Did you know your child's most problematic moods and behaviors are an incredibly wise way of communicating with you? In this course, Lisa Dion, licensed professional counselor, and registered play therapist, will teach you how to use the insights of modern neuroscience to better understand and shape your children's moods and behaviors. This course includes video lectures, experiential exercises, and easy-to-implement parenting techniques.
Topics include:
● Why understanding your child's nervous system will help you be a better parent.
● Powerful techniques to understand tantrums and misbehavior.
● The ability to clearly understand what your child is trying to communicate when they are misbehaving.
● Techniques for helping your child manage their own nervous system and reduce problematic behaviors.
● Easy to implement strategies to make you a more effective and attuned parent.
● Powerful experiential exercises to help you deal with the challenges of parenting.
● And much more!
In these online parenting classes, Lisa makes the growing field of neuroscience accessible and relevant to parents of all backgrounds. This course caters to both experienced and new parents, and will help parents manage toddler tantrums, teenagers getting in trouble, or just the everyday stresses of parenting. Parents will leave with this course with a powerful new perspective on parenting.
Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, is an innovative and inspiring teacher and pioneer in the field of play therapy. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Play Therapy Institute of Colorado and creator of “Synergetic Play Therapy,” a new model of play therapy bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychology. Lisa teaches and supervises globally, helping transform the lives of thousands of therapists, parents, and children. She is the only person in the world who is a Senior Certified Demartini Method Facilitator® and a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor.
Her training and understanding of how the mind and a person’s biology drives human behavior allow her to offer her child and adult clients a unique perspective and understanding on how to maximize their potential and develop a greater appreciation for themselves and the people in their lives. Lisa is dedicated to advancing the play therapy field worldwide and is the recipient of the Association for Play Therapy’s 2014 Professional Education and Training Award. Lisa is also the author of Integrating Extremes: Aggression and Death in the Playroom (2016).
- Teacher: Zikea McCurdie
Parenting young children is so much harder than parents expect. Our fantasies of peaceful, calm family life turn out to be just that…. fantasies. What happens behind closed doors can be anything BUT peaceful and calm.
This course covers practical strategies that can be used daily with young children. It also covers ideas and wisdom for saving your sanity and sense of humor from many great parents who have already been “in the trenches” and learned a few helpful things that they wish they had known earlier.
This course is meant for you if:
● Parenting brings up more frustration and angst than you expected.
● You’ve read parenting articles and books but still don’t handle yourself the way you’d like.
● You think other parents are having an easier time than you are.
● You are surprised to hear what comes out of your mouth when you’re fed up with the kids.
● You’ve ever thought it would be nice to go to a parent coach.
● You are a high-achieving parent who wants to create an emotionally healthy family.
● You are a scattered, anxious, disorganized parent who wants to create an emotionally healthy family.
● It is your daily mission to stay sane while raising your child/ren lovingly and letting them be who they are.
● You wish you had a loving big sister to share the in’s and out’s of creating a great family and raising good kids.
Kerry Stutzman is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) in Denver, Colorado. She earned her Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Denver (1992) and received a post-graduate certificate in Marriage & Family Therapy from the Denver Family Institute (2009).
- Teacher: Zikea McCurdie
- Teacher: Zikea McCurdie
