The “Learning to live life with good health and wellbeing” workshop facilitated by Stav Zandes was received with much enthusiasm and positivity by the participants in the Soul~Sista’s Living Strong program. This program is designed to support Aboriginal women in the southern metropolitan region of Melbourne to achieve and maintain their healthy lifestyle goals in the areas of physical activity, nutrition and weight loss.

Running this workshop at the onset of the program as a motivational support for women to achieve their goals has become paramount, helping them to understand how personal habits and lifestyle choices actually contribute towards health outcomes.

Stav’s workshop demonstrated and encouraged women, in a safe, non-threatening, supportive and culturally appropriate environment to identify their health needs in a holistic context. Women on the day left the workshop feeling motivated, supported and encouraged to make healthier choices without feeling overwhelmed.

I can highly recommend this workshop for any program or organisation that is looking at supporting community or staff to lead a healthier and happier lifestyle. Stav’s facilitation approach is mindful of group and individual needs.

Stav facilitates with an awareness of group dynamics and in a respectful, fun and friendly way. I will definitely look at booking a workshop through Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants again.

We were very pleased to have Stavroula Zandes, training consultant and director from Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants as a guest speaker on the topic of ‘Smoking Cessation’, at one of our scheduled CPD events for our organisation.

Dental professionals are faced with patients on a daily basis who smoke. It is one of our main priorities to improve health via cessation advice, hence, we were all looking forward to having an expert on the subject speak at our CPD event.

Over the course of her presentation, Stavroula gave a wide range of information about current statistics and figures, how to bring up the topic of cessation with patients, the physiological aspects of addiction and much more. A lot of the information was very eye opening. After the presentation, we felt equipped to tackle the problem of smoking with our patients, and help our patients achieve a smokefree life.

Whilst the topics were complex, the expertise of Stavroula guided us through them with great ease and humour. It is difficult to grab every one’s attention very early on a Saturday morning, but Stavroula had every one’s undivided attention.

I would highly recommend Stavroula and her organisation to any group looking to get great health information and knowledge delivered in a great enthusiastic manner.

Thank you for your presentation titled ‘Work Life Balance’ to the Women’s Business Network on Wednesday 8 October 2014.

Your presentation on learning how to balance your life to achieve quality outcomes was very relevant to the audience and well received.

In particular, the audience appreciated the interactive style of your presentation outlining the benefits of achieving a good work/life balance, the costs of a poor work/life balance and the practical strategies to achieve a healthy work/life balance.

Feedback following the event was that the format, content and delivery of your PowerPoint presentation were excellent.

Accordingly we would like you to present again in the future on another relevant topic and will be in contact with you.

Please do not hesitate to contact me on 9518 3454 to further discuss this.

Yours sincerely