Just Like Riding A Bike:
Coping with Change and Dealing with Adversity

Program Description: This transformational experience will empower your organization's associates to embrace rapid change, improve performance, and unlock competitive advantage. As a result of this program participants will be revitalized and recharged. They will leave with restored hope, happiness and an improved vision of their future. Participants develop an action plan with staying power that will enable them to achieve their goals and take charge of their lives today and 365 days from now. This will be achieved by focusing on five Lessons to Live By and by balancing their individual Wheel of Life.

Rossetti is a role model and agent for change. On June 13, 1998 Rossetti's life was transformed when a 3 1/2 ton tree came crushing down on her. Her life was changed in that instant! Paralyzed from the waist down with a spinal cord injury, Rossetti looked deep within herself and found new strength and new resolve.

Rossetti uses the lessons that she learned during her recovery to empower participants. She focuses on what motivates people to change their behavior, awaken their inner gifts, find meaning in their lives, and accomplish more to bring out the best in themselves Her story will show you how to develop tenacity, perseverance, and resilience so you can take advantage of opportunities following your adversities. She focuses on what motivates people to change their behavior, awaken their inner gifts, find meaning in their lives, and accomplish more to bring out the best in themselves. As a result of this program participants will be revitalized and recharged. They will leave with restored hope, happiness and an improved vision of their future.

Rosemarie brings a positive attitude to life that touches all who hear her, with an emotive speaking style that makes audiences fall in love with her and rally to her message. Rossetti capitalizes on the time tested formula that people love to laugh while they learn. Her sensitive use of humor provides a balance that enables audiences to retain the core message in this inspiring presentation.

Goal: To find the will to push on when faced with adversity and develop resilience in order to live life with conviction. To feel the exhilarating sense of control and fulfillment in the belief that the impossible is possible. When faced with change they will adapt quicker, modify their attitudes, and find the courage to act rather than be acted upon.

Targeted Audiences: This versatile program is customized for your corporation, organization, association, top executives, sales professionals, professional and collegiate athletes, youth groups, college and high school students.

Duration of Program: 45-90 minutes.

Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of this program, the audience members will be able to . . .

1. Better cope with change and deal with adversity and setbacks in their professional and personal lives
2. Be resilient when faced with adversity and setbacks in their personal and professional lives.
3. Move beyond fear to hope
4. Turn negatives into positives
5. Overcome obstacles
6. Determine their current level of motivation and enhance that level of motivation
7. Recognize the key segments of the Wheel of Life that are deficient in their lives
8. Adjust their perspective and reduce stress when faced with adversity
9. Internalize five Lessons to Live By
   
   
   • Do something new every day.
   • Focus on a hopeful future, not on self pity.
   • Believe that the impossible just might be possible.
   • Allow more time to get things done and be patient with yourself.
   • To lower your stress, lower your expectations of other people.
10. Set realistic goals that will balance their lives
11. Find inner-strength to view life with fresh perspective
12. Recognize that fear is a fuel to courage
13. Live with more conviction

Outline of the Program:

1. Living with Conviction
2. Lessons to Live By
3. Wheel of Life
4. How Motivation Drives Behavior
5. Exploring Goal Setting
6. Methods of Reducing Stress When Faced with Adversity
7. Focusing on a Hopeful Future
8. Fear as a Fuel to Courage
9. Examining Methods to Turn Negatives into Positives
10. Designing a Plan to Overcome Obstacles
11. Utilizing Your Inexhaustible Inner Reserve of Potential

Multimedia: The presentation is enhanced an interactive handout, animated slides and music, which serve to provide a captivating introduction of Rossetti to the audience and document her life prior to her injury. High quality graphics and slides illustrate the main points and her personal stories. The program powerfully describes what her life was like after her injury. Audiences are better able to retain the core messages in this emotionally powerful presentation.

Click here to contact Rosemarie and learn how this program can be customized for your next event.