Workshops
PARENTING YOUNG TEENS AND ADULTS (a free series)
January 15 and March 19, 2015 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Bethany Lutheran Church
1095 Cloud Avenue, Menlo Park
Thursday, January 15, 2015: CONNECTION: How to connect with your Teen/Young Adult… and Still Have a Life. (Reserve your seat online by January 8)
Thursday, March 19, 2015: MOVING FORWARD: Who’s in Charge? How to Handle Responsibility and Accountability with a Teen/Young Adult. (Reserve your seat online by March 12)
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I provide local workshops on various topics. Some workshops I’ve given recently include:
- “The Teen Brain”
- “How to Communicate with Teens”
- “How to Communicate with Parents and Other Authority Figures”
- “Active Listening”
Please contact me if you would like to discuss arranging a workshop.
Classes
From 2008 through 2013, I taught parenting classes through my program as Director of Parent Education at CHAC, a community health clinic serving Mountain View, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale, CA. I first developed this program to support parents and caregivers of teens taking risks through The Parent Project curriculum, and then expanded to provide Positive Discipline-based classes as well.
The Positive Discipline classes include concrete directions on how to deal with teen behavior without taking it personally. We focus on how you can parent with kindness and firmness, in a way that makes you feel good about your parenting. This class includes experiential exercises and includes elements of Positive Discipline, Mindfulness, Dan Siegel’s work on the teen brain, self-care, mindfulness, and non-defensive communication. More recently I have offered some of this material through a workshop in Menlo Park and also in Mountain View. I can offer this material in a class series (see below) or in individual workshops. Contact me for more info.
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE CLASSES FOR PARENTS OF TEENS, TWEENS
Tired of homework hassles? Struggling with morning routines or “disrespectful attitude”?
Come learn about and practice some kind and firm solutions. If your child has called you “annoying,” it might be an invitation to learn some new parenting techniques which can make you feel even better about your parenting.
