School Improvement, Character
Building, School Retention, Inclusion program in 3 simple steps!
Cut discipline
problems in half, while building character, repairing past hurts, improving your
school, increasing inclusion, deepening relationships, rehabilitate some of the
scorners and scoffers . . . Read More.
Testimonials-“We
are having a great year with our 5th & 6th graders... I
have observed several instances when teachers have
helped students settle issues using the techniques
learned through your workshops. The retreat at the
beginning of the year was a great beginning and the
whole year seems to be continuing along very well.”-Mary
Anne-Assoc. Dir.-LH Preparatory School
Stanford did a study that showed the learning style of
the average person as follows: 89% Visual, 10% Auditory & 1% the remaining 3
senses. As we reflect on the teaching style in our schools we realize that
the average student will struggle because the primary learning style is Auditory
and then we expect an ADHD child that is primarily Visual and Tactile in their
learning style to assimilate and learn. ADHD students are entrepreneurial,
inventors like Thomas Edison, visionaries, creators, scientists like Albert
Einstein, professional athletes like Terry Bradshaw, CEO's, entertainers, and
more because they are full of passion. If we can help them through school
and let them loose in their area of passion they will far exceed their peers.
The objective of this seminar is to give you the tools to empathize, provide
structure, organization and positive reinforcement to set the stage for a bright
and amazing future.
Define ADHD and symptoms
Behavioral approaches and accommodations
for ADHD in the school
Treatment and Alternative Treatment
options
Jim West, MA, LMHC, NCC is a nationally
certified and state licensed counselor and specializes in ADHD and Oppositional
Defiance. His positive approach to ADHD is refreshing and helps parents,
and teachers get in the head of their students and truly empathize with their
attentionion issues.
TESTIMONIALS: “Interactive presentations made it interesting, engaging, and fun.”
Miriam H . . . Read More
Consultation is available at your school for
teachers and parents or you may purchase the DVD
Food for Thought - What we
eat effects how we think, energy levels, focus, mood
regulation and more. Food for Thought deals with
dietary considerations which can improve ADHD,
Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), Bipolar Disorder,
Depression & Anxiety symptoms.
Abstinence-Middle School or High School Retreat
The past 60 years several research studies from
Dartmouth, University of Chicago, and more have concluded those who
marry without sexual experience and refrain from cohabitation have the
healthiest intimate relationships.
God created sex for procreation and for our enjoyment
and he wants so much for us to have the best relationships. We think
God tells us to be abstinent because he does not want us to have fun when
all along he knows abstinence is the recipe for the best relationships and
secular research backs it up!!!
School Improvement, Character
Building, School Retention, Inclusion program in 3 simple steps!
Cut discipline
problems in half, while building character, repairing past hurts, improving your
school, increasing inclusion, deepening relationships . . . Read More.
The No No's of Oppositional Defiance-Dealing with the Oppositional Children in the Classroom
95% of students respond to our innate leadership,
discipline structures and teaching abilities but Oppositional students are
in the other 5%. This positive approach will help us with the
following:
Learn the history of Adolescence and how it
relates to the Oppositional Child
Understand how an oppositional child thinks
How to respond less with directives and more with
choices (both choices with the same desired outcome or directive).
Participants will learn practical ways to respond
with questions that lead the student to the solution
How to work with Oppositional Parents
Testimonial-"Your
information is valuable for any parent, grandparent, teacher, counselor,
etc. I feel as if I have found a gold mine of information. I am a long
time high school teacher working on a high school counseling credential
in order to work in a different capacity at the school site."
P.S. "I thoroughly enjoyed your explanation of the emergence of "the
adolescent" in history." Diana-Newport Beach, Calif.
Learn 3 easy positive
steps to diffusing parents using Validation and Empathy to
help them feel you understand how they feel. In most cases this will
help the parent to diffuse.
Then use Choices and explanations can be offered to resolve the situation.
Seminars
in the Orlando Area by Evelyn Wenzel, LCSW, CAP
Teachers and the Anxious Student
Do you have that student who can’t quite cope with
taking a test, reading out loud, or working in groups? Do they seem to
stay at home more frequently than other children because of stomach ache
or headache? Do these students live in the office? When do
accommodations made for these students begin to become more detrimental
and need to be referred for counseling? Because these students do not
have behavioral issues that create difficulties in classroom management
per se, many of them fall through the cracks and never are identified.
This seminar will look at the anxious student in the classroom and help
teachers determine when this child may need to be referred for more
help.
Test Anxiety- Is It Just Test Jitters?
This 4 week (90 minutes each)
workshop will help your test anxious students learn to concentrate and
relax for effective test-taking. Many high school students with test
anxiety walk into and out of the classroom knowing the material, but
forget it during the test. This workshop is particularly beneficial
prior to the SAT and ACT.
Gender Identity
This seminar deals with the powerful influence the media and culture
play in confusing Christian youth about their masculinity or femininity.
The causes, how to identify at-risk youth, and what steps parents can
take will be discussed.
The number of adolescents engaging in self-mutilation is
increasing at an alarming rate. This seminar will provide an
overview of why adolescents self-harm, the function of self-injury
and how this behavior is used as an avoidant form of communication.
This information in this seminar can be tailored for parent groups,
therapists, church youth group leaders, pediatricians, and guidance
counselors.
Testimonials
At a Conference with
multiple workshops: "this
is the best seminar I attended in the past two days"
Guidance Counselor: "This is the most
helpful seminar for my field that I have gone to in a long time"
Court-mandated abuse reporting
Abused children in the classroom and church. Over 1/3 of
America's children are physically or sexually abuse. This seminar
helps you to know the indicators of abuse and how these symptoms may
manifest themselves in the classroom or church. Knowing the legal
obligation of mandated reporting and how to implement effective
policies make this a must workshop for all teachers and church
leaders!
Other Seminars by Evelyn: Parenting Skills,
Substance Abuse, Eating Disorders, Couples, Stress Management
Seminars
by Janie Lacy, MS, IMH-6641
Battling Sexual Addictions
In a culture where sex, like alcohol, is socially
acceptable and encouraged, and sexual images and
provocation abound, it becomes more challenging to
distinguish between normal sexuality and excessive, or
abnormal, sexual behavior. In this seminar you will
better understand this sexual disorder as well as be
able to answer the following questions:
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What is sexual addiction?
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What causes sexual addiction?
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Differences between men and women in sex addiction?
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How do I or my loved one heal from sex addiction?
“You Wanna Hook Up?”-The Adolescent/College Student
Epidemic of Casual Sex
The cultural message we get today is that there is
nothing wrong with hooking up, as long as no one is
being deceived. If you say,“I love you,” to get
sex, that is not okay, but if you say, “Let’s hook up,”
then that is fair play. This seminar looks at the
“hook-up mentality” and the effects it is having on our
adolescents and college students. This seminar
addresses the following:
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“Hook Up Mentality”
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Hook Up Effects
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The Online World
·Hollywood Influence and Low Self-Esteem?
Casual Sex in the Private School
The wide range of behaviors that is acceptable to our
students today stands in contrast to those of earlier
generations, especially in the area of sex. This
seminar will examine the generational trends that have
contributed to today’s standard of widespread premarital
and casual sex. Many students have a “hook up
mentality” in which they engage in casual sex with
various partners and many more are likely to have a
series of monogamous sexual relationships. This seminar
addresses the fact that regarding sexual behavior, there
is little difference between students in the public
school vs. students in the private school.
Suicide Prevention: QPR
As a certified QPR Instructor, Janie can teach QPR for
Suicide Prevention to churches, schools, and
organizations. QPR stands for Question,
Persuade and Refer, three steps anyone can
learn to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an
emergency response to someone in crisis and can save
lives. QPR is the most widely taught gatekeeper training
program in the United States, and more than 300,000
adults have been trained in classroom settings in more
than 40 states.
Do you have
the skills to become an effective leader? Do you know
how to discover and develop your strengths, define and
promote your vision, and create a life in harmony with
both achievement and satisfaction? In this workshop,
you will synthesize concepts and strategies from
psychological, physiological, sociological, and
entrepreneurial traditions to construct your personal
building blocks for leadership.
Habits
for Effective Leadership
This
workshop is designed based on concepts from Stephen
Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. You
will explore some habits of highly effective people that
you can begin today or use to renew your leadership
career. Goal setting is the basis for leadership
growth, but realistically our goals need to be
specifically focused for success. Learn how to set
appropriate goals and to start to accomplish them.
Taking care of business may be your career, but you must
take care of yourself first and always. Learn how to
renew yourself as you become the leader of your own
future.
Building on
the Seven Habits: A Practical Guide to Action
This seminar introduces the concepts within Stephen
Covey’s book, The 8th Habit, to assist
you to begin the process of creating your own action
plan based on your personal goals. This seminar examines
the whole person (body, mind, heart, and spirit) with
four basic needs (to live, to learn, to love, to leave a
legacy) and four intelligences (physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual) and their highest manifestation
(discipline, vision, passion, conscience). All of which
represent the four dimensions of voice (need, talent,
passion, & conscience).
Racial Identification in Multi-Racial Adolescents
Identity formation among multiracial adolescents is
becoming a highly important area of recent research due
to a response to a growing number of children born to
couples of interracial marriage. As multiracial
adolescents integrate into American society, balancing
their unique identity with mainstream American culture
becomes an important task in identity development. This
very informative seminar addresses the following:
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What factors motivate a multiracial adolescent in
defining their self definition?
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How can multiracial adolescents meet the challenges
of their uniqueness in their identity development?
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Do multiracial adolescents as a group face more
difficulty in adolescence than members of other
mono-racial minority groups?
Seminars
by Sandi Burchfield, MS, IMH-1129
Reporting Abuse: When should I call? What
symptoms or behaviors should I look for?
Teachers, social
workers, and health care workers are all mandated
reporters of child abuse. Make a call, remain
anonymous, and the abuse and neglect stops. If only it
were that simple. Most mandated reporters are familiar
with the signs and risks of physical and sexual abuse.
But, do you realize that over 60% of substantiated cases
of child abuse are neglect? This includes educational,
emotional, physical, and medical neglect. What’s more
worrisome is that emotional abuse can be the most
destructive, often has the deepest mental health damage,
is the most prevalent, but yet, it is the most difficult
to prove.
Before you leave
this seminar, you will understand:
How to recognize the
subtle signs and forms of child abuse and neglect.
Abuse and neglect
reaches across all family types: wealthy, poor,
white, black
The best way to
approach the parents and/or family in a
non-threatening manner.
When a report is
necessary, how to involve the family in their own
healing.
But He Comes From Such a
Good Family
Just as a picture says a
thousand words, so does a child’s actions. Though the
divorce rate is declining, families are becoming more
and more detached from each other. In today’s society,
it has become almost a necessity for both parents to
work full-time outside the family. As a result,
children are growing up seeing their adult caregivers
for less than 2 hours per day, with only 30 minutes or
less of that being “quality time”. Families have
forgotten how to play together, learn together, and this
responsibility has been handed over to teachers and
church staff. This seminar will train a parent,
teacher, or caregiver how to:
Recognize when
difficult children are not just being difficult.
Bring the parents
and children/teens together as a team in working on
rebellious behavior.
Readjust priorities
within the family unit.
Build lasting
memories to share for a lifetime
Handle a rebellious
child in the classroom when the parents remain
passive.
I Just Wanted a Normal
Family, Not a Special Child
Most couples dream of
having children to throw ball with, share vacations
together, or be able to pass a legacy on to. What
happens when they are hit with terms like cerebral
palsy, autism, or Down syndrome? Often times, the
marriage is put on hold to tend to the child’s medical
appointments, therapy treatments, and school staffings.
If you’d like to learn how to support a couple and
encourage them to make their marriage a priority, this
seminar is for you. The following topics will be
discussed:
The special needs of
children with developmental disabilities
The stressors that
come with having a special needs child
How to keep a
marriage fresh and alive
Understand how a
special needs child can live beyond his/her
potential when the parents love, support, and live
for each other.
Seminars
In the Orlando Area by Dr. David Hatmaker, LMHC, NCC
Understanding How to Effectively
Communicate
Discover the different levels of
communication. We will also look at ways to help couples learn how to
communicate using full emotional and interpersonal communication. The
art of listening is also discussed, along with practicing active
listening. Guidelines for effective communication as well as roadblocks
are addressed.
Resolving Conflict without
Damaging Intimacy
In this seminar we will help you
understand how to resolve conflict in healthy ways using some healthy
guidelines. We will teach you how to avoid loosing your temper and how
to resolve heated issues using “who has the floor” method
Dealing with Stress and Burnout
In this seminar we will look at
the physiology of stress and how it affects our bodies. We will address
why we get to the point of burnout and some steps to take to prevent it
from happening to us. We will also look at some things we can do if we
need to recover from burnout. We will learn how you can adopt a
stress-coping life-style if balance.
Love & Logical-Parenting Seminar
We will look at the concept of
parenting using love and logic, and how you can gain control through
choices . You will be given help in understanding your child and their
particular bents and personality traits to be used as part of your parenting. You will also gain an understanding of the key to your
child’s heart.
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