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ACH: What is Revitalize? TZ: When I reached the point in my career where I was assisting schools and organizations with leadership development, I was initially using other groups’ materials. But it became obvious that I could develop my own program. That’s when I started to focus on emotional intelligence, resiliency and preparing yourself for difficult situations in life. I realized throughout my own life that I often encountered challenges, but no one had ever helped teach me what I needed to do to navigate those challenges in a way that was the least harmful to me. I looked into well-being, and wellness was always something that was important to me as a dancer growing up. I also knew that my family's health history wasn't really inspiring for a life of health and wellness, so I made a conscious decision to make sure that I wasn't like the rest of my family and that I prepared my body to be healthy as I got older. I looked at what I consume and how I took care of myself, looking at what I do when I'm stressed out or when I know I'm going to encounter stressors. I decided to share what I learned with others through my workshops, and that’s how I was inspired to create Revitalize for Alpha Phi. ACH: How will Alpha Phi’s members benefit from this program? TZ: For students and college-aged women, this program is invaluable. There isn’t necessarily a curriculum for women in high school or when they leave for college that says, ‘Things are going to get tough at some point. Here’s how you can develop mental fitness and resiliency. Here’s how you can take care of yourself and how you can focus on what you can control and let go of what you can’t.’ Women will learn the value of self-care, and that doesn’t necessarily mean facemasks or spa days. It means building healthy habits and life skills – physically, mentally, emotionally – that help them navigate life when it gets hard. This 90-minute workshop is meant to help people think differently but also validate some of the [self-care practices] they might already be doing. I hope Alpha Phi’s members will walk away from this workshop with their coaches with a plan for which destructive habits they will stop and which
healthier habits they plan to try when hit with a stressor. I did ask the coaches to say, ‘We're going to give you a lot of information here. Some of it you're going to connect with, and some of it you're not. And that's fine. We just ask that you're listening to this workshop and that you're noting the things that you do connect with and that you can focus on.’ And that’s important because I think people can get overwhelmed sitting in a learning session because they think they have to remember and do everything, but that’s not the case here. ACH: What are your goals for sorority women with this program? What do you hope they take away? TZ: I want them to change the way they think about self-care and well-being, and I want them to focus more on the internal pieces of that rather than the external pieces and on things that they can't control. I want them to walk away thinking, ‘These are the things that I can be aware of, and this is how I can train my body and brain to react to difficult things as I experienced them.’ I also want them to walk away from the session with a smile on their face. I want them to have a good time, and I want them to enjoy talking about these topics and know that these topics are approachable. I also try to breathe a lot of lightheartedness into my sessions, and I know that the coaches are going to do a really great job doing that, too. Since I'm not the one facilitating it, I have 100% trust in the league as coaches to be able to bring that to the students. After spending time with them when we went through the workshop and did the training, I'm super pumped because I know that these coaches are going to do an incredible job of facilitating this workshop, the rules are going to be met and the collegians are going to walk out of there feeling empowered. Learn more about Revitalize and other Fraternity programs made possible by the Alpha Phi Foundation and its generous donors by visiting alphaphi.org/join-alpha-phi/programs.
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