The following are a sampling of workshops that are available. I welcome the opportunity to design a workshop on additional topics as well as create unique formats for workshop participation.
Parent Programs
Group for Parents Based on Developmental Issues: Both Topic-Oriented and Open-Ended Discussion
Kindergarten Readiness
Parenting Preschoolers: Balancing Fears and Positive Discipline
Establishing Parent Networks
Responding to Your “Rational” Teen
Supporting Family Connectedness in an Electronically Oriented World
Sex in the Suburbs
Raising Resilient Children
Grand Parenting: What is Your Role in Child Care?
Happily Ever After: Planning for Life Cycle Events
Student Programs
School Stress: Techniques for Success
Developing an Emotional Peer Bank Account
Tolerance within the Classroom: Respecting Differences
Thinking ahead to “Safe” College Years: Dating, Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol
Let’s Chat: Positive Friendships, Peer Pressure, and Cohesive Classroom Dynamics (Mini-series tailored to each grade level)
Teacher Trainings
Parent Conference: Strategies for Handling the Challenging Parent and Problematic Student Issues
Planning for Disaster: Preparation for the Unexpected
The Impact of Chronic Illness, Death and Grief on the Classroom
Childhood Stresses of the Twenty-first Century and their Impact on the Classroom: Family, Activities, Peers and Academics
Teamwork: Building Strong Teacher Teams
Adult Workshops
Planning for Retirement
Life After Loss of Significant Other
Raising Adult Children
Navigating Discussions with Adult Children about Future Health Care Plans
Workshops to address all of the stakeholders: Separate sessions for teachers, parents, and students:
Managing School-Based Moral and Ethical Behavior
Suicide Awareness
Assertiveness not Aggression: Pressing Delete for Bullies
Mental Health Professionals
Adoption: A Developmental Approach to Helping Children and Parents
Divorce: Navigating the On Going Process with Children, Parents and Couples
The Use of Self in Therapy
