Date: December 6, 2025

Helping People Change: Strategies to Encourage, Establish, and Maintain Healthy Habits

It’s not hard to know WHAT to do to be healthy, since we all know what we should do more often and less often to support our mental and physical health. However, helping someone make changes to do those things can be hard, whether it is exercising, eating healthier, reducing substance use, or minimizing negative thoughts. In this webinar, Dr. Kateri McRae will review the science of how habits are formed and maintained in the brain, as well as naming several emotional obstacles to successful habit formation. Attendees will learn brain-based strategies to help people make and maintain meaningful changes that support their health. Mixing foundational science with practical suggestions, and peppered with humor and perspective, this webinar will leave you feeling empowered to offer people small suggestions that can make a big change in how they take charge of their own health.

Format

Live Webinar

Credits

3.0

Instructor

Kateri McRae Ph.D.

Price

$ 99

WEBINAR objectives

Helping People Change: Strategies to Encourage, Establish, and Maintain Healthy Habits

  • Name and describe two principles of how habits are formed in our brain.
  • List two suggestions for making new habits achievable.
  • Describe conditions that make learning and maintaining new habits easier (and harder).

Instructor

Kateri McRae Ph.D.

Kateri McRae Ph.D. is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Denver (DU). She is a cognitive and affective neuroscientist, who has studied the neuroscience of emotion regulation, the cognitive generation of emotion and emotional awareness. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, and DU. She teaches graduate seminars in affective neuroscience and fMRI methods, and undergraduate courses such as a first-year seminar called, Exploring Psychology Through Theater and a community-engaged seminar course for junior and senior psychology students called, Emotion Regulation. She previously served as the president of the Social and Affective Neuroscience (an international academic society), the Director of Faculty Advising (DU), and an associate editor at the APA journal Emotion.

About this webinar

The webinar is a live, interactive class. You will view the webinar in real time from your home or office on a computer, tablet (e.g., iPad) or phone. You will be able see the speaker and the slides, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and respond to polls. You will have access to the handouts, which you can view on your computer or download and print.

You will need to show up on time to receive credit, just like at an in-person class, but you can wear whatever you’d like! The class will run from 10am to 1:15pm Pacific Time. There will be a morning and afternoon break and a break for lunch. At the end of the class you will need to take a post-test and receive a score of 75% or above to pass. You have up to three attempts to pass the post-test. Most people pass on their first attempt. After two attempts to pass the post-test you will need to contact our office and you will be provided with one more attempt to pass the post-test. The post-test will only be available at the end of the class. Once you pass the post-test, you will complete an evaluation online and then you will receive your Certificate of Attendance online, which you can view and print.

Cancellation policy

There is a $35.00 processing fee, per seminar, for refunds requested by the Wednesday prior to the weekend of the webinar. After that time, there will be no refunds. If a course must be cancelled due to an unforeseen event (e.g., natural disaster, instructor illness), the webinar will be rescheduled. Participants will be credited to take the rescheduled course or another PPS webinar. No refunds will be given.

Live Webinar FAQs

If two or more people sign-up for the same class, are there any discounts?

No, there are currently no discounts if two or more people sign up for the webinar.

What is your refund and cancellation policy?

There is a $35.00 processing fee, per live webinar, for refunds requested at least 48 hours before the live webinar. After that time there will be no refunds, but credit will be given for a future live webinar.

If we at PPS need to cancel a class at the last minute due to an unforeseen event (e.g., natural disaster, instructor illness), the webinar will be rescheduled. You will be credited to take the rescheduled course or another PPS webinar. No refunds will be given.

If we at PPS need to cancel a class due to low enrollment, your registration fee will be refunded in full or you can take another PPS class.