March 2018 – Flew Dr. Marc Lewis, world-renowned neuroscientist, in from the Netherlands to serve as keynote speaker for Start 2018 Winning at Life event.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Enough is Enough: Helping Prevent Troubled Lives
CONTACT : Doreen Guma, 631-331-2675 | cell: 631-275-5912 | doreen@djamesmarketing.com
WHY: Last week’s tragedy in Florida brings the importance of mental health issues to the forefront. We must shift the conversation to proactive prevention to also combat the continued increase in statistics of preventable deaths by those who use drugs, alcohol, suicide and the staggering number of Americans who suffer from anxiety and/or depression.
We recognize that many people spend their whole lives trying to undo their habits. We believe you can avoid many tragic life experiences and outcomes with a proactive approach.
Port Jefferson Station, NY – The Time to Play Foundation, a not for profit enjoy life advocacy organization with the goal of enriching the lives of people and communities, will be hosting Dr. Marc Lewis, an internationally known developmental psychologist, neuroscientist and author of the Biology of Desire, Why Addiction is Not a Disease as keynote speaker.
WHEN: Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 9 am to 1 pm
WHERE: Theatre Three, 412 E Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY 11777
WHO: Marc Lewis, PhD and Time to Play Foundation’s Enjoy Life Coaching Team. Dr. Lewis will be traveling to the United States from the Netherlands for the event.
REGISTER: https://winatlife2018.eventbrite.com – requested donation $20 or free
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Parents, Teens & Pre-Teens, Educators, Counselors
- Dr. Lewis and the Time to Play Foundation’s Enjoy Life Coaches will help you understand how habits are formed.
- Dr. Lewis will provide an overview of how life experience gets encoded into the brain.
- Dr. Lewis will explain how challenging emotional circumstances can lead to anxiety and/or depression and addiction of all types, and how adverse childhood experiences can affect us throughout our lives.
- A skills workshop for social and emotional learning to promote positive responses to negative life events will be provided regarding self-awareness, behavioral self-control, empathy and communication.
TIME FOR ACTION: The Time to Play Foundation believes it is time to change the conversation from reactive recovery to prevention.
The Foundation has developed a PREinvent YOUR Life® program that will be offered to our youth and to people of all ages so they can move forward in their life.
We will present this critical program at the Start 2018 Winning at Life event.
What if we gave our kids and our people emotional intelligence life and coping skills they need now – instead of waiting for them to need reactive counseling?
We could save lives and avoid despair.
While we do believe recovery services are needed for those who are in addiction presently, our goal is to provide the awareness and skills to potentially prevent development in the first place.
Start 2018 winning at life. You deserve to love your life. We all do.
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