Workshops, Coaching, & Insights for Parents & Educators

Interactive training for parents and teachers that builds respectful relationships and reduces classroom conflict.
 

• Practical strategies that reduce classroom disruptions
   
• Tools to build respectful parent–teacher partnerships
   
• Hands-on activities staff and parents can use immediately

Week 1:

Prepare the Ground for classroom community.

Week 2:

Strengthen the classroom community by building skills

Week 3:

Prepare the Ground with more tools.

Week 4:

Begin Essential Skills for Class Meetings.

Week 5:

Continue building Essential Skills, creating a community that is helpful, not hurtful.

Week 6:

Problem solving skills and practice. Practice with “fake problems” and teach role playing.

Week 7:

Practice class meetings with group problems only.

Week 8:

Continue group problems.

Week 9:

Class meetings in action.

Week 10+:

When basic problemsolving skills are better: When routine is established and students more skilled: After at least 3 weeks of student generated problems:

Because yelling, threats, and guilt trips aren’t working anymore.

If you’re tired of power struggles, eye rolls, and constant tension — this workshop is for you. 

You’ll learn how to stay calm, set boundaries that stick, and actually connect with your teen without losing your mind.

We’ll dig into what’s really behind their behavior and teach you tools that work, no shame, no lectures, just real strategies that bring peace back into your home.

Week One: 

The Challenges of Parenting Teens

Introduction 

Normal Teen Behavior and Teen Tasks 

Draw a Teen 

The Three Lists 

What's Your Parenting Style?

Week Two: 

Parenting Styles

Dependency Dad 

Mischief Shuffle and Alternatives to the Mischief Shuffle 

Parenting Style 

Mistakes as Wonderful Opportunities to Learn 

Curiosity Questions for Teens 

Discussion: Wrong vs. Right Questions

Week Three: 

Know Yourself, Know Your Teen

Top Card 

 Birth Order: Play of Life 

Childhood Memory 

Healing the Teen Within 

Teen Mistaken-Goal Chart

Week Four: 

How to Motivate Teens Using Encouraging Communication

Thermometer 

The Hairball of Depression 

Encouragement: The Language of Love 

Effective Communication Activity & Tips for Communicating with Teens 

The “You Feel” process 

The “I Feel “ process

Week Five: 

Problem-Solving with Teens

Joint Problem-Solving Steps With Teens 

Family Meeting

Follow Through with Teens 

Teens and Chores 

Spending Special Time With Teens

Week Six: 

Letting Go

Parents Brainstorm a List of What They Do for Teens That Teens Can Do by Themselves 

Three Circles of Enabling + Empowering 

Empowering vs. Enabling 

Letting Go With Teens 

Yes, You Are Really Doing Something 

Long-Range Parenting 

There Is More Than One Way 

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Week Seven: 

Scary Behaviors: Take Care of Yourself

Drug Use and Abuse 

When You Have a Problem With Your Teen’s Friends 

Bullying 

Dealing With the Scary Things 

Teens and Sex 

Continuum of Change 

Ball of Yarn

Week: Eight: 

Parents Helping Parents Problem Solve

Open Agenda

You're not the worst parent