SEMINARS & PRIVATE SESSIONS

The outlined courses below include discussions and conflict resolution skills empowering participants in finding the proper way in guiding children toward their positive development.  The programs' curriculum outlines techniques in developing the understanding, respecting, and supporting children's freedom to learn at their own pace, and in promoting social, emotional, and intellectual growth for students ages 2-5 (preschool), 6-12 (elementary), pre- and adolescent.

I - The Four (4)- Session Parenting Course of approximately 3 to 3 1/2 hour each session.  Tips for overwhelmed parents. Americans work more hours than employees in any industrialized nation (Russell G. Robertson, MD).  Stay-at-home moms are fewer nowadays and they often lack social contacts.  Fatigue becomes a factor, structure can begin to vanish, and the children become confused about what is expected of them. These Programs/Seminars offer a variety of tips for busy parents.

• Covers Issues Such as

          - Discipline and Home Environment,
          - Study Skills and Test Taking Strategy
          - Interests, Self-awareness, Mindfulness and Motivation
          - Parent/Teacher Relationship, and more

II - Parenting for Stronger and Happier Children Course

The twelve (12) class Seminar of approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hour each session.  Can be taught in its entirety or as "pick-& choose" class topics.

• Class Topics

  1 What is Parenting and How to be a Good Parent?
  2 Harmonious Home Environment
  3 Study Skills and Making Home Work Fun
  4  Fun Learning Activities
  5  Joyful Reading & Writing Activities
  6 Parent & Teacher Relationship
  7 Motivation
  8 Self-Awareness, Self-Knowledge, & Self-Confidence
  9 Discipline
10 Family Philosophy and Values
11 Family Violence
12 Personal Power

III - How to Make Learning Games Course

• Making Learning Games*

A playful form to implement some quiet time in children’s daily schedule that fosters concentration and inspires both the active bodies and playful imagination of children.

"Yoga works on the whole body and is suitable
for children of all ages and physical abilities.
It promotes strength and flexibility, good coordination and posture.
In our increasingly stressful and noisy lives, it teaches children how to relax,
how to concentrate, how to be quiet and still.
Above all, it is a gentle, noncompetitive form of exercise that all children can enjoy."

~Mary Stewart and Kathy Philips, authors of Yoga for Children

VI - Coaching Parents with Children with ADD/ADHD

Clinical experience has shown that the most effective treatment for ADHD is therapy or counseling to learn coping skills and adaptive behaviors, which help the individual to work more efficiently and productively.

VII - Private Sessions

The private sessions are individual situation-specific.  Each session uses the most comfortable way to define the true Self with all the talents, energies, boundless capabilities, and infinite possibilities.  This approach motivates individuals to find out what they are here for.  It helps to identify one's dream, vision, and mission in life and through well defined self-knowledge, talents, and skills to act upon it.
 
        1 - Assessment: specifies individual’s strongest area/areas in the multifaceted self-concept. It is an excellent starting point for boosting the area/areas where an improvement is important to the individual.  Indicates potential risk factors for educational problems. Identifying children susceptible to developmental delays (e.g., learning or behavioral problems) is the first step in the prevention of later academic difficulties.

          2 - Evaluations: Gives the opportunity to discover, develop, and nurture individual’s unique potential for specific talents and skills of which he/she was not aware before.

         3 - Individual Counseling / Coaching Programs:

The private coaching links the knowing with the actually doing.  The aim is to cultivate self-respect, inner security, and to develop a commitment to one's own talents.  The motivational strategies, and the behavioral ideas that are used facilitate a vision of life at its best.  They lead to a view of life as a creative expression of love in action that remains aware of the pitfalls and challenges in life.  The counseling philosophy lies in being happy with oneself and with doing work one loves to experience joyful and fulfilling life alas "Flow" in life.  Being a full person, happy with the way one's life unfolds, only then one is ready to reach out, to give, to love, and thus become a valid participant in society.

• Define a Purpose in Life and Honor it
• Ten Steps To a Happier You
• Career Counseling
• Goal Setting and Getting
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Weight Management / Eating Disorders
• Relationship Issues / Co-Dependence