Traverse Parenting Leadership Series 2024-2025
Parenting today requires an ability to find clarity in the midst of incredible complexity. As parents we are faced with challenges that did not exist even a few years ago. Political instability, technological advancements, questions about identity, coupled with mental health challenges for our children can make it very difficult to trust our own instincts as parents. And all of this presumes we didn’t bring our own baggage into parenting!
The Traverse Parent Leadership Series seeks to support parents in finding their way to lead children through the complexity of our world. We are honored to support Parents with the following workshops:
Each workshop is presented at the office of Traverse Counseling & Consulting, GBC on the lower level in the conference room.
Times: Each workshop on a Saturday (see specific dates below) from 9-10:30am
Cost: TCC will donate a portion of the proceeds to a partner organization
To Register: See each workshop for a registration link.
Parent Leadership in Technology: Leading our children towards a healthy and responsible relationship with the digital world
Date(s): (September 28th REGISTRATION CLOSED) and May 3rd, 2025 REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Description: Technology has become integrated into the fabric of our lives. As humans in the 21st century, we must establish safe, healthy, and balanced relationship with technology. Parents and families frequently feel as though technology is leading their children and family and feel inadequate to parent this technological age. This presentation seeks to educate parents on the impact of technology use on our children (and us). As well as give parents tools to identify strategies for equipping your children with skills to find a balanced relationship with technology.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the developmental impact of technology on young people
- Parenting strategies for leading your children through the new life task of managing technology throughout life.
- Identify strategies for assisting children in living out the family’s values with their digital lives
- Create a plan for implementing these strategies
Parent Leadership in anxious times:
Date: Saturday February 1st, 2025
Registration Link: REGISTRATION CLOSED
Many of us parents are finding that our children are struggling with anxiety, attending school, or other challenges. This can cause us to feel overwhelmed and experience a great deal of frustration. In this presentation, we will provide practical tools for parents to take a deeper look at what’s happening for their child(ren), provide tools for parents to lead their anxious child(ren), and empower them to overcome their anxiety, go back to school, and face their challenges.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the nature of your child’s struggle
- Key functions of leadership and practical ways to lead anxious or distressed children out of their struggle
- Strategies for adjusting how we accommodate children’s discomfort that can lead to empowerment and more success.
- Skills to assess whether or not your child’s distress is a result of discomfort or is a safety
Parent Leadership in a polarized culture: Leading children through the world of right/wrong, good/bad towards greater acceptance
Date: October 12th 2024
Registration Link: Registration now CLOSED
Our culture has been brewing in bitterness and divisiveness for quite some time. With the upcoming election, polarity and division are increasing by the minute. At Traverse Counseling & Consulting, GBC, we see families (clinically and our own families) impacted by the culture of polarization. The deepening of entrenched positions asks people to ‘pick a side.’ We want to be able to assist parents and communities in navigating interpersonal relationships, families, and neighbors without participating in the deepening of entrenched positioning. In fact, how can we invite people out of our teams/tribes so that we can see the humanity of the “other”? These presentations seek to provide tools for individuals and families to understand the “traps” they fall into and engage in conversation in ways that break the division cycle and invoke curiosity and care.
Learning Objectives:
- Deeper understanding and appreciation for how we arrive at our differences.
- Greater insight on the impact that polarization has on individuals and families.
- The difference between high conflict and good conflict.
- Why and how we get “hooked” into high conflict that perpetuates division in our relationships.
- Learning tools for navigating these differences in family, friendships, and coworker relationships.