Wellness Talks and Workshops
Talks by Steve Morris, PhD
Integral Health and Wellness Coach
About Dr. Steve
Steve is part social entrepreneur, part philosopher, and part integral wellness coach. He is the Owner/Administrator of Right at Home Northwest, a licensed in-home care agency that provides in-home care and assistance for seniors and disabled adults. Prior to that he founded and ran a leadership coaching practice in Singapore for nearly two decades, coaching more than 300 organizations and 3,000 individuals. He began his post-graduate work-life with a two-decade career as an international management consultant.
Steve has appeared on radio and television in the Asia and North America, sharing his views and tips on human performance, stress management, career development and work-life enrichment. Steve holds a PhD, Integral Health, from the California Institute for Human Science, San Diego. He also holds a MA Economics degree and BA International Relations degree, both from George Mason University in Virginia. Steve is the author of several acclaimed books including Glorious Living, Glorious Leadership, Glorious Living, Sowing the Seeds of Glorious Living and The Boy who Climbed the Mountain.
Steve’s passion is helping individuals and groups develop to their fullest potential. Throughout the years he has given his energy and resources to providing guidance, focus, skills and encouragement to people within a multitude of cultures and industries who aspire to achieve a greater impact on their own lives, their organization’s performance and their community’s quality of life. Steve is a masterful facilitator and is a well-regarded conference chairperson, board meeting facilitator and corporate event catalyst.
Proud winner of the 2022 Caring Super Star Award
A Free Service to the Community of Care
Steve offers free talks to non-profits and health service organizations on matters relating to health and wellness. Locally he has spoken to groups at Belingham at Home, Bellingham Senior Center, Blaine Senior Center, Bradford House, Chandler's Square, Elder Service Providers Network (ESP), Fidalgo Senior Center, Senior Care Network (SCN), Lynden Senior Center, Mountain Glen Retirement Center, Northwest Adult Day Health & Wellness Center, Palliative Care Institute, Physician’s Association of Whatcom, Parkway Chateau, Prestige Care and Rehabilitation, The Willows Bellingham, The Willows Issaquah, Warm Beach Senior Community, Whatcom County Medical Society, and Whatcom Transportation Authority.
Talk Topics by Dr. Steve
The Heart of Communications – using heart-focused communications to motivate and inspire
Three-minutes to Live – a soft-boiled serving of ‘eggs’istentialism to reset your priorities
Maladies of the Modern Workplace – what drives the ‘stress go round’ and what can stop it
How to give advice that might actually be taken – a four-step approach for giving feedback
The Keys to Success when working with People – interpersonal skills for home, school, play and the workplace
Everything you wanted to know about UTIs but were afraid to ask – well, somebody asked ;-)
Stress Busters – Hands on Techniques for Reducing Stress and Achieving Coherence
Using a heart rhythm monitor in real-time, Dr. Steve will demonstrate how our bodies respond to stress and will demonstrate practical and convenient ways we can reduce stress.
Achieving Heart-Mind-Body Coherence
Dr. Steve will demonstrate how what we feel emotionally affects how we feel physically and will explain the significance of the heart-mind-body connection to our overall wellbeing.
Achieve Emotional Freedom from Fear and Anxiety
Dr. Steve will demonstrate how fear compromises our physical and mental abilities and he will provide hands-on training on how to use human touch (the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT) to lessen and even extinguish the fight-flight-freeze fear response.
The Not-so-subtle Effects of Subtle Energies – spotting your energy drainers and energy gainers
Dr. Steve Morris, will demonstrate how our bodies respond to the subtle energies of our internal and external environments using applied kinesiology, or energy checking, and will give hands-on training in how we can use energy checking to test our body’s sensitivity to physical, mental and emotional stimuli.
Aging with Agility (Fighting Frailty before it Fights You)
Dr. Steve will highlight the dangers of the frailty syndrome and how we can help people achieve longer and happier lives through strategies that retaining agility as we age.
The Boy who Climbed the Mountain – A fable about navigating the 10 stages of growth
Dr. Steve weaves important life lessons into a charming fable of a poor Nepalese boy’s dream to climb the Himalayas to illustrate the 10 stages of growth and accomplishment that can be used by listeners plan their own approach to achieving important goals in their life.
Sowing the Seeds of Glorious Living – Daily Disciplines for Personal Growth and Development
Dr. Steve will share his philosophy for achieving life-long personal growth through practicing simple acts of daily disciplines within an ethical and universal framework of virtues, which is designed to elevate and enrich your life.
Lamas in Pajamas - Himalayan High Jinks on the Road to Enlightenment - (or How I got my PhD in Integral Health)
Dr. Steve will share his incredible story of what inspired him to study integral health and group wellness. Dr. Morris will take us up into the Himalayan foothills to Dharamsala, the personal home of the 14th Dalai Lama.