PARENTING COURSES FOR SPRING 2013
(Gordon
Neufeld Ph.D. series)
facilitated by Terry Warburton of Recovery of Hope in
Winkler.
Course detail below
The Art and Science of Transplanting Children
8 Thursdays, April 4—May
30 (not May 2), 2013 7-9 pm
Fee: $125/person
Making Sense of Counterwill
4 Mondays April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2013 7-9 pm
Fee: $60/person
Alpha Children
4 Wednesdays May 8, 15,
22, 29, 2013 7-9 pm
Fee: $60/person
Location: All courses held at Eden Health Care office, 309
Main St.
Registration: (Registration forms attached)
Make
cheque or CC payable to Recovery of Hope. Forward bottom portion of registration form
to:
Recovery of Hope
Fax:
204-453-7748
Email: rechope@mymts.net
Mail:
102-900 Harrow St. E. Winnipeg ,
MB R3M 3Y7
For more information:
Course outlines can be found at www.neufeldinstitute.com/courses
Contact
Terry Warburton at terry.rechope@gmail.com
Tel: 866-493-6202
www.edenhealthcare.ca (Counselling /
Recovery of Hope / Workshops)
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The Art and Science of Transplanting Children
Course Overview:
This 8-session course applies the attachment-based
developmental paradigm to the special
challenges of raising children who have not been born to the parents
assuming responsibility for them. This
material applies to foster and adoptive parenting as well as step parenting and
is meant for all players involved in this challenging enterprise including teachers, supporting
relatives, social workers,
pediatricians etc. Transplanting children, as a result of remarriage,
removal, adoption, parental loss or
change in custody can subject a child to the most impacting experience of all —
separation from those to whom they are
attached.
Course Outline
§
Becoming
attached
§
Why
children need to attach
§ Fostering attachment
§
The
impact separation
§ Impediments to
re-attachment: protective shyness and defensive
detachment
§
Keeping
children safe and helping them adapt
§
Disciplining
Transplanted Children
Making Sense of Counterwill
Counterwill is a
name for the instinctive reaction of a child to resist being controlled. It can take many forms: opposition,
negativism, laziness, noncompliance, disrespect, lack of motivation,
belligerence, incorrigibility and
antisocial attitudes and actions.
Although normal, its impact can be highly disruptive. In this four-session course, Dr. Neufeld
makes sense of this most troublesome, misunderstood and misdiagnosed
phenomenon. This course is relevant to
parents of children of any age, educators or professionals working with youth.
Alpha Children: reclaiming our
rightful place in their lives
A growing number of children are presenting as demanding, prescriptive, bossy and controlling. A disturbing number of these alpha children are turning into bullies as well. Alpha children tend to have difficulties letting themselves be parented or taught. This is making the child-adult dance much more difficult than it used to be or needs to be, despite the plethora of advice-giving and strategies available today. Internationally renowned developmental psychologist Dr. Neufeld uncovers the surprising roots of the alpha complex and in doing so, opens the doors for lasting change: in the family, in the classroom and in society.
A growing number of children are presenting as demanding, prescriptive, bossy and controlling. A disturbing number of these alpha children are turning into bullies as well. Alpha children tend to have difficulties letting themselves be parented or taught. This is making the child-adult dance much more difficult than it used to be or needs to be, despite the plethora of advice-giving and strategies available today. Internationally renowned developmental psychologist Dr. Neufeld uncovers the surprising roots of the alpha complex and in doing so, opens the doors for lasting change: in the family, in the classroom and in society.
