This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with conducting a health promotion seminar. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of a health care promotion seminar in rural health promotional training, general objectives and recommendations for instructors, and references and suggested course texts. A series of unit overviews dealing with the following topics is provided: health, illness, and wellness; health hazard appraisals; self-directed change; facilitating change; health change agents; stress and illness; exercise and fitness; fitness programs; new eating patterns; patterns of misusing food, drugs, and alcohol; drug abstinence; and health behavior change. Each unit contains general and specific objectives; a topic outline; and seminar ideas, resource notes, and approaches and activities. Concluding the guide are a discussion of methods and materials for student evaluation and a description of other materials in the Family Home Health Training Program series. (MN)