FOR INSTITUTIONS
Group programs for schools, treatment programs, companies and faith communities
Most parents don’t ask for help until something has gone wrong. The places they already rely on can offer it sooner. I bring the Loving Leadership model to groups of parents and to the professionals who work with families, through evening sessions, multi-week series, retreats and staff trainings.
Most institutions begin with my signature talk, Protect or Prepare, which is ready to deliver as it is. When your community is facing something specific, I build a program around it, so parents and staff leave with something they can use the same week.
HOW IT WORKS
• We talk. You tell me who your parents or staff are and what’s coming up.
• I design it. A single session, a series or an ongoing partnership, built for your group.
• I deliver it, in person or virtually.
THE SIGNATURE TALK
Protect or Prepare
Creating the conditions a child grows in
Every parent, and every adult who works with children, faces the same choice many times a day, usually without noticing it: protect the child from what is coming, or prepare them for it. Protecting blocks growth. Preparing makes it possible.
In ninety minutes, I show what that choice looks like in an ordinary week, why the protective instinct so often wins, and what changes when the adults around a child start choosing to prepare. It is the same frame whether the room is parents or staff, and when the adults on both sides of a child work from it, the child feels the difference. About a third of the session is questions.
Most institutions start here.
A program built around something specific your community is facing is a conversation for afterward, not a condition of this one.
Length 90 minutes
Audience Parents, staff, or both in one visit
Delivery In person or online
What you provide A date and a room
SCHOOLS
Parent engagement and staff training, built around what your school is facing
Schools see problems first. Vaping spreads through a grade. Group chats turn cruel. Self-harm starts showing up in counselors’ offices, or the community is grieving a student’s death. Your counselors are looking after the students, but families at home often don’t know what to do, and staff end up managing parents who are frightened or angry. I work with schools on both sides of that.
PARENT ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Evenings and series for your parent community on leading at home: holding limits without losing the relationship, talking with a child who has shut down, and staying steady when your child is anxious or angry. Parents leave with a shared language and specific things to try that week, and the school gains a parent body that is easier to partner with. Most schools start with Protect or Prepare, as a parent evening, a faculty session, or both in one visit.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare 90 minute signature talk
Community evening 90 minutes for your parent body. The easiest place to start.
Parent education series 4 to 6 sessions across a term, with time to apply each session before the next.
CUSTOM PROGRAMS FOR WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW
When a specific issue is moving through your school, I build a program for it, for parents, staff or both, so that school and home are saying the same thing.
Marijuana and vaping. What parents are dealing with, how to talk about it, and how to set limits that hold without severing the relationship.
Suicide and self-harm. After a loss or a rise in concern: what to watch for, how to talk with your child, and when and how to get help, coordinated with your counseling team.
Phones and social media. Limits that hold without a fight every night.
Social cruelty and bullying. What parents can and can’t control, and what to do with each.
Academic pressure. When the push to achieve starts driving the problems at home.
A student coming back. Supporting a student and family returning from a leave, a hospitalization or a program.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare 90 minute signature talk
An ongoing relationship scoped with your school, combining parent programs, staff training and a responsive program when something happens.
STAFF TRAINING
For teachers, advisors, counselors and administrators who deal with parents every day. Trainings cover how to have hard conversations with parents, how to bring a family in as a partner rather than an audience, how to respond when a parent is panicking or blaming the school, and how to support a student who is struggling at home.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare 90 minute signature talk
Half or full day, for a department or the whole faculty.
Inquire about a school program
TREATMENT PROGRAMS
Resource the parents while their child is in your care
Your team spends months with the child. The parents get an intake interview, a weekly call and a few family sessions, and then the child goes home to them. I spent years working inside residential treatment and therapeutic boarding schools, and saw how much of a child’s progress depended on what was waiting at home. I work with programs to close that gap.
This works alongside your treatment team and your family program. It gives parents the part of the work that rarely fits into a weekly call.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare The signature talk, for a family weekend or as a single online session for families in your care.
Parent programming during the stay. A structured series that teaches parents the Loving Leadership framework and prepares the household for discharge. Delivered on family weekends or virtually across the length of stay.
Discharge readiness. A focused workshop for families in the final weeks: what changes at home, and how to respond when the old patterns return.
Staff training. For therapists, family therapists and residential staff on engaging parents as partners, working with parents who are anxious, angry or over-involved, and preparing the family, as well as the child, to go home.
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COMPANIES
Your employees who are parents bring home to work
A parent dealing with a struggling child is at their desk and somewhere else at the same time. Many of your employees are in their busiest working years and their hardest parenting years at once. Most benefits offer a referral once things fall apart. These programs give working parents a framework before that point, so they spend less of the workday worrying about home and come to work steadier and more focused.
Parent support is a benefit people use and remember, and it shows employees that the company sees the rest of their life.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare The signature talk as a lunch or after-hours session for working parents, in person or online.
Lunch-and-learn 90 minutes, in person or virtual, for 15 to 100 employees.
Company-wide series Six weeks, delivered as a structured benefit, with optional individual coaching for employees who want more.
Executive parent cohort Four sessions for a small group of senior leaders.
ERG partnership Built with your parents’ or working families’ employee resource group.
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FAITH COMMUNITIES
Support for the families in your congregation
Clergy and lay leaders often hear about a family’s struggles before anyone else does. I work with synagogues, churches and mosques to give parents a framework for leading their families with warmth and steady authority. The program isn’t religious instruction, and it adapts to your community’s language and values. It rests on an idea most traditions share: the inner life of the parent shapes the life of the family.
FORMATS
Protect or Prepare The signature talk as an evening for your parents, or a session for clergy, educators and youth staff.
Community evening 90 minutes, for an adult education night.
Seasonal parent series 4 to 6 sessions across a season.
Family weekend retreat An immersive weekend for 8 to 16 families.