Parent Training Workshops provide you with an easy hands-on step-by-step process to help you identify your child’s creativity and interests, fuel your child’s passions and ignite those passions into personal brilliance. This sequential series of training units provide you with the hands-on process we have successfully been using with parents and their families for decades.

Parent workshops are broken into two separate series of training sessions which are designed to be taken sequentially:

1^st Series: Unit I Interest

2^nd Series: Unit II Passion and Unit III Brilliance.

Materials:  Each participant will receive a copy of the Parent’s Essential Guide to be used throughout both Parent Training series, along with the three Companion Guided Journals – Units I, II and III.

Process: We use the acronym EMAP to represent our step-by-step process: Expose, Monitor, Assess and Provide the Next Step.  Each unit will take you through all four of the EMAP steps.  Each step will culminate in your own individual ACTION PLAN to help you move forward with your child.

Following each step will guide you toward a deeper understanding of your child and will give you practical tips and activities to help assist them in finding their individual and innate creativity, interests, and passions.

SESSION I SERIES:  

UNIT I INTEREST SYLLABUS:

Unit I Interest will help you discover, nurture and expand your child’s innate creativity and interests, the first step toward igniting passion.

We begin by helping you identify your child’s specific forms of creative intelligences and the unique ways in which your child learns. We will show you how to refine and use this information in a way you probably have not considered before. You will learn to identify which activities are false, passive, or misdirected, and how to redirect them to find their true active or internally-driven interests. You can then take this information and fine-tune your child’s current activities, or introduce them to new activities better suited to their innate abilities and interests.

Your goal is to prioritize and broaden your child’s full range of active interests, providing increased opportunities within which passion can grow.

EMAP #1: EXPOSE INTEREST
Is your child’s activities doing what they are supposed to?

Step 1:  Understanding the Definitions
Step 2:  Identify Your Child’s Dominant Intelligences
Step 3:  Identify Your Child’s Learning Styles
Step 4:  Combine Your Child’s Dominant Intelligences and Learning Styles
Step 5:  Derive a List of Activities
Step 6:  Brainstorm Specific Resources
Step 7:  Factor in Your Variables
Step 8:  Choose Which Activities Are Worth Pursuing and How

Expose Interest Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST
Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening?

Step 1:  Understanding the Definitions
Step 2:  Monitor Your Child’s Behavior During Activities
Step 3:  Identify Your Child’s Active Interests
Step 4:  Identify Your Child’s Passive Interests
Step 5:  Identify Your Child’s False Interests
Step 6:  Identify Your Child’s Misdirected Interests

Monitor Interest Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #3: ASSESS INTEREST
Is what your child learns, something they can use? Options!

Option 1:  Develop Active Interests
Option 2:  Move Passive Interests Forward
Option 3:  Eliminate False Interests
Option 4:  Redirect Misdirected Interests

Assess Interest Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #4: PROVIDE THE NEXT STEP
Is what you think you can do…do-able? Absolutely!

Activity: Broaden Your Child’s Opportunities:  ACTION PLAN
Summary EMAPs #1-4 Scenic Viewpoint:  A snapshot of your journey to this point.

 

SESSION II SERIES:  

UNIT II PASSION and UNIT III BRILLIANCE:

Unit II Passion will help you fuel and ignite your child’s active interests into passions.

Unit III Brilliance will help you bring each of your child’s unique and individual brilliance forward and share that brilliance with the community and world around you.

 

UNIT II PASSION SYLLABUS:

Unit II Passion will help you fuel and ignite your child’s active interests into passions.

We will show you how to identify specific themes within your child’s range of active interests and prioritize which activities within those themes are most likely to help your child’s passions flourish. Along the way, you will learn how to better observe your child’s behaviors and natural pacing to facilitate passionate absorption and help them discover the path to personal brilliance. We will also help you manage the time, energy and resources necessary to prioritize passion and accomplish your objectives.

Your goal is to deepen your child’s connections to their own creativity and passion.

EMAP #5: EXPOSE PASSION
Are you digging a hole or broadening your child’s experiences?

Step 1:  Review this List
Step 2:  List Your Child’s Active Interests
Step 3:  Identify Themes
Step 4:  Group Activities by Themes
Step 5:  Broaden Activities Within a Theme
Step 6:  Prioritize Activities
Step 7:  Identify How to Fuel Your Child’s Activities and Passions

Expose Passion Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN
BONUS:  Tools and Resource Checklist

EMAP #6: MONITOR PASSION
Are you reading your child as well as your child reads you?

Step 1:  Monitor Behavior for Passionate Absorption
Step 2:  Monitor Your Perceptions
Step 3:  Monitor Your Child’s Activities
Step 4:  Monitor the Environment
Step 5:  Re-Evaluate Activities or the Environment if Necessary

Monitor Passion Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #7: ASSESS PASSION
Are you focused and/or overwhelmed?

Step 1:  Assess How Your Child Spends Time
Step 2:  Assess What Impedes Your Child’s Passion
Step 3:  Prioritize Passion

Assess Passion Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #8: PROVIDE THE NEXT STEP
Are you zeroing in on your objectives?

Activity:  Deepen Passion:  ACTION PLAN
Summary EMAPs #5-8 Scenic Viewpoint:  A snapshot of your journey to this point.

UNIT III BRILLIANCE SYLLABUS:

Unit III Brilliance will help you bring your child’s unique and individual gifts, passions and brilliance forward and introduce them into the world.

We will help you identify ways to bring your child’s creative skills into tangible form at a professional level and explore what it takes to create a product, business or service organization.  You will learn how to monitor your child’s progress and read the signs that tell if your child is internally and passionately motivated, ready and mature enough to step out into the community.  We will help you brainstorm ways to introduce your child to hobby and networking organizations, mentors and internships. All these activities will culminate in a professional resume and portfolio.

Your goal is to bring your child’s gifts into the world, then explore with your child what life-long success can mean in terms of following their own interests, creating through their passions and executing their innate brilliance.

EMAP #9: EXPOSE BRILLIANCE
Do you recognize your child’s brilliance when you see it?

Step 1:  Explore Ways to Bring Skill into Tangible Form
Step 2:  Bring Your Child’s Work into the Community
Step 3:  Expose Your Child to Working Professionals
Step 4:  Start a Business

Expose Passion Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #10: MONITOR BRILLIANCE
Does it look like what you expected?

Step 1:  Turn Brilliance into Tangible Form
Step 2:  Interactions within Community Groups and Organizations
Step 3:  Relationships with Mentors or Professionals
Step 4:  Entrepreneurial Skills

Monitor Brilliance Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #11: ASSESS BRILLIANCE
Does it sparkle?

Step 1:  Assess the Intensity and Sustainability of Passion
Step 2:  Review Quality
Step 3:  Evaluate Readiness

Assess Brilliance Summary Activity:  ACTION PLAN

EMAP #12: PROVIDE THE NEXT STEP
Growing and becoming!

Step 1:  Reflecting on Your Child’s Success
Step 2:  Re-Evaluating Your Definition of Success

Activity:  Reflect Brilliance:  ACTION PLAN
Summary EMAPs #9-12 Scenic Viewpoint:  A snapshot of your journey to this point.

 

For more information please contact:

Matt Brown
[email protected]