EVENTS
Group Coaching for Best of 2025
Join us and reserve your spot for this one-time, small group offering. This will be a safe, supportive, interactive group coaching session to reflect on 2024’s learnings and collect wisdom for the year ahead.
Awe Walk with Aspetuck Land Trust - CT
As Rebecca Solnit notes, walks are a way to extend the self into the environment. An awe walk helps us tap into the power of presence and of the universal. The focus on self diminishes, and the vast outer domain is allowed to enter. We notice both large and small remarkable things, dive into curiosity and wonder, and shift our perspective. The research on awe shows increases in well-being, an increase in establishing beneficial neural pathways, support to the immune and cardiovascular system, and a sense we are part of a broader cultural system.
Meet at St. Mary’s by the Sea, Ash Creek in Black Rock, Bridgeport
Sign up with this link: https://www.aspetucklandtrust.org/events/2024/3/7/mindfulness-walk-ash-creek
"4,000 Weeks" Book Club
Join a collaborative, supportive group to read and discuss the thought-provoking, funny, and engaging book “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals,” by Oliver Burkeman.
Burkeman examines how today's productivity hacks may allow us to "get more done, race to more meetings, ferry your kids to more after school activities, generate more profit for your employer - and yet, paradoxically, you only feel busier, more anxious, and emptier as a result." He leads us to examine our connection to time, step back and determine what's most important, and lead a life with the realization that we'll never get it all under control.
"This book is wonderful. Instead of offering new tips on how to cram more into your day, it questions why we feel the need to..." Marianne Power (The Times, London)
The Stress Prescription Book Club
Stress is woven into our lives, and we need it. "In the right dosage and frequency, it helps keep our cells young and vital. But, these days most of us have a stress problem, we're turned on to stress all the time. Stress is the ocean we swim in, and we're flooded with constant triggers: demands and deadlines, logistics, and unexpected crises large and small. We can't eliminate it, but we can change our response to stress."
Epel's research is user-friendly and sensible. You'll find tools to integrate into your life right away. The pocket-sized book is approachable - an easy read.
JOIN US for meaningful discussion, collaborative activities, and a collegial conversation. This is a virtual book club meeting on Mondays: 4/24, 5/1, 5/8 @7:30pm ET on Zoom.
Sign up by April 5th by emailing: jen@jengrovescoaching.com
Fee:
$59 if you purchase the book on your own.
$79 if you want me to purchase and mail to you.
Building Resilience
Learn the science behind cultivating resilience with seven practical strategies. In this hour session, we’ll get to the heart, and science, of resilience. You’ll learn how to activate your capacity for resilience in everyday life and with larger life events, and come away with short specific practices you can implement right away.
Join us in the beautiful, new SaksWorks space on Greenwich Avenue for this engaging workshop.
Fresh Starts in the Pandemic
Fall is often the time for a fresh start, for frank conversations about where we are now. It's a time to learn helpful tools to reflect on our year so far, and discuss strategies to help us remain open and flexible for the future. How do we find opportunity in the struggle? How do we make peace with uncertainty, while acknowledging that our brains don’t like a mess?
Thriving can include struggle. How do we embrace this paradox? By learning helpful mindsets and supportive ways to let go of obsolete strategies. Join us to punctuate, reflect, and purposefully plan for the new season.
"I'm Tapped Out:" Resilience for the Long Haul
As we head into the winter season, having discovered limits of "surge capacity," how do we proceed for the long haul? Many people report feeling depleted after months of coping with the pandemic and other global stressors. Join us to discuss strategies for daily resilience and those that we employ for larger life traumas. Discover ways to gain fresh perspective for the long haul.
This is a virtual event. Register with the link below. Even if you can't catch me on 12/8, you can watch the recording.
Building Resilience by Harnessing Your Character Strengths
Do you want to increase your confidence, self-efficacy and optimism? Curious about how you can accelerate clarity and calm even in challenging times? Join Jennifer Groves, a Life Coach specializing in Positive Psychology Coaching, to discover your signature strengths and learn why these values in action are key players for your well-being. ** Note times are MDT.
Take the free Via Survey on Character Strengths and bring your results!
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT. You will receive a zoom link when you register ($25 for non-members)
https://everwell.spaces.nexudus.com/en/events
Resilient Grieving
Join us for a conversation about grief. Learn about resilient grieving, discuss resources and strategies to cope with grief even if you haven’t yet experienced a major life event. Presented by Julie Stotlar, founder of Grievewell, and Jennifer Groves, Positive Psychology Coach.
The Telomere Effect Book Club
What are telomeres, and how do they affect our health? In this book, “Blackburn and Epel demonstrate that how we live each day has a profound effect not just on our health and well-being, but how we age as well.” Join us for collaborative activities and focused discussion.
The Yes Brain Book Club
Join us to read and discuss “The Yes Brain,” by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson. We’ll learn how to nurture balance, resilience, insight and empathy in your children and yourself. Email me by March 8th to get your book for free! Sponsored by Telluride Education Foundation and The Telluride Well-Being Initiative.