Presentations to Improve your Parenting Skills
in a Few Short Hours!
Parents care deeply about their children and long to raise happy, successful children. Yet unexpected things happen in their day-to-day lives that feel confusing and frustrating to them. Every parent does the best s/he can, even when s/he feels unsure how to best handle a situation with her child.
All of our workshops are designed to give parents key insights and understandings they need to be the loving, joyous parent they desire to be. We assist parents to discover and developing their natural ability to relate easily and joyfully with their cihld. Parents make profound changes in their behavior when they have essential principles to parenting success.
"Before attending your workshops, I was concerned about tantrums and fighting between my 6-year-old and her 1 1/2-year-old brother. I was having a hard time not losing my temper. I felt frustrated and somewhat hopeless. Since then, I have handled the challenging situations differently with both my son and daughter. They are much more loving toward each other, and I feel happier and more confident as a parent. My whole family has greatly benefited from those few hours of your effort."
~~ Carol, mother of two children
"After hearing you speak at my son's school, you motivated me to look positively at my son rather than always complaining about him. There are still days when I see many negative things, but since I have met you, you gave me that push back to reality to see that my son is only 3 and he is a child, not a monster out to get me. I try very hard to cherish the good feeling you gave me as I had lost it and I love that feeling."
~~ Sara, mother of three children
All of our workshops and talks utilize self-reflection, experiential exercises and discussion to deepen the learning each parent receives. These tools help parents access their own inner guidance and knowledge. Then they are able to see effective ways to improve their own choices and actions, which in turn allows their child to improve her behavior also.
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Here are the topics we present. If you have a special concern that does not seem to fit with the following, please call us to discuss a customized presentation for your group.
Joy with Children: New Skills for Today's Parents
Acquire new skills to raise today's children.
Emotional Wholeness: Three Keys to Radiant Well-Being in Children
Help your child express her innate potential.
Five Most Common Mistakes Parents Make
Find out how you can be a better parent.
Why Johnny Doesn't Listen, and What You Can Do about It
Develop new skills to make your communication easier.
Parent Forum
Find answers to your most important questions.
Communicate to Connect with your Child
Improve your ability to listen and talk with your child
Four Simple Steps to Create Win-Win Agreements with Children
Learn the principles of creating win-win agreements with children.
Raise Self-Reliant Children
Discover new perspectives and tools to help your child be wisely independent.
Prepare your Child for Success in Life and School
Master the art of preparing your child for a wonderful future personally and professionally.
Keep your Cool as a Parent: How to Handle Tantrums and Emotional Melt-Downs
Improve your ability to handle your child's tantrum or emotional meltdown.
Set Limits without Breaking your Child's Spirit
Have more harmony, cooperation, and fun with your child.
Handle Difficult Interactions with your Child
Learn how to lovingly, effectively respond to your child's difficult behavior.
Workshop Descriptions
Joy with Children: New Skills for Today's Parents
This provocative, compelling presentation challenges the common beliefs we have about raising happy, successful children. It's insightful, common-sense approach explores the essential skills parents need to empower today's children to be more emotionally whole and to have parenting be easier and more fun.
Emotional Wholeness: Three Keys to Radiant Well-Being in Children
Emotional wholeness is essential to a child's joy and success in life. Without it, difficult behaviors occur more frequently and parenting becomes more confusing and effortful. Emotional wholeness is important for both parents and young people. You will discover new clarity and certainty when you focus less on your child's behavior and more on nurturing emotional well-being. This presentation also teaches four essential components of emotional wholeness.
Five Most Common Mistakes Parents Make
Every parent wants to do their very best to nurture their child's emotional wholeness and ability to have a joyous, successful life. Yet, when we look around, we realize parents and children often struggle with every day situations. This talk clarifies and brings into focus the key ways parents can improve their own behavior, be more effective as a parent, and have a lot more fun.
Why Johnny Doesn't Listen and What You Can Do about It
Parents often struggle with children who don’t listen and who do the same things over and over no matter what their parent does. This makes parenting frustrating and stressful at times. Parents want their child to be more cooperative. This workshop helps you
- Discover the five most common mistakes parents make in talking with children.
- Communicate in new ways with your child to get the results you want.
- Have more joyful, harmonious relationships with your child.
- Experience being heard and appreciated by your child.
Parent Forum
Parents often struggle with similar issues and questions about how to raise their child to cooperate and succeed in life. This forum begins with key ideas about the definition and meaning of emotional wholenss. Then we discuss the most important concerns of the parents in the group.Topics we often discuss include
- Discipline and setting limits
- Improved ways to talk with your child
- How to empower your child to be his best
- How to have more cooperation with your child
- How to handle emotional meltdowns
Communicate to Connect with your Child
The ability to communicate well with your child is one of the most powerful tools you have as a parent. It can create a loving emotional connection and nurture his emotional well-being, or it can create distance and misunderstanding between you and undermine his ability to learn, to cooperate, to focus and to enjoy life.
In this parenting workshop, you will
- Be a more loving, empowering guide to your child.
- Develop your skills to listen and talk with your child.
- Learn new insights about your current way of communicating with your child.
- Feel confident applying your new knowledge.
- Have more fun, joy and ease as a parent.
Four Simple Steps to Create Win-Win Agreements with Children
Parent's relationship with their child will flourish when they develop the skill to create win-win agreements with their child. you will dramatically increase the harmony and cooperation in your home! Plus you and your child will have life-long skills to assist you in having more of what you want in other parts of your life. This workshop teaches you:
- how to lessen stress and conflict with your child
- what is an agreement
- clarity of "who owns the problem"
- effective communication strategies
- how to positively empower yourself and your child
How to Raise Self-Reliant Children
Every parent wants their child to be able to take care of themselves as adults and to make wise choices both now and in the future. But how are you to truly accomplish this goal? The answers to this question may surprise you! It is more simple than you think and very rewarding to you as a parent. This workshop teaches:
- what children need from you to make wise choices
- strategies to develop self-reliance in children
- how children can learn from their mistakes
- how to relax more in being a parent
Prepare your Child for Success in Life and School
You invest a lot of time, money and energy into raising a successful child, but do you feel confident your child is developing the skills they need to succeed in the coming year and in his/her life? Would you like a little more clarity about the daily choices you make and how they affect your child in the long run? This workshop will help you discover:
- a deeper understanding of what children most need from you to be happy, fulfilled and successful
- greater clarity of your goals as a parent
- how to enjoy your child more
- how to nurture your child's inner wisdom
Keep your Cool as a Parent: Handle Tantrums and Emotional Melt-Downs
Emotional upsets with your child affect all areas of your relationship together. Should you get angry, insist on your way, or try to make everything okay? Learn :
- strategies to help your child get through emotional upsets
- what makes tantrums so difficult to handle
- how to handle your own emotions during tantrums
- when and how to take a "time out" with your child
- how to have a "happy ending" to an emotional upset
Set Limits without Breaking your Child's Spirit
Do you know where to "draw the line" with your child so you are heard and get what you want? Parents struggle more about setting limits than any other area of parenting, even though it is one of the most important aspects of empowering your child to be his/her best self.This workshop teaches:
- how to have more harmony and cooperation between you and your children
- how to set limits without limiting their natural expression
- how to have increased respect from your children
- what is consistency and how do you do it
- what you need to take care of yourself
Handle Difficult Interactions with your Child
Almost daily you face frustrating challenges with your child that make you wonder if you're doing the right thing. Often these become negative patterns that erode the closeness between you and your child. Learn how to find your way more smoothly through the difficult situations with your child. Discover:
- the principles to handle all difficult situations with children
- how to end escalating negative patterns
- how to build more loving, harmonious understanding relationships with your child
If you would like to schedule a workshop or would like to know more, please call me at 650-960-6895 or email me. Thank you!
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