Workshops & Groups

Parent Coaching

• One-on-One coaching sessions in person or over the phone are available.

Coaching On Wheels Program: Speaker Series

Linda will come to your home, school, or parent group for any one or more of her series of seminars. Designed to build knowledge and skills for parents or professionals working with parents, children & teens.  Whether it is a Keynote Address, Lunch & Learn, Parent Educational Night, School Presentation or Lectureship the following topics are available:

• The Nurtured Heart Approach: Teachers Workshop
• The Nurtured Heart Approach: Parent Workshop
• Present Moment Parenting: Promoting Success Using Positivity & Pizazz
• Building Social Skills Competency: Helping Your Child Find Social Success
• Demystifying ADHD: Tools Every Parent Should Have
• Parenting ADHD Teens: Expectations, Strategies & Staying Connected
• Stop the Yelling! Techniques to End Button Pushing & Power Struggles
• You’re Not the Boss of Me: Attachment Parenting for Adoptive Parents
• ADHD Classroom Strategies & Accommodations
• Adaptive Technology: Tools for Student’s Success
• Stamp Out Bullying Programs for Parents or Schools
• Conflict Management: Teacher Strategies Workshop
• ADD Women: Uncovering Your Hidden Gifts

For Parents

Our 6 weekly sessions, are designed to promote knowledge & application of the NA approach. In our group parents:

• learn empowering  "new" techniques to energize successes.
• download "new scripts"- a nourishing vocabulary of "positivity"
• the art of balancing limit setting with clear, simple consequences when rules are broken. 
• transform child's/teens negative portfolio into a flourishing, positive one.
• create successes which transforms the lives, minds and hearts of their youth.
• increase youth's inner strength, self esteem, ability to make good choices & maintain friendships
• enhance & pazazz their parent-child connection.. 
• not only experience successes in their children's lives, but also in their own.

• acquire strategies that promote success for you & your youth 
•  targeted skills: balance of healthy structure & nurturance, “positivity & pazazz”, appreciation & recognition, mindful communication, button pushing strategies, co-regulation, plus appropriate homework skills & school accommodations.

Parenting Your Young Adult (parents of adults ages 18 & up):

• promote success during this very important developmental stage of life.
• targets:  maintaining  your connection, using mindful communication, balancing advocacy &  guidance, respecting boundaries (yours & young adult's), encouraging autonomy & learning when to let go.

For Youth & Their Parents

Heartfelt Play Groups (Youth & Parent) using Nurtured Heart & Theraplay Approaches

• youth & parents incorporate new skills through nurturing Heartfelt Play.
• promotes youth's inner wealth, character & value building (empathy, respect, responsible, self control, integrity)
• during Heartfelt Play, amidst the giggles & hugs, we celebrate successes, acquire pro social skills, form new friendships, increase trust in self & others and enhance parent-child & peer connections.
• parent easily transfer new skills to home life, expanding and creating new successes.

Theraplay Social Skills & Reactivity Reduction Groups (children ages 5-12)

• lively, fun engaging program, where parents & youth acquire new skills & friendships.
• targets: friendship skills, reading faces / body language, respecting boundaries, reactivity & anxiety reduction, compromising, negotiating, accepting “no”, bullying prevention & more.
• promotes increase in trust, self esteem, inner strength & prosocial skills.
  

Self Esteem Groups for Girls:

• group goals are to: increase self confidence, encourage positive
  choices, feel happier with who they are, deal with stress & anxiety,
  teach strategies to handle peer pressure & more.

Teen to Teen Building Character Groups (youth ages 13-16):

• targets: active listening, empathy, accountability, respect,
  honesty,  integrity & more.

Young Adult Life Skills Groups (youth ages 17-19):

• targets: building character skills, accountability, reactivity reduction,
  career planning, social & relationship skills.

For Adults

Adult ADHD Educational Support Groups:

• targets: strategies for home & work: organization, time management,
  reactivity reduction, interpersonal, relationship & social skills.

School Presentations & Interventions

On request, we conduct professional workshops and classroom nurtured heart & social skills groups at schools and community organizations.

Nurtured Heart Teacher Workshops

Classroom  Heartfelt Play Groups

• no better environment for a nutured hearts intervention.
• this format provides a safe, playful, fun, engaging  milieu within the "classroom family" that promotes rich relationships.
• students and their teachers incorporate new skills, character building , embrace positive qualities & values.
• increases student's self-control and empathy, decreases in anger, bullying and aggressive behaviour. 
• during Heartfelt Play, we create successes, acquire pro social & friendship skills, increase trust in self & others and self-esteem.

Also check out our Coaching on Wheels Series and call to book your next workshop.