Additional Programs

Horseback Riding / Instruction Program
Program Description coming soon...

Integrity

People with a short-sighted approach to success usually ascribe to a level of behavior that includes a lack of integrity. People who are concerned with long-term success and a strict adherence to a code of behavior that includes unwavering honest are infused with integrity.

Avalon’s Integrity program understands the value of taking a long view and developing a code of conduct that is based on integrity.

In the program participants learn to:

• The differences in taking a short versus long-term outlook on success
• Identify life experiences that can erode personal integrity
• Move to a higher level of integrity and link the move with greater personal achievement
• Live in greater freedom with a stronger sense of self

Horticulture Program
Program description coming soon...

Exercise/Personal Training

The value of exercising is indisputable. Most people understand that exercising strengthens the body, clears the mind, increases vitality and helps ward off disease and illness. Unfortunately, most people simply assign a low priority to regular exercise.

Avalon’s well-rounded exercise program educates, supports and evaluates. Clients learn how to:

• Exercise for stress reduction
• Avoid injury
• Keep motivated
• Affirm body/mind connection
• Develop cardiovascular strength as well as muscle strength and flexibility
• Understand the difference between good health, fitness and wellness

Relaxation Techniques

Traffic. Deadlines. Bills. Kids. Health. Money - or lack of it. These and hundreds of other nagging issues contribute to daily stress. Learning to cope with stress is critical to living a more enjoyable - and healthier - life.

This Avalon program offers effective techniques for dealing with stress. Participants learn how to focus and relax. The techniques are easy to weave into every day life allowing them to gain balance in mind, body and spirit. The program is divided into four parts: breath work, visualization/ self-talk/guided meditation, alternative methods and sleeping/dream work.

In those sections, participants learn:

Breath Work
o The breathing process
o Breathing awareness exercises
o Breathing to relax

Visualization/Self-talk/Guided meditation
o Basic guidelines and techniques
o Delving into their senses
o Using symbols and metaphors
o Benefits of progressive muscular relaxation/body scanning

Alternative Methods
o Meditation
o Yoga
o Autogenics Sleep/Dream Work
o Interpreting and understanding dreams

Teambuilding Program
Program description coming soon...

Managing Life's Changes

Change is a force in everyone’s life. It’s inevitable. It can be an opportunity for growth or an unsettling detour that wipes out well-thought out plans.

The Avalon program dissects change. It shows clients the positive and negative effects of change.

The program also helps clients understand

• How to recognize the signs of change and be ready
• How to turn change into an opportunity for growth

Conflict, Fear and Anger

Fear and anger are often outgrowths of unidentified inner conflicts. Untreated, the conflicts can cause harmful stress.

Avalon’s Conflict, Fear and Anger program helps participants become centered, more confident with a stronger inner peace. It also helps people improve conflict communications and learn conflict resolution skills.

Themes covered in the program help participants:

o Identify conflict situations
o Understand the characteristics and components of conflict
o Learn to analyze and troubleshoot conflict situations
o Understand the core issues of stress
o Recognize how fear and anger are outgrowths of conflict
o Learn the physiological impacts of conflict
o Learn how to control negative feelings and responses to conflict
o Explore how people interact in conflict situations

Personality Inventory

How individuals cope with life’s challenges can be a function of their personality. Understanding personality types and their attributes can be a key to surviving and thriving in a complex world.

The Personal Inventory administered by Avalon staff members is designed to create a clearer insight into an individual’s emotional and mental make-up.

When clients complete the Avalon Personal Inventory, they:

• Understand the different personality types
• Understand their own personality traits
• Learn how to avoid the traits that are holding them back from their potential
• Learn how to work with other personality types