Raising Children in Changing Times

A program and approach for everyone with children in their lives

Offered through presentations, workshops and individual mentoring
in person and by phone

We adults, and the societies in which we live, educate children for the world we inhabit – which is inevitably different from the world of the future, the world the children of today will live in as adults.

This is especially true at this moment in human and earth history, when unprecedented social and environmental challenges cry out for new ways of being and doing in relations to our earth and each other – perhaps even a revisioning of what it means to be human.

What can we, who are adults now, bring to those who are children today, to enable them to survive and thrive in changing times and in their own way become active contributors to creating a new and different future?

I offer an approach developed through over 20 years experience working with youth in difficult circumstances (children in Child Protective Services care, children who had experienced abuse and trauma, immigrant and refugee youth, and others). During that time I created and evolved practices, activities, approaches to nurture interior strengths these youth could carry with them, to overcome their difficult pasts and into an uncertain future.

I have synthesized these things into 4 qualities, strengths, or ways of being that we adults can nurture, and a variety of activities, practices and approaches to cultivate each of them. These are things that anyone can learn to do, can find ways to fit into any circumstances or situation, with individual children or in groups.

I offer these in presentations, workshops and individual mentoring for parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors and anyone with children in their lives.

I welcome hearing from you to discuss how I can best share these things with you or your group.