Classes & Seminars

All classes guaranteed informative, entertaining, and inspirational or your money back!

Keys to Self-care Success
This class helps people overcome common self-care barriers including lack of support, social and economic difficulties, complicated treatments, lack of positive reasons to be well and lack of hope. Features group activities, humor, guided imagery, and sharing inspiring stories.  Available in versions ranging from 45-minute lecture to 12-hour, six-session workshops. Click here for details.

“Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, humor, experience and your heart with our Evergreen community.  I am awed by your sense of purpose and the healing you inspire in others.” – Anna Satenstein, Education Coordinator, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, WA.
 

Effective Self-Management Support
This one-to four-hour workshop for health professionals gives specific skills for working with chronic illness.  These strategies include goal setting, action planning, communication skills, finding help, and assertiveness.  Learn how healthcare systems can and must change to build teams and make providers’ and patients’ jobs easier. Specific strategies include group appointments, patient mentor systems, expanding roles of support staff, and more.  Click here for details.

"Your presentation was emotionally moving and vital to helping the audience understand strategies and skills to overcome the many barriers to self-care. You are an excellent speaker who knows how to reach your audience in their hearts, as well as their minds." Michelle Holloway, M.S., Assistant Professor of Human Services, Alaska Geriatric Education Center

New Solutions to Diabetes
This class teaches the social and environmental causes of diabetes. It explodes the myth of DM as a “lifestyle disease.” It provides sound strategies for using the strength of family, community, and the health care system to change behaviors, environments, and lives.

New Solutions includes the latest information on diets, medical treatment, and effective management, including issues others ignore – sex, sleep, and many others.  It addresses controversies about weight, insulin, and tight glucose control.  Available in versions ranging from 45-minute lecture to 12-hour, six-session workshops.  Click here for more information.

“David Spero is a dynamic speaker who engages his audience through theory, practice and storytelling.   His workshops are inspiring and practical." Denise Daniello U Alaska Fairbanks Education Center

Classes for Couples
Chronic conditions affect whole families, not just individuals. They can bring couples together or drive them apart.  Learn how couples can make their lives and love stronger and better in the face of chronic illness.  Content includes communication, love languages, teamwork, problem solving, and sexuality.  See more at http://coupleswellness.sitesvp.com

"The intimacy seminar will enhance and improve our relationship. The take-away information will make our future stronger and brighter." - Jim and Audrea, San Diego participants.