Teaching Parenting
The Positive Discipline Way
A Two-Day Workshop

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OVERVIEW:

Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way (developed by Lynn Lott and Jane Nelsen) provides a step-by-step approach to starting and leading experientially based parenting groups. This program stands alone or offers significant enhancement to any program. It provides experiential activities that reach the heart to inspire deeper understanding and change. Parents love the Parents Helping Parents Problem-Solving Steps because this process provides a fun and effective way for them to get specific help with real problems.

TEACHING PARENTING IS FOR:

• New parent educators who want to develop tools, skills, and confidence.
  
• Experienced parent educators who want new ideas, innovative activities, and contagious enthusiasm.
  
• Family therapists who want strategies for their clients or a format for parenting classes to build their practice.
  
• School personnel, nurses, and social workers looking for an excellent parent-education program that enhances learning through experiential activities.

COST:

Two-day Workshop Registration Fee: $330
Early Bird Registration Fee: $295 (paid at least 30 days in advance)

Plus, thirteen hours MFCC/LCSW CE credit. available -- Provider # PCE547.

WORKSHOP CONTENT:

Experiential activities o reach the heart and lead to real change. Participants will learn to teach experiential activities, demonstrations, and role plays that help parents "get into the child's world" and go beyond intellectual learning to practical application of what works to empower children.

The Parents Helping Parents Problem-Solving Steps:

We all know how easy it is to solve a problem for someone else. Parents will learn what wonderful consultants they can be to each other. During this process, a volunteer presents a real problem. The group then role plays the problem, guesses the mistaken goal, and brainstorms suggestions. The volunteer can choose the suggestion that fits for him or her, and then practice through another role play. Parents are enthused about the help they receive through this process.

Adaptable to Any Group Focus of Your Choice:

The principles can be applied to any group focus: parents of teens, parents of preschoolers, single parents, parenting in recovery, or general parenting. The program is excellent for parents of all cultures with limited reading skills and/or special problems with children-because activities are processed through their experiences.

Understanding Yourself and Your Children:

Participants gain self-awareness (what their personality style invites from their children) and an understanding of the belief behind the behavior of their children.

Practice, Practice, Practice!

An important element of the workshop is that participants don't sit passively and listen to lectures. Instead they have the opportunity to practice the skills they are learning so they will have more confidence when working with parents.