We present at schools, pediatric offices, businesses, webinars and privately.  We can create a personalized workshop to meet the needs of your group.  For more information call us at 516.229.1744.

Supporting the Anxious Student: Are you noticing more and more students suffering from anxiety?  Do you feel overwhelmed and not sure how to help that child? Anxiety can affect a students ability to learn. There are a number of ways teachers can make the school day easier and less stressful for a child with anxiety.

In this workshop attendees will discover:

• How to distinguish between behaviors and anxiety

• How to create a safe environment when anxiety symptoms are high

• Systems and techniques to diffuse anxiety with students

• How to create structured routines that alleviate stressful situations with students

• How to communicate effectively with the anxious student to create a better relationship

Calm and Connected Educator: Tired of having behavioral challenges interfere with your teaching?  Do you feel frustrated and overwhelmed with the day-to-day behaviors in your classroom? Do you wish you could connect with and reach those students that need you the most?  This workshop gives you the insights and strategies you need to support challenges effectively, and calmly.

In this workshop attendees will discover:

• The difference between a behavioral challenge and a child struggling with expressing their emotions

• Effective communication and listening strategies

• Learn to set limits and find solutions with your students

• How to teach students to manage their own behaviors

• Walk out with a 5-step method that builds emotional intelligence and creates positive, long-lasting effects for your students.

Breaking the Patterns that aren’t Working in Your Classroom through Growth Mindset: There are times we get stuck in repeating patterns day after day. In this workshop, participants will become mindful of what is working and what is not? Through hands-on activities, they will create new action steps to stop the patterns that aren’t working and move forward.

Participants will learn:

• How keeping a positive focus on what is going well gives you the confidence to keep growing and learning.  

• How to change mindset to foster growth emotionally and academically

• Learn what’s not working for them and how to break and change those patterns.

• Learn how Growth Mindset can not only enhance their lives but also the lives of their students

• Learn effective communication and listening strategies

Building Positive Social Acceptance: Do notice more and more students who feel left out or different? How can you foster a feeling of belonging for all students? In this workshop, we will discuss strategies to help promote positive social interactions for all. We will look at the role of the student, educator, and peers.

Course Outcomes:

• How to support students who feel left out or different

• How to foster a feeling of belonging for all students

• Strategies to help promote positive social interactions for all

• We will look at the role of the student, educator, and peers.

Mindset Mastery for Behavior Management: This workshop is a 5 to 6-hour long workshop that can be broken up into three smaller workshops if needed.

This workshop supports educators in their mindset to help cultivate successful relationships, academic performance and positive behaviors in the classroom.  Educators will learn techniques to support them with a positive growth mindset which will enhance teacher/student communication. They will have many hands-on activities and will walk out inspired and filled with solutions for the various challenges they deal with daily.

Course Outcomes:

• Tools to have conversations that will create a supportive environment that will foster confidence and success

• Change mindset to foster growth emotionally and academically

• Learn what’s not working for us and how to break and change those patterns.

• Learn the difference between a behavioral challenge and a child struggling with expressing their emotions

• Learn effective communication and listening strategies

Supporting the Anxious Child:

Are you noticing more and more children suffering from anxiety?  Do you feel overwhelmed and not sure how to help that child? Anxiety can affect a student’s ability to learn. There are a number of ways teachers can make the school day easier and less stressful for a child with anxiety. 

In this workshop you will learn:

• How to distinguish between the behaviors vs. anxiety
• How to create a safe environment when anxiety symptoms are high
• Systems and techniques to diffuse anxiety with students
• How to create structured routines that alleviate stressful situations with students.
• How to communicate effectively with the anxious student to create a better relationship

Effective Parenting through Meltdowns and Tantrums

Meltdowns and tantrums can be challenging for both parents and children.  This workshop, featured in NEWSDAY, will give you strategies to help you and your child work through behavioral challenges calmly and effectively.

Come and learn:

• The difference between a meltdown and a tantrum and the specific strategies to support each one
• Understanding the importance of knowing your child's triggers as well as your own
• Strategies to let children know what we want or expect
• The importance of knowing what we are focusing on and how that can impact your family's life

Parent Anger Management, Become the Calmer Parent you Want to Be

Tired of always yelling and having non-stop power struggles with your kids?  Do you feel frustrated and overwhelmed with the day-to-day behaviors in your household? This workshop helps to strengthen the bonds between you and your children and gives you the insight into supporting challenges effectively, and calmly. 

Come and learn:

• The importance of connecting with your emotions
• How to recognize, respond to and validate what you and your children are feeling
• Learn to set limits and find solutions with your child
• Walk out with a 5 step method that builds emotional intelligence and creates positive, long-lasting effects for everyone

Relationship Support for Successful Parents

Are you and your spouse often in conflict on your parenting choices? Do you wish you could find common ground and end the parenting battles?

Come and learn:

• Effective Communication for happier relationships
• How to have successful listening skills to help ends the battles
• How to disagree successfully and avoid the arguments
• Family goal setting
• How to create rules so there are less parenting battles​

Surviving The Homework Battle

School is in session and if your home is anything like ours, the battle of routine is amongst us. It seems as though our kids come home and they are simply DONE.  It seems to always turn into a battle. What do we do so that we are not all pulling our hair out by 4 pm? Come and learn our top tips to have homework time go smoother.

Participants will learn:

• How to create a structured routine so your children know exactly what to expect.

• Systems and organization tips to ease the battle

• Ways to increase peace and performance

• Strategies to motivate even the most willful student

Turn your Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater

Learn strategies to help your picky eater start loving a variety of healthy foods. In this workshop, we will discuss how to have meals with fewer tears and frustration.

Come and learn

• The difference between picky eating and feeding difficulties
• Top reasons why children don’t eat
• Appropriate portion sizes
• Foods that may potentially increase your child’s picky eating
• Top strategies to support picky eaters 

Positively Parenting Your Willful Child

Is your child strong willed? Do you feel at a loss with how to deal with their behavior?  This workshop will give you strategies to help positively parent through behavioral challenges. You will learn tips to set up your home and routines for success.

Come and learn:

• Top tips for tantrums and willful behavior.

• Understanding the importance of knowing your child's triggers as well as your own

• Strategies to set your home up for success

• The importance of knowing what we are focusing on and how that can impact your family's life

Food, Mood & Behavior

Understanding Food Choices and its Effects on Moods and Behaviors in our Children

Feeding our families can be a challenging task especially when trying to decide what’s healthy and what’s not.  

Come and learn:

•  Learn the worst ingredients and how to avoid them
• Foods effects on your family’s mood and health as a whole
• Learn the way diet affects how you feel
• Understand how certain foods can trigger behaviors and how dietary choices can make a difference

Keeping your Food Allergy Child Safe through the Holidays

For families who have children with food allergies, the holiday season can be the most stressful 

Special Needs Diagnosis, Now What? Addressing steps to take from receiving special needs diagnosis to getting services for your child and where to go next.   

Middle School, Attitude, Drama… Oh my! 

Learn how to develop respect, responsibility, and communication with your middle schooler.