PROGRAMS

We live in a complex environment, juggling challenges that did not exist for previous generations.  This contemporary situation makes navigating relationships demanding in ways that we never imagined. Parents, teachers and coaches; families; couples; and co-workers will learn valuable tools to discover simple ways of doing the day-to-day difficult things.


Master Your Feelings Master Your Life provides new skills for emotional fluency, communication, handling conflict, the art of compromise, trust, self esteem and more. It will help people to build successful, strong and positive relationships.

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Get Off The Emotional Roller Coaster

Regain control of your life. Discover the tools and strategies to establish new ways of navigating through your day. Understanding what you need and where you want to go is just the beginning. Learn news ways to communicate with others and establish the boundaries of your 'circle of control'.

Overcoming Overwhelm

Catch your breath, change your perspective, learn new ways to handle situations and people is key to moving beyond 'Overwhelm'.  Choose not to let your emotions define who you are.  Once you can identify the emotions they become a road map to getting to where you want to be.

Stress and Relationships In The Workplace

Navigating stress, conflict and compromise in the workplace is the focus of this program. Learning skills of communication, negotiation and emotional literacy that will help build strong, more successful and positive relationships that will enable smoother more productive work environments.

“What I Wish I Knew Before My Kid Turned 13!”

A user friendly resource, this workshop is for anyone who is engaged in the process of raising, nurturing and educating teens. The workshop offers hands on, easy to understand, practical strategies to help parents and mentors navigate their relationships with teenagers.

The Tool Box is intended to coach adults who live and work with adolescents, in such a way that the adults survive and the kids thrive. Communication, Conflict & Compromise, Trust, Discipline, Emotional Literacy and Self Esteem will be discussed. Questions and dialogue are highly encouraged.

Empowering The Parent: Staying Connected

A workshop for parents to build a tool box of skills that will support parents as they navigate the pre adolescent and adolescent years. Focus will be to create usable strategies for communication, conflict negotiation and emotional literacy based on applied behavioral concepts.

The Tool Belt

Kids are hungry for ways to make things work better and to have things go more easily and smoothly in their lives. This is what a tool does. Think about what our teen—as well as our younger children—need to get the job, challenge, or issue resolved.

Designed for the teen and pre teen, this workshop introduces tools that can become the cornerstone for life long communication, conflict negotiation and coping skills. The metaphor of a Tool Belt is helpful; providing a visual image of a concept puts things into a clearer perspective. Nailing a nail without a hammer is challenging!  We will discuss a variety of tools including: H.A.L.T., the Shake, ABC's, Litmus Paper, Mirror and the Teflon Suit.

Recent and Upcoming Programs

Temple Sinai, New Orleans, La
Junior Boarding School Association
Rumsey Hall School, Washington, CT
St. Georges School, New Orleans, La
Indian Mountain School, Lakeville, CT
The Marvelwood School, Kent, CT
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Dutchess Country Day, Millbrook, NY
Mountain Falls, Kent, CT​
Lexi & Lindsey, Los Angeles, CA
BCO, Kent, CT
Maplebrook School, Amenia, NY
Western Connecticut Health Network
Parent University, New Milford, CT
​Albany Middle School, Albany, CA
Arlington Youth & Health Coalition, Arlington, Ma
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