Lifting Spirits
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Changing Lives Life on a Balance Beam
Based on Paula's popular book, Life on a Balance Beam, this program shares four essential secrets to happiness in a complex world: Flexibility, Balance, Strength and Grace. By turns, practical, whimsical, and wise, Paula's solutions are delightfully down-to-earth. Her unique blend of psychological insight and wit makes audiences laugh and think. She offers innovative, guilt-free tips for saying "no," practical tools for managing daily challenges and frustrations, plus a lasting message filled with music and fun. A winner from start to finish, this is Paula's most popular program for women.
Beyond Beauty, Beyond Boundaries: Where Dreams Come True and Makeup is Optional
In this inspirational and entertaining program, Paula draws from her research on women and risk taking and demonstrates how to move beyond personal or professional boundaries. Part self-discovery and part celebration, this program helps women find their real strengths, which often get overlooked. Lively audience involvement, funny stories, and music make Paula's message enjoyable and easy to embrace. The audience's journey comes to an exciting close with a powerful personal story and musical video, leaving them motivated to live creatively and courageously. Beyond Beauty, Beyond Boundaries will transform the way women see themselves.
Giving for a Living: How to Keep Giving Without Giving Out
Sharing her hard-won wisdom as a former burnt-out social worker, Paula helps participants gain a deeper understanding of what it means to give to others while sustaining yourself. Crowd-pleasing exercises demonstrate Paula's key points and include the "Rush In and Rescue Squad" and "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No." The musical finale features twelve audience members in the rousing "Toot Your Talent Chorus" performed on kazoos. Paula can tailor her message to customer service specialists, hospitality representatives, secretaries, healthcare and human service professionals, educators, as well as volunteers. Giving for a Living makes a powerful opening or closing session and is perfect for staff appreciation events.
Stress Reducing Strategies for Your Stress Producing Life
In this lively, involving program, you'll learn how to increase your emotional and physical stamina, improve your productivity, and reduce your overall stress. With interactive exercises, entertaining stories and demonstrations, Paula will help you "rewrite the rules that run you ragged." You'll get practical self-management tools that get fast results, including three communication skills that zap stress before it zaps you. Thousands of men and women have benefited from Paula's dynamic approach to managing stress.
Changing with Creativity and Courage
Whether it's a life transition, a goal on the horizon, a crisis, or just moving forward in life, a person's attitude and "inner navigational skills" can mean the difference between satisfaction and disappointment. This program helps participants prosper in the midst of change. Lively audience involvement, funny stories, and a proven approach make Paula's message enjoyable and easy to embrace. The audience's journey comes to an exciting close, leaving them motivated to approach change with creativity and courage. Inspirational and entertaining, this program makes a perfect opening or closing.
Raising Careful, Confident Kids in a Crazy World
Teaching children how to safely navigate in today's uncertain world is a greater challenge than ever before. But, now there's a program that makes parents' jobs easier.Raising Careful, Confident Kids in a Crazy World teaches parents how to prepare - not scare - children with information that helps them deal with all kinds of situations and all kinds of people.
Acclaimed for its positive, common-sense approach, this ground breaking program was developed by internationally-respected family educator and KidWISE Institute Founder, Paula Statman. Based on her award-winning book, Raising Careful, Confident Kids in a Crazy World has been profiled on programs such as Oprah and the Today Show and in magazines such as Parents and Redbook. The program has won praise for its no-scare tactics approach to a tough subject and its developmental emphasis on "not teaching too much too soon or too little too late."
Parenting with Wit and Wisdom
Ask any parent "What part of parenting do you like least?" and you're likely to hear responses like "power struggles" or "getting my kids to cooperate" or "disciplining them." Paula Statman, who has worked with children and families for over 25 years, believes that adding a touch of playfulness and creativity to these tasks will lead to less stressful, more enjoyable parenting. Anchored in motivational and developmental theory, the program is filled with lively and fun skill-building exercises that promote creative problem solving. Parents learn to see the world through their children's eyes and regain the essential playfulness that turns potential conflicts into rewarding interactions. Rated #1 at the Family 2000 conference, this workshop gives parents tools for dealing with children ages eight and younger.
Participants Learn:
- How to be an effective parent, disciplinarian, and playmate‚all in one!
- The power of appropriate humor between parent and child
- 3 fail-proof ways to avoid power struggles
- Creative problem solving approaches to tough situations
- When and how to put play to work
- How to "Lead and not Plead" with kids
- 5 ways to make parenting less stressful
Safe Passage: Guiding Your Teen Toward Independence
The adolescent years mark a transition from childhood to adulthood. Often that progression comes with emotional, social and physical turmoil. How do we stay involved during those difficult and important years? What role do we play in preparing our teens for healthy independence? In this lively and interactive program, internationally recognized parent educator and award-winning author, Paula Statman, addresses these issues:
- The 3 R's - Risk Taking, Rebellion, and Responsibility
- How to make wise decisions
- 8 things you need to know about your teen
- How to keep communication open
- 3 ways to promote good judgement and problem solving skills
- How to avoid "parenting potholes"
- The gift of letting go
A Circle of Safety Around Our Children: Prevention Skills for Professionals
Designed for those who take care of, advocate for or educate children, this half-day or full-day workshop address the new challenges professionals face in an era of changing policies and regulations. The program equips professionals with the skills to help children avoid abduction, molestation, and other forms of victimization or exploitation. It deals explicitly with sensitive issues in a safe, interactive environment.
Participants will learn:
- New ways that professionals can support each other as they advocate for children
- 3 essential components that make up the foundation for a child's personal safety
- How to help children be less vulnerable
- How to avoid unwarranted charges of sexual misconduct
- Understanding mandated reporting laws
- The new definition of "respectful affection"
- Handling disclosures with comfort and skill
- Promoting children's safety at home and within the community
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