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Centennial/Casey Parent Education Series- Communication, Connection, & Setting Healthy Boundaries
November 6, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
PEN Presents:
Centennial/Casey Parent Education Series
Communication, Connection, & Setting Healthy Boundaries
Wednesday November 6th | 6:30-8:00pm
Presenter: Karen Alonge, Interpersonal Communication Consultant
Centennial Middle School, 2205 Norwood Ave, Boulder
All Events Open to the Public
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Cost: $10/event.
Teachers use course code 24225 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 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:
Establishing Healthy Relationships | Wednesday February 5th 6:30-8:00pm | Casey Middle School | Presenter: Abbie Fagerwick (SPAN) | Click here for more info
Building Resiliency and Creativity | Wednesday March 4th 6:30-8:00pm | Centennial Middle School | Presenter: Jenny Hecht, LCSW, Karuna Healing | Click here for more info
Download the Centennial-Casey Series Calendar
PEN extends a big thank you to our presenters!
Thank you to Centennial and Casey Middle Schools for hosting and sponsoring the series!
Contact Taylor Schmidt for more information.