Sarah Getoff's workshops have helped hundreds of people to improve their parenting styles, teaching skills and relationships. All of Sarah's workshops include ample opportunities for questions and discussion. Additionally, all of these topics can be adapted to suit an audience of parents, educators, or other professionals. Workshop topics can be custom designed to meet your specific needs.
Do You Want To Be Right Or Do You Want To Be Married?: Learn how to fight fair and increase intimacy in your relationship
- Discover why couples have the same fights over and over
- Feel more connected immediately and resolve longstanding conflicts
- Discuss long-term strategies for maintaining the connection
Beyond Praise and Punishment: How to teach children self-esteem and self control
- Learn why praise can be problematic
- Discover the drawbacks of threats, bribes, time-outs, logical consequences and other common techniques
- Practice new skills that really work
Parenting Teens Without Praise and Punishment: Improve your relationship with your teen and prepare them for adulthood
- Explore why praise can be problematic
- Discover the drawbacks of threats, revoking privileges and other common punishments
- Learn effective strategies that improve the relationship
Beyond "Because I Said So!": How to engage cooperation among children
- Discover how to gets kids to want to brush their teeth, potty train, clean up toys, or set the table
- Avoid common power struggles
- Motivate children without threats or punishments
Engaging Cooperation Among Teens: How talk to your teen about chores, homework, and other tasks in ways that improve their cooperation and their attitude
- How to deal with excuses, procrastination and flat out refusals
- Avoid common power struggles
- Practice a new, more effective approach
Coming of Age in a New Age: How to help your "tween" girl become a confident and compassionate teen and adult
- Understand the unique developmental needs and tasks of "tween" girls (9-12 year olds)
- Learn how to help her navigate mood swings, peer pressure, early puberty, cliques, etc.
- Discover how to maintain a calm approach to apparent chaos
"You Did What?!": How to talk to teens about sexuality (and other difficult topics) before it is too late
- Learn why adolescents often don't talk to their parents about sexuality, drugs, peer pressure, etc.
- Learn how to protect them from what they do and don't know
- Discover how to provide information and values to your adolescent in ways they will listen to
More than Manners: Raising grateful, compassionate children
- Learn the drawbacks of requiring apologies, "please" and "thank you"
- Discover how to teach genuine compassion and gratitude
- Receive concrete skills and strategies that really work
From "Don't!" to "Do!": How to motivate children with positive behavior management strategies
- Understand why children “act out”
- Learn easy to use strategies that really work
- Make behavior management fun for all
Creative Conflict Resolution: Turning conflict into a teachable moment
- Learn when adult intervention helps and when it hinders resolution
- Discover how to empower children to begin solving their own conflicts skillfully
- Learn a specific model & concrete skills for conflict resolution
“He Called Me A _______!!”: Bias intervention among children
- Learn how to identify bias and respond effectively
- Discover how to educate without shaming or silencing children
- Practice explaining key concepts in age-appropriate ways
Assertiveness at All Ages: How to teach children skills to protect them for a lifetime
- Discover the dangers of raising children who are too "nice"
- Learn a philosophical approach that fosters assertiveness in children
- Learn concrete skills to use with the children in your life