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Monarch Parent Education Series- How to Have Meaningful Conversations with Your Youth
October 10, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
PEN Presents:
Monarch Parent Education Series
How to Have Meaningful Conversations with Your Youth
Thursday October 10th | 6:30-8:00pm
Presenter: Karen Alonge, Interpersonal Communication Consultant
Monarch High School, 329 Campus Drive, Louisville
All Events Open to the Public
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Cost: $10/event. Register for entire series by October 10th and receive all 4 presentations for $35!
Scholarship Tickets are Available. Contact Taylor Schmidt for more information
Interpretación disponible contacto Blanca Urena.
Teachers use course code 24220 for CEU credits
More about Presentation Topic:
Tired of trying to convince, persuade or cajole your teens into changing their behavior? Try a new approach! Interpersonal communication consultant Karen Alonge will teach us a few communication skills from Motivational Interviewing – a collaborative conversation style that helps enhance motivation and commitment to change. You’ll come away with several strategies for facilitating productive conversation with your teens about creating positive changes in their own lives. You’ll also learn how to minimize your likelihood of triggering resistance and defensiveness.
“Quite often, when we respectfully invite people to articulate their own reasons and plans for making a change, they will talk themselves into changing.” – Karen Alonge
More about Karen:
I’ve been providing interpersonal communication and parenting consultations to private clients since 2001. I’ve trained and coached thousands of practitioners of Motivational Interviewing (an evidence-based communication model that helps enhance people’s motivation to change) since 2006, including volunteers, staff, and management in education, social service agencies, nonprofits, corrections, counseling, law, and health care.
For fun I hike in the breathtakingly beautiful Rocky Mountains, read voraciously, fall down internet search rabbit holes, write books (yes, that is FUN!), and blog. Volunteering is very rewarding for me, so among other things I facilitate weekly classes for incarcerated parents, participate in Restorative Justice community circles, and teach communication skills to volunteers in various community service organizations. I also allot several appointments in my schedule each week for pro bono clients.
Other Presentations in the Series include:
Stress Management | Thursday November 14th 7:00-8:30pm | Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Olson| Click here for more info
Healthy Relationships | Thursday January 9th 6:30-8:00pm | Presenters: Sarah Dobson (MHP) & Abbie Fagerwick (SPAN) | Click here for more info
Life After High School | Thursday March 12th 6:30-8:00pm | Panel of Presenters | Click here for more info
Download the Monarch Series Calendar
PEN extends a big thank you to our presenters!
Thank you to Monarch High School for hosting and sponsoring the series!
Contact Taylor Schmidt for more information.