July 21, 2018
A Toolbox to Increase Resiliency, Self-Acceptance & Optimism for the Canadian Areata Alopecia Foundation (CANAAF).

• So why is it, that our brains have a such a negativity bias?
• We are actually wired to pay more attention to negative experiences.
• You can train the brain to exit negativity!

January 29, 2018
When you engage in the art of interviewing, the key is creating a connection with your interviewee. In this seminar the participants learn the subtle art of tuning into the edges of what a person is saying. Some aspects of the seminar include learning the difference between empathy versus sympathy. Match, Pace, Lead and asking questions from the art of Being Curious.

June 1, 2016

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The art of connection. Tools to network in a positive way. Transforming the inner bully into a coach – give yourself positive self talk as you befriend that part of you to accept all of you and find the reasons why the bully shows up.

March 6, 2016

My talk at the International Women’s Day 2016 event Held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto: A Woman World in an Inside Job. Fighting without a game plan is like riding a freight train at full speed toward a brick wall. Here I talk about tools to fight fairly, stop defensiveness, stop blaming and getting out of the hurt child in your adult relationships. And how to get into the Balanced Adult during a conflict.

November 2nd, 2014 in Toronto

With so many complications on the planet at the moment, not to mention our obsession with leading very busy lives, it is no surprise that many people are suffering from increased anxiety. Whether it is simple cabin fever or a complex anxiety disorder, anxiety can be a debilitating nightmare for many. The good news is there are ways to treat anxiety holistically, without drugs.

Toronto holistic psychotherapist Victoria Lorient-Faibish has been helping people fight anxiety and depression naturally for more than 20 years. On Sunday, November 2nd, 2014, she’ll host day long workshop focused on giving people tools and strategies to fight this important battle head on.
“This transformational and experiential day of learning is focused on helping participants break through anxiety and reclaim their real selves!” says Victoria. “We’ll cover everything from the biology of anxiety to supplements and strategies to transform perfectionism and your inner bully into a supportive inner coach.”

This workshop was fantastically attended in March of 2014!

Anxiety is at an all time high today and many are mystified as to how to treat and overcome this Goliath of our time without drugs. Learn about the biology of anxiety, change and brain plasticity. Experience proven tools and techniques that Victoria uses in her office daily, to rewire the brain so that a new normal can be achieved. Learn Ways to challenge the old concretized thoughts that keep you anxious and overcome the big “3”; guilt, anger and shame! Understand how to anchor in new beliefs so that when anxiety is there, you can easily tackle it and lessen its impact on you. This seminar can be utilized in multiple settings including in the corporate setting, since Anxiety is also compromising productivity as well as professional relationships and the bottom lines in companies. Mitigating anxiety in the work place in order to maintain and improve employee success and company profits is essential!

This workshop was very successful and well attended at the 2008 Holistic Nutrition Conference Feeding Minds: Mental Health & Nutrition.

This experiential workshop will explore how to work with your client’s internal saboteur. One of the most challenging issues confronting practitioners is clients’ non-compliance such as refusing to take appropriate supplements or continuing self-destructive habits. Explore parts work, somatic focusing, and the hurt child as techniques to neutralize these kinds of self-harming patterns within your client. Uncover ways to better assist your client so that they can truly begin to embrace your program.

Change requires three main elements: Willingness to do whatever it takes to move into a shift. Awareness to see with clarity that which is truly going on. And Courage to face this sometimes immensely challenging process toward authenticity.  Here are some techniques to facilitate client awareness that could truly shift the self sabotaging behaviors.

Understanding the anatomy of a good boundary is paramount to having healthy relationships both in personal and professional realms. Knowing the anatomy of a good boundary versus a bad one in key interactions amoung human beings is essential to improving the core of a company’s relational dynamic as well as mitigating the destruction of families and partnerships. When good boundaries are in place, morale is improved in companies, bottom lines are positively impacted, trust among co-workers and families is fostered and interpersonal dynamics are healed.

Whether in the workplace on in personal relationships, the reality is that whatever is at the top trickles down to inform and impact the bottom. If the leadership at work or at home is dysfunctional and in this case codependent, chances are the success and efficiency of the leader will be compromised because so much of a codependent leader’s time is taken up by overly coddling, enabling and controlling those they are in charge of or in relationship with. Poor boundaries, inability to delegate, approval seeking, insecurity, micromanaging, as well as unfair assessing are all the domain of the codependent leader. This seminar will provide profound awareness, understanding and teach key tools to bring about key shifts in behaviour that reverse codependency. Once reversed, family and company dynamics can be restored. This seminar can also be applied to improve dynamics in schools where there are relational and communication challenges between teachers and management.

People want to be loved and want to have healthy relationships. Yet if the “Family-Culture” of origin has normalized dysfunctional, critical, shaming, blaming communication and relating, chances are there will be a destruction of the “Self-Culture” (the authentic self) allowing the hurt child to run the show. Unhealthy patterns will plague a person’s adult relationships and erode at the fundamentals of marriages, friendships, professional partnerships and families. In this seminar participants will unearth their “Self-Culture” by healing the hurt child within and in the process they will be able to gain mastery over their destructive hurt child behaviors including the big “5”: jealousy, resentment, guilt, anger and shame.