Courses
The training will be limited to an appropriate number of participants and will be personally led by Howard Glasser, the developer of the approach, alongside Tom Grove, who is an incredibly gifted trainer and co-author of The Inner Wealth Initiative, with Howard Glasser and Melissa Lynn Block.
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Benefits of attending
- Get to grips in gathering the dynamics of challenging behaviour.
- Understand why conventional methods of parenting and teaching often fail with intense children.
- Learn ways to enable challenging children to use their intensity in creative ways.
- Identify how to enable challenging children to thrive.
“Most of my colleagues believe that a child’s intensity is a problem that needs to be treated with medications and made to go away. I have developed an approach that puts parents and teachers into the driver’s seat and gives them the perspective and strategies to shift children into using their intensity in beautiful ways.
Many children wind up on medications simply because there has not been an approach that consistently helps them to use their intensity successfully. 75% of all children evaluated for conditions such as ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder receive medication on the very first visit. The unfortunate underlying message is: your teacher can’t control you, your parent can’t control you, and you can’t control yourself...you need a substance to control you. Parents and teachers end up feeling inadequate and blamed as well.
Ordinary methods of parenting and teaching typically backfire with intense children. Despite the best of intentions, the more adults attempt normal responses, the worse the situation can inadvertently become.
The culprits are the methods most people have at their disposal...not the parents, teacher or the child. Approaches designed for the average child are not powerful or encompassing enough to have a transformation very quickly and in an enduring way. Instead of believing that one gets a great deal more from adults through negativity and that positive choices are a less certain bet, the child is moved to believing that he or she can fully invest energy and intelligence in successes.”
Howard Glasser
