Sylvia Marusyk

Surviving to Thriving: A Guide to Self-Health

The chain reaction of events ignited by 2020 are impacting our lives, bodies, and minds. Fatigue, brain fog, unexplained symptoms, and illness are impacting performance and SAFETY in the workplace and reshaping our lives at home.

Join Sylvia and learn how to reactivate your resilience and move from surviving to thriving!

In this presentation you will walk away with:
1. An understanding of how stress affects the mind and body, especially chronic stress
2. Specific tools to move from survival into thriving, not just personally but also in the workplace
3. Practical solutions to deal with the three universal triggers of stress, to help participants not only mitigate challenges but also to PREVENT future challenges, at home and work

Change: Derailed and Reimagined

It’s just a word, but it carries a lot of baggage! Change is one of the most frightening words in the English language, but it can be one of the most exciting.

Change typically happens in big initiatives, big efforts, and big investments of time, money, and talent!

But what if there was actually a more sustainable, easier to institute, more achievable, and far less stressful way for everyone in the organization?

In this session, you will learn how positively de-railing to a unique strategy, can effortlessly shift your workplace in a whole new direction!

This powerful strategy includes:
1. Re-imagining an initiative and breaking it down to its smallest components
2. Instituting “snacking”

Stressed To Kill

With mental illness on the rise, everywhere you turn people are ready to blow their top! In “Stressed to Kill” Sylvia takes a deep look at the effects of stress, and shares her powerful tools to reduce it (the legal and moral ones only….) as well as personal strategies for becoming the “boss“ of your stress.

Stress is the next health epidemic and it tends to be contagious; infecting entire teams. Stress leave costs businesses over 50 billion dollars a year. Not to mention the cost in the loss of human potential.

Discover better health and a dramatically improved quality of life. And if that’s not enticing enough, how about learning the secret to slowing the aging process? Sylvia shares that with her audiences too!

Discover:

• The powerful biochemical impact stress has, as well as its strong and indisputable link to illness.
• How to identify all the components of stress – physical, cognitive, emotional, and environmental – and avoid or modify many of these.
• The mind-body connection to stress and how you can stop it in its tracks with these techniques.

Happy Hour Begins At 9AM!

This presentation centers around creating a healthy life by focusing on happiness at work (Canadians report that work is their # 1 stressor!).

We will deal with the influence of technology, competing demands from work and home (work-life conflict), and relationships at work. You can transform your workplace into a happy, healthy, and productive place to be!

Discover:

• The deadly sins committed in workplaces can squash the happiness and health of employees AND the bottom line.
• The connection between the deadly sins and your health.
• Strategies for reversing the effects of these sins at work.
• Strategies for creating greater personal happiness.

Respectfully, Up Yours: How To Play Nice At Work

What makes a good workplace great? A culture of respect and cooperation. This interactive and collaborative seminar will assist people in becoming more effective individual agents of change and more respectful as a team. We will explore practical and concrete ways of bringing these ideas to life to generate a workplace of happy, engaged, and supportive team players.

Discover:

• What constitutes respectful or disrespectful behavior?
• The effect of disrespect in the workplace on SAFETY and HEALTH.
• What’s in it for you to change the way YOU do things?
• Guidelines for a respectful and psychologically safe workplace.
• Practical tools and strategies for becoming a more respectful workplace.

Rules Of Engagement

One of the hallmarks of a successful team or business; is engagement at work is directly related to a healthy bottom line. With high employee engagement, there is higher retention, profitability, customer service, loyalty, innovation, creativity, and well-being, both corporately and personally.

Adopt these strategies to create a team of engaged workers who want to be at and stay at work!

Discover:

• The importance of engagement and the factors that influence it.
• Strategies to increase engagement for themselves, co-workers, and employees.
• How each participant can take ownership of their role and learn to love coming to work again. Make work your passion, not just your pension!