Speaking & Organizations
Meaningful Conversations for Parents & Communities
I partner with schools, parent communities, educational organizations, workplaces, and other groups to offer engaging talks and workshops that help parents better understand their children, strengthen connection, and navigate the challenges of raising emotionally open and resilient children.
My presentations combine insights from child development, emotional regulation, attachment, mental fitness, and The Vulnerability Factor™ with practical strategies parents can bring into everyday family life.
Presentations can be tailored to the needs of your community and offered in person or virtually.
Speaking & Workshop Topics
Parenting & The Vulnerability Factor™
The Vulnerability Factor™: Raising Emotionally Open & Resilient Children
Explore how everyday interactions shape the meaning children make about their emotions, relationships, and themselves, and what helps them remain emotionally open rather than moving toward protection.
Beyond the Behavior: Understanding What Your Child Is Really Communicating
Look beneath tantrums, defiance, withdrawal, anxiety, and other challenging behaviors to better understand what children may be feeling and needing from us.
Raising Resilient Kids in an Anxious World
Learn how to support children through worry, uncertainty, disappointment, and difficult emotions without trying to eliminate every struggle.
Connection Before Correction: Strengthening the Parent-Child Relationship
Discover practical ways to preserve connection during difficult moments, strengthen emotional safety, and create the conditions in which children are more receptive to guidance.
Big Feelings, Calm Boundaries: Helping Children Navigate Difficult Emotions
Understand the role of emotional regulation and co-regulation while learning how to set clear, compassionate boundaries that help children feel both safe and supported.
From Reactivity to Response: The Mental Fitness of Parenting
Explore why our children can trigger powerful reactions in us and learn how to recognize your own patterns, regulate your response, and parent with greater awareness and intention.
When Children Push Back: Moving from Resistance Toward Cooperation
Understand what may be driving resistance and discover how connection, autonomy, and thoughtful boundaries can reduce power struggles and support cooperation.
Raising Confident Kids Without Fixing Every Problem
Learn why frustration, disappointment, mistakes, and appropriate struggle are essential parts of development and how parents can support confidence and resilience without stepping in too quickly.
Repair Matters: Reconnecting After Difficult Parenting Moments
Discover why strong parent-child relationships aren't built through perfection and how repair after conflict can restore connection, strengthen trust, and model healthy relationships.
Mental Fitness
Building Mental Fitness: Responding to Life with Greater Resilience & Intention
Learn practical tools for recognizing reactive patterns, managing stress, quieting the inner critic, and responding to life's challenges with greater awareness and choice.
Quieting the Inner Critic: Developing a More Compassionate Inner Voice
Explore how self-criticism contributes to stress, self-doubt, and reactivity, and learn practices that support greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and confidence.