Presenter: P. Michele Gordon Johnson, Parent Educator & Parent Coach
During this webinar series, family strengthening professionals are introduced to the power and purpose of parent coaching. Over the course of the series, participants will grow their parenting knowledge and facilitation skills to be better prepared to lead ten valuable parenting conversations. The series is based on current research and best practices in the field of child development and parent education. Participants are encouraged to create a parent coaching guide, to support their family strengthening work, using Are We There Yet? Conversations to Help Navigate Parenting. The exercises will be provided during each webinar, or you may purchase the complete guide.
The webinar series is available in Strategies 2.0’s Webinar Library at http://strategiesca.org/services/webinars/.
Intended Audience: family support professionals who work directly with diverse parenting populations, including parenting coaches/educators, family advocates, early childhood educators, and therapists
WEBINAR 3 – Friday, February 16, 10-1:30 am: Better understand self-care, because better parenting starts from within. Look at ways to can create a better fit between a child’s unique temperament and their parent’s temperament, so they can be responsive to the needs of their children.
WEBINAR 4 – Friday, March 9, 10-11:30 am: Learn how to find a balanced parenting approach, somewhere between pushing too hard and expecting too little, so parents turn discipline situations into learning opportunities that support life-skills.
WEBINAR 5 – Friday, April 6, 10-11:30 am: Focus on matching parent’s expectations with their child’s developmental needs and abilities and co-parenting more effectively, whether living together or apart.
WEBINAR 6 – Friday, April 20, 10-11:30 am: Gain awareness of what drives parent’s own reactions, and focus on strategies that bring greater calm to these challenging moments. Find opportunities in difficult situations and focus on what is most important, the quality of the parent-child relationship.
Presenter: P. Michele Gordon Johnson, Parent Educator & Parent Coach
Michele has taught Early Childhood & Family Studies courses at the college-level for more than 22 years. Prior to teaching the adult learner, Michele was an infant-toddler and preschool teacher. Additionally, Michele is an experienced Parent Educator, certified in a variety of parenting programs. For over a decade Michele has led parenting groups and provided individual parent coaching, more recently using the parenting journal/coaching guide that she authored: Are We There Yet? Conversations to Help Navigate Parenting (2017).
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