The Parenting 2.0 Workshop - Helping You Become the Parent You Want to Be!

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Hello, Devoted Parent!

Do you sometimes feel worried and discouraged, or maybe even helpless, hopeless, despairing, and defeated? Do you worry you might actually be "messing up" your child?!

We believe that being a parent is the hardest, but the most rewarding, thing we do in our lives. You can feel hope and confidence again as a parent, knowing that there is a good path forward and that you’re doing the best for your child. 

In our work with parents, we find that almost everybody has at least one parenting challenge that they are anxious to solve. "Please just give me a tool to fix this problem I'm having..." is something we hear a lot! Our Parenting 2.0 Workshop is designed to help you build up your mental and emotional parenting "tool set" so that you feel more confident and capable of being the parent you want to be!

We hope you will consider joining us for this six-week online, video-conference program. You can attend the sessions live and interact with us and with others, or you can choose to just watch the recordings. Either way, we think you'll find that there are simple steps you can take to be a more confident and positive parent.

We look forward to helping you!

Paul Peterson
Steve Hargadon

THE PARENTING 2.0 WORKSHOP
60-minute live sessions (also recorded) on Tuesdays, starting February 19, 2019, for six weeks from 9:00 - 10:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 - 7:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 - 8:00 pm Mountain / 8:00 - 9:00 pm Central). Live with each session recording posted later that same night.

COST:
$99 per person / $150 for a couple

REGISTRATION:
To register for the workshop, please click on the "Sign Up" button at www.Parenting20.com. You can pay by credit card. To take advantage of the "couple/partners" discount, or with any questions, email steve@learningrevolution.com.

OVERVIEW:
"Parenting 2.0" is about parenting at a higher level. Most parents are doing a better job than they give themselves credit for, and a big part of our Parenting 2.0 workshop is helping you to recognize what you're already doing well, and then to strengthen and build on those things.

Parenting at a higher level also means gaining new perspectives on parenting, and we'll dive deeply into ways that small and simple changes in how we think can dramatically improve our happiness and our family life.

Finally, Parenting 2.0 also recognizes that we live in a new, connected, online and social world--and so do our children. We'll discuss the critical decisions and methods for parenting to create peace and fulfillment in our electronically-saturated era, which often produces the opposite of peace and fulfillment for most people.

OUTLINE:

• Week 1: "YOUR PARENTING STORY"
  We all have a "story" of what parenting is. We'll explore our own stories, the stories of our parents and significant others, and our cultural stories of parenting. Once you realize that you have a story, you begin to have some control over it. We'll explore the ways in which stories can be "broken" or harmful, how to repair or re-write them, and how this relates to "Parenting 2.0."
• Week 2: "NAMASTE PARENTING"
  The word "Namaste" is a customary Hindu greeting that has been popularized because it conveys something very significant. One translation is "the divine in me recognizes the divine in you." When we start with a core belief in the inherent worth and value of ourselves and our children, it helps us to see and act in ways that accomplish what we really want with our children.
• Week 3: "THE SCIENCE OF (LITTLE) PEOPLE"
  There is so much science about how we and our children learn and feel and act that can be really helpful to parenting. We'll talk about temperament, attachment, and attunement as core ways to understand our children and our relationships with them. We'll also explore how this can help us guide our children through their school and life experiences.
• Week 4: "IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT YOU"
  This week we'll explore one of the hardest, but most rewarding, things we learn about parenting: that helping our children is more about changing ourselves than it is about changing them. We save this for week four because sometimes we're not ready to hear that until we've dug a little deeply and are comfortable being honest with ourselves. This session is a life-changer.
• Week 5: "BUILDING CAPABLE PEOPLE"
  What do we really want to accomplish as parents? What is our ultimate hope for our children? Is it to help our children navigate the world and to then become happy, healthy, and productive in their own lives? Being clear about our long-term goals helps us focus on the ways that we can accomplish them, facilitates building a culture in our families that is a lasting gift and legacy to our children, and helps them to craft their own family and parenting stories.
• Week 6: "WORLD 2.0"
  Just as television dramatically shifted the world of families and parenting for most of our own parents, we're experiencing even more monumental changes to our lives and our children's lives with the advent of the Internet, mobile devices, and social media. Our previous sessions provide us some grounding for having confidence that we can manage the many social and emotional challenges of "World 2.0," and help our children to learn how to self-manage, survive, and thrive in this new world.

HOSTS

Paul Peterson: I'm interested in fostering wellness and health through conversation, hypnosis, and experiential practices like meditation, body movement, and art. I'm a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in Arkansas and run my own private practice in Bella Vista. I've published research in a national therapy journal and been invited to present research at two national conferences. I continually try to expand my understanding of how humans change, mostly through wrangling my toddler twins and picking the brain of my brilliant and beautiful wife. And, of course, through study, research, and practice. More at paulwpeterson.com.

Steve Hargadon: My wife and I are the parents of four now-grown children (the oldest of whom is married to Paul!) and the grandparents to four grandchildren. I run large online educational conferences for teachers and librarians, and I started some of the first modern social networks for education. More on my professional site at stevehargadon.com.

Two New Library 2.0 Webinars: Library Advocacy + Marketing | Coaching Skills for Managers + Supervisors | ALSO: Active Shooter Response Recording

We have two new Library 2.0 Webinars coming up in February.

First is the return of Dr. Steve Albrecht with "Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time" on February 11th.

Then, being announced today, is "Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques" with Dr. Sue Alman on  February 21st.

More details on both are below. Registering for one of the Library 2.0 Webinars gives you access to the live Webinar, as well as any-time access to the recording afterward. To submit a purchase order, or with any registration difficulties, questions, or interest in group rates, contact steve@learningrevolution.com.

The recording of Dr. Albrecht's "Responding to an Active Shooter in the Library: Protecting Patrons and Staff From a Rare But Catastrophic Event" is still available here. ("The active shooter training was fantastic!" said a participant who then bought a site license for all her staff.)

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"LIBRARY ADVOCACY: EVERYDAY MARKETING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES"

A 75-minute webinar (live and recorded) in a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Sue Alman, being held on Thursday, February 21st, 2019, at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. You do not need to attend the live session to purchase this webinar, but doing so allows you to participate in the Q+A.

OVERVIEW: Library marketing can be effective without the expense of hiring a marketing and PR firm. Promoting the library can be a fun and productive task for all employees and library users IF time is spent on developing a communication plan and providing content for print materials, social media, and word-of-mouth interactions.

In this Webinar, you will learn some ways to advocate your library's resources and services for your constituencies of users, non-users, and administrators/funders. This speed-marketing session will provide an overview of the need to have a communications plan for sending your messages to the intended audiences through a variety of mediums, and WOM (Word-of-Mouth) marketing, social media, and print formats will be discussed. At the end of the session, participants will have ideas about ways to create a library buzz online, f2f, and inside/outside the library.

DR. SUE ALMAN has taught graduate courses, webinars, and workshops in marketing and public relations for libraries for nearly 20 years, and her students have created award-winning marketing and PR projects.  Dr. Alman’s book, Marketing for Libraries, is in its second edition.

Sue earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and has held positions in a variety of library types. Prior to her appointment as a full-time faculty member at the San Jose State University iSchool in 2012, Sue coordinated the Library Associates Program (University of Michigan) and the LIS online program (University of Pittsburgh.)  As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0 online conferences, The Emerging Future (2015) and Blockchain (2018).

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE

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"COACHING SKILLS FOR LIBRARY MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS: GETTING BETTER PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIOR FROM YOUR EMPLOYEES ONE MEETING AT A TIME."

A 60-minute webinar (live and recorded) in a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht, being held on Monday, February 11th, 2019, at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. You do not need to attend the live session to purchase this webinar, but doing so allows you to participate in the Q+A.

OVERVIEW: You can create a library workplace where focused, motivated, and self-directed employees want to come to work, do their work, interact effectively, and develop and grow. You can use coaching to get these results. Coaching is the use of a series of one or more formal and informal pre-disciplinary meetings, that focus on an employee's performance or behavior. The goals range from career development and promotion to correcting problematic behaviors, to improving performance in specific areas. It’s an employee-centered and time-focused process, using “homework” (projects given to the employees to complete at work), to move the process forward. and setting milestones.

Working together with employees who want or need to change, you can mutually create a realistic prescription for change using tools, shared experiences, guidance, career-path mentoring, and continuing support. When using coaching interventions, employees can be taught to build their skills, redirect unproductive behaviors, and become more self-reliant. This webinar will focus more on coaching tools rather than coaching theories, and will help you solve a complex organizational problem: how to get the very best from your employees, at every level.

As a subject, coaching is often picked up “on the job,” as opposed to more formal training programs or workshops. Coaching skills are not always well-developed, even in senior managers or supervisors, and especially with new ones, who may be good a the technical parts of their jobs but not as much on the “people” side. Some managers and supervisors often feel uncomfortable confronting poor performance or bad behavior, so they let these problems escalate until they become an HR issue or a discipline meeting. This session helps them to have these conversations, using a structured process. We’ll discuss how to overcome excuses, denial, objections, and rationalizations with employees.

DR. STEVE ALBRECHT has taught his half and full-day workshops for thousands of library managers, supervisors, and employees around the country. He is best known for his ALA 2015 book, Library Security, and his programs on library safety and security.

Steve holds a coaching certificate from the Fielding Graduate Institute, as well as a doctoral degree in Business Administration, an M.A. in Security Management, a B.S. in Psychology, and a B.A. in English. He is board certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment.

He has written 21 books on business, security, and law enforcement subjects.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE

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ALSO, RECORDINGS AVAILABLE - "RESPONDING TO AN ACTIVE SHOOTER IN THE LIBRARY: PROTECTING PATRONS AND STAFF FROM A RARE BUT CATASTROPHIC EVENT"

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO ORDER, CLICK HERE.