Announcing an updated edition of How We Choose to Be Happy with a new Introduction highlighting the connection between the 9 Choices and optimal health.
"How do I help my patients learn to be happy? I prescribe this book!"
Nicholas LaRusso, MD.
Chair, Dept of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
"...insightful and wise...this book includes uplifting stories of people who have learned to be happy."
Fit magazine
How We Choose To Be Happy
Rick Foster & Greg HicksLeadership Development · Team Dynamics Training · Executive Coaching
4053 Harlan Street, Loft 201, Emeryville, CA 94608
f: (510) 540-1241 · f: (240) 332-8483 · e: info@fosterhicks.com
Keynote Speeches
If you are looking for extraordinary speaking engagements and workshops......You are on the right page!
Your audience will be fascinated, motivated and inspired by Rick's and Greg's thought-provoking talks on happiness, leadership and the most effective team environments. For general audience and corporate presentations alike, Rick and Greg are dynamic speakers and presenters. All of their speeches and workshops are fun, interactive, fast-moving and full of practical ideas which can be incorporated into any life — at work or home.
Rick and Greg are happy to customize their keynote speeches to your audience. All of their presentations can include a self-scored questionnaire for audience members, which is taken away as a memento of the event. They can be booked for solo or joint appearances.
Their speaking topics include:
For general audiences:
- "How We Choose to Be Happy —
The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People"
Audience members will learn about the 9 choices and begin to explore how to create richer, happier lives for themselves. We also tell stories about how we found, interviewed and became friends with extremely happy people throughout North America and Europe, and how these people profoundly changed our own lives.
- "How We Choose to Be Happy —
For corporate audiences:
- "The 9 Choices of Excellent Leaders"
How the 9 choices provide us with the profile of the most powerful, productive and motivating leaders. We also teach the audience how to integrate these 9 choices of leadership into the work world to create professional excellence. - "The Choices of High-Powered Teams (Corporations and Communities)"
An interactive, personal and fast-moving presentation of our research, and how high-productivity teams must be not only technically capable, but have high levels of emotional intelligence. We talk about what these characteristics are and how to develop them.
- "The 9 Choices of Excellent Leaders"
Half- to Full-day Workshop Presentations
All of our workshops must be sponsored by a licensed organization for its membership.
- "A Discussion of the Wheel of Happiness"
This workshop has been presented to general audiences, corporate groups, and symposiums of mental health and medical professionals. It is an in-depth discussion of the 9 choices of extremely happy people and how these choices affect our lives. An excellent vehicle for self-evaluation, this workshop is participatory and a great deal of fun. - "Returning to Happiness
Following Loss or Trauma — I" (For Professionals)
This program is designed for professionals in the medical, mental health and other helping professions. It focuses on the use of the Happiness Wheel by practioners as they form relationships with clients who are recovering from trauma or health-related issues. This program suggests using the wheel as a potent tool in helping patients/clients establish an "internal locus of control" as they cope with illness, grief or disability. - "Returning to Happiness
Following Loss or Trauma — II" (For Individuals)
This program is designed for people who have experienced significant loss or trauma. It centers on the use of the Wheel of Happiness as a tool for moving through grief, and for effectively dealing with problems. It is a moving and educational experience for people who are recovering from trauma and are in the process of healing. This workshop is co-presented with a licensed psycho therapist.
Some reactions to our programs and materials from the healing/health disciplines:
"Hicks and Foster are dynamic seminar leaders as well as sincere researchers who have carefully listened to real people living happy lives. Their model has proven to have extraordinary impact in the corporate world. And, I enthusiastically recommend their wonderful book to all my clients and have made it the foundation for my group therapy work. It is clear, direct, tender and really lays out an easy to understand yet profound way for all of us to cultivate richer, happier lives."
Ron Luyet, M.A., M.F.C.C.
Family Systems Therapist
Co-Founder, Institute for Personal Change
"Health is a choice. How we create health mirrors how we live our lives. Through their happiness inventory, Rick Foster and Greg Hicks have created a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for health care professionals as well as a template to understand the diversity of health outcomes. Experience with the happiness inventory can be expected to assist us in helping patients choose a happy, healthy and whole life. How We Choose to Be Happy is a must read for all current and up-coming health care professionals."
Robert M. Wolfson, M.D./Ph.D.
Founder, Institute for Integrative Medicine
in Women's Healthcare