Rita Schiano
Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention Coaching Certificate
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Resilience Strategist • Motivational Speaker Expert
Rita Schiano Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Personal and professional development through resilience
- Best Sellers
- Live A Flourishing Life, Paintiing The Invisible Man, Sweet Bitter Love
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Trainer, Resilience Strategist
- Affiliation
- Bay Path University; THe American Women's College
Rita Schiano is a resilience strategist and coach, speaker, and founder of Rita Schiano ~ Live A Flourishing Life. A former corporate vice-president and small business owner, Rita's leadership knowledge, strategies, and insights draw from both sides of the aisle. Organizations use Rita to help staff build resilient leadership skills, manage stress, and improve morale. As a personal strategic coach, Rita helps clients focus specifically on their most important goals, interests, challenges, and needs. The goal of private sessions is to offer insight and assistance that guides you towards actionable, positive changes that will affect all areas of your life. Rita received her Strategic Intervention Coaching Certificate from Robbins-Madanes.
She is the author of several books, including Live A Flourishing Life, a stress management and resilience-building process workbook; the critically-acclaimed, semi-autobiographical novel Painting The Invisible Man, and Sweet Bitter Love and articles for The Huffington Post / AOL Healthy Living, the Worcester Business Jou al, and guest blogger for Psychology Today.
Rita is a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association. As a speaker and featured presenter, Rita leaves her audiences in a motivated and inspired frame of mind. She has served Bay Path University as an Adjunct Professor since 2006. And in July 2015, Rita was certified as a non-denominational ministerial marriage officiant by the ULC.
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Humor Is Your Best Friend
Several years ago I watched a video about comedia Dave Fitzgerald, a two-time cancer patient. In it, Dave discusses his experience with the disease and how he coped. He talks about his decisions and choices regarding treatment options, being involved in one’s own recovery, and keeping a sense of humor. We've heard time after time that laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Humor lightens our burdens and opens the channels allowing hope to flow. Laughter is good for your physical and emotional health.
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Thoughts On Resilience - Part One
Resilience is that quality, that ability that enables some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than before. Rather than allowing crises or failure to drain their resolve, they tapped a reservoir of determination that allows them to rise up strong and resolute. There are several factors that make someone resilient: an attitude of optimism and hope, the ability to manage strong emotions, and the ability to see failure as valuable negative information.
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Thoughts On Resilience - Part Two
Each of us has a considerable capacity for strength. And while sometimes it is easier to embrace being a victim of circumstances, that role removes the obligation to change. Resilient people do not let adversity define them. Instead, they rise above adversity—poverty, abuse, neglect violence, molestation or war—and forge a stronger, more durable character. Resilience is the means by which we are not immobilized by hardship, but rather bounce back from it stronger, determined, empowered, and able to lead gratifying, flourishing lives.
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Thoughts on Resilience - Part Three
We all need reminders of the strengths we have. And we can cultivate resilience by embracing these three directives: by knowing what you have, by knowing who you are, and by knowing what you are capable of doing. -- What You Have: strong relationships and connections to others, structure and discipline, dedication and desire, role models and mentors -- Who You Are: a person who embraces that Holy Grail of attitudes – optimism, who has hope and faith, who cares about others, and who is proud of oneself
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Letting Go Of Yesterday's Hurts
If you can tell a story about how you were wronged last month, last year, five, even ten years ago with the same vehemence, anger, and ire, then you have not let go of it! What happened has happened. What was done is done. Over, finis. Like a dog with a bone, we can gnaw on old wounds or injustices, reliving every detail over and over, thereby keeping them raw in our minds. Picking at our painful past keeps us from healing psychically and emotionally, and threatens our physical health. Letting go increases physical and emotional well-being.
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Characteristics Of Resilient People - Part One
It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being.Since this continuance can be secured only by constant renewals,life is a self-renewing process. ~ John Dewey
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Flourishing: The Greeks Got It, And So Can You
Human flourishing involves the rational use of one’s individual human potentialities, including talents, abilities, and virtues in the pursuit of his freely and rationally chosen values and goals. ~ Edward W. Younkins The notion of living the good life can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosophers — to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. These ancient thinkers revered the concept of "eudaimonia," a classical Greek word commonly translated as happiness, well-being, or flourishing.
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Living A Flourishing Life Begins With Attitude
Bruce MacLelland wrote, "You are what you think, not what you think you are." At the heart of flourishing is resilience. Being a resilient person starts with attitude. Attitude about… • One’s self • One’s abilities • One’s goals and dreams This begins with self-confidence. Self-confidence is a fundamental conviction about one’s competence and abilities. Having a positive self-image is critical if a person is to have the ability to confront and manage fear and anxiety in his or her life.
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Stress Triggers: How to Identify Yours
Each of us has situations that can make our heart race, our blood boil — deadlines, interviews and teenagers, to name a few. Knowing what causes you stress is vital and powerful information and the beginning steps toward living a healthier, stress-reduced life.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Rita Schiano
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. - Rita Schiano, from Sweet Bitter Love
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
Hope gives life meaning, propels us forward and sharpens our vision of the future.
It is the simplest things that are often the hardest for us to do; yet it is the simple things that can change our lives.
We cannot go back and rewrite our history, but we can at any present point redirect our focus and write a new ending.
To manifest what you want in life you cannot simply act as if; you must embrace the possibility as a probability; you must feel it deep within the core of your being.
Why set goals? Goals keep us focused on our message and mission, keep us disciplined in our actions, and help us achieve what we want in life. Goals help us to flourish.
To prepare for the larger challenges in life, begin by taking small risks and challenging old, familiar patterns of behavior. Take a risk today. Do one thing differently from the way you normally do it. It can be as simple as changing the order in which you get dressed, driving a different route to work, or showing patience when feeling tested.
Contacting Rita Schiano
How to get started
My mission is multi-fold. My strategic professional workshops help businesses flourish by working with staff to strengthen work relationships through team building, conflict resolution, effective communication, and critical and creative thinking skills.
As a Strategic Personal Coach, I help people develop and tap into the skills and attitudes necessary for them to overcome personal and professional barriers, build resilience, and live a better life.
Rita Schiano ~ Live A Flourishing Life workshops and coaching are customized specifically to one's most important goals, interests, challenges, and needs. The goal is to offer insight and assistance that will guide people towards actionable, positive changes that will affect all areas of life.
Other highlights
- For Parents: Helping Your Kids Cope With Stress (PTO /PTA Program)
- For Parents: Building Empathy and Resilience In Your Kids (PTO /PTA Program)
- For Kids: Let's Talk About Stress
Professional Development / Leadership Presentations
- Practices for a Positive Workplace (Attitude/Employee Engagement)
- Becoming a Resilient Leader (Resilient Leadership)
- Building a Team That Really Works (Team Building//Employee Engagement)
- Put Away Those Combat Boots (Conflict Management/Conflict Resolution)
- Can't We All Just Get Along? (Working With Difficult People)
- Did You Say What I Think I Heard? (Effective Interpersonal Communication)
- If Only There Were 25 Hours In A Day ... (Time Management)
- Embrace Your Muse (Developing Critical and Creative Thinking Skills)
Personal Development Resilience-Building Presentations
- Resilience: The Key To Retirement Well-Being
- How To Recover From Setbacks and Embrace Change (Personal Resilience Building)
- Change Your Habitude©, Change Your Life (How Your Attitude Affects Your Personal and Professional Life)
Customized Retreat Workshops and Seminars
All Rita Schiano ~ Live A Flourishing Life© programs can be tailored to your business or group's needs. Rita's customized, resilience-building retreat workshops and seminars are a unique way to reward and rejuvenate employees, teachers, and group members.
- Corporate retreats
- Organization training programs
- Education professional meetings
- Religious groups
- Women's retreats