If you live in or near Orange County, California, you may want to engage with Dr Val as she brings her knowledge and skills to the community at public events like those listed below. As each is scheduled, we will provide details of date, time, place, etc. on this page. Perhaps you should create a bookmark here so you can come back from time to time and check in with (and up on) Dr Val's schedule.

Dr Val's 2007 schedule of appearances and works is now being established. Please check back soon. NOTE:Appearances will be listed beneath each program description.

Her professional background qualifies Dr Val as a human relations expert, and she has accumulated years of corporate consulting experience in employee relations and team-building.

Faerie Tales for Fun and Wisdom (for adults)
This workshop is an enlightening, entertaining experience that will help you create a joyous new reality for yourself using fairy tales a symbols for today's challenges and, through discussion, writing and hands-on action, providing pathways to resolving your problems - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Among other activities, you will create your own personal "faerie tale" and see how it can lead you to fuller, freer, happier life. (Two 45-minute sessions)

How to Achieve "Win-Win" Relationships -- Every Time
Do you sometimes feel that important people in your life just don't listen to you? Do misunderstandings occur even when you try hard to make things better? This intensive will teach you a new way of communicating, one that will bring you a new understanding of others and yourself -- that will produce win-win outcomes with those signficant people in both your personal and professional life.

How to Turn Dis-tress into De-stress
Learn a new way to relax by using an easy-to-learn technique of creative visualization that will allow you to create your own "sanctuary" in an instant, even in the midst of chaos. This short program is ideal for harried housewives, serious students and busy businesspeople, and it can change your life instantly.

What is Your "Stress Style?" Does It Work FOR You -- or AGAINST You!?
This 90-minute presentation will reveal your personal responses to stress and how they serve you -- or don't! Dr Val will outline a number of "stress styles, " and you'll surely fit into one of the molds -- Placator, Super-Reasonable, Blamer, Distractor. And once you've figured out your style, Dr Val will help you to work with it -- or change it -- to help you better cope with those trying moments we all experience. (Can also be presented as two 45-minute "lunchtime" sessions.)

Create Balance in Your Life
An informative hour-long talk with a powerful "kicker." Do you have exciting ideas that you haven't followed through on? A dream you want to see come true? Would you like to have more time available for creating the life you really want? If your answer to even one of these questions is "yes," then this program is for you. It's all about "getting going," and Dr Val knows how to motivate you toward that!

Writing the Life Story You Have Within You
You know that you have colorful memories and great stories to tell, and you also know that by telling those stories you can preserve "who you are" and pass that along to those who come after you. Dr Val will show you that you don't have to be a professional writer or storyteller to achieve this. (Two 45-minute sessions with 'homework' in between.)

PAIRS "Passage to Intimacy" Weekends
This power-packed weekend intensive combines individual assessments and discussions with practical information, tools and exercises that will help couples communicate more effectively, solve conflicts without anger, grow closer emotionally, respond effectively to stress -- and become role models for other couples and to children (who, after all, learn about relationships from grown-ups). PAIRS, by the way, stands for Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills. Learn more about PAIRS.

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