This conversation will explore areas of his personal Hurricane Irma & Maria Journey, Stress and Wellness for First Responders and Cultivating Positive Community Connections 

1. We often think of law enforcement professionals / first responders as somehow immune from the challenges of stress. We think that you all may get some special training that protects you from stress. Please share the impact of Irmaria on you and your family. 
2. What have learned about yourself that is helpful as you move forward in the recovery process and the start of hurricane season?
3. What do you think are the biggest misconceptions that people have about police officers / first responders?
4. What has been some of the impacts of Irmaria on first responders/ police officers?
5. As you reflect on the recovery journey what has helped to strengthen and promote recovery/ wellness for members of the police force?
6. What do you believe is the foundation of a vibrant and effective community of first responders?
7. Law Enforcement Appreciation week was a couple of weeks ago full of many activities. The VI is a small community how does the connection to individuals and families support and challenge what you do? 
8. Trauma changes us in ways that sometimes is hard to see immediately. Please share your thoughts on community trauma and impacts on first responders.
9. You are in a special role in that you teach psychology and are a PhD student. What motivated you to pursue graduate education?
10. Talk about your PhD work and the topic you are exploring?
11. How do your peers react to your educational activity and the subject matter you’re researching?
12. What insight would be helpful to share to the listening audience about hurricane season or challenging experiences in general and our expectations of first responders?
13. Share your contact information for follow up by our listeners.

Closing thoughts or words of encouragement to the audience. What’s the take away for those who are listening.

"Women Striving for Success". Senator Janette Millin Young discusses; 

1. Please share with us what life has been like after being in the legislature.
2. How long has Women Striving for Success been in existence? What was the motivation for its creation?
3. In the Community Needs Assessment Report (February 2019) population data from 2014 indicate that 48% of the families in the VI population are headed by a female only parent. In addition, 58% of these female headed families with children under the age of six compared to 44% of female headed families with children ages 6-17. We know that issues of poverty are complicated yet, how might Women Striving for Success impact the issues of poverty, business and leadership development?
4. Many women work full time jobs and have a side hustle that supplements their salary. What do you hear from women who want to expand their entrepreneurial dreams and run their own businesses?
5. What are the most significant challenges women face in being successful business owners or rising in their professions / careers?
6. Please talk about mentorship and the importance of support and networks.
7. Can you share an example of a success story or growth story that captures the impacts of Women Striving for Success?
8. You are branching into St Croix this year? What created this expansion?
9. Describe the flow of the conference and the types of modules being offered?
10. What is the greatest benefit for a woman attending?
11. Based on your experience what gets in the way of women believing in our skills and abilities?
12. What are the costs for the conference as well as location for both islands?

Guest- Dr Matthew Krefetz, Caribbean Chiropractic Center - "Chiropractic Care for Wellness and Healing”.

1. Please share your story of becoming an integrative holistic healer/ practitioner.
2. People have may have some misconceptions of Chiropractic care. Please define this practice of healing and what it provides.
3. What type of chiropractor are you since there are different approaches and training types?
4. Are there limitations on the type of persons you can work with / on?
5. What is Restorative Breathing? The title intrigued me in your bio.
6. Many persons reserve their exercise for try weekends and hit it hard and then there are the desk folks who need to get moving. Offer your perspectives on this population and what you observe in their spines and overall wellness?
7. How does living in the Caribbean influence the way you support patient wellness and healing?
8. What have you learned about Caribbean culture after 10 years that has changed you in unexpected ways?
9. Are there environmental challenges and blessings that impact the treatment and healing for your patients?
10. What did you see in your patients after Hurricanes Irma & Maria if anything different from before?
11. What typically brings someone in to see you?
12. What is the evaluation and treatment process like?
13. Some people are concerned about being touched and their bodies “manipulated” for treatment...please share your responses to this concern.
14. How long does someone work with before experiencing results or relief since bodywork is different from traditional medicine?
15. What are your prices and do you take insurance?
16. Please share your contact information and location for follow up.

Closing thoughts or words of encouragement to the audience. What’s the take away for those who are listening?

Dr. Namonya Soipan - "Exploring Ancient Healing Practices" Center for Sacred Dialogue

1. Please share your story of becoming an integrative holistic healer/ practitioner.
2. Names anchor us in the world and give purpose to our path. What does your name mean and how do you live in it?
3. Caribbean islands are a blend of many cultures and healing traditions, connections to the land, African ancestry, colonialism, slavery and varied economic realities. That said, how does your approach to healing and wellness connect to this heritage and realities?
4. What types of healing modalities do you provide? Describe what a client would experience coming to see you?
5. Fear of the unknown / the unfamiliar block many of us from moving outside of our comfort zone. Talk about your experience very with first timers to the center?
6. Describe what the Center for Sacred Dialogue is like? Why did you choose that name?
7. Do individuals still see their medical doctors/ therapists and see you as well?
8. What changes have you witnessed in your clients after Irmaria physically/ emotionally/ spiritually?
9. If someone is listening and is intrigued enough / curious to come see you ...what is a treatment type that may be most beneficial to begin? Or does an assessment process take place regardless to begin working with you?
10. Do you work with children, pregnant women and the elderly population? Are all persons able to benefit from Center for Sacred Dialogue?
11. You offer shamanistic workshops. What is a shamanistic workshop and its benefits?
12. How do you go deeper in these healing practices...cupping / acupuncture gatherings, etc?
13. What are your prices? Is it only private pay or do you take any insurance?
14. There seems to be a growing and long standing holistic community of practitioners on island. Is that an accurate reality?
15. Please share your contact information and location of the Center.

Rotary Wellness Wednesday 5/8/29

"The Power of Human Resilience and Transformation"

Guest- Dale Gates, Life Coach, Trainer, Consultant calls in from Atlanta to speak about his life, health and trauma he experienced at a very young age. 

1. Your story begins with the death of your mother at the hands of your father. It’s Mother’s Day this weekend. What’s been the impact of her death on your life?
2. The power of living life after multiple traumas can’t be minimized. Where did your belief that life could be better come from? 
3. How did you keep hope alive at your most challenging moments?
4. How do you use your life story and challenges to help others transform theirs?
5. What is a life coach?
6. Describe your approach to coaching?
7. What role does mindset and beliefs have in our abilities to transform our lives?
8. Talk about fear and it’s impact on moving forward towards our dreams?
9. Share a brief example of a client and the impact of coaching on his/ her breakthrough.
10. What are your dreams for the future?
11. The hurricanes have shaken up many parts of our lives. What is one major thing that an individual can do to begin to enhance/ change / transform his/her life based on your personal and professional experiences.
12. Please share your contact information for anyone who wants to follow up.

Rotary Wellness Wednesday 5/1/19

Guest- Dr. Noreen Michael, Research Director Caribbean Exploratory Research Center, University of the Virgin Islands shares the “Community Needs Assessment” report one year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit our Islands.

Brief outline of the conversation with the following questions and subject points;

1. Congratulations on the release of this unprecedented major community needs assessment. This report of several hundred pages captures the impacts of the hurricanes on the most vulnerable in the VI. The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands contracted with the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center at U.V.I. to conduct this important research effort. Briefly describe the “why”of this Community Needs Assessment.
2. How did you collect the information?
3. Briefly share the major 4 - 5 areas that would be important to our listening audience.
4. What surprised you the most from the experience of collecting, analyzing and writing the report?
5. The report received national attention with a feature on NPR (National Public Radio). What has been the impact of that level of exposure?
6. The voices of individuals often provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of "Irmaria". Can you share a couple of focus group comments that highlight this reality.
7. It will soon be the start of hurricane season what would be important takeaways for individuals and for leaders based on your findings, especially for children and the elderly in the V.I.
8. What has been the response locally to the report?
9. Are there plans for building on this important work?
10. How can an individual or groups get a copy of the report?
11. Please share your contact information?

Closing thoughts or words of encouragement to the audience. What’s the take away for those who are listening. 

Khalani Rivers & Nyaila Callwood “Millennial Perspectives on Culture, and Expanding the Conversation and Vision for the Virgin Ilands” 
These are questions for reflection and guidance the conversation takes on its own energy.

The first two are asked of all guests.

1. What does wellness mean to you?
2. What do you do to support wellness in your life, especially given your training and expertise. 

This conversation will be in three parts - 

First Your Personal Irma Maria Journey
Second - Perspectives on Preserving Culture
Third - Creating Changing 

1. We have had a wide variety of guests sharing their hurricane experiences. I'm grateful to have two outstanding millennial leaders with us today. What were your experiences of Irmaria?
2. What have you learned about your self a year and a half later?
3. What are some mis-perceptions that many may have of you and your peers in how you are recovering from the hurricanes?
4. I have had the opportunity to see you both use spoken word, meditation and creative visualization to engage your peers in thinking beyond the present moment and envisioning their future. How did you develop these skills and what impact do their have on your peers?
5. Talk about VI culture and what you believe is essential for the present and the future.
6. What do you believe needs to be challenged culturally or at least engaged in new ways to bridge the past, present and the future?
7. You were one the the top winners recently in the 13D entrepreneurial competition. Talk about the competition, your business idea, the passion behind it and where things currently stand with its development?
8. At the recent Peace Makers Gala sponsored by the Family Resource Center you both presented a powerful one act play/ presentation focused on relationships, consent and issues of breaking the bro code. What is the bro code? How did this come about and what was your intention in presenting this artistic work?
9. It's Carnival season. Please talk about Culture Crawl for those who are not aware of what it is.
10. What are your visions for your futures?
11. How can someone in the listening audience get in contact with both of you for info on Culture Crawl, artistic presentations, etc?
12. April is poetry month. Would you like to close with a few words in verse?

These questions and comments are for reflection used for guidance only. The conversation takes on its own energy.

The first two questions asked of all guests.

 - What does wellness mean to you?
- What do you do to support wellness in your life, especially given your training and expertise.

This conversation will explore three areas - 

First Your Personal Hurricane Irma and Maria Journey
Second - Stress and Recovery for a Congregation
Third- Cultivating Faith to Live 

1. We often think of leaders and certainly faith leaders as immune from the challenges of stress. Please share the impact of Irmaria on you and your family. 
2. What have learned about yourself that is helpful as you move forward in the recovery process?
3. Before talking about congregational impacts please give us some history of the Moravian church for those who are not familiar.
4. What has been that impacts of Irmaria on your congregation?
5. As you reflect on the recovery journey what has helped to strengthen and promote recovery/ healing for members of the congregation?
6. What is faith? What difference does it make in life?
7. The Caribbean and the Virgin Islands is a very Christian centric region. One of the outcomes of trauma can be to create deeper faith exploration or to move away or question God can you speak to both realities perhaps if you have witnessed these reactions in the recovery process.
8. This is the Lenten season. How may individuals who observe this period deeper their faith and their experience of The Creator?
9. It’s Women’s History and VI History Month. You are one of few women in a leadership role in a faith community in the Virgin Islands. Do you believe you bring an enhanced perspective to walking a Christian life and leading others in part because of your gender?
10. As appropriate can you close out with a prayer of encouragement for all those in the listening audience who are struggling with being well, recovery, family challenges or just struggling with the belief that things will get better.

Closing thoughts or words of encouragement to the audience. What’s the take away for those who are listening.

A Conversation with Virgin Islands Social Worker Extraordinaire, Advocate and Healer Dilsa Capdeville. The following are questions for reflection used for guidance only. The conversation takes on its own energy.

The first two are asked of all guests.

1. What does wellness mean to you?
2. What do you do to support wellness in your life, especially given your training and expertise.

This conversation will be in three parts - 

First Your Personal Healing Journey.
Second - Your Work at KidsScope Inc.
Third- Wisdom about Building Families that Affirm Love and Not Harm.

1. Often there can be hiding when there is sickness or a diagnoses that is scary. Let’s begin there because your story is so extraordinary and a testament of personal resilience, medical care, support and faith. Share with the listening audience your own personal journey of recovery from cancer? When were you diagnosed and what was your treatment like?
2. What did you learn most about yourself and the healing journey?
3. Please talk about the importance of cultural competence in providing medical care and services in general. Why does this matter?
4. Segment Two- You have been a Social Worker in the VI for many decades and have been recognized for your contribution to the VI. You began Kidscope to fill a void for children and families who needed support since many were falling through the bureaucracy of government. Tell us about Kidscope what it does and the impact on children and families.
5. Based on your decades of work in the VI what contributes most to family dysfunction and brokenness?
6. Segment Three - Let’s talk about healthy individuals, families and communities. What wisdom would you share about what affirms strong individuals, families and communities.
7. It’s Women’s History and VI History Month - what woman / women have impacted your life the most and why?
8. Share contact information for KidsScope. http://www.kidscopevi.org/ 

Closing thoughts or words of encouragement to the audience. What’s the take away for those who are listening.

Guest Physical Therapist and Manager Eileen Short  of the Healing Tree Physical Therapy Center on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, along with Catherine Early, shared their insights on the process of healing through gradual relaxation methods and physical therapy.
The conversation was structured around these questions and thoughts;

• What does wellness mean to you?
• What do you do to support wellness in your life, especially given your training and expertise?
• Let's start with a basic definition of physical therapy?
• With so many wellness therapies there are different orientations and types, is there a particular type of physical therapy that you practice?
• Describe the process of pain in our bodies and when it is important to listen and not tolerate the pain any longer?
• What if any changes did you see in your returning or new patients after the Hurricanes?
• Talk about the role of skeletal and muscle strength and posture for our overall wellness?
• There is an increased concern for falling as we grow older. Please comment on what can help to decrease negative impacts of falls and broken bones etc.
• There are lots of hard surfaces on island and though its fun to walk around barefoot and feel grounded, please comment on the role of tiles, hills, and other surfaces that pound our feet and bodies.
• Physical therapy often means that the individual may feel some pain while they are getting better. Who wants pain? Talk about the healing process.
• Is there one thing that we all can do to enhance our physical strength and overall vitality?
• What are the other wellness practices that you work with to enhance physical therapy benefits?