Presentations and Workshops (details below)
Hosting a presentation is one of the best ways for you and your group to gain valuable tips and advice. We offer fun interactive workshops in any of the following topics too (making cleaners, interactive home quiz, testing products or materials or devices)! We often work with parent-teacher associations, community groups, service clubs, holistic health-care providers, sports clubs and networking groups. All seminars are customized for the needs, interests, and time available of the group. All seminars are fragrance-free and cell-phone free.
- A Healing Home; Your Home and your Well-being
- Healthy Cleaning; better for you, better for environment, and more economical!
- Radiation; interpreting the risk, the science and the fears, with a common-sense approach
- Boat Cleaners & well-being; looking at the common risks and alternatives
- Healthy Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS); reducing your toxic load
- Detox your Home; your home can nurture your health. Gather the information you need to reduce your exposures and take home several least-toxic cleaners
- Air and water quality seminar; IBE 211, 5-day seminar
- or, customized workshops to meet the needs of your group
Topic details (will be modified for your group)
"Healthy Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)" Learn about symptoms, medical diagnosis, and public awareness of MCS. Common items can be debilitating for persons with MCS including: electronics, construction materials, furniture, cleaners, personal care products, pesticides, deodorizers,garden and pet products. Often termed “a canary”, the MCS individual leads us all to learn practical common-sense alternatives, especially family, friends and co-workers. Understand how to reduce chemical loads by using least-toxic ingredients and proper ventilation. Share suggestions for coping in public places and at work.
Free public lecture: March 1 2012 (Thursday), 7-9pm, The Big Carrot, The Danforth, Toronto, Ontario CANADA; (no registration necessary).
"Detox your home; your home can nurture your health" Learn how make your home, or home office,
healthier. Gather the information you need to reduce your risk and
exposures to common chemicals, including cleaners, building materials, and
furniture. Gain knowledge about
easy practises, simple common-sense changes. Learn about cleaning products,
alternatives you can use, and how to make you own. Learn how to assess products
and materials in your home, and use premium ingredients to make your own less
toxic alternatives. Take home 3 household cleaning products (furniture polish,
cream cleanser, spray cleaner) and other great ideas. May 14 2012 (Monday) 6:30-9:00pm, 579 Kerr St., Oakville, Ontario, CANADA (
professional studio/demonstration
kitchen), $65/person (max. 9
people), register: http://www.leanonmenutrition.com/
"Radiation: interpreting the risk, the science and the fears, with a common-sense approach"
Understand the risks of power distribution lines, electrical appliances, high frequency exposures (cell phones, cordless or DECT phones, wireless internet, etc.). Learn simple, affordable, and reasonable steps that will reduce your risk and no reduce your ability to communicate. Have your devices tested.
"A Healing Home: Your Home and your Well-being"
Learn how make your home, or home office, healthier. Gain knowledge about environmental factors that may trigger your body’s response (asthma and allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity, and electrical sensitivities, etc.). Find out how to assess your own home, using simple techniques and tools, and know when to call in an expert. Gather the information you need to reduce your risk and exposures to common chemicals, including cleaners, building materials, and furniture - some things in your home might be easy to change while still maintaining your budget and comfort. There will be an interactive session answering the question every home occupant wants to know "How healthy is my home?"
"Boat Cleaners & well-being; healthier alternatives"
Get the dirt on boat cleaning and maintenance; a presentation examining the health risks commonly associated with chemicals in cleaners and other boat products. Learn how to minimize your exposures, how to choose the healthiest products, and some alternatives that can be as effective and much most cost effective.
"Healthy Cleaning: better for you, better for environment, and more economical!" Many cleaners can affect our indoor air quality, asthma and endocrine systems. Active ingredients and criteria for determining appropriate cleaners for home use are discussed (infection control, sanitizing, disinfection). Fun techniques are explained so that consumers can make informed choices about products (without being a chemist to understand ingredient labels). Alternatives to commercial products are discussed. At the end, take home a sample of the products demonstrated, that you can make at home. Expanded version of this workshop includes an interactive workshop making healthier cleaners to take home.
Biography: Anne Stewart, B.A.Sc.(Environmental Health), CPHI(C), BBEC’s focus is helping people find practical solutions to creating healthier spaces and improving human health. Using the holistic viewpoint of a home, Healthy Home assessments look at the site, air, water, chemicals, EMFs, and other contaminants in a home."
Publications
"Healthy Homes: the buzz on electro-magnetic exposures and realistic strategies to reduce exposures", Sage, fall 2010. This article discusses the risks, the science, the fears about exposures from electricity and electrical devices. Simple and cost-effective strategies are covered to help readers reduce their exposure while still being "connected".
"Healthy Home Assessments: common things that could be effecting your health", Sage, summer 2010. Learning about common conditions in homes, & determine how healthy your own home is. The article summarizes some of the simple things you can do in your home so you can go about your daily life freer, unburdened, and knowing you have done the basic things to protect your health and that of your family.
"Cleaning for a healthy home", Sage, spring/summer 2010. Consumers are given information about how green, natural, eco-friendly, environmentally safe, environmentally responsible, or pure a product is. Consumer firstly should consider how healthy a product is. A reduction in exposures to unnecessary chemicals can be attained by choosing healthy cleaning products. The simple steps and guidelines in this article show you how.
"Your home and your well-being", Sage, winter 2010. It is important to consider the health impacts of your indoor environment. Environmental health is one of the many factors that can effect long-term health and specific health events.
