Free Mental Health Webinar Series Availalbe to AES Families and Staff
The Reconnection Project--Helping parent/guardians help their students.
Please click here to read the brochure.
Program descriptions can be found below.
Session dates are:
January 25 Find the recording of Webinar #1 located HERE
February 8 Find the recording of Webinar #2 located HERE
February 22 Find the recording of Webinar #3 located HERE
March 8 Find the recording of Webinar #4 located HERE
March 22 Find the recording of Webinar #5 located HERE
April 12 Join via this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89301701347
April 26 Join via this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89301701347
May 10 Join via this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89301701347
May 24 Join via this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89301701347
June 14 Join via this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89301701347
We will be emailing and posting the log-in information for upcoming series.
Webinar Series Topics
January 25
- Understanding why these kids feel so much pressure from “Outcome Fever.”
- Educate parents to see the “crisis” of stress and anxiety among their kids and their classmates; Help them see the digital age “elephants” that are affecting their kids (and themselves).
- Develop a felt sense of the granular difference between our childhoods and the students’.
- The importance of working with the truth: develop a full understanding of the Digital Age and what we call “Digititis,” as well as a discussion of the iceberg of student anxiety.
February 8
- Discussion of child development, select psychological theories (most notably Erikson’s Eight Ages of Man and Winnicott’s Holding Environment), and why they are so important today.
- The New Parenting Playbook, which can have negative effects on kids.
- A discussion of what trauma can do to mental health.
- The five signs of mental illness; when to seek professional help.
February 22
- Talking to Your Kids about Elephants and Gremlins—The art of active, undistracted listening.
- How to have difficult conversations with children.
March 8
- Understanding how Outcome Fever Affects your Family.
- Reducing Outcome Fever: changing focus from what children do to who they are.
- The importance of building working collaborative relationships between parents and teachers, coaches, and administrators.
March 22
- Unplugging from Screens as a Family.
- The critical importance of modeling, especially modeling and enforcing disconnecting from devices.
- How parents’ emotional baggage is exacerbated by devices.
April 12
- The Six I’s: Imagination, Independence, Integrity, Intestinal Fortitude, Intimacy and Identity—How to Give Your Kids Those Gifts.
April 26
- Finding a balance between preparing children for adulthood and protecting them from harm.
- Help them learn that vicarious parenting, the diluted attention they’re paying to their kids, and the lack of participation from kids on everyday chores around the house are hurting kids.
- The benefits of failure.
- The importance of vulnerability and accountability.
- Concrete skills for building stronger connections between parents and children.
- Techniques to respond to a child’s struggles without “rescuing” or enabling.
- Specific skills for parents to positively respond when their children test them.
May 10
- Giving children agency so they can develop an internal locus of control.
- The gift of two lives: how parents’ rediscovery of their own lives can allow their children to discover their lives.
- Teach parents the importance of modeling constructive conflict resolution for their children—and learning when to let their children resolve their own conflicts and when to step in.
May 24
- Household tasks and self-care: the emotional importance of teaching your children practical skills so they can take care of themselves.
- Helping your child be in the moment and get out of their own head.
- The three types of focus: multi-tasking/device work, deep focus, and mindless tasks.
June 14
- The importance of fun.
- Finding the Time: Understanding and defeating the “time famine.”