OASIS Evenings for Moms and Dads
On Tuesday, November 15, eight Moms met with Millie to give her ideas for her book-in-progress OASIS in the Overwhelm – for Busy Moms. When their husbands found out about their wives’ meeting, the men requested a meeting of their own. The Dads had their own lively evening on December 5. They asked Millie to have a joint meeting so that the Moms and Dads could learn more about each others’ ideas.
Evening OASIS for Parents and Caretakers
Wednesday, November 30, 7-8:30 pm West Haven, CT, Savin Rock Conference Center
The West Haven Parent Support Group offered an Evening OASIS especially for parents, grandparents, and friends of children with special needs. Millie Grenough demonstrated strategies for caregivers to take care of themselves as they care for others.
Keynote Speaker Annual CLN Student Day
Thursday, December 1, Connecticut League for Nursing, Aqua Turf Southington, CT
FREE YOUR FIRE! Kindle your passion – and use it! was the theme of Millie Grenough’s keynote presentation at the Annual CLN Student Day. 640 student nurses and nursing faculty from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island responded with enthusiasm to Millie's invitation to identify their passions, clarify their dreams, and take specific action to actualize their dreams. As one about-to-graduate RN student commented, “Thanks so much for the inspiration. I needed that right now.”
OASIS in the Overwhelm for HR Professionals
Tuesday, February 28, 5-8 pm
Courtyard Marriott, Waterbury, CT
The Naugatuck Valley Human Resource Council invited Millie to share strategies with human resources professionals from the Greater Naugatuck Valley area. Ms. Grenough signed copies of her book, and OASIS to GO travel packs were available.
OASIS in the Overwhelm for Coaches
Friday, March 24, 9 - 10:30 AM
Crowne Plaza, Cromwell
Meeting of Connecticut Chapter of International Coach Federation.
Millie will outlined the OASIS Strategies and give tips on easy use both for coaches and for clients. CCEU credits for coaches.
OASIS in the Overwhelm for Social Workers
Tuesday, March 28, 1-2:30 PM
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
The Social Work Department of Yale-New Haven Hospital, in honor of National Social Work Month, invited Millie Grenough to present her OASIS Strategies to the 100+ social workers at the hospital. In appreciation for their ongoing work, each social worker received a copy of Millie’s OASIS book.
Brian Jud, author of Beyond the Bookstore and host of the Book Authority Telecast, talked about writing and life with author Millie Grenough.
The show aired on April 18th in the Middletown area and will be seen in other areas at various times.
To request a copy for your local cable, contact millie@grenough.com
Thursday, May 4th Noon- 1pm
320 York Street, HGS 211
Demo of OASIS Strategies and book-signing.
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MidState Medical Center, Meriden, CT, Wednesday May 10
To show appreciation to their nurses during National Nurses’ Week, MidState Medical Center invited Millie invited to spend the day at MidState to share the OASIS Strategies with the nursing staff. Millie demonstrated the Strategies for all three nursing shifts, and for the nurse managers.
Tuesdays, March 14 through May 2, 5-8 PM
Albertus Magnus College
Millie Grenough co-taught the course in “Servant Leadership” with Dr. William Schulz, the Director of the Tagliatela School of Business & Leadership at Albertus Magnus.
Broad Street Books, Middletown, CT
Thursday, June 15, 6:30 PM
Millie demonstrated the OASIS 60-second strategies and signed copies of her book.
Thursday, June 22, 7 – 8:30 pm
As part of the Redefining Retirement Summer Series at the Orange Library, Orange, CT, Millie gave an Evening OASIS: Over the Hill? Now You Can Pick Up Speed!
Saturday, July 22, 2 PM
Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Louisville, KY
Millie demonstrated the OASIS 60-second strategies and signed copies of her book.
Millie with Chautauqua Institution
week-long class
July 10-14, week-long course at Chautauqua Institution, New York
During this week of focus on Applied Ethics at Chautauqua, Millie Grenough guided participants in exploring specific ways to 1) triage civic and personal obligations, 2) identify your particular gifts to meet the demands, and 3) act with effectiveness and a sense of personal peace.
Yale Organizational Development & Learning Center presents Preventing Burnout, facilitated by Millie: Monday October 23, 9am - 12 noon. For info & to register, click here.
Millie was the featured person on the TV Show: Touchstones: An Eclectic Guide to Health
Thanksgiving Day, 7 pm and Sunday after Thanksgiving, 7 pm
Ch 26 in New Haven, Hamden & West Haven
Tuesday, November 21, 9 pm
Ch 77 in Orange, Milford, Bridgeport & Stratford, CT
March 3rd - 9:30 AM
Women's Creativity Conference, Quinnipiac University, Echlin Health Sciences Center, Hamden, CT
Millie discussed her book which offers four 60-second strategies to change your brain and your life. She revealed how to minimize stress in your life while maximizing balance and enjoyment. A former Catholic nun, teacher and social worker, her passion is encouraging people to reach their full potential.
March 4th - 12:30 to 1:30 PM
5th Annual Women's Health Conference, Sponsored by The Women & Family Life
Center, Water's Edge Resort & Spa, Westbrook, CT
Swamped by personal and "cosmic" stressors? Too busy to add anything else to your life, even if it's "good for you"? Not to worry. Millie shared her 60-second Strategies to help you find your oasis-even in the midst of chaos. Learn how to re-wire your own brain towards calm.
March 24th - 11:30 to 1:00 PM
EMDR & Mindfulness, Wright Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Looking for calm in the chaos- for you and for your clients? This hands-on workshop will help you experience four practical, effective strategies than can be used immediately by clinicians, and then taught to clients. Each strategy takes only 60 seconds to practice. Re-wire your brain towards health and happiness.
April 11th
Hosted by Unlimited Potential and The Jared Andrew Studio, 42 State Street, North Haven, CT 6:00 PM
Register by contacting Renee Baldo, 203-239-1966
Unlimited Potential, a wellness skincare studio promotes health and wellness through holistic skincare. The Jared Andrew Studio for the Performing Arts offers an artistic dance environment for all levels and ages. Millie Grenough will discuss stress management strategies at this book-signing event. www.upskincare.com or www.jaredandrew.com
April 20th
"Strengthening Our Clients and Our Practices: The Power of Social Work"
Connecticut Grand Hotel, Waterbury, CT
www.naswct.com - 1 ½ CEC’s Health/Mental Health
Re-Wire Your Brain Towards Health—and Help Your Clients Do The Same
Millie Grenough, LCSW, BCD, Private Practice, Grenough, LLC
Want a fresh dose of hope for your clients—and yourself? This highly experiential workshop will share the latest research about the brain’s neuroplasticity, teach you strategies to re-wire your own brain towards health, and give you the skills and confidence to teach your clients how to do it for themselves. Our brain patterns are not set in stone. We have the power to change the wiring of our brain. We can change old patterns. Old dogs can learn new tricks. Self care for caretakers!
The nationwide group PESI.com engaged Millie to present 60-second Sanity Strategies throughout the USA.
April 25th - Mukilteo, Washington
April 26th - Bellevue, Washington
April 27th - Spokane, Washington
June 13th - Roseville, Minnesota
June 14th - Bloomington, Minnesota
PESI 60-second Sanity Strategies Brochure
PESI 60-second Sanity Strategies Brochure (inside)
May 10th - 6:30 PM
Emerson and Cook Book Company - Book-signing and presentation of the OASIS Strategies - Co-sponsored by Caring Ways Adult Day Center, Old Saybrook Shopping Center, 665 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, CT
Too busy to add anything else to your life even if it's good for you? Millie shared 60-second strategies to help lead you to calm in the midst of chaos.
September 18, 2007 9:00 to 12:00
Yale University
Yale University WorkLife Program, New Haven, CT: Millie Grenough will identify the factors which contribute to job stress burnout, and explore strategies for the participants control and/or reduction. The participants will examine their attitudes and behaviors, and develop skills which increase “stress hardiness” – and prevent burnout. Registration Information
September 20, 2007 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Johnstown, PA
Memorial Medical Center, 1086 Franklin St, Johnstown, PA 15905
Millie will introduce four simple strategies for stress reduction that are practical, easy to learn, take only sixty seconds, and designed to help busy people be more effective—and happier—at work and at home. Millie uses the latest brain research to teach four easily-learned 60-second strategies that can diminish the harmful effects of stress, increase a sense of personal control, engage and enhance a person’s physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual health, and are enjoyable and easy to do. Contact information: Patti Johnson, pjohnson@pesi.com
September 30, 2007 10:30 to 12:00
Dallas, TX
International EMDRIA Conference
SESSION 421
Millie Grenough, LCSW, BCD
Looking for calm in the chaos – for you and your clients? Examine findings of recent research regarding the brain’s neuroplasticity and our ability to re-wire our own brains. Learn four 60-second strategies that can calm, relax, heighten sense of personal control, diminish power of old patterns, and strengthen healthy neural pathways. Understand, and be able to explain to clients, how research testifies to the efficacy of these simple strategies and how their implementation can be useful in EMDR treatment. In this highly experiential workshop, you will learn four strategies and explore how/when to use each with your clients – and with yourself. (EMDR level: Introductory)
November 12, 2007 6:30 PM
WomanSage CT Annual Meeting
6:30 PM at W-116 Fairfield County Women’s Center (FCWC) at Norwalk Community College
Millie has been invited by WomanSage to be the featured speaker to present the four OASIS Strategies that are easy to learn, practical, really do only take 60 seconds each and will reduce stress on a daily basis. The Fairfield County Women’s Center (FCWC), in partnership with Norwalk Community College foundation, promotes the advancement of women through education programs and resources to increase awareness of women’s issues in the community, workplace, and home. FCWC provides information on and referrals to most human service agencies in Fairfield County and offers on-going support groups for diverse needs, including WomanSage CT, Breast Cancer, Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse and Parenting Skills.
The nationwide group PESI.com has engaged Millie to present EMDR and Mindfulness throughout the USA.
November 28th - Bangor, ME
November 29th - Portland, ME
November 30th - Manchester, NH
For more information on the above seminars, go to www.pesi.com and search by "title" "EMDR and Mindfulness"
with 4 Brief Strategies to Calm, Relax & Re-Wire Your Brain
TUNE IN TO: AM1220 WQUN on Thursday, January 3rd 9:10 to 10:00 am
Lesley Mills, Interviewer Extraordinaire and CEO of
Griswold Special Home Care, will join Ray Andrewsen,
the affable host of WQUN-FM Morning Show, to talk
with Millie Grenough about New Year resolutions -
which ones to make so you don't break.
click here for details
Want to become an OASIS Trainer?
Since the response to OASIS in the Overwhelm has been so positive - and since so many people have asked to learn more so that they can teach the OASIS Strategies - Millie launched the Pioneer TRAINING for OASIS TRAINERS this Summer. To know who these Pioneer Trainers are, Click here.
The 4th TRAINING for OASIS TRAINERS will be offered January 26, 2008. Click here for more information.
*This program has been approved for 12 CECs by the National Association of Social Workers/CT Chapter, and 14 CCEs with the International Coach Federation.
Click here for complete details.
March 6, 2008
12 noon – 1 pm
Orange Senior Center in the High Plains Community Center, 525 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT
no charge
Looking for more pleasure – less stress? Millie gives tips on using the OASIS 60-second strategies to add more calmness and enjoyment to your daily life. Learn how to rewire your own brain towards health and enjoyment. Millie herself is living proof that old dogs can learn new tricks.
New Haven, CT
New Haven Public Library
12 noon - 1 pm
At the New Haven Public Library's Books Sandwiched In, Millie Grenough will lead the discussion of the award-winning Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert. "I have a special interest in this book," says Millie, "because I, too, have eaten, prayed, and loved - in three continents. I look forward to swapping ideas with other folks, even if they have done all the above in one geographic location. I think the book is all about hunger - for whatever - about going after what we believe will make us feel better."
Omega, New York
Millie will join other graduates of Rubenfeld Synergy Method™ at their annual Conference with founder Ilana Rubenfeld. Millie, a graduate of Ilana's second RSM Training in 1979, was named a Master Rubenfeld Synergist by Ilana in 1991. At the Conference, Millie will share her OASIS Strategies with Synergists from four continents.
Waterbury, CT Holiday Inn
Social workers are in the front lines day and night. They provide services to all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. For the third consecutive year, NASW has invited Millie to present her OASIS 60-second Strategies so that clinicians can teach them to clients - and use them for themselves.
Info and to register: www.naswct.org
OASIS in the Overwhelm: Strategies for Balance in a Chaotic World
In the idyllic setting of Chautauqua, New York, Millie will teach young and old dogs how to re-wire their brains and bodies towards health and happiness.
For more information and to register for this and other Chautauqua courses: www.ciweb.org or 1-716-356-2151