Topics and Testimonials:

Education and Health: Tobacco Awareness
Interactive audience participation. Learn why you need to stop using tobacco, from a totally different perspective. Fun and entertaining one hour workshop.

Motivation and Leadership: P.O.P.P (Power of Positive People) in the Workplace
A one hour interactive workshop highlighting the effects of maintaining a positive attitude in the workplace. Stimulates teamwork and leadership with the workplace and everyday life.

Keynote Speeches tailored to your needs.

Presentation videos available include:

• Dewitt Jones – Celebrate what’s Right with the World – A lovely video sure to inspire positive attitudes and awareness.
• The Birth of Andrew – The miracle of his birth is documented through a home video. Prepare to be amazed!
• Emma’s story – a touching short documentary sharing a moment of time with a patient dying of smoking related lung cancer.
• The Feminine Mistake – Smoking awareness focused on young women.
• Several other miscellaneous smoking awareness videos

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Testimonials

Julie Houlker                     Infant Development Consultant

Dear Glenda
Just a note to thank you for the wonderfully uplifting workshop you provided to our staff group. Many times our staff meetings are serious and sometimes stressful; it was such a breath of fresh air to enjoy your optimistic speech on how to see the positive in every situation both at work and home. In a work climate of major changes, and stressors such as accreditation and lack of resources, the staff needed at least once to leave the staff meeting with some happy positive thoughts. Your workshop did more than achieve this. It was a pleasure to see the smiling faces at the end of the presentation and I could feel the change in morale. Many of the staff thanked me for introducing you and commented on how much they enjoyed the presentation.
Hopefully you will be available again but I am sure you will be in demand in many places so we will book early

Thank you again.

Braelyn            March 2008                 Chilliwack high school student

As a student who has been touched personally by Glenda Standeven, I can
honestly state first hand that Glenda is an accomplished woman who has the ability to inspire and motivate young people like no one else. Her smoking awareness program is delivered in a down to earth way and from a student's perspective is easy to understand. As well, Glenda presents herself in a  way that all students can relate to; whether it's directly making a
connection with the students or making a connection through past
relationships, she never fails to gain the trust of young people.

I believe that Glenda is a rare phenomenon. It is rare for an adult to gain
the complete trust of a student and yet, Glenda has gained the trust of
hundreds, if not thousands, of students a hundred times over! Glenda
Standeven is a remarkable woman, with an astonishing story, of which she
has a passion to share with others. Her work is sensational and frankly,
her heart for our youth is mind boggling to some but to us is extraordinary. Glenda's work is not just work, Glenda's work is her love in life! And it shows!

Through her achievements and struggles she has managed to accumulate numerous awards, including Woman of the Year, led many conferences, and chaired numerous committees. Glenda Standeven has an insurmountable amount of support from the community because of the way that she inspires and motivates. She truly is an optimist and her smile and laughter are
contagious in a community that has come to respect her and love her for
everything that she has done for us!

Mrs. J Gladish       April 24, 2007         Teacher, Chilliwack Senior Secondary

In appreciation of the wonderful work that Mrs. Standeven has done with our students over several years, I offered to write her a letter of recommendation as I am leaving this school at the end of the year and I wish to highly endorse the work that she has done here for the staff and students of Chilliwack Secondary School.  

Each semester for a full day, Mrs. Standeven sets up shop in the library and all the Planning 10 kids participate in her interactive workshop. She arrives with a wealth of highly effective print, poster, and media resources that she uses to supplement her compelling personal message of hope and recovery. Her anecdotes and range of interactive activities model the power of positive thinking and healthy living. From the moment that she starts to her last sentence, students remain focused.  

What Mrs. Standeven has presented at CSS should be made available to all grade ten students across this district. Kids at this adolescent stage have proven that they are willing to consider her message and take it to heart. As well, her workshop effectively addresses an important learning outcome for Planning 10. 

Mrs. Standeven has given freely of her time and resources and we, the teachers and students of Chilliwack Secondary, have been the beneficiaries. I would like to recommend her as a presenter in any forum where there is a common concern for healthy living in both a mental and physical capacity. Please feel free to contact me for further information.