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Workshops

Empowered Parenting offers a variety of one to two hour workshops for teachers, grandparents, health care workers, counselors,
and anyone who relates to children.

 

27 Custom Workshops Currently Available for your Organization:
   
1. Introduction to RCB - Introduces the Redirecting Children's Behavior methodology. Learn how to: identify the four principles of why children misbehave, resolve conflicts without power struggles, minimize misbehavior, replace "timeouts", apply logical and natural consequences, decrease sibling rivalry, avoid nagging, threats and bribes...and more.
   
2. Balancing Love and Discipline - Introduces the concept of firm and kind, unconditional love, and the value of more action and less talk.
   
3. Resolving Conflicts - Demonstrates the power of conflict resolution and negotiating to a win-win.
   
4. Consequences that Work - Introduces the concepts of natural and logical consequences and how parents/teachers can effectively use them.
   
5. Creating Cooperative Families - Teaches how to create a cooperative family/classroom atmosphere and what to do when there's a lack of cooperation.
   
6. Effective Parent-Child (Teacher-Child) Communication - Introduces the concepts of listening, GEMS, handling feelings and conflict resolution.
   
7. Enhancing Children's Self-Esteem - Demonstrates 10 methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem.
   
8. Getting in Step with Step-Parenting Learn how to work cooperatively with your ex and create peacefully blended families.
   
9. Handling Aggressive Children in the Classroom, Birth-Six - Explores the developmental and learned aspects of aggression and 15 actions you can teach to correct this behavior.
   
10. Handling Sibling Rivalry - There is a difference between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict. Learn to identify and correct each behavior.
   
11. How to Turn a Terrible Two into a Terrific Two - Learn the mistaken goals of power and attention and, using developmental information, learn how to make this difficult time wonderful.
   
12. "If you don't stop crying...!" How to Handle Children's Feelings - Shows the effects of feeling stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with children's feelings during developmental stages.
   
13. "No I won't and you can't make me...!" Effectively Handling Power Struggles - Teaches how to recognize and disengage from a power struggle and what to do to lessen them in the future.
   

14. "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".
   
15. Parenting as a Team - Discover the underlying causes of couple's disagreements regarding parenting and shows how to create peaceful resolutions.
   
16. Take the Hassles out of Homework - Lessen the power struggle, teach responsibility and goal setting and demonstrate ways to encourage and self-motivate children.
   
17. Tame Those Tantrums - Teaches the concept of how less power means more. Teaches how to diagnose tantrums and prevent them.
   
18. Teaching Children Self-Control - Within developmental guidelines, shows how it is the parents'/teachers' job to assist the child in learning how to control and appropriately express their feelings, desires and needs.
   
19. Tell Them What to Do, Not What to Don't - Teaches how a small shift in speech can create more cooperation, more responsible children.
   
20. What to do When Your Kids Drive You Crazy - Shows some alternatives to nagging, yelling and threatening and how to model self-control.
   
21. Asking for What You Want - Demonstrates how to understand and overcome this difficulty and to successfully negotiate.
   
22. Couples Communication - Enhances skills to create closeness and teaches how to hear, be heard and have fun!
   

23. Creating Teamwork - Teaches underlying concepts of teamwork and how to make it happen at home ... and at work.
   
24. Keeping Yourself Encouraged (and Spreading it Around) - Shows how to encourage yourself and those around you to achieve more in every area of life.
   
25. How to Bully-Proof Your Children - Teaches how to deflect teasing and resolve conflict peacefully with less hurt feelings..
   
26. Understanding Children's Temperament - Shows how understanding our own temperament and that of our children can help us respond with love and calmness.
   
27. Balancing Work and Family - Learn how to nurture yourself and your family so that your family supports your work. Find the balance.

Empowered Parenting
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phone 310•458•0007
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