In this Activities Calendar, you will find information about all of the services and classes available to you at no charge in the Third Quarter.
For additional information concerning eligibility, program offerings, and coverage limitations, call The Wellness Program toll-free at 800-654-WELL (9355).
For Participants who reside outside the Los Angeles area: If you are planning to visit the L.A. area, please take advantage of the wellness services provided.
Reserve a space for a seminar, schedule a Comprehensive Physical Exam, or participate in other programs by contacting us at (818) 876-1792.
*Updated 6/30/2010.
Comprehensive Health Management
The Wellness Program offers several Comprehensive Management Programs each quarter to help you and your family maintain an excellent level of health and well-being.
These classes will be higher impact, more intensive courses that usually run 2-6 weeks. These courses provide in-depth support, information, and motivation. All courses will require a commitment and class size will be limited.
VLM is an easy-to-use, web-based program with personal coaching that will help you understand healthy lifestyle choices, identify easy and more
interesting ways to increase your physical activity, monitor and track your success and adopt and maintain new healthy behaviors.
You will only need access to a computer with high speed Internet service and audio capabilities. Each week you work through interactive, multimedia lessons to help you gain knowledge and
skills needed to successfully learn new healthy behaviors. The VLM service combines human coaching from specially trained health professionals
with a powerful web-based intervention that includes ongoing feedback and support through secured email messaging and coach-directed chat rooms.
Space is limited! Call today to express your interest in this program. Participants must have a BMI of 25 or over and will be taken on a first
come-first served basis. Please call (800) 654-9355 (WELL) to receive an enrollment form.
(New!) Hunger Trust: Reconnect with the Wisdom of Your Body | Eve Lahijani, R.D.
301 Toluca Lake | August 17 & 24 from 7 pm - 9 pm
This course is a non-diet approach designed to reconnect you with your body’s natural eating cues, understand nutrition and develop an eating plan that is enjoyable, healthy and lifelong. Discover practical tools for knowing when, what and how much to eat. Develop an individual nutrition plan that is based on EATING food, not avoiding food! Feel energized and satisfied by understanding eating according to your internal hunger and fullness cues. Learn how to boost your metabolism and increase your energy levels by developing a consistent eating pattern and finally ending the weight loss/gain cycle by following a program that will allow your body to stabilize at your ideal weight!
Lowering Your Cholesterol Program
302 Toluca Lake | September 14, 21 & 28 from 6:30 pm - 9 pm
This program will include a cholesterol test at the beginning of the program. You will learn about the risks and problems of cholesterol, exercise, nutritional planning and guidelines to lower cholesterol, and Robyn Goldberg, R.D. will discuss tried and true practices to help you lower your total cholesterol level.
Wellness Program toll free (800) 654-WELL (9355)
Lifestyle Enhancement Series
(New!) High Blood Pressure: What You Can Do About It
303 Bob Hope | July 31 from 10 am - 12 noon
304 Toluca Lake | August 5 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Many people have high blood pressure for years and don’t have a single symptom. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, and strokes. This course will discuss sodium guidelines, foods with hidden sodium as well as understanding what is on those food labels! Robyn Goldberg, R.D. will explore alternative flavorings and spices as well as how much sodium is enough. Learn about the DASH Diet and other important lifestyle changes you can do to control or prevent high blood pressure.
(New!) Stress Management: Don’t Just Management Your Time… Master it!
305 Toluca Lake | August 10 from 7 pm - 9 pm
306 Woodland Hills | September 21 from 7 pm - 9 pm
There are a LOT of materials out there that can teach you tools and techniques on managing your daily 24 hours. Mastering your time begins with a mind-set. It’s a way of looking at time that creates a sense of easy and flow in your day. This fun and lively class may give you an additional 4-8 hours per week to enjoy whatever you like . . . so bring your calendar, bring your goals for the quarter or the year, bring ideas about what you’re going to do with that free time, and bring an open mind – with those 4 items working together with the tangible, immediately implemented tools you’re learning in this seminar, mastery is yours. Your time is NOW
(New!) Got Burn-Out?
307 Toluca Lake | August 4 & 11 from 7 pm - 9 pm
308 Westside | August 21 & 28 from 10 am - 12 noon
Feeling exhausted? Overwhelmed by the slightest thing? Feeling “not quite yourself?” We tear our bodies down without even realizing it! Here’s the good news: You can learn simple ways to build your body up, feel really well, decrease your stress and increase your joy! Learn to rebuild, refuel and replenish your body, learn how to eat to truly nourish your body, give up the ‘no pain-no gain’ rule with exercise and replace it with gentle exercise that builds you up without using your energy up, and have a balanced approach to mind and body health. Come join Wendy Wood for a fun and lively discussion on how to give up our “burning out” ways and learn how to live healthfully, happily and energetically!
(New!) Stress Free Living
309 Toluca Lake | August 31 & September 7 from 7 pm - 9 pm
310 Westside | August 7 & 14 from 10 am - 12 noon
Feeling too many pressure and demands on you? Wondering if you’re reaching your limits emotionally? Stress is an emotion related to how we react to events. The events that provoke stress are called “stressors” and are different for each of us. During this 2 part workshop, Isabelle Smalios will take you through a step by step method that will allow you to modify your approach towards life, its challenges, demands and fluctuations. Learn tools to manage stress or even eliminate it within seconds. We can’t change the world, but we certainly have the power to experience life in a way that removes stress from our existence.
(New!) Get Happy For Good!
311 Toluca Lake | August 3 from 7 pm - 9 pm
312 Woodland Hills | September 14 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Happiness is a serious problem (according to Dennis Prager). You’ve got to "choose your attitude," and "focus on the positive," and use "positive self-talk" and blah blah blah . . . aren’t you ready to get down to brass tacks and just make it happen?! Let’s do it! In this fun-filled class, brain scientist and hypnotherapist Brennan Smith will help you learn how your brain can do all the work of making you happy (when you give it the right tools –- we’ll learn those too!) Once you know the right things, life’s hurdles and struggles just seem to go away (or get a whole lot easier).
Diabetes: Monitoring Your Blood Glucose
313 Toluca Lake | August 12 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Join us for a conversation about the importance of monitoring your blood glucose, managing high and low blood glucose, and how to use the results from monitoring to better manage your diabetes. Engage in an open discussion with others led by certified diabetes educator, Nancy Fisher, RN, CDE. Learn from the knowledge and experiences of one another. This session is designed to help you discover what you want and need to know about how blood glucose monitoring can help you or a loved one manage diabetes.
Foot Care and Diabetes – What You Need To Know
314 Toluca Lake | August 19 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Dr. Frank Kase, a Podiatrist will discuss the common conditions that are unique to the feet of people who have diabetes. You will learn how prevent and recognize injuries, common treatment programs for foot problems in the diabetic and most importantly, how to prevent amputation.
Assertiveness: Find Your Voice-Speak Your Truth
315 Toluca Lake | August 7 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
316 Woodland Hills | September 25 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Many times after we leave a situation, our feelings are upset and we think to ourselves, “I should have said…” Even when we know what we want to say, sometimes fears and habits stop us. It is possible to break the barrier between your inner life and what you actually say. This can relieve anxiety and frustration. Speaking your truth also helps prevent depression and makes it possible to live peacefully in the present moment. Learn how to be assertive-not repressed or co-dependent.
SELF-ESTEEM - Boosting Your Emotional and Physical Health
317 Toluca Lake | September 13 & 20 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Low self-esteem can negatively affect every part of your life, including your relationships, your job and your health. You can raise your self-esteem even if you're an adult who's been harboring a negative self-image since childhood. Changing the way you think about yourself and your life is essential to boosting self-esteem. Louise-Diana, Ph.D. will provide techniques that are helpful in changing unhealthy thinking and behavior patterns. These techniques are based on the idea that your feelings and behavior result from how you think about yourself and your life. Learn how to recognize, challenge and ultimately replace negative thoughts or inaccurate beliefs with more positive, realistic ones.
Does Your Brain Need a Workout?
318 Toluca Lake | September 22 & 2 from 7 pm - 9 pm
From improved performance to preventing Alzheimer’s disease, not a day goes by where we don’t read about some new finding about keeping our brains “in shape”. While many of us have fitness plans for our bodies, what are we doing for our brains? Like most things in nature, a fit brain is a combination of both biology and behavior; our genes and environment. A comprehensive lifestyle approach can help optimize the likelihood of maintaining a healthy brain. Louise-Diana, Ph.D. will review top lifestyle changes backed up by solid science that you can make to support a healthy and fit brain.
Qi Gong
319 Toluca Lake | July 29 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Qi Gong (pronounced “chi-gong”) is an ancient Chinese art that helps build the immune system, strengthen and tone the body, and calm and clear the mind. It includes healing postures and movements, self-massage, breathing techniques, and meditations. Learn basic, but powerful techniques that will both energize and relax you.
Relaxation & Meditation
320 Toluca Lake | August 25 from 7 pm - 9 pm
Learn to release tension and relax your body and mind-two of the most powerful skills available for decreasing stress. These skills can increase your performance by helping you find greater happiness and balance in your life.
Wellness Program toll free (800) 654-WELL (9355)
Healthy Family Services
Adult CPR Heartsaver course
321 Bob Hope | August 14 from 9 am - 12 noon
322 Toluca Lake | September 25 from 9 am - 12 noon
This course is designed to teach CPR to those who have a duty to respond to a cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements. A two-year certification card is issued to students who complete the skills successfully. The curriculum consists of Adult and Child CPR, relief of choking and the use of barrier devices. Also included is a discussion about the risk factors leading to heart disease and stroke, prudent heart living, signs and signals for action, and the chain of survival.
CPR for Family and Friends
323 Toluca Lake | August 21 from 9 am - 12:30 pm
324 Woodland Hills | August 17 from 6 pm 9:30 pm
This course teaches CPR to parents and members of the community who want to learn CPR, but do not need certification for their job requirement. This program teaches infant/child/adult CPR and how to help a person of any age group who is choking. There is an overview of infant and childhood safety and accident prevention. (Please no children under the age of 12.)
What Your Pre-Teen and Teen Want You to Know | Judie Cotton, MFT
325 Toluca Lake | September 16 from 7 pm - 9 pm
The adolescent journey is a roller-coaster ride for the teen and for the parent. Part of the problem is that communication gets off track. Teens do not want to listen (they know it all). Teens do not want to talk (one word answers are all one gets). This class will let you know what is not being said by your teen and help you find ways that may help them listen to what you are saying. Find out why you are the person with the best chance of guiding your teen. It is not too late. You can communicate.
Wellness Program toll free (800) 654-WELL (9355)
Picture Quitting
Picture Quitting offers approximately six weeks of individual, group or
telephone counseling, plus follow-up phone calls for up to one year. All
counseling sessions are free. The first couple of visits with Picture Quitting
prepare you to quit smoking. You and your counselor will choose a "Quit Day," so
don't feel that you have to walk in on day one and quit.
Picture Quitting (818) 526-7644 or talk with your MPTF physician.
