Topics/Descriptions
Anne offers a large variety of topics to general audiences, as well as staff, volunteers, parent groups, foster parents and others interested in emotional health, relationship effectiveness and spiritual healing. All presentations are customized to meet the requirements of the organization. Topics are suitable for ages 12 through adults.
Specific topics include the following:
Emotional Intelligence and Children’s Learning: Adults learn methods of interacting with children to enhance learning and to build close emotional bonds. The role of emotional intelligence is explored as related to learning and self-esteem. Capitalizing on teachable moments during natural daily activities and routines enhances conceptual and emotional development.
Recapturing the Joy of Parenting in the Special Needs Family: Participants learn about the grieving process parents experience with the differently developing child. Discussion focuses on moving forward through this adjustment into effective and satisfying family relationships despite the circumstances of the child’s condition.
Balancing Love and Discipline: Introduces the concept of firm and kind, unconditional love, and the value of more action and less talk.
Consequences That Work: Introduces the concepts of natural and logical consequences and how parents/teachers can effectively use them.
Creating Cooperative Families/Classrooms: Participants learn how to create a cooperative family/classroom atmosphere and what to do when there is a lack of cooperation.
Effective Parent-Child (Teacher-Child) Communication: Introduces the concepts of listening, Genuine Encounter Moments, handling feelings and conflict resolution.
Enhancing Children’s Self-Esteem: Participants learn 10 methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem.
Handling Aggressive Children in the Classroom (Birth through 6): Participants explore developmental and learned aspects of aggression and learn 15 actions to correct this behavior.
Handling Sibling Rivalry: There is a difference between sibling rivalry and sibling conflict. Participants learn how to identify and correct each behavior.
How to Turn a Terrible Two into a Terrific Two: Participants learn to use developmental information and the mistaken goals of power and attention to make this difficult time wonderful.
“If You Don’t Stop Crying…” How to Handle Children’s Feelings: Participants learn the effects of feeling stoppers and feeling encouragers and how to work with children’s feelings in each developmental stage.
“No I Won’t And You Can’t Make Me!”: Participants learn how to effectively handle power struggles. Learn how to recognize and disengage from a power struggle and what to do to lessen them in the future.
Parenting as a Team: Participants learn to discover the underlying causes of couple’s disagreements on parenting, as well as how to create peaceful resolutions.
Raising a Child With God: Participants learn how using the principles of Redirecting Children’s Behavior can assist them in the spiritual and religious development of their children.
Tame Those Tantrums: Participants learn the concept of how less power means more. Learn how to diagnose tantrums and prevent them in the future.
Teaching Children Self-control: Within developmental guidelines, it is the parents’/teachers’ job to assist the child in learning how to control and appropriately express their feelings and desires. Participants learn valuable, practical techniques to facilitate this area of development.
Tell Them What To Do, Not What To Don’t: Participants learn how a small shift in the adult’s communication can create more cooperative, responsible children.
Teens, You Gotta Love ‘Em: Participants learn about the developmental stages of adolescence, as well as communication and conflict resolution strategies that are respectful, facilitating and non-confrontational.
What To Do When Your Kids Drive You Crazy: Participants learn several alternatives to nagging, yelling and threatening and how to model self-control.
Asking for What You Want: Participants explore why it is difficult for many adults to ask for what they want. They will learn how to understand and overcome this difficulty and how to successfully negotiate.
Creating Teamwork: Participants learn the underlying concepts of teamwork and how to make it happen in the home and the workplace.
Keeping Yourself Encouraged (and Spreading It Around): Participants learn how to encourage themselves and those in their environment to achieve more in every area of life.
Resolving Conflicts: Participants learn the power of conflict resolution and negotiating to a win-win solution.
Balancing Work and Family: Participants learn how to nurture themselves and their family so that the family supports their work. Techniques are presented to assist in finding a sense of balance.