Workshops
Our workshops are designed to promote the development of emotional and social wellness!
Some keys to wellness that will be addressed are:
- Learning to deal with conflict in a healthy and respectful manner
- Taking responsibility for your actions
- Becoming aware of your feelings through reflection, journaling, processing, and
meditation
- Recognizing and accepting your feelings as genuine and important, developing self-acceptance
- Accepting and acknowledging the feelings of others
- Expressing your feelings in a responsible and appropriate ways
- Seeking support and guidance when needed.
- Building a strong social support network
- Being open to continual personal growth
- Learning and practicing healthy communication techniques
- Balancing and valuing time alone and time with other people
- Focusing on solutions to problem and maintaining a sense of perspective
- Finding and creating joy in your life!
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Group rates are available for 10 or more participants.
Adult Workshops
Workshops on Mindfulness and Wellness
Introduction to Meditation
Meditation is a process of quieting your mind, stilling your body and letting go of the distractions of the world. Learn about this peaceful, transformative practice, and experience a sample guided meditation. All experience levels are welcome.
Workshops on Parenting
Effective Families
Learn how to implement the research based characteristics of effective and emotionally healthy families.
10 Tips for Raising a Resilient Child
Learn ways to promote strengths and coping skills in your children to help them address life’s challenges.
Workshops on Divorce and Remarriage
Parental Peace
The need for calm and level heads to prevail during the difficult challenges of parenting during divorce is discussed as well as the importance of keeping the children’s need first.
Workshops on Mindfulness and Wellness
Mandala Workshop
Mandalas have an intuitive character; and through their symbolical content exert a retroactive influence on the unconscious. They therefore possess a hidden significance. In this workshop, make your own mandala; learn its meaning and why you created it
Workshops on Clinical Topics
Biochemical and Medical issues / Behavioral Health / Mood Disorders
Sleepless in Alabama
Designed to help people who have difficulty falling or staying asleep. Guided by research, this treatment focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that interfere with good quality sleep.
Workshops on Mindfulness and Wellness
Instant Calm
Learn easy calming techniques such as guided imagery, breathing exercises, and cognitive reframing to provide instant calm and stress reduction to life’s daily tensions.
Workshops on Clinical Topics
Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
The Wounded Child
Providing adults insight into how their experiences as a child of a dysfunctional family has affected their lives. Additionally, ways they can reclaim their lives and begin the healing process.
Workshops on Mindfulness and Wellness
Introduction to Mindfulness
A workshop designed to help you learn to attend to and accept living in the present. A practice that allows one to live their life with more ease, less stress and better coping skills.
Beginning Meditation
Learn how meditation is practiced and why it promotes physical and psychological wellness. Learn a foundational meditation practice and several tips to start, sustain, and love your practice.
Breathe Into Being
The breath is the best bridge between body and mind. Learn how breathwork, breath awareness, and gentle movement can help free your energy, stabilize your emotions, and create space and openness in your life
Mindful Eating
Learn how to apply mindfulness to being aware of your physical needs, your eating habits, and the emotional struggles we often have with food.
Time Management
Learn techniques to prioritize and manage your time to reduce stress and improve daily life by creating more time for enjoyment and fun!
Life in the Stress Lane
We all experience and know what stress is. Learn how to channel it for energy and make it work for you rather than against you.
The Sandwich Generation
Caring for grandchildren, aging spouses, adult children, and aging parents are a struggle. Learn to care for yourself with the same loving service you provide to others.
A Journal for Me
A workshop devoted to teaching exercises to promote journaling, personal growth and self-awareness.
A Picture is Worth a Hundred Words
This workshop will have participants creating a life collage to help them gain understanding and insight into their life.
The Best is Yet to Come
This workshop will address the emotional benefits of learned optimism-choosing to see the world and people in a more positive and uplifting way.
Celebrate Yourself
This workshop is devoted to improving one’s self esteem and embracing one’s uniqueness and individuality.
Striving for Imperfection
A workshop devoted to letting go of who you’re supposed to be and embracing your true self. Learn the difference between high achievement and perfectionism.
The Resilient One
A workshop that will teach you the 7 keys to finding your inner strength and various methods to addressing and overcoming life’s struggles
Workshops on Parenting
Does Your Child have ADHD?
This workshop will provide you information on how to determine the best assessment and treatment plan needed for your child. You won’t leave the workshop knowing if your child does or does not have ADHD, but you will be equipped with the knowledge of exactly what you need to do to find out.
Parenting a Child with ADHD
This workshop will provide insight about ADHD, methods to advocate for your child’s treatment, and teach skills on how to manage your child’s behavior at home and on the go.
504 and IEP - What is the Difference?
Discover the difference between these two different types of written education plans commonly used in public schools and whether your child would benefit from having one implemented.
Is my Child Depressed? - Parent Workshop
This workshop is designed for parents who are concerned that their child might be suffering from depression. Learn about symptoms, treatment and resources available in the community.
The Painfully Shy Child - Parent Workshop
Learn techniques to help increase your child’s self-confidence and social confidence through modeling, self-acceptance and unconditional love. This is the corresponding workshop to The Painfully Shy Child.
Potty Training in 3 Days
Learn whether your child is ready for potty training and how to implement this developmental milestone with a healthy and positive approach.
Preparing for a New Sibling
Learn how to prepare yourself, your spouse and your other child for the upcoming changes in your family.
The Bully
This workshop will address when and how to intervene if you think your child is being bullied.
Talking to your Children about Sexuality
Learn ways to address sexuality with your children with open and respectful communication.
Is my Child Overbooked?
Learn to identify characteristics of the overbooked child, how to help them find a balance in their lives by prioritizing their activities and responsibilities without stress or guilt.
Managing the Family's Technology Habit
Is your television, cell phone, or computer constantly getting in the way of quality family time? Learn the skills you need to decrease your family’s technology use to a reasonable level and increase the quality time that you have to share with each other.
Helping your Infant Sleep through the Night
Be proactive in helping your infant develop healthy sleep patterns.
Improving your Child's Behavior with Effective Parenting
Learn the skills you need to improve the behavior of your preschool to school age child at home and on the go. Techniques including ignoring, attending, rewarding, and time-out will be covered and you’ll learn how to issue commands that your child will actually follow.
Reducing Parenting Stress
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and stressed as a parent, then this workshop is for you. You will learn the skills you need to reduce stress in your life and transform yourself into the calmer and more relaxed parent.
Managing Holiday Stress
Are you so stressed during the holidays that you can’t seem to enjoy the most wonderful time of the year? This workshop will teach you the skills you need to stress less and enjoy more this holiday season. We’ll cover how to get organized, set a budget; learn to keep expectations realistic, and how to enlist help. You’ll also learn the art of saying no, and parents will get tips on managing holiday stress in kids.
Parenting Teens
Raising teens this day and age is often a struggle and a source of frustration for many parents. This workshop will teach communication and conflict resolutions skills to positively parent your teen through these challenging years.
Is it a Choice?
This workshop will help you understanding your young adult’s sexual orientation.
Workshops on Divorce and Remarriage
Mediation
Learn how mediation can help you take control of your future and assist you in letting go of the conflictual relationship with your soon to be ex- spouse.
Moving Forward after Divorce
Even in the most amicable of divorces, the families involved face a number of emotional changes in their daily lives. This workshops is geared specifically to addressing the the whirlwind of changes they face during this difficult process.
The Step Family Challenge
This workshop will address the common challenges of step families and some common sense approaches to making everyone’s adjustment easier.
Workshops on Clinical Topics
The Codependency Trap
A workshop devoted to helping particpants understand that one can lose themselves in excessive attempt to help others, especially when struggling with helping loved one with addictive or self-destructive behaviors.
Relationships with Self and Others
Dance of Anger
Learn how women can assert their needs and feelings in a respectful and assertive manner. This workshop is based on the renowned work of Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
Dance of Intimacy
Learn how women can be more intimate, healthy and honest in their love relationships. This workshop is based on the renowned work of Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
Couples Relationship Enhancement I – Communication
Gain new insights and learn research based relationship skills that can improve communication skills in your relationships
Couples Relationship Enhancement II—Conflict Resolution
Find out how to resolve conflict in healthy, productive and respectful ways.
Couples Relationship Enhancement III – Intimacy
Learn what successful couples do to foster intimacy and harmony in their marriage.
Making Relationships Work
Gain new insights and learn research based relationship skills that can improve communication skills in your relationship and learn what successful couples do to foster intimacy and harmony in their marriage.
This Year I Will...
A workshop devoted to exploring behavioral keys to changing life style.
DE cluttering My Life
A Workshop aimed at exploring underlying cases of cluttering and behavioral strategies to reclaim your home and life.
Loving Yourself and Your Partner - the Golden Years
As we age we sometimes become complacent in relationship and forget to fan the flames. Attend this workshop and learn how to rekindle that spark for a happy, healthy relationship in the Golden Years.
Biochemical and Medical issues / Behavioral Health / Mood Disorders
Is it just the Blues?
Are you or someone you love Blue or Depressed? This is a workshop to help identify the difference between saddens and depression. Recommendations on how to seek services if needed will be provided.
Only One More Drag
We all know the health risks of smoking, and kicking the habit may be the single biggest improvement to health a smoker can make. However, quitting can be difficult and to increase your chances of success, it can be helpful to have social support, an understanding of what to expect, and a personal game plan.
Workshops for Children and Teens
Workshops on Mindfulness and Wellness
Improving A Child's Self-Esteem
Positive self-esteem can prepare your child for facing challenges and adversity in the world. This workshop will utilize art, positive peer support and cognitive strategies to help improve your child’s self-esteem.
Chill
A workshop devoted to teaching children relaxation and calming techniques.
The Painfully Shy Child
Social contact is one of our most important human needs, positively impacting our emotional and physical health throughout our lives. This workshop will address behavioral strategies to help your child develop more socially confident skills. This is the corresponding workshop to The Painfully Shy Child Parent workshop
Workshops on Clinical Topics
The Ranting Child
Many of today’s children and teens are experiencing anger and frustration in their lives. This workshop will help them learn adaptive ways to express and cope with these intense emotions and discover the underlying issues that may be causing them.
The Raving Teen
Teens have many stressors in their life. Many deal with them by expressing irritability and anger. This workshop will offer exercises to promote insight and opportunities to develop coping techniques.
Divorce and Children
Even in the most amicable of divorces, the children involved face a number of changes in their daily lives. The Children & Divorce Workshop is for children with parents or loved ones are going through a divorce.
Divorce and Teens
Teenagers go through many emotional changes as they form their own identities and understanding of relationships. When a teenager’s parents get divorced, their view of themself, their family, and the world may be altered. This workshop can provide a safe environment for teens to address the challenges they may face.