education center classes help people understand their chronic condition whatever it is and develop approaches to living healthier easier to manage like in general  ok so remember we're but this is back to session two now i just take a quick look at the chart and today we're going to talk about feedback and problem solving and then we're going to deal with difficult emotions we'll take a little break and then we'll talk about the introduction to physical activity an exercise something which will need to self management involves behavior change participants try out new activities and behaviors between sessions and report back on their successes each week was and then how will you accomplished it or if you didn't what happened ok well my action plan this week was to cook dinner for my father and my brother at their place and i was going to make sure that this got done as i got off work at dinner monday tuesday wednesday and thursday they weren't eating real nutritiously you know when awfully well because i did some planning ahead of time and by doing things like using my crockpot and setting the meals up before i went to work majority it was done it was a khaybar changes over the next six weeks with the support and encouragement of leaders occurs people start walking when they never walk before they start just a few minutes a day doing something differently that helps them ultimately manage their chronic disease well my action plan was to walk three times for thirty minutes each and i did it successfully one time but it was raining the rest of the week so i really kind of didn't know how to get the other two days in there so it wasn't i wasn't very successful what about getting some help from the group would be good ok so i want to ask everybody to just think about remember how we do brainstorming where ya'll walking on your break when you're at work so surely we came up with some good ideas did you find anything that maybe would work for you yes i did i think that walking in the mall is a really good idea and i think that would make it achievable next time i learn that i had to stick to it as far as exercising i had to watch it better with the healthy eating habits and so on i know it was better for me and so it was it gave me incentive to stick to those things i knew were good for me when i see my health care professionals i've learned to bring my list of medications with me every time i go to the doctors i've learned to share information with my health care team so that we each one of them knows what the other one has told me and what the other one has prescribed for me i've learned that that keeps things very organized for me and and it's been it's been very helpful my test results for my diabetes have actually been very positive since i started you just saw a session on living well chronic disease self management we have living well sessions on diabetes management pain management in spanish and in english management is particularly important because people learn how to using gentle pressure exercise  distraction techniques how to manage the chronic pain that often goes with chronic conditions two hundred twenty five plus people a year go through the sessions many of whom graduate and go on to become trained leaders themselves you can get more information about a living well class by calling eight six four nine six one one in area code five or one or going to the website so healthy oregon dot org