The SOUL of DISCIPLINE
and a DEVELOPMENTAL ROADMAP
A parent's journey is filled with both precious moments and difficult situations. Our sense of how we are doing is often determined by the way in which we respond to the flashpoints of parenting. These moments will either refine or consume us.

SIMPLICITY PARENTING
Why Less is More for Children...Five Steps You Can Take to Help Your Child to Feel Calmer, Happier and More Secure.

So much of modern life seems to be about more.  Very few presentations you will attend will suggest that you do less, but this is one of them.  It quietly presents 'do-able' daily ways in which we can simplify our families lives and by doing so build resiliency within our children.

THE SOCIALLY RESILIENT CHILD
How to Help Your Child Who is Being Teased or Who is Teasing

While schools can do a lot to work through situations of teasing, parents can be very effective in giving their children some age appropriate simple strategies to avoid being caught up in the destructive cycle of teasing and bullying.

SOCIAL INCLUSION & THE NEW RITES OF PASSAGE
Adressing Isolation,Teasing & Bullying
A workshop and training designed to give practical playground, classroom and home based tools to work with social exclusion issues.

BEHIND the LABEL
A Deeper Look at Diagnosis and What Parents and Teachers Can Do
What is the difference between naming and labelling? As we look deeper into the issues that confront our children we may glimpse how, in helping them penetrate the difficulties that face them each day, they are gathering and refining the tools they need to make themselves stronger in will, deeper in empathy and clearer in achieving their goals.

THE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE
Shifting Reactive Habits of Communication. A Guided Meditation

This is a presentation and guided meditation that helps shift unwanted and negative patterns of relationships and communications.  While it particularly focuses on our children and teens it is also a very powerful tool to use to help us with in difficult times with partners, friend and colleagues.

THE MANY FACES OF BULLYING :
From the Corridors of our Schools to the Corridors of Power

This presentation explores a third way to the punitive - permissive dilema we often face when responding to wrong doing such as bullying.  This third was is called 'accountability with out blame'.  The presentation traces the many 'layers of bullying from the school environment through to current event.  It offers practical home and school based solutions that when implemented can be a part of lasting change in the world. 

PLANTING the SEEDS of KINDNESS
Exploring Creative Alternatives to Aggressive Behaviour in Early Childhood and up to Nine Years of Age
This is a facilitated discussion that will address the issue of aggressive
and antisocial behaviour in children.

The ANGER of the TEMPERAMENTS
Anger as a Signpost to Deeper Needs
In this workshop designed for teachers, therapists and parents, we will carefully examine the very different ways in which each of the four temperaments experiences fear, threat and expresses anger.

TWEENS & TEENS
NEW IDEAS FOR A CHANGING WORLD
A wide-ranging presentation that introduces the many issues that challenge the tweenage, teenager, parent and teacher.

The MISSION of ADDICTION
Deepening our Understanding
“Until we are willing to look at the deeper body, soul, spiritual aspects of addiction in an open and objective way, we as a society, will all remain its victims and continue to seek escape routes.”

PLAYING for KEEPS
“Children do not only play games, they live them”
A workshop examining the significance of games in the life of a child.

SPORT for CHILDREN
Does it Damage or Develop?
In this talk we will look deeply into the child’s needs in relation to sports, and how we may help to give them a creative expression appropriate to their age.

The POWER of the PEER GROUP
A Key to the Door
So much of what may be helpful or harmful centres around the peer group.

BOY ‘O’ BOY
Developing a Masculine Emotional Intelligence
A presentation/discussion exploring a number of subjects related to roles and role modeling for boys.