Past Events

This two-day workshop is designed for new and experienced parent educators to gain the information and skills to become Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educators. The workshop provides effective tools and resources for therapists who want to offer Positive Discipline parenting classes for their clients and/or use Adlerian based concepts and strategies in their sessions. It supports school personnel, nurses, counselors, youth workers and others who deal with parents, children and young people; and it provides insight and strategies for parents with children of all ages who want to learn to parent effectively for today’s world. 

Participants will learn to facilitate experiential activities in group and individual settings. They will learn research-based, effective tools and techniques for teaching parents how to build respectful relationships and use discipline that is kind and firm at the same time, neither punitive nor permissive.  They will gain a set of resource materials adaptable for use with all age and focus groups; therapeutic relationships; parenting and mentor programs.

Cost:
General Public: $335 Early Registration received and paid by February 22, 2013, Regular Registration $370 (includes materials). Registration fee for non-students includes a complete curriculum, Positive Discipline book, and the Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way Facilitator's manual.

Adler School Students: $250 Regular Registration.  This fee DOES NOT include books. Please notify facilitator if you want to order books. Please bring books if you already own them.

To Register:  Register at www.positivediscipline.org or contact the Positive Discipline Association: posdis@satx.rr.com or call toll free: 1-866-POS-DISC (1-866-767-3472).

This interactive workshop is designed for teachers, counselors, school staff and administrators who want an effective discipline approach that integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging student behaviors. Workshop participants will learn how to: 

• Develop a large teaching toolbox of kind and firm discipline approaches
• Establish explicit classroom structures and procedures
• Create an equitable classroom community based on mutual respect
• Understand the motivation behind students' misbehavior and how to encourage positive change
• Facilitate effective class meetings teaching social skills and problem-solving

Cost

General Public: $335 Early Registration received and paid by Jan. 1, 2013, Regular Registration $370 (includes materials). Registration fee for non-students includes a complete curriculum, Positive Discipline in the Classroom book and manual.

Adler School Students: $290 Early Registration if received and paid by Jan. 1, 2013. Regular Registration $325 if paid after Jan. 1, 2013. Price includes books.

CPDU’s available for Illinois State Certified Teachers

To Register:  Register at www.positivediscipline.org or contact the Positive Discipline Association: posdis@satx.rr.com or call toll free: 1-866-POS-DISC (1-866-767-3472).

Student forums are programs developed specifically with students in mind and address a variety of issues related to counseling and the mental health profession. Room 16-114.

With Dina Emser, MA,  Certified PD Lead Trainer in room 16-118.

For those who have already completed the initial course in Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way

Advanced Supervision, Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way, is a 4-hour workshop experience created to support parent educators and clinicians in the use of the tools and experiential activities learned in the 2-day Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way workshop -- a pre-requisite for attending. Participants will share their success and challenges using Positive Discipline methods and get feedback, practice, support, and suggestions for increasing their effectiveness and confidence with sharing the PD philosophy with families. This workshop is in Pilot format, and may be used for future certification of Positive Discipline Clinicians, as well as a requirement for parent educators to maintain their level of certification.

Register at: www.positivediscipline.org

With Dr. Jay Colker, Core Faculty MAO Program

In this presentation Dr. Colker with work with a family to demonstrate Adlerian-based strategies in family counseling and family education.

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Student forums are programs developed specifically with students in mind and address a variety of issues related to counseling and the mental health profession. Room 16-114.

Join us for an overview of the Vienna Child Guidance Centers and the work of Rudolf Dreikurs and his pioneering colleagues in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Participants will also learn effective applications of IP today and where Adlerian psychology is going over the next decades. Location: Adler School of Professional Psychology, Community Hall

RSVP to continuingeducation@adler.edu

Student forums are programs developed specifically with students in mind and address a variety of issues related to counseling and the mental health profession. Room 16-114.

An introduction to Positive Discipline with Dr. Jane Nelson (co-founder of Positive Discipline).