Spring 2021 Classes & Workshops are SOLD OUT!

Summer Classes & Workshops coming soon… please check back!

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Classes

Toddlerhood Transitions (18mos – 3 to 4 yrs of Age) – 5 Sessions

Toddlerhood (18 months to about 3 or 4 years of age) is a period of amazing, spontaneous, engaging, yet challenging time for children and parents. This class provides practical and relevant concepts that parents can apply right away. Based upon the principles presented in the Parenting from The Tree of Life Series, this class will address structure, routine, conflict, instruction, encouragement and correction.

Parenting from The Tree of Life (4 to 5 – 12 yrs of Age) – 10 Sessions

This comprehensive parenting course provides insight and practical application focused on helping parents build strong family relationships that leads to healthy outcomes for children ages 4-12.

During this unprecedented time, we are offering a special 10 session presentation that will review and highlight some of the key lessons from the 18-week class/video series.  This is a unique opportunity for parents looking to get a “refresher” that have previously taken the course or for those wanting to see what this material is all about!*

We will explore and discuss many issues and topics that parents find especially challenging:

– What does a “Life Giving” home environment look like
– Getting/staying on the same page as your spouse
– Teaching Moral Lessons
– Basic Behavior, Manners and Civilities
– The Parenting Funnel & Teaching Self Control
– Giving instruction that leads to compliance
– Discipline: Encouragement & Correction

Parenting the Middle Years (8-13 yrs of Age) – 5 Sessions

Life in the Middle Years provides parents of 8-12 year olds practical parenting strategies as you and your child prepare for the teen years. This updated five session parenting series will explore many issues and topics that parents find challenging including:

-The nature of compliance to parental instruction
-The power of communicating life giving words
-Peer Identity versus Family Identity
-Critical conversations – Sex, Drugs, and Hormones
-Cyber parenting in the Digital Age
-Transitioning from Parental Authority to Parental Influence
-Awareness of “The Seven Warning Flags”

Workshops

Understanding Temperaments: Marriage & Parenting

Have you ever considered the temperaments or taken a temperament test?

Temperaments are proto-psychological types that influence us on a subconscious level. The various strengths and weaknesses of our temperament is the underlying reason we experience the world the way we do, why we behave the way we do and tend to repeat those patterns of behavior. The Four Temperaments were realized by the ancient Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates, who labeled them as: Choleric, Melancholic, Sanguine and Phlegmatic.

How to Raise a Responsible Child

This online family workshop will feature a 50-minute video (we will email you a follow along handout) followed by a brief presentation and question/answer session.

How to Raise a Responsible Child is a terrific lesson for parents and their children 6yrs old on up attend together! Originally presented back in the ’90s, this old school presentation has timeless wisdom and proven advice for the whole family.

The goal of this workshop will show parents how to pass on to our children a sense of behavioral ownership and a self-generated sense of responsibility. Parents own all behaviors until the child is both intellectually ready and physically capable of taking ownership. We should be moving toward using our authority less and less as our children grow older and wiser.

Mealtime Manners & Behavior

Mealtime Manners & Behavior is a fun lesson for both Parents and Children.  This presentation from the Parenting from The Tree of Life series, will cover basic etiquette and civilities for mealtime.

There is no other training context within moral education that is as compact and saturated with a call to self-control and otherness-sensitivity than which flows from mealtime. Embedded within mealtime etiquette are otherness virtues that intuitively resonate with people.

Parents set the standard in the home for the application of mealtime courtesies.  Our children need to know what manners are expected at all other venues, including formal dining situations.

Personalized Mentoring/Coaching Couples/Individuals

We all go through challenging seasons with our Parenting and Marriage.  And sometimes we just need a little personalized attention to get us through those rough patches.

Our personalized coaching/mentoring is NOT professional counseling or therapy.  Rather it is to educate you with insights and tools to equip you for your parenting and marriage journey.

For over 15 years, Shelly and Rich have facilitated parenting courses and mentored hundreds of parents.  They are both Certified Parenting & Marriage Coaches/Mentors, SYMBIS Facilitators and PREP 8.0 Instructors!

Visit https://onefamilyhwl.org/services to schedule a time to talk!

We are scheduling in-person or online visits now!