Workshops & Presentations

Attend a workshop to learn a wealth of information while connecting with other parents facing similar challenges. These interactive sessions are a warm, supportive environment in which you can share experiences, learn new strategies, build community, and gain insights. You'll walk away with more confidence and greater ease. A Joyful Parent.

Calm and Connected

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Parenting Children and Teens with ADHD/Executive Function Challenges

a 7-Session Parent Coaching workshop series

What is it?

This workshop is a combination of education, support, and coaching.

In these seven sessions, you'll hear the most recent research about the impact of ADHD on your child's brain, and you'll receive tools to create a calm home where compliance and growth can occur.

What will I learn?

understand ADHD and Executive Function
remain calm and connected
improve communication
encourage collaboration
achieve clarity and consistency
implement more effective consequences
make better choices

Can I try it out first?

You can register for the first session, "The Impacts of ADHD on Learning, Motivation, Behavior, & the Family System," as a stand-alone workshop before committing to the full series.
If you continue the series, that initial payment is credited toward the remaining six sessions.

What are the details?

All sessions are 90 minutes, with Session 1 extending to 2 hours. Attending Session 1 as its own workshop is $100 per person.

The complete workshop series is $490. A second family member can join the series for just $140.
Classes are forming now--see the Events page for dates!

Free Presentations

Visit the Events page for dates and locations.

Skills for Success:
Executive Function
and Growth Mindset

What every parent and educator needs to know when a child:

lacks motivation
avoids challenges
breaks down when the work gets hard

Your child may know what to do, but do they know how to rally when they need to? Learn how to support a growth mindset in our achievement-based culture.

Top 10 Strategies for Parenting Children & Teens with ADHD

This presentation provides an overview of the social and emotional impact of parenting a child or teen with ADHD or other Executive Function challenges. Learn the facts beyond an ADHD diagnosis and how to best prepare for the journey ahead.

Managing Homework:
Parent Edition

Tips, tools, and strategies for helping students who face Executive Function challenges with their homework.

What makes it so challenging?
What role should parents play?
What will make homework time less stressful and more productive?

Effective Collaborating:
Parent, Teacher, Student

Here, parents and teachers create an effective relationship to better support kids with ADHD. Parents learn to help teachers understand how to best connect with and support their child. Teachers learn to ask the questions that get the useful and appropriate information you need. Together, learn sensible plans for communicating better all year.

Dates and Locations