Balance & Change - 6-week Class
Balance & Change - for parents of sensitive or anxious teens
Discover Wise Parenting – wonderfully effective skills for bringing out the best in your teen.
6-week in-person class
Saturdays 9:00 – 10:30 am EST
March 11 – April 22, 2023 - No class on April 8th
We believe every teen has potential.
Week 1 – Why is My Teen so Anxious?
Discover why some teens are more sensitive and anxious and how their emotions and behaviors can mask their potential. Discover how parents’ best intentions can unknowingly contribute to their teens’ distress.
Learn about Wise Parenting and why mindfulness is an essential ingredient.
Week 2 – The Importance of Balance in Parenting and How to Achieve It
Discover the benefits of balanced parenting, both for parents and for the teen. Create a plan for balanced parenting.
Week 3 – Teens & Emotions – How Can Parents Help?
Explore how emotions can benefit us and, if not managed properly, can sabotage us. Discover powerful strategies for cultivating connection with your teen while reducing their emotional distress.
Week 4 – Creating Positive Change
Discover how parents can inadvertently interfere with their ability to promote positive change. Learn and practice effective skills for promoting positive change. Develop a plan for increasing skillful behavior and reducing unskillful behavior.
Week 5 – Becoming Emotionally Resilient
Increase your ability to resist impulsive urges or automatic responses while in highly stressful environments. Learn skills for improving emotional resilience.
Week 6 – Putting It All Together
Learn strategies to feel better, healthier, and more balanced while parenting a complicated teen. Create a plan to promote lasting positive change.
Every class includes lessons and discussions. We provide handouts and offer practice activities to enhance the learning experience. Participants are encouraged to participate.
Registration ends March 9, 2023.
Individuals – $350
Couples – $500
On-site Workshops
We'll come to you!
Our workshops are supportive, fun, and packed with skills that are simple and effective.
Ask us about our 2-, 3-, or 4-hour workshops designed for parents of complicated or sensitive teens.
This is just some of what parents can learn in our workshops:
- Why some teens are more complicated and how their emotions and behaviors can mask their potential
- How parents’ best intentions can unknowingly contribute to their teens’ distress.
- Learn about Wise Parenting – wonderfully effective skills for bringing out the best in your teen.
- All about emotions – how they can benefit us and, if not managed properly, can sabotage us
- Powerful strategies for cultivating connection with your teen while reducing their emotional distress
Every class includes helpful handouts and offers strategies and resources to promote Wise Parenting.
Email us
Email us at Info@ParentingTeensWisely.com for more information.
Call Jan
859.227.2445
Meet your facilitators
Joe Caudill & Jan Carden
As experienced licensed therapists and parents, we are passionate about our work with parents. For over 25 years, we have treated adolescents and families. We are thrilled by participants' reports of profound improvements in their relationships with their adolescents and in their overall family dynamics.
Not only do we teach these skills to parents and see the difference it makes, we practice the skills in our own lives and as a result experience greater joy and effectiveness. Our passion for this work and our excitement about its outcomes have driven us to offer this curriculum more widely.
Our supportive, positive learning environment empowers you with the support and skills needed to reconnect with your tween or teen and more effectively help them develop strength, independence, and healthy coping skills.
You may contact me at: jan@parentingteenswisely.com