After hearing a lot of positive recommendations about Stav and her training and education sessions, I arranged for Stav to present at our two Life! program professional development days in March 2017.  The audience were all health professionals who deliver Life!, a type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke prevention program.

Stav’s presentation on relapse management provided new and insightful ways to help participants make change to their healthy eating, physical activity and other healthy lifestyle behaviours.

Overall, the Life! team and I were extremely happy with Stav’s enthusiasm, knowledge and professionalism. Her presentation was engaging, relevant and the feedback we received from our workforce was overwhelmingly positive.

I would strongly encourage anyone who is looking for speakers in the health and wellbeing sector to consider Stav.

“Stav’s presentation was the highlight of the day.  She was fantastic.  I took a large amount of information from her, both for my personal life and for using in my private practice.  Please have her again.” – Life! Facilitator

“Stav was great, she has inspired me to do some further learning/self-education in this area as it would help me with clients of my own who are struggling with weight loss, exercise routine etc.” – Life! Facilitator

As an Education Improvement Leader for South Eastern Region of Victoria, part of my role is to coordinate and support schools who implement the School Wide Positive Behaviour (SWPBS) framework in their schools through targeted professional learning.

Educators particularly value establishing and maintaining positive relationships with the whole school community, and this is often through conversations both difficult and celebratory. I saw real value in training the SWPBS school leaders in Motivational Interviewing. Being able to recognise the change process and understanding what motivates individuals towards change will enable SWPBS school leaders to confidently support colleagues, students and families.

The quality of the presentation by Stavroula and Gen was excellent. The pace was appropriate, interaction was encouraged and supported, and the participants were able to practise the skills in a safe and non-threatening environment. The room was energised and positive. The workshop was so successful, participants advised me that they had gone back to their schools and put into practice the skills they learnt the next day. Moreover, the strategies worked!

I highly recommend anyone to explore motivational interviewing, particularly when delivered by Stav and Gen.

The Victoria Parade Surgery Centre organised Stavroula Zandes from Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants to come out and present two stress management workshops for our staff.  The sessions were professionally presented, and provided participants with very useful strategies about dealing with stress in our busy lives at work and at home.

The staff from both sessions came away with very positive feedback about the content.  I attended the second workshop and was very impressed with the content, and also Stav’s style of presentation which kept everyone listening for the whole session.

I would highly recommend Stavroula Zandes from Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants and her presentations to staff within the health industry setting.  Overall the training presentations were very beneficial for our staff, and Stavroula was a fantastic vibrant presenter.

As part of our annual “Remedy Together Day” we had Stavroula Zandes present to us on the topic of Motivational Interviewing.

Remedy Healthcare has a huge focus on professional development for our Allied Health team members. We work in both the community and aged care setting and treat clients with varying levels of independence. Our clinicians are often faced with clients who are unmotivated and in the past we would often tell them why they need to do what we are suggesting; obviously this has been unsuccessful and this topic on MI gave us a whole new perspective how to handle difficult clients.

Stavroula had a fantastic interactive session and provided handouts for us to keep. She developed a specific case scenario related to our target population and referred to this throughout her presentation which made it so easy to understand.

Following the presentation our team had significantly more confidence to address clients with varying levels of motivation and felt they could utilize the skills learnt when returning back to work.

Thank you Stavroula for providing a fantastic presentation, your wealth of knowledge was fantastic and you made the topic interesting and engaging, I would highly recommend you to other organizations looking to expand their skills in this area.