Parent and Family Programs are listed below in the following areas:

• Skills to Create Greater Balance and Harmony
• Parenting Foundation Skills
• Spiritual Parenting
  
• Living in Our World
• Peacemaking, Nonviolence and Buidling Bridges
• Restoring Ourselves
• Storytelling & Story Listening

Consider the following interactive workshops for learning new skills, ideas and strategies and to grow your strengths as a more joyful and meaningful family life: 

Skills to Create Greater Balance & Harmony in Daily Life:

• Balance & Harmony for Your Family
• Use Rituals to Enrich Daily Life
• Change the Face of Anger - A Holistic Approach
• Mindful Listening and Mindful Talking - Four levels
• Create Harmony & Add Zest in Your Relationship
• Meaningful Conversation - Skills to strengthen your connections with each other

Parenting Foundation Skills:

• Positive Discipine and Peaceful Parenting
• Moral Wars - How to Build Bridges when there is a clash in values  
• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting

Spiritual Parenting:

• Nurture Your Family Soul
• Use Rituals to Enrich Daily Life

• How to Deal with the Effects of Popular Culture
• Living Between Two Worlds - Build Bridges Between Your Worlds                                    (Worlds can mean cultural, racial, interfaith, popular culture, generational,etc.)
• Double Parenting: Balance raising your own family & the children you work with
• Escape Holiday Madness - Create Meaningful Holiday Rituals & Traditions

Restoring Ourselves: 

• Step off the Tight Rope - Create Congruence & Repair your Closed Heart
• Stress Management for Whole Person & Whole Family
• Restorative Family Circle
• Forgiveness: Narrow or Spacious Mind
• Create an Intentional Life - Getting Unstuck and Moving Forward
• Contemplative Walk & Talk Sessions

Peaceful Families - peacemaking, nonviolence & building bridges:

• Personal & Family Peace - Skills for Daily Living
• The Third Side of Peace - Finding Common Ground
• Rituals of Peace- activities and skills to bring peaceful values alive
• Mindful Listening and Mindful Talking - Communication Skills
• Path of the Peacemaker Family - Joys and Challenges
• Family  Peace Day or Peace Picnic:  Activities, Skills, and Stories 
• Peace Wrestling - Stories and Skills to Teach peacemakin/nonviolence skills
• Peace in the Family:  Strengthen your family foundation with 4 critical building blocks:   rituals & traditions, communication, playing together, and restoring balance.  In conjunction with Opalanga.

Storytelling & Story Listening:

• Use Storytelling to Enrich your Family Life
• Use Storytelling to Heal, Calm, and Overcome Everyday Obstacles
• Discover the Storyteller Inside You!
• Support Literacy and School Success through Family Storytelling
• Discover the Power of Personal Storytelling
• Preserve Your Family Stories - Collect stories through oral interviews

Family Programs

• Peace in the Family: Stories & Skills to Build Peaceful Families, with Opalanga
• Peace Day: Activities, Stories, and Cooperative Games 
• Play & Learn - an interactive program for parents and preschoolers to learn ideas, practice skills, and to learn by having fun 

These topics listed below are available as a single workshop, in-depth series on one topic area, a series of multi-topics, an intensive single event or weekend retreat.