This two hour interactive parenting workshop explores child development, risk and protective factors, obstacles and challenges parents face and takes a acceptance-based and solution-focussed approach to provide parents with effective approaches to build happier and healthier family teams, meaningful discipline strategies, ways to strengthen parent-child relations and enhance and add to problem/conflict resolution skills.

This workshop provide parents with an overview of adolescent development (brain, social, emotional, spiritual/moral, physical, sexual and intellectual), parent-child relationship dynamics, discipline strategies and communication skills to help teens and parents have healthier relationships that promote positive child and family development. (Tip: Pick up Sean Covey’s book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens in the meantime

This is a new workshop in our series! Those of us who struggle to effectively express anger will also often have difficulty effectively expressing many other feelings. This two hour interactive seminar aims to build up your emotional intelligence as we we explore the wide range of feelings, their function and less functional qualities, (verbal and non-verbal expression) along with communication strategies to help us better identify and express out emotional self and more accurately identify and respond to others’ emotion. Finally, we will review the recent research on mind-body-spirit connections as well as the links between thoughts, feelings an behaviours utilizing the well known and evidence based approaches – cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), emotionally focussed therapy (EFT), narrative and family systems.