Services

Positive Discipline for Parents, Teachers & Children

  • Positive Discipline is a model based on Adlerian Psychology and the works of Psychologist Rudolf Dreikurs from the 1920’s. It can be used by parents, teachers, couples, business and community leaders to learn to create responsible, respectful, and resourceful relationships in their communities. Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott, and co-authors that began this in the 1980’s, this model can be applied to both children and adults to become contributing members of their communities.  

  • Positive Discipline can be taught in a variety of ways in both individual and group settings, and also in-person or online. Sessions can vary from a 1-hour introduction, a full day, a few hours, or a multi-week course (i.e. 4-8 weeks).

  • I offer the following activities:

    1. Positive Discipline Parenting.

    2. Positive Discipline in the Classroom for Early Childhood Education.

    3. Keeping the Joy in Relationships.

    4. Positive Discipline Book Study Group.

    5. Positive Discipline Tools for Kids.

    6. Positive Discipline sessions for particular settings (Schools, Nurseries, Playgroups, Camps, etc.).

MINDFULNESS for Families

  • Mindfulness finds its origins in Buddhism, positive psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s main focus is to reduce stress but has also been extremely effective in treating a variety of chronic illnesses. It has also been found to increase your levels of focus and attention, as well as reduce sadness, anxiety and depression. Mindfulness involves the idea of going inwards, befriending the self and focuses on “being” rather than on “doing”. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was developed in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn who is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 

  • MBSR uses a combination of mindful meditation, yoga, and body awareness strategies to help you become present in the moment and focus on the sensations and feelings that you have. Practicing Mindfulness is about cultivating awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present movement, non-judgmentally.

  • Mindfulness can be offered in a variety of ways to both adults, adolescents and children in either individual or group sessions, these include:

    1. Half Day or Full Day Retreat

    2. 8-week course

    3. 4-week course

    4. One-offs for an hour each

    5. Customizable sessions depending on need

       

MENTAL WELLNESS

  • Our mental health is at the core of our existence, it influences everything we do and don’t do. If we are unable to find ways to live peacefully and thrive on a daily basis then we end up suffering. Mental Wellness is about working on our emotional, physical, and spiritual selves to raise self-awareness and eventually achieve self-actualization.

  • There are many ways to achieve mental wellness and the activities I offer are for adults, adolescents, children and can be done in groups or individually in both online and in-person settings.

  • I offer the following activities:

    1. Anger Management

    2. Stress Management

    3. Emotional Awareness & Regulation

    4. Taking Care of Our Planet

    5. Psycho-educational Sessions about specific topics

    6. Team Building Activities

    7. Women & Men’s Support Circles

    8. Mental Health First Aid training

    9. School-wide Campaigns

    10. Talks/Speeches at Events or Institutions

    11. Wellness Retreats

“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin