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Workshop:

Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach Presented By Howard Glasser, MA

Online Registration: $119

Registration by Mail, Fax, Phone: $129

Group Registration (Online Only – 3 or more together): $109

Student (Present ID at Seminar) $99

A One-Day Seminar for Mental Health Professionals, Educators, and Parents, presenting a powerful approach that consistently produces extraordinary results for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors… an approach that helps children to flourish in remarkable ways.

“This is the approach that I recommend.” -Patch Adams, Renowned Physician

Speaker, Howard Glasser, M.A.

Description: A child’s intensity is a gift that needs to be nurtured. Unfortunately, so many people today find themselves struggling with the intensity of a challenging child and wind up being advised to moderate the intensity by using medications as a first intervention rather than as a very last resort. I’ve developed an approach that puts parents and professionals into the driver’s seat and gives them the perspective and strategies to shift children into using their intensity in beautiful ways.

Many children wind up on medications simply because there has not been an approach that consistently helps them use their intensity successfully. 75% of all children evaluated for conditions such as ADHD and Oppositional-Defiance Disorder receive medication on the very first visit. The unfortunate underlying message is: your teacher can’t control you, your parent can’t control you, and you can’t control yourself… you need a substance to control whatever is going on inside you. Parents and teachers can end up feeling inadequate and blamed, treatment professionals can sometimes be at a loss as to how best to help, and the result for the child is being at risk for both side effects that can rarely be adequately explained in the course of an evaluation and for a greater loss of self than can ever be fully anticipated.

Ordinary methods of parenting and teaching typically backfire with intense children, accidentally rewarding children in myriad ways. Despite the best of intentions, the more adults attempt normal responses, the worse the situation can inadvertently become.

The culprits are the methods most people have at their disposal… not the parents, teacher or the child. Approaches designed for the average child are not powerful or encompassing enough to have a transformative effect on children with behaviors involving opposition, defiance or inability to manage strong impulses or emotions.

The excellent news is that The Nurtured Heart Approach has been proven to create the transformation very quickly and in an enduring way. Instead of believing that one gets a great deal more from adults through negativity, and that positive choices are less certain bet, the child is moved to believing that he or she can fully invest energy and intelligence in successes. Join us for this workshop and learn how this powerful approach can work for you. -Howard Glasser

Workshop Schedule

7:30-8:30 Registration/Sign-in/Coffee

8:30-10:15 Introduction to the Nurtured Heart Approach: Dynamics of the Challenging Child/Crucial concepts for Energizing Success/Therapeutic Stances

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 Techniques: Strategic Methods of Energizing Success

12:30-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 2:00 Questions and Answers

2:00 – 3:00 Limit Setting

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:30 Advanced Techniques: Awakening greatness in all children and ways to “notch-up” The Nurtured Heart Approach for the most Challenging children.

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out, in order to receive a certificate of completion/attendance. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be posted on the internet at www.ceuregistration.com

Course Objectives

Describe and utilize concepts that yield full understanding of the dynamics of a challenging child, ADHD, and whether to medicate.
Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy and teaching often fail with intense children, despite the best of intentions.
Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD or is difficult in other ways, and regardless of the child’s age and level of severity.
Apply techniques to create experiences of success that are more powerful and more extensive than traditional approaches.
Utilize strategies to avoid the traps of accidentally rewarding negativity while still upholding a perfect level of accountability for the child.

CE Credits:

Approved for 6.5 CE hours

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists

R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (6.5) hours.

Social Workers

MA, NJ, NY, OR, WA: R Cassidy Seminars, ACE provider #1082 is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. Approval Period: April 15, 2009-April 15, 2012. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers will receive 6.5 continuing education (clinical, social work ethics) clock hours in participating in this course.

CA: Course meets the qualifications for (6.5) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.

Counselors

MA, NJ, NY, OR, WA: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. Provider #6375. (6.5) hours.

Marriage and Family Therapists

NJ, NY, OR, WA: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. Provider #6375 (6.5) hours

CA: Course meets the qualifications for (6.5) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.

MA: This activity has been certified by the Massachusetts Association for Marriage & Family Therapy, Inc. for professional continuing educations. Certification #PC- 09249 for 6.5 CE hours.

Nurses

CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12223, for (6.5) contact hours.

Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Refund/Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations up through two weeks prior to the workshop will receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee. No refund after two weeks prior to the workshop. NO refunds available for helpers (half price registration for help on the day of the workshop) who cancel.

Workshop:

The Nurtured Heart Approach to Parenting, Based on Howard Glasser’s Book, Transforming The Difficult Child

Presented by: Richard Berger, MA, LMFTA, Certified Nurtured Heart Specialist & Teryn Peroff, MA, LMHCA, Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator

Foster your child’s inner strength through recognizing and appreciating the gifts your child possesses!

A 5 week Parenting Series

Mondays: July 18 – Aug. 15 from 6-7:30 pm

Wednesdays: July 20 – Aug. 176:30 – 8pm

Northwest Family Life

11320 Roosevelt Way NE

Seattle, WA 98125

Special Introductory Cost: $150 per person/ $250 couple (includes the Nurtured Heart Workbook, value $25)

Space is Limited, Register Now!

For Registration or More Information: www.RBTherapy.com

206-915-3017 or email: richard@RBtherapy.com

Our 5 Week Nurtured Heart Approach Parenting Workshop is designed to Promote Knowledge and application of the Nurtured Heart Approach

Empower ‘new’ parenting techniques to energize successes Learn the art of balancing limit setting with clear, simple consequences when rules are broken Transform child’s/teen’s negative portfolio into a positive one Increase youth’s inner strength, self esteem, ability to make good decisions, and maintain friendships

Enhance your parent child connection. Be successful with all ages!

Workshop:

Summer Webinar Series – Transforming the Difficult Child, All Children Flourishing, with Howard Glasser and Melissa Block

June 27 – August 4

$325 if you register BEFORE April 30, 2011

$425 after April 30, 2011

Click here to Register

You will recieve six weeks of Live interactive webcasts with Howard every Thursday evening. Pre-recorded presentations to play whenever and as often as you like. Hand-on assignments to use with children in your practice, classroom, or home. On going discusion threads with Howard and co-author Melissa Block. 2.5 CEUs per week for treatment professionals and teachers.

Workshop:

Summer Advanced Trainings

FARGO, ND

August 7 – 12, 2011

http://pathnd.org/resources/nurturedheart

Please check the training and info links on the left side of the page.

SYRACUSE, NY

August 22 -26, 2011

http://nha-syracuse.eventbrite.com

Both trainings result in 32.5 CEU hours and certification as an Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer.

Howard Glasser and Lisa Bravo will be facilitating these trainings.

Early bird registration for these trainings ends May 1, 2011. Reserve your spot now!

Advanced Workshop

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Upcoming Programs 2012

The Five-Day Advanced Training is for those treatment professionals and educators who wish to master the techniques of The Nurtured Heart Approach. Participants will receive full certification in the use of the approach in all venues of TREATMENT, CONSULTATION and EDUCATION. THIS TRAINING IS DESIGNED TO LEAD YOU INTO KNOWING THE APPROACH FROM THE INSIDE-OUT – DEEPLY UNDERSTANDING THE APPROACH – AND IN A WAY -”BECOMING THE APPROACH.”

THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS TRAINING OFTEN CONSIDER IT LIFE CHANGING AND BEYOND ANYTHING THEY EVER EXPECTED IN TERMS OF IT PROVIDING A RICH AND MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE.

The training will be limited to an appropriate number of participants and will be personally led by HOWARD GLASSER, the developer of THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH – along with his incredibly gifted co-author of the Transforming the Difficult Child Workbook, LISA BRAVO. This collaboration will allow for in-depth training, participation and dialogue.

Download a PDF of the Transforming the Difficult Child series.

WE ARE NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS for the Five-Day Intensive ADVANCED TRAINING to be held in Tucson from Sunday evening, January 22nd, through Friday, January 27th, 2012. The training begins with a reception dinner on Sunday, January 22nd which is hosted by the training team and is both a wonderful evening and a perfect opportunity to network and meet the other participants.

You can inquire by sending an email to ADHDDOC@THERIVER.COM – Early registration is highly recommended for the 2012 Advanced Training as this event typically fills completely before the end of the year.

THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH has shown itself to be enormously beneficial to professionals in providing superior work with families, children and schools, producing excellent results within the framework of limited resources and limiting circumstances. THIS INTENSIVE TRAINING HAS CONSISTENTLY PRODUCED Certified Nurtured Heart Therapists and Educators who have extremely successful results and who go on to thoroughly enjoy their part in transforming children and families.

You will earn 32.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS for completing this five-day course. Please see the Continuing Education Information section below.

IT IS REQUIRED THAT ALL PARTICIPANTS HAVE EITHER PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED OR VIEWED A ONE-DAY TRANSFORMING THE DIFFICULT CHILD WORKSHOP IN PERSON OR ON DVD OR HAVE READ ONE OF THE CORE NURTURED HEART APPROACH BOOKS AND AT VERY LEAST EXPERIMENTED WITH THIS APPROACH IN YOUR PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL LIFE. This will allow us to work at a level of depth that will meet the needs of all attending. If you need to order a DVD you can call 800-311-3132 – Mountain Time.

ALL APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED IN A TIMELY FASHION AND YOU WILL BE INFORMED AS TO WHETHER IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED WITH TWO WEEKS OF SUBMISSION. CREDIT CARDS WILL NOT BE CHARGED AND CHECKS WILL NOT BE CASHED UNTIL APPROVALS ARE OFFICIAL.

ORGANIZATIONS SUBMITTING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS MUST HAVE EACH INDIVIDUAL PERSONALLY FILL OUT AN APPLICATION-REGISTRATION FORM.

2012 Application-Registration Form (Click Here)

IF YOU ARE ALREADY AN ADVANCED TRAINER AND ARE REGISTERING FOR “RENEWAL” PLEASE USE THE ABOVE ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM. PLEASE JUST INDICATE CLEARLY THAT YOU ARE A RETURNING ADVANCED TRAINER AND PLEASE NOTE THAT TUITION IS JUST ONE-HALF OF THE REGULAR TRAINING FEE.

IF YOU ARE PAYING BY CHECK PLEASE SEND THAT AMOUNT BY MAIL NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1 TO ASSURE A SPOT AT THE TRAINING, UNLESS A SPECIAL AGREEMENT HAS BEEN MADE. ADVANCED TRAINING EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BEFORE NOVEMBER 1 2011 IS $1500 AND RENEWAL TUITION IS $750. ADVANCED TRAINING TUITION AFTER NOVEMBER 1 2011 IS $1700 AND RENEWAL TUITION IS $900. ALL APPLICANTS WHETHER RENEWAL OR ADVANCED TRAINING MUST STILL FILL OUT A REGISTRATION AND WHETHER PAYING BY CHECK OR CREDIT CARD. SIMPLY INDICATE ACCORDINGLY ON THE APPLICATION-REGISTRATION FORM.

TESTIMONIALS:

“The NHA training was extraordinary. There really aren’t words to describe it. It feels like such an internal process has blossomed in me. It is everything that I have studied and learned in my spiritual life come alive and made real. Deep in my heart I feel it is a gift from God, for everyone.” - Tami Gulland, CPE (Wisconsin)

“As I mentioned to you on one of the breaks, I am going through a spiritual transformation of the heart, and was WOWED by how your approach was talking to me on such a personal spiritual level. I was also WOWED in how it will begin to transformed my professional work with all clients. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.” - Susan Johnson, MFT (California)

“Howard… Thank you for all you did this week. I came to the Advanced Training, feeling knowledgeable about the Nurtured Heart Approach, but wondering how I could successfully inspire and motivate families to adopt the approach. After completing the training, not only am I confident in how to bring the approach to families, I realize that I have a far greater understanding of the concepts themselves, and how to practically apply them. I really appreciated the balance you achieved between structured and free flowing discussion, and I loved the various practical experiences with families, therapists and educators who have been successfully practicing the methods. I left the training with a portfolio of concrete ideas to bring back to my family and work. I think you were masterful in guiding the process, and in doing so in a manner which respected everyone and every idea. I certainly recommend this training to anyone who feels called to make the Nurtured Heart Approach a part of their personal and/or professional life.” - Thomas Nylund, MS (Illinois)

“Attending Howard Glasser’s Advanced Training Workshop was extremely energizing. Experiencing positive feedback for a week was a life changing experience. It raised my clinical and personal skills and power to a higher level.” - Karen Wassmann, LCSW (Florida)

“Hi Howie and Lisa – I have no idea if you have had any access to our group’s letters and notes to one another since our training. They continually come and have been beautiful and incredible testimonies to the power of your training and this work. I have been to many trainings and have seen the high that follows and eventually fades. This glow is not fading but continually grows brighter (exponential rainbows!)” - Penelope Simpson (New Hampshire)

“I feel richly rewarded by the techniques you gifted us with during the training. I came with head and heart understanding and now have the embodied (belly) integration of all the pieces that I was needing in order to really go forward. Appreciating you and your work.” - Donna Jenson MS (Washington)

“Dear Howie… Knowing what I know now about your Nurtured Heart Approach and ‘comparing’ it to how I was treated as a child has given me more opportunity fro healing; this alone was worth the entire week. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for ‘you’ and your very gentle and genuine manner in the conveying the truth that is in you. Your existence on the earth has, and will continue, to spare countless children the unbelievable turmoil and damage they experience by being criticized for being themselves, and, as a consequence of this, subsequently grow into adulthood with a tremendous amount of guilt, bad choices, and very little self-esteem. The repercussions of ‘you’ Howie are far, far reaching, and our world is a much richer, more loving place because of you, and your determination to save other children from what some of us have experienced.” - MSW (USA)

Overview

Most of my colleagues believe that a child’s intensity is a problem that needs to be treated with medications and made to go away. I’ve developed an approach that puts parents and teachers into the driver’s seat and gives them the perspective and strategies to shift children into using their intensity in beautiful ways.

Many children wind up on medications simply because there has not been an approach that consistently helps them to use their intensity successfully. 75% of all children evaluated for conditions such as ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder receive medication on the very first visit. The unfortunate underlying message is: your teacher can’t control you, your parent can’t control you, and you can’t control yourself… you need a substance to control you. Parents and teachers end up feeling inadequate and blamed as well.

Ordinary methods of parenting and teaching typically backfire with intense children. Despite the best of intentions, the more adults attempt normal responses, the worse the situation can inadvertently become.

The excellent news is that The Nurtured Heart Approach has been proven to create the transformation very quickly and in an enduring way. Instead of believing that one gets a great deal more from adults through negativity and that positive choices are a less certain bet, the child is moved to believing that he or she can fully invest energy and intelligence in successes. Join us for this workshop and learn how this powerful approach can work for you.

Howard Glasser

Over the past few years the advanced training has continued to evolve and sculpt the growing edges of The Nurtured Heart Approach. The last few years have been enormously gratifying to participants in exploring the expansive realms of manifesting the greatness of others as well as manifesting our own greatness. So many have felt that in addition to further understanding the gifts of this approach the training was one best personal growth experiences of their life.

Learn the process of Transforming the Difficult Child with the creator and developer of The Nurtured Heart Approach. Our Five-Day Intensive Workshop is the very best way to integrate the depth and scope of this approach in its entirety in a short period of time.

This workshop is designed for those who wish to use the approach personally or professionally in arenas of treatment, in applications for school communities, for parent training and coaching and for use in leading workshops and seminars. This workshop will result in full authorization and certification for the professional use of the Nurtured Heart Approach. Again – It is required that all participants have either previously attended a one-day training and/or have read the book and have at least experimented with this approach in their personal or professional lives. This will allow us to work at a level of depth that will meet the needs of all attending.

Workshop Schedule

The entire advanced training will fall off of the thinking behind the approach as introduced through daily segments of “Here’s What We Are Fighting For”

Day 1: PHASE I:

Here’s What We Are Fighting For: Notions

8:30 AM – 5 PM – Discussion, video, therapeutic and educational scenarios in light of the deeper underlying notions and aspects of Nurtured Heart Approach.

Day 2: PHASE II:

Here’s What We Are Fighting For: Intentions

8:30 AM – 5 PM – Discussion, video, therapeutic and educational scenarios in light of the deeper underlying aspects of the intentions of Nurtured Heart Approach.

Day 3: PHASE III:

Here’s What We Are Fighting For: Transformation

8:30 AM – 5 PM – Discussion, video, therapeutic and educational scenarios in light of the deeper underlying aspects of transformation in relation to the Nurtured Heart Approach.

Day 4: PHASE IV:

Here’s What We Are Fighting For: Fearlessness

8:30 AM – 5 PM – Discussion, video, therapeutic and educational scenarios in light of the deeper underlying aspects of fearlessness in relation to the Nurtured Heart Approach.

Day 5: PHASE V:

Here’s What We Are Fighting For: The Healing

8:30 AM – 5 PM – Discussion, video, therapeutic and educational scenarios in light of the deeper underlying aspects of “healing” in relation to the Nurtured Heart Approach.

This training is comprehensive and will cover everything that needs to be covered and will introduce all new developments and cutting edge aspects of the Nurtured Heart Approach. Typically there are one or more demonstration sessions conducted by Howard Glasser with real clients as well as numerous experiential emersion periods throughout the week.

LOCATION:

The training will take place at the Tucson Marriott University Park, in a wonderful part of the city, very close to The University of Arizona:

Tucson Marriott University Park

880 East Second Street

Tucson, Arizona 85719

520-792-4100 Reservations: ext. 2020

group code : NHANHAA

SOMETIMES IT HELPS TO ALSO REFERENCE “THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH OR THE CHILDREN’S SUCCESS FOUNDATION IF A FRONT DESK EMPLOYEE CAN’T LOG INTO THE GROUP RATE. IF NECESSARY YOU CAN ALSO ASK FOR THE SALES OFFICE AND ASK FOR EITHER BARBARA OR OLGA, OUR HOTEL COORDINATORS.

This link will direct you to the Tucson Marriott University Park >> home page with the code (for the reduced group rate) already entered in the appropriate field. All you need to do is enter your arrival and departure date to begin the process. There is a nice range of restaurants very close by and is a wonderful time of year in Tucson with very moderate temperatures.

Tuition

The total cost of the five days of Advanced Training is $1500. The total cost of the five days of Renewal Training for returning advanced trainers, which is woven into and part of the Advanced Training, is $750. All of the week’s direct work with Howard Glasser and the training team is included in this total. Travel, meals and accommodations are not included.

Refund/Cancellation Policy: Cancellations up through one month prior to the event will receive a full refund minus $100 administrative fee. Cancellations after one month prior to the event will receive a 50% refund of tuition or will be able to roll over full enrollment to the next training workshop.

Important Considerations

It is strongly advised that participants plan on arriving on the Saturday prior to the training. Although Tucson itself is a mild winter climate many hub northern cities have had travel issues in the past and starting out a day early will help asure timely arrival for the fun and important Sunday evening reception and help avoid a worst case scenario of arriving late for the actual training. Best case scenario you will have the daytime hours Sunday to rest and to explore some of the splendors Tucson has to offer.

The Sunday reception dinner is a casual but beautiful event. It begins at 6 PM with informal mingling and wine in the Marriott lobby and continues with dinner in our banquet room. There is no cost to you for this event. The lobby reception is open to anyone you are traveling with, friends, partners and children. The dinner, however, is only for enrolled participants of the Advanced Training.

There will be an great party on Thursday evening at Howard Glasser’s home that is open to anyone you wish to bring. There will be fun, food and drink and it’s been a great way and entertaining way to unwind at that point in the week. Please keep that night open if at all possible.