Our dkb team provides a variety of inspirational and creative workshops related to your emotional, physical and environmental well-being. dkb workshops are designed for schools, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, companies and churches.

Physical Wellness:

Striving for Physical Vitality: 3 Practical Strategies to Achieve A Lifetime of Wellness
Workshop Presenter: Dr. Brent Penner

STRIVING for PHYSICAL VITALITY (SPV) is about understanding the power of the human body, moving beyond reactivity and learning how to be proactive by setting realistic healthcare goals. This is an inspiring, empowering and interactive workshop by Chiropractor & Health Coach, Dr. Brent Penner. [ read more ]

The Power of Infant Massage
Workshop Presenter: Erika Schryer
Audience: Infants & Parents

Can massage really positively affect your baby’s sleep? This practical hands-on workshop for you and your baby teaches the healing impact of infant massage on your baby's physical health. Through basic technique demonstration, you’ll learn the benefits of infant massage, understand the importance of timing and infant permission, how to interpret your baby’s body language and recognize cues.

Up to two other caregivers (father, grandparent, aunt / uncle, sibling) welcome.

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Emotional Wellness:

dk’s Spill Your Guts
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Grades 4-12

What power does attitude have on dating, friendships and peer pressure? This interactive workshop, seen by nearly 200,000 teens across North America, helps teens understand the motivating power of self-esteem and how their attitudes affect their decision making. To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s Friendships Unplugged
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Grades 4-12

Why is friendship so complicated? This creative workshop helps teens explore what healthy friendships look like, how to develop them and the power of body language. To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s Bridging the Gap
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Parents of Pre-teens / Teens

Build an exceptional relationship with your teen! In this empowering workshop, Karyn teaches you how to ‘bridge the gap’ with your teen. Learn to identify adolescent patterns, break through barriers and communicate effectively! To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s 7 Strategies for Raising Healthy Teens In An Age of Overindulgence
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Parents of Pre-teens / Teens

Are you fighting to raise a healthy balanced teen? This insightful and shocking workshop will equip you with structural boundaries you can make in your home to encourage your teen towards schedule, nutritional and financial balance. To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s Lost in Translation
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Parents of Pre-teens / Teens

Can’t get your teen to talk? This creative workshop will empower you with practical strategies to encourage your teen to open up. To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s 7 Strategies for Helping Your Teens Reach Their Career Potential
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Teachers, Guidance Counselors & Parents of Pre-teens / Teens

Want what’s best for your teen? This practical workshop teaches 7 concrete strategies for teachers, counselors and parents to help their teens move in a career direction that best suits them. To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

dk’s Lifeboat
Workshop Presenter: Karyn Gordon
Audience: Parents & Teens Together

Is your parent / teen relationship smooth sailing? This one-of-kind annual workshop for parents and their pre-teens or teens will equip you with the survival skills you need to stay afloat. You’ll spend an entire day with Karyn and her team as they lead you through 8 experiential games that will unlock your own parent / teen communication. 92% of teens and parents rated this event 5/5! To read more visit www.drkaryn.com.

7 Strategies for Communicating with Your Teen
Workshop Presenter: Allie MacPhail
Audience: Parents & Teens Together

There is a gap between the way parents and their teens communicate, no sense denying it. When parents and teens think about this gap, they often despair that effective and dynamic communication with each other will ever take place. This workshop not only challenges those hopeless thoughts, it challenges those in attendance to rethink the gap and try out more effective tools of communication. [ read more ]

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Environmental Wellness:

Organization 101: Decorating Wellness Seminar
Workshop Presenter: Lisa Ferguson
Audience: Groups of 10 or more

How does colour affect your mood? How can lighting reduce stress? This interactive and practical ½ day workshop will teach you the basics of space planning, 10 EZ steps to organization, your organizational style and the techniques and products you need to create that perfect atmosphere. You will return home with an organization plan and principles you can implement the very same day.

On the Road Decorating & Organizational Excursion
Workshop Presenter: Lisa Ferguson
Audience: 5 Friends / Co-Workers

Enjoy an inspiring full day on-the-road excursion (10am-4pm) with five friends and dkb’s expert decorator Lisa Ferguson. You will be taken to trade only hideaways, have personalized shopping assistance and get answers to your decorating & organizational dilemmas. Take advantage of special deals. Get ideas and learn inspiring solutions and tricks of the trade through how to demonstrations. Bring photos and swatches.

Mother Daughter Creative Bonding
Workshop Presenter: Lisa Ferguson
Audience: Mothers & Daughters

Create inspirational artwork with your daughter! In this creative ½ day special event, you and your daughter will explore brand new artistic mediums to create one of a kind artwork for your daughter’s living space. Time to laugh, create memories and an inspirational personalized piece of art surrounded by a sensory environment. Check back for costs, dates, times, locations and concepts.