Workshops,
Keynotes, &
Community Events
In addition to coaching individual families, I provide workshops for schools and organizations as community engagement events, family education nights, and fundraisers.
I cover the array of challenges families face at different phases of their child’s life—from elementary through high school.
~ No Hassle ~
You’re probably swamped and the thought of adding one more thing to your to do list might feel overwhelming.
For an in person workshop, all that’s required is a venue, a television monitor I can connect my laptop to, and that you send out a few emails I’ve written for you. I bring everything else, including my own PA system.
Online events are even easier. All you need to do is send those emails out.
Here are some examples of workshops that I’m currently delivering. I can also create a customized talk tailored to your community’s specific needs.
Laura Derosier
Event Chair, Speak! SF
“It was a total success! There was so much learning to be had. The opportunity to be a part of something truly important and bigger than ourselves is such a gift.”
PROGRAMS
The Rupture to Repair Workshop:
Practical Strategies for Preventing Family Conflicts
For parents with kids 5 – 18 and students 10+
Parents of kids in different age groups face different challenges.
In elementary school, it’s all about setting the foundation for having trusting relationships with the adults in their lives that will serve them far into the future.
In middle school and high school, it’s all about kids not wanting their parents to manage their lives any more. Instead, they want parents to be their (unpaid) consultants. And that transition can be rocky for everyone.
The Rupture to Repair Workshop is designed to meet parents of kids 5-18 and students as young as 10 in whatever unique conflict dynamic they find themselves in.
This workshop can be customized for parents with kids in elementary school, kids in middle school, or both.
Michelle Remy
Sierra Vista PE Teacher
“As an educator, I am looking forward to using the tools Lisa shares with my so-called ‘trouble-makers,’ many of whom are dealing with trauma. As a mother, I appreciate the emphasis on repair.”
Greg Sahakian
Principal, Edison Elementary School
“I’ve observed the impact that Lisa can have on strengthening a school’s culture, particularly useful in this time where creative solutions to community building are needed. School families connect with Lisa because they know she’s one of them.”
Amy Cheney
Former Oakland Unified School District Librarian
“The practical strategies Lisa shares in her workshop have been extremely helpful to me in navigating my relationship with my Godchildren. After a helpful and restorative session with my Godson, who is 14, he asked if he could have her number so he could get support from her again. (A 14 year old!!!)”
Screen Time Agreements That Stick
For parents with kids 5 – 18 and students 10+
When it comes to screens, many parents are fed up feeling like police officers or pushovers and sometimes both on the same day. In this workshop, parents learn how to create screen time agreements that actually stick, by engaging their kids in the process and addressing their own fears in a way that creates collaboration, not conflict. It’s for parents who are looking for an approach that doesn’t rely on threats, punishment, or power struggles, but that still provides peace of mind.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how fear-based parenting can fuel power struggles and make screen time agreements harder to make.
- Learn a 4-step process to create effective, collaborative screen time agreements with your whole family.
- Discover how to use a child’s need for autonomy to inspire them to make empowered decisions about screen use.
- Hear examples of real families using this process, so parents can apply the tools to their own situations.
Intended Takeaways:
- Parents will leave with a clear understanding of how their fears around screens may be driving conflict, and how to turn that fear into a tool for building stronger agreements.
- Kids 10 and up will leave with a better sense of their own needs for choice and autonomy, and how they can use those needs to make healthy, informed decisions about the role that screens play in their lives.
- A concrete, adaptable 4-step process to help craft an agreement that everyone in the family can buy into, regardless of how enthusiastic a child is about screens.
Jen Slaw
Lancaster, PA
“My son and I are now able to have more nuanced conversations about screen time — and can often come to an agreement about what’s healthiest. Not always, but we’re a work in progress! I’m grateful for Lisa’s insights and ability to navigate beyond what’s “right” and “wrong” to move into a more collaborative relationship with my son vs. a combative one around screens — which has extended to other areas of potential conflict as well.”
Dan Ciruli
Father of 3, Oakland, CA
“Lisa has a fantastic ability to combine humor and meaningful insight that leads an audience on a journey of discovery through shared experiences.”
Rita Williams
Mother of Clyde, San Francisco, CA
“Parents leave Lisa’s talks feeling empowered. Lisa offers practical ways for parents to bring out the best in their children and themselves. She’s gifted at using the power of storytelling to open the hearts and minds of her audience to possibilities they hadn’t considered.”