Lisa B. Williams

Lisa Books-Williams, MS is a certified Green Chef instructor through Greenivore (http://www.Greenivore.net) and was personally trained by Chef Dina Knight. Lisa enjoys promoting the concept of joyful eating and has been conducting vegan/holistic cooking classes through her company Holistic Therapeutic Care in the Pleasanton and surrounding areas for the past six years. Lisa has begun incorporating more raw and living foods recipes into her diet and has found the benefits to be wonderful. Lisa also hosts a monthly potluck through the Tri-Valley Vegetarian Society. Additionally, Lisa is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and has brought therapeutic vegan cooking classes and raw/"live" food preparation classes to persons with disabilities in institutionalized care and at-risk youth. Please visit http://www.Thriveholistic.com  for more information on Lisa’s classes or upcoming potlucks.


SUN 5pm - Joyful Eating
In this talk, learn how the foods you eat can affect your body and mood. Learn how caffeine and cacao produce "fake happiness". You will also learn the concept of "prana" and why being in a grateful and happy state of mind when you are eating, preparing and sharing your food is important. Lisa will teach alternate coping skills to deal with adverse situations and how stress, anger and depression affect your digestion and absorption of nutrients.