Balancing Work and Family – Learn to nurture
yourself and your family so that your family supports
your work.
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Balancing Love and Discipline – Explore the
concepts of firm and kind, unconditional love, and the
value of more action and less talk.
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Effective Parent-Child Communication – Introduces
the concepts of listening, GEMS, handling feelings and
conflict resolution.
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Creating Cooperative Families – Learn to create a
cooperative family/classroom atmosphere and what to
do when there is a lack of cooperation.
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Consequences that Work – Introduces the concepts
of natural and logical consequences and how
parents/teachers can effectively use them.
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Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem – Learn 9
methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem.
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Effectively Handling Aggression -- Explore
developmental and learned aspects of aggression, the
types of aggression, and specific things to teach
children a different way to handle conflict.
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Handling Sibling Rivalry – There is a difference
between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict. Learn to
identify each behavior and ways to help children settle
conflict peacefully.
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“If You Don’t Stop Crying…” How to Handle
Children’s Feelings – See the effects of feeling
stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with
children’s feelings in each developmental stage.
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Create the Terrific Two’s! – Use lots of developmental
information and the mistaken goals of power and
attention to make this difficult time wonderful.
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“That’s It, You’re Grounded!” Parent-Teen
Communication – How to effectively communicate with
your teen, set clear boundaries, and understand what
happened to my child!
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“I Don’t Want To and You Can’t Make Me!”
Effectively Handling Power Struggles – Learn how
to recognize and disengage from a power struggle and
what to do to lessen them in the future.
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Parenting as a Team – Discover the underlying
causes of couple’s disagreements on parenting and
how to create peaceful resolution.
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Take the Hassles Out of Homework – Lessen the
power struggles, teach responsibility and goal setting,
and demonstrate ways to encourage self-motivation.
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Teaching Children Self-Control – Within
developmental guidelines, show how it is the parents’
and/or teachers’ job to assist the child in learning how
to control and appropriately express their feelings and
desires.
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Tame Those Tantrums – Explore the concept of how
less power means more. Learn how to diagnose
tantrums and prevent them.
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Tell them What to Do, Not What to Don’t – Learn
how a small shift in speech can create more
cooperative, responsible children.
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Keeping Yourself Encouraged (and Spreading it
Around) – Show how to encourage yourself and those
around you to achieve more in every area of life.
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Asking for What You Want – Learn how to
understand and overcome this difficulty and how to
successfully negotiate.
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Creating Team Work – Teach the underlying concepts
of teamwork and how to make it happen at home and
work.
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Resolving Conflicts – Create win-win situations
through negotiation. Help your children learn
assertiveness.
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Couples Communication – Learn effective skills to
create closeness. Learn to hear and be heard and
have fun!
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Pushing Your Own Buttons – Learn skills for
parenting and/or teaching with self-control and
emotional maturity. Model the behavior that you want
your children and students to acquire.
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A Little Cheese with that Whine? – Learn why
children whine, how they learn to whine, and how to
teach your children a better way of communicating.
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Talking About Adoption – Learn Respectful Adoption
Language, what children understand at different
developmental stages, and how to talk to your child
about family building.
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Having a Great Summer! – Learn things you can do to
set up a great summer for your family and how to
encourage your children to explore when you hear
"Mom, I'm bored!"
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Attaching and Bonding in Adoption – Learn the
difference between attaching and bonding, what
interrupts attachment, and 7 specific strategies for
creating attachment and close connections with your
child.
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Creating Families through Adoption: Handling the
"Abandonment" Word – A powerful workshop for
parents handling the issue of abandonment in
adoption. Gain clarity and insights to help you and your
child handle emotional issues.
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