::Workshop Descriptions::
Workshops are available to schools, community centers and groups upon request. All workshops can be scheduled for a minimum of 8 participants starting at $175/hr. Please contact me for more information about hosting a workshop.
For Teachers:
Ages and Stages: Understanding The Unique Needs, Challenges And Opportunities In The Preschool Years
Includes some basic information about child development, and tips for successful handling of groups of children at each age. How to support social and emotional learning.
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For Parents:
With An Eye Toward The Teen Years
Preschoolers and adolescents have a lot in common. At each of these stages children are attempting to understand who they are and how they fit into the larger world. Often they define themselves clumsily as "not you." This creates problems for parents, who often feel hurt and rejected by their formerly very loving children. How parents handle the challenges of the preschool years sets up a template for the relationship which, for better or worse, will carry them through the teen years. Learn how to use the preschool years to establish a parent child relationship based on love, mutual respect, clear communication and appropriate boundaries.
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Finding a Sleep Solution for your Family
Getting enough sleep is one of the great challenges of early parenting. Without adequate sleep all other problems are magnified. In some families sleep issues resolve on their own within a few months. In other families sleep problems drag out or become progressively worse. There are lots of experts with lots of advice to offer sleep deprived parents. The key is finding a solution that works for your family. This workshop will help parents sort through the conflicting advice and find a solution suitable for your unique situation.
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As parents we are pretty clear on the basics of raising physically healthy children, (nutrition, exercise, sleep, hygiene). But we receive relatively little information about supporting children's emotional health. This is unfortunate because emotional health is key to living a stable, happy and successful life. In the absence of guidance we as parents tend to flip between two positions. We either discount our children's emotions or give in to them. This workshop will help you discover the middle ground, assisting your children to understand and communicate their emotional needs.
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A Playshop For Families
The stress of disability too often pulls families apart. Play brings people together and strengthens family bonds. But what to do when the wide range of abilities in your family makes it difficult to share the games you remember from childhood? Rethink them, create new ones! This playshop will focus on building ways to play that can be shared by children and adults with a wide variety of abilities and disabilities. Playshop also provides the opportunity to engage with other families facing similar challenges in a playful atmosphere. Let's have fun together!
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::Group Descriptions::
Groups are offered on an ongoing basis. Times and locations vary -- check listing below.
(ages 3-5)
The preschool years are a critical time for learning to get along with peers and become part of a group. Through group play children learn to better understand the larger world and their place in it. Children who have difficulty getting along with their peers are missing opportunities for learning on many levels. This play group is designed to assist children with mild to moderate problems in one or more of the following areas:
- • Shyness/social anxiety
- • Impulse control in a group setting
- • Bossiness
- • Frustration tolerance/ coping skills
Goals of the Group include helping children:
- • Feel more confident with peers
- • Manage conflicts
- • Develop problem solving skills
- • Express feelings in an age appropriate manor
- • Understand the feelings of others
Children with these skills will be better prepared to learn the most from their preschool years and enter kindergarten ready to function as part of the class. 6 week session: $325. Includes 30 min. intake session for individual child and parent(s),
six 45 min. play group sessions, and one 60 min. group parent session.
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The first year of parenting is often an incredible journey. No matter how prepared for it we think we are, becoming a parent raises issues and provokes emotions we are not expecting and may have a difficult time acknowledging. This is no more or less true for adoptive parents. Yet, as adoptive parents, the road to parenthood was often long and difficult. It required us to spend enormous amounts of time, money and energy to create our family. And we were called upon to prove we were worthy of being parents in a way which is not required of birth parents. All of this makes it difficult to reconcile our fantasy of parenthood with the day-to-day reality of raising infants and young children. Come share the ups and downs of your journey in a safe, non-judgmental atmosphere.
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For Behaviorally Challenging Preschoolers and their Parents
Some children are more challenging than others. Perhaps you are raising one? This group will assist you to assist your child. Learn playful ways to help your child manage strong feelings and improve impulse control. Strengthen the bonds of attachment as you assist your child to accept adult leadership. Each session includes 45 minutes of parent/child play sessions and one half hour parent only discussion while children are cared for in another room.
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A play therapy group for siblings of disabled children
Sibling relationships are always complex. When one of the siblings is disabled the many layers of emotion can be difficult for the non-disabled sibling to negotiate. Feelings of love and family loyalty compete with feelings of frustration, anger and embarrassment. "Of course I love my brother/sister but why does he/she have to..." This group is designed to give children a place to explore and express these feelings with others who are going through the same or similar experiences.
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