of total wellness. Helping caregivers to help themselves and our elders. A CHAPTER FOR PEACE and a PEACE CORNER will be created with elders and all community members on Saturday, June 10, 2006. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. * * * * * ERT, Elder Recreation Therapy Upcoming Seminar - Thursday, April 20, 2006 Register NOW!!! Managing and Implementing Whole-Person Wellness Programs For Dementia Care in Assisted Living and Independent Living Communities. Learning Objectives: Physical aggression in dementia patients and its relationship with the environment Understanding the implementation of Clinical Therapeutic Recreation & healing art therapies in assisted and independent living communities. Independent and assisted living: Better ways, technology and ethics * * * * * Expressive art programs are essential to the wellness of our elders and everyone. Creativity, Motor Coordination, Problem Solving and Socialization are some of the benefits of a FUN and meaningful clinical therapeutic recreation program for elders. Facts about neuroplasticity; It occurs during normal development when the immature brain of a child first begins to process sensory information, through adulthood when the brain is constantly stimulated by learning and memory. By stimulating the brain we can promote neural growth and plasticity. The environment plays a key role in influencing plasticity since the brain is shaped by the characteristics of a person's environment. A healthier brain, among other factors, is the ability to acquire new knowledge or skills through instruction or experience. The capacity of the brain to change with learning is plasticity. So how to nurture and stimulate the brain change with learning, creativity and fun? For example; touch and texture stimulate the brain; world analogy stimulates vocabulary and memory as well as critical thinking; classical music stimulates the brain to be more alert and orderly. Here are two photo collages of the art class at Brighton Gardens at Friendship Heights - full story and comments... A meaningful, inclusive and fun afternoon with elders Psychoanalytical understanding of mental space Programs and Services Presented by: WEL, World Elder Land ERT, Elder Recreation Therapy and BWCA, Better World Community Adventures We are here to help you! Please send inquiries, requests for programs, speaker and consulting services to connection@kathyjward.com Kathy J. Ward President of WEL, World Elder Land™ Therapeutic Recreation Consultant National Assisted Living Administrator Certified Board Member, Activities, Adaptation and Aging Journal Ambassador of Happiness For Elders Alzheimer's Association Speakers Bureau Cell: (240) 393-5456 Connection@KathyJWard.com www.KathyJWard.com/blog www.elderrecreationtherapy.com Tax deductible donations can be made to WEL, World Elder Land. Click here. *