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CATCH THEM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!
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Keynote presentations, workshops and series Explore your options with us ! Choose from our specially designed workshops or create something individually designed for you. The workshops are in each of the four DARE to AFFIRM areas. First read the topics below. Then scroll further and you will find the topics with a full description. After that, call us to schedule a training workshop...or a series of workshops.
DARE to AFFIRMTM Catch Them Doing Something Right!Topics: Keynote Presentations, Workshops & Series We have designed these for YOU to use as a guideline as you explore options for our "dancing" together. All topics have been developed using the four steps in the DARE to AFFIRM process as our guidelines. Valuing the caring adult is at the heart of all training. We stress nurturing and affirming self and others. Discovering & Nurturing YOU Naturally Powerful Power is a force you direct through your actions. Understand that YOU are a powerful individual who has the ability to make choices about the direction of your life. Learn how to capture and define your personal power in building relationships with yourself and others. Realize the distinction between "power within" and "power over". Uniquely You! Uncover your natural strengths and learn how to engage in the dance of relationships. Sometimes you are a Leader…sometimes you are a Follower. The Uniquely YOU tool guides you in discovering your personal and professional styles that impact teamwork, build relationships and get the job done! Boundaries and Hot Spots There are some ways that your emotions influence how you relate to others. When you find yourself in an emotionally charged situation, you often react from habit. What sets you off? Uncover your hotspots and develop strategies to change your approach to others. Learn how to respect others’ boundaries- physical, emotional or social, by giving them time, distance and space. Perceive, Believe & Achieve You have the most amazing life in front of you! Do you believe that? Do you have a personal vision and goals in your life? Without self- belief, one often hesitates or never moves at all. Your beliefs come from tapes from your past and repeated successful experiences. Explore personal vision building and goal setting. You have the gift of choice.Passions and Possibilities Do you know your true potential? Have you considered what drives your life and gives meaning to what you do? Explore your passions. Discover your natural abilities. Take a peek at your possibilities and focus on what will bring you fulfillment. Take the plunge into your dreams. Who are YOU in the lives of… How many roles do you "play" in your life? Who are the players you dance with? Explore these roles and how you integrate them into your daily life with the pressures and demands that rear up as soon as you open your eyes. Take a good look at these roles, learn to prioritize them and make life more manageable for you. What are the gifts that facilitate these roles? Bloom Where You are Planted Attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming. You are a magnificent flower that needs to be nurtured just where you are. Explore your roots that are your solid foundation, the soil that is fertile with nutrients for your growth & development, the stems and leaves that are your support and the petals that demonstrate the beauty and fullness of your relationships. Metatheories of Childrearing Every single adult, whether conscious of it or not, has a personal theory that drives childrearing practices. This greatly influences how you relate to and care for children. Explore your beliefs about who children are and how they are made up. Combine these with your action plan for adult/child interactions. Understand how to treat children in ways that are consistent with their nature. My Own Story Every person, whether young or old, has a story to tell about experiences of his/her life. Where did you come from? How did you get your name? (Chrysanthemum book) What is your history? What beliefs, values and morals do you pack in your bag for your daily excursions into the world? Do these help or hinder you as you build relationships ? Discover who you really are by telling your story.
NURTURING YOURSELF! Take a Deep Breath When was the last time you were consciously aware of y our breathing? Do you breeeeeeathe deeply? Do you wish you could slow down and just BE? Join us on a journey to learn to slooooooooooow down. Discover the power of the breath to calm yourself. Control your emotions by developing an awareness of your reactions and pacing your responses. Expand and stretch your body and mind. Come Alive With Your Senses Stop and smell the roses!! Do you only smell them? No way!! Notice what’s happening all around you? What messages do you receive from your tastebuds? What do your eardrums tell you? Are you aware of ALL of the senses that are a part of YOU? Physical cues do trigger your memories! Explore with us! Your Nurturing Environments What about the world you live in? Together let’s explore the people, places and things that are comforting in your environment. Do you receive messages of acceptance? What makes you feel welcome and safe? Building trust with your environments builds relationships. Let’s examine the building blocks of your community and take action steps to secure the foundation. Five Minute Retreats Peel an orange. Make a cup of tea. Stand outside in the sunshine. Let’s look at simple ways to recharge your batteries. If you are frazzled, these ideas can offer you coping strategies that don’t cost $$ - only the gift of time! Invest in yourself to be there for others. Be amazed at what you already do to nurture yourself. Be Still Close your eyes and think of a blue sky…a beach… a mountain top. Go within to a place where you can rest and restore your energy. Learn to let go. Experience the calmness that clearing your mind can bring. Open your heart to experience the joy and love of the world and bring you peace. We offer you tips and strategies to make it happen. Every person finds his or her own way. Creating Comfort Comfort can be a warm fuzzy feeling that satisfies a "hunger" within. Exactly what is it? Is it the same for everyone? Examine what brings comfort to your environment and your relationships. Create a picture that illustrates your comfort needs. Develop a step-by-step plan that brings focus to your design. "Primary Food" Enhances Relationships All of life is food and we are nourished, to varying degrees, by both primary and secondary foods. Do you know the difference? One gives us energy so we can enjoy the other. Use the Wheel of Life to reveal the imbalances in your life. Begin to create a plan to see where you may want to spend more of your time and energy in building your relationships.Mood Magic: Setting the Stage All the world’s a stage and every man and woman merely players. What makes your production magical? Examine everything that needs to be included on your stage set for a successful happening. Let’s think about the lighting, music, props, costumes and timing. Have fun creating all of the dimensions!!
Acknowledging and Affirming Others Watch, Ask and Adapt Wait! What do you see? Do you take the time to slow down and be aware of what is happening in your surroundings? Take it ALL in! Do you respectfully ask what is going on and then adapt your modus operandi to accommodate others and yourself? Come along with us on a journey to explore how to truly develop responsive, respectful relationships.Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn PLEASE LISTEN! What does that really mean? Discover the difference between hearing and listening. Examine your communication style. What are some of the communication helpers and blockers that we use? Explore successful strategies that feed our strong need to communicate.Acknowledge ALL of the Voices You belong to a variety of "communities." Let’s define them and examine the connections that spin the web of inclusion. Are there shared visions and values? Is everyone’s voice heard as decisions are made? Examine all of the strands that weave the patterns of interactions. Learn decision making skills that empower everyone. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Respect is a universal challenge. It is the single most powerful ingredient in nourishing relationships and creating a just society. What are the qualities of respect? Learn to develop strategies to first respect yourself, then respect each other’s individuality and diversity. Build feelings of worthiness, wholeness and well-being in yourself and others.Stop, Look and Listen Have you ever sat still and watched a butterfly or a flower grow? How often do you really take the time to truly look at the people in your life? What messages do you receive from their body language and cues? This awareness can guide you in building relationships that are open to hearing what people are REALLY "saying". Together, let’s explore techniques to grow you.Affirmations Abound Affirmations are powerful techniques that transform our attitudes and expectations about life and ourselves. They are strong and they are positive. They are CELEBRATIONS OF SUCCESS! Do you affirm yourself and others? Do you recognize major and minor successes throughout the day? Let’s just do it!Opening the TRUST Box Who do you trust? Why? What tapes play in your head as you welcome new people into your world? Relationship building is challenging. Using your distinctive "keys" is essential to opening up to others. Build your own trust box and create the keys that help you engage in trusting relationshipsWe Are ALL the Same…yet Different What kind of shoes do you wear? Look around you. Notice how many people are wearing shoes. How are they like yours? How are they different? Cultures abound but how do we define them? Is your culture always the same? You move in and out of cultures throughout your day and throughout your life. Let’s explore these dimensions. Goodness We Fit Discover the power of building relationships by understanding temperament! Everyone is born with temperamental traits that affect the ways in which s/he interacts with others. The quality of relationships depends on the "goodness of fit" between any two individuals. Understand how to make this process work for YOU.I Spy Mirror, mirror what do you see? What do you see looking back at thee? Your eyes are for seeing, yet as they look, do they really see? First impressions are critical but not always real. Take the time to reflect and truly understand happenings. Jumping to conclusions is like a half baked cake! Reliable conclusions need to be supported by accurate data.
Respecting, Responding and Relating to Others Relationship Connectors What are the factors/circumstances that connect us to one another? What are the kinds of glue that binds us? Relationships styles vary, but are universal in deliverance. There are many different kinds of relationships to explore. The impact on the people connecting determines the build characteristics of the relationship – pace, closeness, depth, etc. What do these buildings look like?It’s More Than Just Words How do we communicate? The spoken and unspoken words (undercurrents/hidden meanings) are critical. Our body language and gestures are visual cues of our communication styles. How do we accurately read others’ cues and respect their boundaries? How do we say what we mean? Proximics is always a factor. Silence can be golden…or deadly. Building a Caring Community "We might not have it all together, but together we have it all!" Mutual support. Shared visions. Common goals. Diverse talents. These are strong elements of a caring community. What does yours look like? Who are your team members? Design and define the elements of a trusting and accepting community built on collaboration and shared responsibilities. The Dance of Relationships: A Parallel Process Every day caregivers engage in the dance of relationships as they bring their programs alive for children and families and themselves. They are the heart of quality care. Are they valued, nurtured and affirmed as they are expected to do for the children? This is a parallel process: Do unto others as you want others to do unto others.Paradigm Shifts: What ME Change?? Embrace change!! WHY? "We have always done it this way?!? " Well, change has a powerful role in our lives. Change can cause us to grow! Learn how to navigate the mazes of life with a fresh mindset. YOU can learn decision making strategies that support change. Dare to risk! Altitude of Attitude Your Attitude is your most priceless possession. YOU ARE YOUR ATTITUDE. It is the way you communicate your mood. Attitude is never static. Might it be time for you to do some readjusting? Do you see your glass as half full or half empty? The way you are affects relationships with everyone in your world. Learn four keys to getting and keeping an incredible attitude. Our Stories Keep Us Connected Life is a crazy quilt! Each of us creates our individual square from the stories we live, see and hear all around us. Fabrics and embellishments are as diverse as each of us. Your square does not stand alone. How does it interface with the whole? What are the connections and commonalities? Define and design your square and recognize its place in the quilts of your caring communities. Give and Take Do you know Dr. Doolittle’s animal friend the Pushmi-Pullyu? Do you ever feel like you have two heads and they are going in the opposite direction? What does this have to do with relationships? You are one person but the demands of life seem overwhelming. How can you balance your needs with those of others’? Flexibility is the key. "You gotta give a little…take a little"… Let’s explore this concept together. Love, Language and Literacy Discover the connections between language, literacy and social-emotional development in young children. Focus on how children and adults learn through the give and take of these social experiences. Explore hands on techniques for sharing nurturing times with read-alouds. How does the "big person" benefit from time spent with the "little person." Capture the joy and enthusiasm of these times together. Perception Clickers Do you see what I see? How do you see yourself? What do others see in you? How often do these snapshots "click"? The lenses of perception are often a different reality for each individual. Perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing sensory information. It is far more complex than meets the eye. How does this affect relationship building? Learn perception check strategies that can tune you in to others’ realities.Touch Connections Think about your life without touch, perhaps our first medium of communication. People can live without sight, hearing, taste or smell. They cannot live without the functions performed by the skin. All of the senses are differentiated forms of touch. How is this connected to the essence of your being? Is touch only physical? Explore the dynamics of all types of touch and how they impact your relationships.
Engaging, Encouraging and Empowering All! Finding Your Voice Follow your dreams. Live your passion. We hear these words all the time. The challenge is to reflect and discover what makes you feel alive and inspired. Journey with us to identify what makes you want to act with purpose and potency. Seek opportunities that translate your passions into action. Make a plan and do it! Modeling, Mentoring and Coaching Mentoring relationships occur over a period of time. They build on the strengths of the two individuals involved in the symbiotic relationship. Who are these individuals? What are the settings in which mentoring occurs? What are the key elements and strategies involved in building an open, trusting spirit between the mentor and mentoree? Who teaches and who learns?Leadership and Followership Make a difference in your life and that of others. Leadership is not something you do to people; it’s something you do with them. Every single day there will be times when you are a leader and times when you are a follower. It’s OK. There needs to be a respectful exchange of ideas and energy and a sharing of skills to make everyone feel powerful! Expand your awareness of when and how this happens. Change Your Words; Change Your Thoughts Listening is the heart and soul of effective leadership – and we are all leaders! When you change your self talk, you change your life. Your brain stores the messages you get from everywhere around you as if they are true. Learn how to monitor your own self talk and edit everything you say and everything you think.Shining and Polishing Everything shines yet sometimes becomes tarnished. What can be done to bring back the sheen? Discover your strengths and what changes you choose to make. Explore DARE to AFFIRM’s three step process of assessment, action planning and doing. Dare to let your inner light shine!The Belief Factor Do you believe that you are a valuable individual? Do you believe that you have the ability to make a difference? What are the routines and rituals you have created that support your feelings of self worth? Explore your feelings and reactions to a variety of situations and learn new strategies for sustaining your belief in yourself.Visions of Supervision Everyone supervises someone in some way. Who do you supervise? When you think of the supervision process, what are the skills you use to engage and support others? Is there a common vision and shared values between the supervisor and supervisee? Supervision needs to be responsive to the individuals joining together in the dance of relationships. Clarify your visions and build your supervisory skills.Catch Them Doing Something Right! People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel. What a responsibility! Every day in every way, you have the opportunity to make others feel important. There is always time IF you slow down and pay attention to others. It’s the little things that count.Practice the skills of observing, listening and noticing as you develop new strategies to "catch them doing something right". Rhumba or Waltz: Timing is the Issue It might be enough to know how to do the dance, but good timing enriches thesynchronicity. Explore the concept of timing and the ways to most effectively incorporate it in enriching your relationships. What is the responsibility of each of the partners? Learn to slow down, listen and feel the beat. Words of Encouragement Sometimes we get discouraged or stuck. What techniques can we use to continue moving forward? What inspires us to take action? W hat is encouragement and where can we find it? It is more than just words. Encouragement is so important because it is life altering, not only for the person who gets it, but also for the one who gives it. Some people find it harder than others to accept, but we all like to have some. Explore ways to show meaningful encouragement to yourself and others. Authenticity Search for authenticity in yourself and others. Learn to sniff it out. You don’t smell with your nose; you smell with all of your senses if someone is real or not. Our inherent gifts are often hidden by layers of masks and roles we assume. Body language, in particular gestures, are often the true signals of intended meaning. What messages do you send and receive in your relationships?
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