BETHEL – The group To Your Health will host a workshop this week that focuses on how one can maintain a healthy mood by keeping a healthy mind.

The session will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the West Parish Congregational Church.

According to To Your Health Chairman Rosabelle Tifft, the workshop is part of a yearlong series focusing on “keeping the glass half-full and maximizing our health and happiness as we grow older.”

The workshop will feature a panel of guest speakers, including Lynn Arizzi, a professional musician and director of the Senior College Players; Janet Willie, a therapeutic massage therapist; Cathy DiCocoa, a professional chef and owner of DiCocoa’s Market Bakery, and Ellen Crocker, a retired psychotherapist and co-owner of Crocker Pond House Bed and Breakfast.

“Each panelist will have to deliver a 20-minute presentation to the audience,” Tifft said. “I think this workshop will be especially interesting.”

Arizzi will deliver a speech titled “Music Makes the Soul Soar,” focusing on how music can speak to the soul and emotions.

Willie’s presentation, “Staying Positive: Maintaining Connections through Movement,” will focus on how someone can make themselves feel better through specific movement patterns.

DiCocoa’s presentation, “Feed Your Mind and Manage Your Moods,” will look at how certain types of foods affect the way we act and feel.

Crocker’s presentation, “Homework for Old Age: What’s the Assignment Now,” will investigate how people can resurrect old dreams and create new ones as they get older.

While other panelists will deliver a presentation to the audience, Crocker will include an exchange with the audience to get their input, according to Tifft.

Tifft said the To Your Health committee will meet in May to “check the evaluations we receive at the end of each workshop, look at the feedback and figure out what we’re going to do for next fall.”

For more information, call Rosabelle Tifft at 824-2053.

mdaigle@sunjournal.com

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