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Workshops

Workshops Topics

The following 2 hour presentations are available for your school, club, church, group or organization. Custom workshop presentations are also available.

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Workshop Topics for Parents and Teachers

1. Balancing Work and Family - Learn how to nurture yourself and your family so that your family supports your work. Find the balance.

2. Balancing Love and Discipline - Introduces the concept of firm and kind, unconditional love and the value of more action and less talk.

3. Consequences that Work - Introduces the concepts of natural and logical consequences and how parents and teachers can effectively use them.

4. Creating Cooperative Families - Teach how to create a cooperative family or classroom atmosphere and what to do when there is a lack of cooperation.

5. Effective Parent-Child (Teacher-Child) Communication - Introduces the concepts of listening, Genuine Encounter Moments, handling feelings and conflict resolution.

6. Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem - Demonstrates 10 methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem.

7. Getting in Step with Step-Parenting - Learn how to work cooperatively with your ex and peacefully blend step-families.

8. Handling Aggressive Children in the classroom, Birth through Six - Explore developmental and learned aspects of aggression and 15 actions you can take to correct this behavior.

9. Handling Sibling Rivalry - There is a difference between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict. Learn how to identify and correct each behavior.

10. How to Turn a Terrible Two into a Terrific Two - Learn to use developmental information and the mistaken goals of power and attention to make this difficult time wonderful.

11. "If you Don’t Stop Crying..." How to Handle Children’s Feelings - Learn the effects of feeling stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with children’s feelings in each developmental stage.

12. "No I Won’t 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.

13. That’s It, You’re Grounded: Parent-Teen Communication - How to effectively communicate with your teen, set clear boundaries, and understand what happened to your child!

14. Parenting as a Team - Discover the underlying causes of couple’s disagreements on parenting and learn how to create peaceful resolutions.

15. Raising a Child with God - Learn how using the Redirecting principles can assist you in the spiritual and religious development of your children.

16. Take the Hassles out of Homework - Lessen the power-struggle, teach responsibility and goal setting and learn ways to encourage and self motivate children.

17. Tame Those Tantrums - Learn the concept of how less power means more. Learn how to diagnosis those tantrums and prevent them.

 


Workshop Topics for General Audiences

18. Teaching Children Self-Control - Within developmental guidelines, learn how it is the parents/teachers job to assist the child in learning how to control and appropriately express their feelings and desires.

19. Tell Them What To Do, Not What To Don’t - Learn how a small shift in speech can create more cooperative, responsible children.

20. What To Do When Your Kids Drive You Crazy - Learn some alternatives to nagging, yelling and threatening and how to model self-control.

21. Asking For What You Want - Learn how to understand and overcome this difficulty and how to successfully negotiate.

22. Couples Communication - Enhance skills to create closeness, learn how to hear and be heard and have fun!

23. Creating Teamwork - Learn underlying concepts of teamwork and how to make it happen at home and at work.

24. Keeping Yourself Encouraged (And Spreading it Around) - Learn how to encourage yourself and those around you to achieve more in every area of life.

25. Resolving Conflicts - Learn the power of conflict resolution and negotiating to a win-win.

 



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