SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Workshops
Soaringwords’ mission is to inspire individuals and healthcare professionals to take active roles in self-healing to experience greater physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Since 2000, Soaringwords’ workshops and its empirically-based healing interventions have been shared with 500,000+ individuals experiencing serious illness, setbacks, trauma, and loss through partnerships with 196 hospitals around the world, health & human service agencies throughout North America, skilled nursing communities, and thousands of individuals in hospitals and at employee-engagement programs in leading corporations.
The SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Workshop series is a non-pharmacological intervention (NPI) designed for everyone in the constellation of care: residents, employees in long-term care communities, and residents’ families with loved ones residing in skilled nursing communities.
Findings from the latest scientific studies show that when people learn to take active roles in their self-healing, they can experience greater wellbeing. Each workshop is filled with practical tools, allowing participants to enjoy immersive experiences as they discover their strengths, experience micro-moments of optimism, feel the benefits of giving and receiving acts of altruism, and harness the power of gratitude.
Our goal is impact, the greatest impact possible. Contact us to discuss how your organization will benefit from the SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Initiative.
Each workshop features the latest scientific discoveries from internationally recognized Positive Psychology experts, including Dr. Richard Tedeschi, expert on post-traumatic growth; Dr. Angela Duckworth on resilience; Dr. Ryan Niemiec on character strengths; and Dr. Kristin Neff on self-compassion. Soaringwords CEO & Founder Lisa Honig Buksbaum hosts the workshops, guiding participants through interactive exercises and opportunities to practice the learnings and new skills.
No other organization has synthesized such a wide array of relevant findings from wellbeing science into an award-winning, accessible workshop series.
The SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Workshop Series topics
Award-winning, scientifically based virtual workshops to enhance physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
SOARING Into Strengths
Identify your signature strengths, learn to strength spot in others, and discover how to distinguish between a Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset.
SOARING Into Optimism
Optimism is a choice. Learn how to cultivate an Optimistic Explanatory Style to experience more micro-moments of joy, self-compassion, and happiness.
SOARING Into Altruism
Enhance wellbeing by exploring how doing something kind without the expectation of receiving anything in return gives a powerful sense of meaning and confidence.
SOARING Into Resilience
Strengthen your mental agility, coping skills, and resilience by harnessing your inner resources during difficult times in order to bolster your ability to persevere. Learn how to activate the five factors of Posttraumatic Growth.
SOARING Into Healing Imagery
Tap into your inner knowledge and knowingness. Learn how to access internal clarity and guidance with powerful easy-to-use visualizations.
SOARING Into Positive Narrative
Learn how to become the hero of your life. Telling your story helps you better reflect your values and aspirations, providing structure, meaning, and hope, which leads to significant health benefits.
SOARING Into Gratitude
Gratitude is one of the most powerful positive emotions. Explore its benefits for your wellbeing, relationships, and community. Integrate four impactful gratitude exercises into your life and discover how to apply them effectively.
Built on a rigorous scientific foundation:
Soaringwords interventions bring the science of Positive Aging to the long-term care community as the workshops are built on the solid foundation of Positive Psychology and Posttraumatic Growth. Dr. Richard Tedeschi, the pioneering scientist who developed the field of Posttraumatic Growth, is a key advisor and mentor to Soaringwords.
Soaringwords is collaborating with 224 skilled nursing communities throughout Florida and 100 skilled nursing communities throughout New Jersey. These programs are funded by the Department of Health’s Civil Money Penalty initiative so that collaboration partners at the skilled nursing communities do not have to pay for the workshops.
Proven Workshop Components:
Findings from the latest scientific studies show that when people can learn to take active roles in their self-healing they can experience greater wellbeing. The SOARING Into Wellbeing Workshop series is designed to motivate, educate, and activate the wellbeing of residents, residents’ families, and employees in long-term care communities. In this way, everyone can experience greater physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
Empirical results from 1,089 workshop participants show:
- 95% discovered, appreciated, and activated their strengths.
- 93% learned and applied new skills to boost agency and resilience.
- 91% experienced a heightened sense of community, connection, and belonging.
The workshops enhance and elevate the positive culture amongst residents and employees. When residents feel seen, heard, and appreciated, it enhances wellbeing, amplifies a positive culture, and strengthens interactions with staff.
Workshops bolster employee retention while developing and strengthening core skills. The workshops combat burnout, and amplify resilience, empathy, and hope leading to greater physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing for long-term care employees.
The workshops mitigate guilt and stress for residents’ family members as they learn core skills to build resilience, acceptance, and hope. Family participation reduces tension between family members and staff.
Proven Workshop Results:
Findings from the latest scientific studies show that, when people can learn to take active roles in their self-healing, they can experience greater wellbeing. The SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing workshop series is designed to motivate, teach, and inspire participants on how to experience the “power to heal” that resides within them.
60-Minute Video
Accessible, expertly guided teaching participants can complete asynchronously.
Interactive Summary Handouts
Reflection prompts and practical exercises that turn research into everyday action.
Pay-It-Forward Project
A meaningful project created for a pediatric hospital in the participant’s area.
Measured Outcomes
Pre- and post-workshop surveys capture qualitative and quantitative shifts in wellbeing.
Proven Training & Onboarding Process:
Prior to launching the workshops, the Administrators, Life Enrichment Directors, Activities Directors, or Therapeutic Recreation Directors at each skilled nursing location attend 7 weekly zoom Onboarding/Training sessions led by Soaringwords. In this way, the skilled nursing home workshop facilitators will be energized and confident to lead the in-person sessions with the residents they serve.
Turn-Key Proven program Logistics:
In each workshop, residents watch a 25-minute video which has companion interactive Appreciative Inquiry prompts to help workshop participants internalize core learnings through meaningful discussions with peers. The workshops foster strengths-based recognition, agency, resilience, and social interaction. This immersive approach amplifies participants’ positive life experiences as they share about times in their lives where they already used these skills to persevere.
At the end of each workshop, participants create a pay-it-forward expressive arts/writing project as a peak emotional experience, synthesizing what they learned in each module. These projects are donated to pediatric patients in local hospitals.
SOARING Into Positive Wellbeing Workshop Host:
Lisa Buksbaum is a well-loved and respected workshop leader. She is one of a few hundred people who earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology with Dr. Martin Seligman, Founder of the field of Positive Psychology. Lisa is the Immediate Past President of the Positive Health & Wellbeing division of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
No other organization has synthesized such a wide array of relevant findings from wellbeing science into an award-winning, accessible workshop series. Lisa has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader at 20 international scientific conferences including International Positive Psychology World Congress; European Conference on Positive Psychology; and the Positive Education Initiative. Lisa has also been the keynote speaker and workshop leader at several long-term care annual conferences including the Healthcare Association of New Jersey; the annual LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware Conference; inspirational keynote and one-hour workshop at the annual LeadingAge New York conference; one-hour session at the LeadingAge National Conference. Opening keynote speaker at the Florida Health Care Association Nurse Leadership Conference; one-hour workshop at the FHCA Annual Conference.
She is the author of SOARING into Strength: Love Transcends Pain, her debut memoir. Audiences have resonated with her candor, wisdom, and humor as she shares her personal tragedies and triumphs to motivate people during difficult times.
Lisa graduated with an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from The University of Pennsylvania where she also received her undergraduate degree with honors. She has a certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a certificate from the American Institute for Mental Imagery. She’s been featured as an expert on ABC News, Fortune Small Business, USA Today, Delta Sky magazine, and CEO to Watch in Chronicle of Philanthropy. Lisa was a columnist for Inc. magazine. Lisa has been published as an expert source in Authority Magazine, where she was also named a Mental Health Champion. She won a Lives That Make a Difference Award from A&E Television Networks and a National Mothering That Works Award from Working Mother Media. She was inducted into the YMCA Academy of Women Achievers Hall of Fame.
Lisa lives in New York City with her husband Jacob. Her pride and joy are her two grown sons Jonathan and Joshua, daughters-in-law Evelyn & Larissa, and adorable grandbabies Charlotte, Natalie, and Jordan. She gets her energy from swimming each morning and connecting with people in fun and meaningful ways.
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