You want to organize an event that includes expert-led strategies for parenting or caretaking!

GJC trainings/talks/workshops are great for teachers, parents, clinicians, or other providers.

Provide your attendees with an elevated learning experience.

You want your event attendees to leave inspired after hearing a fun talk with game-changing advice and considerations on parenting!

Our clinicians are experts on behavioral support and positive parenting strategies!

Our wide range of parenting topics can be tailored to the interests of your specific audience.

Book a GJC Talk, Workshop, or Training for your next event!

GJC is ready to provide your parenting group, preschool, town, school, or workplace with talks or training on various topics. Contact us for more information. GJC talks are dynamic, fun, and interactive. Based on science, our research-driven and engaging talks will inspire and inform attendees.

Here are a few examples of talks:

Ten Things to Know About Teaching Leisure: 1-hour talk or 2-hour workshop

Created for service providers who teach kids with severe special needs or special needs parent groups, this talk provides a new perspective on teaching broad-based leisure repertoires and promoting and prioritizing a high quality of life for children on the spectrum and children with other developmental disabilities.

A Family That Has Fun Together… 1-hour talk

Created for all types of parents with all kinds of families, this talk focuses on how to re-establish positive and fruitful family time, spend more quality time together, and enjoy each other’s company. It is perfect for parents who feel time with their kids has turned into taxi service and homework reminders and want to try to reconnect.

They Are Probably Tired or Hungry: 1-hour talk and 2-hour workshop

This was created for parent groups with kids from 2 to 12 years of age. Our kids are people, and people are complex. Our kids might be grumpy, angry, or misbehaving for all kinds of reasons. But poor sleep and feeling hungry can cause problems on their own or make other problems so, so significantly worse. This talk provides an overview of how we promote the best sleep and eating habits for our kids!

My Toddler is an Alien: 1-hour talk

This talk was created for parents with toddlers or soon-to-be toddlers. It helps parents understand why toddlers do the things that they do, how to establish contact, make peace, and form a new, happy bond with this terribly cute and mischievous creature that has replaced their sweet little baby, and more.

You’ve Got This! How to Address 5 Common Preschool Parenting Problems: 1-hour talk

This talk is an overview of evidence-based strategies, positive parenting perspectives, and some entertaining stories that will leave tired preschool parents refreshed and ready to implement a new parenting approach for issues like bedtime battles, managing tantrums, and power struggles (don’t try to win a fight with a four-year-old).

Incentives are Actually Pretty Great: 2-hour workshop

We created this workshop for parents of children ages 2-12. There are a lot of mixed messages out there about rewards these days, including the idea that rewarding your child makes you a bad parent. This talk will encourage you to disregard groups that are overly judgmental of basically all parenting styles. We then provide an overview of HOW reward systems work according to science, what to do, and what not to do. When reward systems don’t work or produce negative outcomes, they’re not being implemented correctly. Become a reward system wiz and see how it can help boost joy and family functioning!

Teaching Kids An-y-thing; One Step at a Time: 1-hour talk or 2-hour workshop

This offering was created for practitioners or parents. This talk reviews the concept and practice of behavior chaining. Be an ace at breaking down any complex task into its component parts and creating a chain of behavior. Make learning fun! Expert tips and strategies galore. Teach your six-year-old to clean his room, teach your ten-year-old to independently do her homework, and teach your four-year-old to brush his teeth thoroughly.

School Can Be Cool When Parents Rule: 1-hour talk

This talk was created for parents to help them best support their kids in school. It will discuss how to best work with teachers and administrators to have the best outcomes for your child, how to lessen the contrast between school and home, and how to set the stage for a love, or at least a solid like, of learning. This talk includes an overview of strategies to end the homework battle for good.

My Kid Only Eats Tan Things: 1-hour talk

This session is for parents of kids from 2 to 22 years old. It will teach you how to create a healthy relationship between your family and food, how to stop taking special orders for dinner, how to have successful meals at any restaurant, and how to teach your child to be an active member of your family’s sourcing, preserving preparation, and enjoyment of food.

How to Not Feel Like You’re Running a Marathon While Juggling Flaming Chainsaws through Hostile Terrain Every…Single…Morning: 1 hour talk

This talk was created for all types of parents with all types of families. If the most stressful part of your day is getting everyone up, fed, ready, and out the door, this is the talk for you.  We’ll discuss practical strategies to get the whole family on the same page, to find pockets of quality time in the morning that you can all look forward to, and to ensure that everyone is pulling their weight with the busy morning task list. Attendees will feel empowered to create new household systems, with the goal of everyone leaving the house feeling good about the morning they just had and ready for the day ahead.

Managing Screen Time: What the Heck to Do When You’ve Literally Heard EVERY Approach Is Wrong: 1-hour talk

This session was created to guide parents through an understanding of the benefits and limitations of different types of screen time access, how to develop household screen time rules that align with your family values, special considerations for managing screen time, and recommendations for teaching responsible screen time behavior.

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