Workshops
AskArden Parenting Workshops
I'll be doing a series of parenting workshops in May and June and wanted to share the information with you. The workshops are tailored to different age groups, so there is something for parents with young children, all the way through the teenage years.
The workshops will be held at my new office in Chelsea in Manhattan, located at 156 5th Avenue. Payment must be received before the first session, and you can reserve a spot by contacting me here on the web site.
I look forward to seeing you!
-Arden
Half Day Workshops for Parents of 3-10 Years Olds
Do you find yourself lecturing, nagging yelling, bribing and finger pointing?
Are you and your child utterly frustrated?
Is your child too powerful, the boss, self entitled and having meltdowns?
Are you melting down as well?
There's Hope!
- Learn the Aerial Parenting Anti-Punishment Approach
- Have key conversations with your child that will: minimize conflict create cooperation
- Learn strategies and solutions that lead to a more fulfilling connection with your child
Half Day Workshops: $150 per person, $250 per couple.
Payment to be received before first session.
Half Day Workshops for Parents of 11-19 Year Olds
In addition to my focus for the 3 to 10 year old workshop we will focus on:
- How crucial it is to maintain an Aerial Parenting Approach
- Have ongoing warm, educative conversations with your teens
- A strong parental connection is our kids life insurance policy as a preventative for risk taking behavior
Topics include:
- Internet and Social Media
- Drinking and Drugging
- Porn and Sex
- Bullying/Cyber-bullying
- Body Image and Perfection
- School and Academic Pressure/Stress
- Launching your child to College
Half Day Workshops: $150 per person, $250 per couple.
Payment to be received before first session.
Workshops for Parents of 11-19 Year Olds
Workshop lasts 2 hours.
- Move from a “heads in the sand clueless parent” to an aerial “fingers on the pulse” parent
- Stop the yelling, lecturing and finger pointing and coming from a punitive position
- Learn how to have and set age reasonable appropriate limits and boundaries
It's not ever too late to learn how to connect with your child on a higher level and keep the conversation going.
- Build a solid relationship with your child
- Rear caring respectful children who learn to trust their gut
In these overstimulating times our children need us more than ever
as their protectors, and teachers.
Helping them navigate the shark invested waters of the:
- Internet
- Social Media Sites
- Porn
- Cyber bullying
- Casual sex, oral and otherwise
- Binge drinking and drugging
- Body Image and Perfection
- Friendships and Cliques
- School and Academic Stress
Six session 2 hour series flat fee $350 a person, $550 per couple.
Payment to be received in advance of first session
Thursdays: May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, June 7th
Workshops for Parents of 3-10 Years Old
Will be tailored to the issues and needs of parents.
- Stop the yelling, lecturing, finger pointing and coming from a punitive place
- Stop the possible spanking
- Create an aerial respectful child by becoming an Aerial Parent
- Avert power struggles
- Deal with temper tantrums
- Make your child part of the solution
- Learn how to set age appropriate reasonable limits and boundaries
Six, session 2 hour workshop series will teach you how to become an
Aerial Parent, come from a place of love, see the bigger picture and
start the conversation with your child from Day 1.
Thursdays: May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 31st, June 7th at various intervals
during the day, afternoon and evening depending on registration.
Flat fee $350 a person, $550 per couple
Payment to be received before first session
Half Day Workshops 3 Hours
For working parents and single parents. A condensed version of my
two 6 session series workshops.
Monday May 14th, May 21st. Morning, afternoon, evening, depending
on registration.
$150 per person and $250 per couple.
Please contact me with any questions regarding the upcoming workshops. Also, please read below for information on the topics I cover in various workshops throughout the year.
General Workshops
Aerial Parenting
Raising a child, tween and teen can be one major challenge that can send your inner world into turmoil. When challenged or provoked by your child too many parents get caught up in power struggles, yelling, lecturing, finger pointing and spanking as tools for discipline and later feel absolutely guilt riddled. I offer 22 AERIAL PARENTING tips that will help you see the bigger picture and get much needed perspective in lovingly parenting your precious child.
Learn how to develop objectivity, respond rather than react, collect your thoughts, rise above and come from a place of love and warmth. Learn how to not "bite the bait." Every setback is a set up for a comeback and a marvelous teaching opportunity. Aerial parenting sets the stage for an aerial children.
Experiential, Didactic, with conversation starters from my book, power point available, Individual, Couple, Group Workshop Series. Keynotes. For parents, PTA's and libraries.
Aerial Parenting Your Toddler
Our children are unique masterpieces and it's my thrust to help you help them become all that they are meant to be. See the oft times mislabeled "terrible two's and three's and fours" as opportunities to learn from your child. Learn how negotiate a potential power struggle and stave off a temper tantrum. Our children are in the midst of learning self expression. Mom and Dad expect their frustration to be acted out in aggressive outbursts. While coming down to their level with age appropriate expectations and setting flexible and reasonable parameters, learn self soothing strategies while utilizing my anti-punishment approach. Learn how to neutralize bedtime struggles, eating issues, toilet training, getting up and dressed while role modeling and teaching self care.
Latest cutting edge research from Yale Child Study Team on Role Modeling, Role playing and playing pretend. Tips on creating an "aerial child." Conversation Starters, Experiential and Didactic, Individual, Couple, Group Workshop Series. Keynotes. For parents, pre-k programs, teachers.
Cyberbullying / Harrassment / Hazing
One of your tween, teen child's best friends could become and may be a bully. Maybe your child is a bully? A scary thought. Statistics don't lie. The national center for education statistics report 25 percent of all students say they are bullied on a daily or weekly basis. For children with disabilities that jumps to 85 percent!!!! Bullied boys are 4 times likely to be suicidal. Bullied girls 8 times likely to be suicidal.
Our children are growing up in a world with the potential of 24/7 hate sites. Delve into the misuse and abuse via Facebook, Formspring, sexting, IMs, and in-school and neighborhood verbal and physical violence. Learn the red flags to identify if your child is being victimized? What is the profile of a bully? Why would a teen and young adult resort to suicide? What is cybercide? Tips to help the parent educate, protect and enable their overwhelmed, anxious, depressed stressed out child to report any and all abuse. Discussion of the New Jersey anti-bullying law and a N.Y. anti-bullying bill attached to an anti-stalking law. Real tragic stories in the news and from my book and private practice. Didactic, Keynote, workshop, Power point available. For parents, schools, PTA's, Wellness Days, library book events.
Technology And Sex: What Our Children, Tween And Teens Are Into And Up To And How To Deal
Our children are growing up in an over-stimulating, over-exposed and fast paced world and teen culture. The average age a child is first exposed to Internet pornography is just eleven years old!!!! Seventy five percent of teens say their parents "almost never" monitor the times they spend on-line and 29 percent say their parents would disapprove if they knew what they were really doing on the Internet. Your child is falling into chat rooms, lying about their age, communicating with people who lie, pedophiles, putting very personal information out on Facebook and cyberspace, cyberbullying or being cyberbullied on Form Spring, sexting and passing nude photos on their cell phones and more!!
TIPS on helping your tween, teen develop better processing and impulse control. Connecting them to cause and effect, my "lend your brain" program, utilizing TV, media as a spring board for teaching opportunities, and expecting them to make mistakes. Aerial Techniques to see the bigger picture and my anti-punishment approach focusing on their health and welfare. Becoming a "finger on the pulse" parent.
Conversations Starters, Didactic, Experiential, Keynote, workshop, Power Point available, Q's and A's, vignettes from my book and private practice. For parents, tweens, teens, teachers, PTA's and library book events.
Myth Of The Barbie Doll And The Man Of Steel: Body Image And The Myth Of Perfection
The media, TV shows, commercial and info-mercial diet/exercise ads, fashion and health magazines, cosmetic, plastic surgery, pornography, diet industries all portray over-sexualized distorted images through body perfection. How is this affecting our youth? Through clever profit making, PR. marketing and photo shopping, the message we are all getting is that "we are not good enough as we are and have to contour and reshape ourselves to fit the image that you can't be to thin, emaciated or too muscular, buffed up, 6 and 12 packed. When taken to an extreme it sets the stage for disordered eating and the development of an eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder.
GOTS: Goals, Obstacles, Strategies and Tactics. Learn how to become an active, thinking, screening, resistant and smart consumer. Tips, strategies and tactics toward developing a life affirming, positive acceptance of your self and develop a more healthy body image. Learn other means, besides your physical appearance, to feel good about yourself. Video Tapes, Power Point available, Conversation Starters, Experiential, Didactic, Keynote, Workshop Series. For parents, schools, PTA's, Wellness Days library book events.
The Abc's Of Eating Disorders
An introduction into the world of eating disorders. Warning signs for anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating and binge eating disorder. Interventions, prevention and recovery. The role of the family, biology and socio-cultural impact and the media on understanding the etiology of an eating disorder. Internet hate sites: Proana and Promia. National Eating Disorder Association's Proud2Beme teen web as a direct response to the body and self hate sites.
What a friend, parent and coach can do to help a person suffering from an ED. Vignettes from my book's chapter, Body, Identity and Eating Disorders and private eating disorder practice.
Conversation Starters, Didactic, workshop, keynote, videos, Power Point available. For parents, schools, PTA's and Wellness Days.
Eating Disorders And The Male And Female Athlete
Combine the pressure and expectation to make weight plus an obsessive over emphasis on appearance and that equals a strong correlation to the development of eating disorders. We will look into the making and training of the wrestler, runner, gymnist, tennis player, ballerina and athletes with endorsements that model for fashion ads. This pressure has been reported in additional sports: baseball, basketball and soccer, the Olympics and other competitive events.
The myth of Thin=Win and the development of the Female Athlete Triad Syndrome, losing menses, and early onset of osteoporosis, bone thinning, loss, breakage and the tragic shortening of an athletes career. Why are eating disorders continuing to spill into these sports? Learn what can be done to identify and help these athletes develop better coping and self soothing strategies and for them to stand up and become advocates for health and wellness. Workshop, videos, conversation starters from my book. For parents, coaches, athletes on all levels, Jr Varsity, Varsity, Div. 1,2,3 College and professional.
Date And Acquaintance Rape: Not For Women Only
Alarming statistics: Approximately 66 percent of rape victims know their assailant. Girls ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.
Red Flags for dating the wrong kind of guy. How to help a friend in an abusive relationship? Signs that your daughter might have been raped. First hand accounts from my book and private practice. Tips on being protective and proactive. What is RAINN? Rape, Abuse, Incest, National Network. Steps to report the crime. Didactic, conversation starters and vignettes from my book. For parents, friends, teachers, schools, survivors and thrivers.
Incest And The Pedophile
Twenty nine percent of rape victims are ages twelve to seventeen.You never know who your child, tween, teen and young adult is talking to on-line? Your never know how a relative, neighbor, coach, priest or best friend is looking at your child and what they be into and up to? The proactive protective talk with your child. TIPS to spot a pedophile. The real life story of "Angel" from my Sex chapter in my book and steps toward prosecution and vindication. What is PTSD?
Warning Signs that your child has been raped. What a parent, teacher, and friend can do. The long and rocky road to recovery and healing. For parents and family, friends, schools, PTA's, agency training, survivors and thrivers.
Sex, Drugs, Alcohol And Rock N' Roll
Our children are experimenting at a much younger age. Kids are having oral sex as young as eleven, and drinking and drugging in middle school. Kids are developing STD's from unprotected oral sex. Having the "sex" talk about pornography, rainbow parties, pharm parties, contraceptives, pregnancy with your tweens and continuing with your teens and young adults. We will discuss the phenomena of "it's not sex, it's kissing" the "cool, the no big deal and the popular" factor in risk taking behavior.
The latest trends in accidental deaths, the combination of binge drinking and oxycontin. Learn more about teaching Self and Body Respect, loving and liking your self and body. Conversation starters that are age appropriate for your toddler, tween, teen and young adult. For parents, tweens, teens and young adults, schools, PTA's, teachers and coaches.
Life Interrupted: 16 And Pregnant
Even though the pregnancy rate has gone down, there is still so much more work in educating and protecting babies from having babies. Ten percent of all U.S. birth are to teens. Each year seven hundred and fifty thousand fifteen to nineteen year olds become pregnant. Having the preventative talk with your tween and teen. The impulsive ooops factor. Why would a teen look to get pregnant? Tips on self and prenatal care.
The all important role of Planned Parenthood. Learning how to take care of yourself and a very special baby. Becoming a teen Aerial Parent? Adoption? Exploring the choices available. Experiential, didactic, for teen Moms and their parents. Conversation starters, vignettes from my practice and books.
Self Mutilation Among Our Youth
Self mutilation is a complicated and an addictive form of self and body hate. Underneath the body is weeping tears of blood, expressing and crying out. If the act of mutilation could speak, what would it say?
Learn about body dysmorphia, dual diagnosis-the concurrent development of an eating disorder, drug and alcohol dependency. Tips on Alternative positive behaviors, journal writing and what a parent and friend can do to help. Vignettes from my book and practice. Power point, for parents, youth, schools, PTA's.