Performance Wellness Manual
Author : Louise Montello
Publisher :
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Musicians
ISBN :
Performance Wellness Manual
Author : Louise Montello
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781539029939
Book Description
The Performance Wellness Manual is a comprehensive guide to the Montello Method for Performance Wellness (PW), a multi-modal, research-based approach designed to offer performers, arts educators, creative arts therapists, and performing arts medicine practitioners a deeper understanding of the implications of stress in performance, as well as practical tools for allowing the mind-body to become a resilient "instrument" in the face of stressful situations. Integrating techniques from the fields of music therapy, neuropsychology and yoga science, the cornerstone of the PW approach is Essential Musical Intelligence, the innate ability to use music and sound to bypass the limitations of the rational, conscious mind and instantly connect with your creative source to manifest healing, mastery, and joy in performance and in daily life. In the Performance Wellness Manual you will learn: Ways to use music and sound as self-reflecting, transformational tools to facilitate creativity and total wellness Processes to target the underlying causes of performance anxiety Powerful mind-body awareness techniques to reduce stress Tools to reprogram negative thoughts Keys to preventing overuse injuries How to create a customized daily self-care practice Methods to overcome performance challenges in real time How to nurture a deep connection with your audience
POWER
Author : Konstantinos Papazoglou
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0128178736
Book Description
Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience collectively presents the numerous psychic wounds experienced by peace officers in the line of duty, including compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, organizational and operational stress, and loss. Authors describe the negative repercussions of these psychic wounds in law enforcement decision-making, job performance, job satisfaction, and families. The book encompasses evidence-based strategies to assist law enforcement agencies in developing policy programs to promote wellness for their personnel. The evidence-based techniques presented allow officers to get a more tangible and better understanding of the techniques so that they apply those techniques when on and off-duty. With forewords authored by Dr. John Violanti (Distinguished Police Research Professor) and Dr. Tracie Keesee, Vice President of the Center of Policing Equity, this book is an excellent resource for police professionals, police wellness coordinators, early career researchers, mental health professionals who provide services to law enforcement officers and their families, and graduate students in psychology, forensic psychology, and criminal justice. - Platinum Award Winner 2019, Homeland Security Awards - American Security Today - Provides reader with evidence-based strategies to promote officer wellness - Covers compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress, and more - Written by established scholars and professionals from a law enforcement context
Wellness Manual
Author : Leona Sokolova
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781662427268
Book Description
"Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice." Osho Wellness Manual examines health and wellness from a holistic perspective. Everyone has a story of finding themselves. Wellness Manual can contribute to your story, your wellness, your success, your well- being, and your balance. It is a step-by-step process of introspection in order to achieve radiant health and maintain it. During the process you get to explore your life from a new and unique perspective. It is all about getting to know yourself better in terms of positivity, gratitude, happiness, simplicity, nutrition, exercise, and more. Also, it is a friendly reminder about the simple and useful tools within our reach. These tools are not new. They are rooted in ancient healing philosophies from the East and the West. Wellness Manual simplifies timeless methods of mind-body balance. It provides you with conscientious remarks. They can help facilitate healthy lifestyle changes. Leona Sokolova is a health counsellor, wellness expert, author, and founder of www.wellnessnewyork.com. She helps people find the food and lifestyle choices that work best for them. Leona was trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor and a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Performance Wellness Workbook
Author : Louise Montello
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781539030300
Book Description
The Performance Wellness Workbook is a practical guide designed to help you utilize the concepts, techniques, and practices outlined in the Performance Wellness Manual systematically in your daily life to transform habitual stress reactions and negativity into new states of confidence, optimism and joy. The Performance Wellness Manual presents the Montello Method for Performance Wellness (PW), a multi-modal, research-based approach designed to offer performers, arts educators, creative arts therapists, and performing arts medicine practitioners a deeper understanding of the implications of stress in performance, as well as practical tools for allowing the mind-body to become a resilient "instrument" in the face of stressful situations. Integrating techniques from the fields of music therapy, neuropsychology and yoga science, the cornerstone of the PW approach is Essential Musical Intelligence, the innate ability to use music and sound to bypass the limitations of the rational, conscious mind and instantly connect with your creative source to manifest healing, mastery, and joy in performance and in daily life. Through PW you will learn: Ways to use music and sound as self-reflecting, transformational tools to facilitate creativity and total wellness Processes to target the underlying causes of performance anxiety Powerful mind-body awareness techniques to reduce stress Tools to reprogram negative thoughts Keys to preventing overuse injuries How to create a customized daily self-care practice Methods to overcome performance challenges in real time How to nurture a deep connection with your audience
FitnessGram Administration Manual
Author : The Cooper Institute
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 149258519X
Book Description
The best just got better. FitnessGramis the gold standard for assessing the health-related fitness and activity levels of youths. The Cooper Institute has updated the FitnessGram Administration Manual with new material to ensure that FitnessGram is the most comprehensive and informative program that can drive meaningful behavior change and set up children for a healthy future. The fifth edition of FitnessGram Administration Manual: The Journey to MyHealthyZone offers K-12 teachers two primary assessment resources that allow them to produce individualized reports for each student in their class. FitnessGram provides a complete battery of health-related fitness assessments that are scored using criterion-referenced Healthy Fitness Zone® standards. The standards are age and sex specific and are based on how fit children need to be for health. New to this fifth edition: • Audio of cadences and videos and photos for test protocols, making it easier for you to administer tests • A chapter on communicating with stakeholders (students, parents, faculty and staff, administrators, and the community) • A chapter on data mining and using data to inform your instruction and help you make sound curricular decisions • A design that enhances your ease in using the material and administering the tests You will learn how to administer the tests, interpret the results, and provide feedback to your students on their results. FitnessGram Administration Manual also offers a web resource that includes video clips that demonstrate the assessments; audio for the PACER, curl-up, and push-up tests; and reproducible forms. Through FitnessGram, you can assess children’s fitness in these areas: • Aerobic capacity • Muscle strength • Muscular endurance • Flexibility • Body composition Several test options are provided for most of those areas; one test item is recommended. As a FitnessGram user you also have access to everything the Presidential Youth Fitness Program has to offer. The Presidential Youth Fitness Program helps physical educators assess, track, and recognize youth fitness and physical activity. Through this program you are also provided with the following: • Instructional strategies for promoting student physical activity and fitness • Communication tools to help physical educators increase awareness about their work in the classroom • Options for recognizing fitness and physical activity achievements This latest version of the FitnessGram Administration Manual: The Journey to MyHealthyZone is your guide to conducting the test protocols, recording the data, interpreting the results, and sharing those results in ways that will encourage students to be physically active and adopt healthy behaviors throughout their lives.
Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology
Author : G. Gregory Haff
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1718210922
Book Description
Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, provides guided opportunities for students to translate their scientific understanding of exercise physiology into practical applications in a variety of settings. Written by experts G. Gregory Haff and Charles Dumke, the text builds upon the success of the first edition with full-color images and the addition of several new online interactive lab activities . The revitalized second edition comprises 16 laboratory chapters that offer a total of 49 lab activities. Each laboratory chapter provides a complete lesson, including objectives, definitions of key terms, and background information that sets the stage for learning. Each lab activity supplies step-by-step procedures, providing guidance for those new to lab settings so that they may complete the procedures. New features and updates in this edition include the following: Related online learning tools delivered through HKPropel that contain 10 interactive lab activities with video to enhance student learning and simulate the experience of performing the labs in the real world A completely new laboratory chapter on high-intensity fitness training that includes several popular intermittent fitness tests that students can learn to perform and interpret An appendix that helps estimate the oxygen cost of walking, running, and cycling New research and information pertaining to each laboratory topic A lab activity finder that makes it easy to locate specific tests In addition to the interactive lab activities, which are assignable and trackable by instructors, HKPropel also offers students electronic versions of individual and group data sheets of standards and norms, question sets to help students better understand laboratory concepts, and case studies with answers to further facilitate real-world application. Chapter quizzes (assessments) that are automatically graded may also be assigned by instructors to test comprehension of critical concepts. Organized in a logical progression, the text builds upon the knowledge students acquire as they advance. Furthermore, the text provides multiple lab activities and includes an equipment list at the beginning of each activity, allowing instructors flexibility in choosing the lab activities that will best work in their facility. Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, exposes students to a broad expanse of tests that are typically performed in an exercise physiology lab and that can be applied to a variety of professional settings. As such, the text serves as a high-quality resource for basic laboratory testing procedures used in assessing human performance, health, and wellness. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is not included with this ebook but may be purchased separately.
The Musician's Way : A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
Author : Gerald Klickstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199711291
Book Description
In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.
Head Start Program Performance Standards
Author : United States. Office of Child Development
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Compensatory education
ISBN :
Book Description
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement
Author : Kevin M. Gilmartin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : 9780971725416
Book Description
This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.
