Building Lasting Friendships with Courage, Health and Attitude

Event description
Co-authors Diane Gage Lofgren and Margaret Bhola will provide insights about how to reach out to new friends, enjoy the friends you have, overcome friendship breakdowns, find your fit within a group of friends and show gratitude to your friends for all of the joy they bring to your life. With passion and humor, we will explore intentionally investing in friendships to enrich our lives in good and bad times.

The "Building Lasting Friendships with Courage, Health and Attitude" message will encourage you to put thought, time and effort into creating and sustaining female friendships. Data shows that friends are so important in our lives and for our health. In fact, when women share each other's company, their bodies release the stress-fighting hormone, oxytocin. Friends fill unspeakable voids, provide certainty in uncertain times and offer a safeguard of love- friendships are a crucial part of life.

Margaret and Diane hope to leave you with a fresh sense of determination to check into female friendships and/or start over and find women that they want to grow old with. Their hope is that you feel nothing less than excited and passionate about putting their ideas to use to ensure a healthy friendship future.

Learning objectives
1. Foster lasting and meaningful friendships
2. Discover the importance of female friendship
3. Boost your health through sustaining female friendships

Agenda
5:30 - 6:15 PM   Registration, networking and light buffet dinner
6:15 - 6:30 PM   Welcome and introductions
6:30 - 7:45 PM   Interactive presentation
7:45 - 8:00 PM   Q&A
8:00 - 8:30 PM   Networking

Event location
inVentiv Health
1315 Lincoln Blvd., Suite 270
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-309-1000

Directions

Special instructions: Use parking structure and enter through front doors.

Sponsors



Speakers
Diane Gage Lofgren
Senior vice president, marketing and communications, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego

Margaret Bhola
National marketing director, The Juice Plus Company

Registration information
Event is open to: HBA members and nonmembers
Online registration deadline: September 16, 2016
Onsite (walk-in) registration: Is allowed

Member rate:
$30 until September 6, 2016
$40 after September 6, 2016

Nonmember rate:
$50 until September 6, 2016
$60 after September 6, 2016

Sponsor rate:
$30

Student rate:
$30

Space is limited to 250 registrants.

Cancellations/refunds
Is this event refundable? Yes
If yes, requests must be submitted in writing to events@hbanet.org by September 16, 2016; no refunds are available after this date.

Event questions/support
- Chapter contact for event: Rose Ryder at rryder0322@gmail.com or 562-900-7638
- Membership questions: membership@hbanet.org or 973-575-0606 ext 1
- Online registration assistance: events@hbanet.org or 973-575-0606 ext 3

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Pricing

	Member	Non-Member
1 - Regular registration	$40.00 / €34.00	$60.00 / €51.00
2 - Sponsor registration	$30.00 / €26.00	$30.00 / €26.00
3 - Student registration	$30.00 / €26.00	$30.00 / €26.00

Members receive up to 50 percent discount

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