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Centaurus Parent Education Series- How to Have Meaningful Conversations with Your Teen
March 11, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
PEN Presents:
Centaurus Parent Education Series
How to Have Meaningful Conversations with Your Teen
Wednesday March 11th | 6:30-8:00pm
Presenter: Karen Alonge, Interpersonal Communication Consultant
Centaurus High School, 10300 W South Boulder Rd, Lafayette
All Events Open to the Public
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Cost: $10/event. Register for entire series by October 24th and receive all 4 presentations for $35!
Teachers use course code 24231 for CEU credits
Scholarship tickets available upon request. Contact Taylor Schmidt for more information.
Interpretación disponible contacto Blanca Urena.
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 Mtivational 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:
Developing Resiliency | Thursday October 24th 6:30-8:00pm | Presenter: Ryan Dawson, MA, LPC | Click here for more info
Brain Development | Tuesday November 19th 6:30-8:00pm | Presenter: Ryan Dawson, MA, LPC | Click here for more info
Value Driven Decision Making | Thursday February 13th 6:30-8:00pm | Presenter: Ryan Dawson, MA, LPC | Click here for more info
Download the Centaurus Series Calendar
PEN extends a big thank you to our presenters!
Thank you to Centaurus High School for hosting and sponsoring the series!
Contact Taylor Schmidt for more information.