Karen offers topics explained from a neuroscience perspective combined with strategies to assist parents and teachers in dealing with children and the challenges they present.

Who would benefit from these Seminars?

• Educational Administrators

• Teachers

• Parents

• Play-Group Coordinators

• Students

Empowering students: Strategies to engaging and motivate students, shifting ownership and responsibility of learning from the teacher to the student.

‘I won’t and you can’t make me’: Who’s manipulating who? Evaluating student behaviours from a neuroscience perspective, effective boundaries, positive discipline techniques and strategies to resume calm in volatile situations.

Sticks and Stones: Resilience strategies for bullied students and providing perpetrator awareness from a neuroscience perspective.

Every classroom is a kaleidoscope: Dealing with the many emotional needs of students. The stressed and anxious, the academically challenged, multi-cultural diversities, the loner, the perfectionist and those that crave attention.

Dreaded Parent/Teacher interviews: Understanding and successfully managing parents who are difficult

Homework battles and learning barriers: Student motivation, fostering positive learning attitudes, the neuroscience behind memory and blocks to effective learning.

Standardised Testing: Strategies to overcome anxiety and improve test scores.

Practical strategies: Maintaining optimum teaching ability, enjoyment in the classroom and influencing student well being.

Each topic is explained from a neuroscience perspective, along with strategies to assist parents in dealing with their children and the challenges they present. 

1. Children who manipulate
2. Anger and temper tantrums
3. How to deal with kids who lie and make excuses
4. Maintaining parental control
5. Unmotivated kids and teenagers
6. Managing technology in the home environment
7. Children who fail
8. Moving your teen into the big world of adulthood
9. Bullying and being bullied
10. How much should you help your kids?
11. Dealing with defiant kids
12. Parent/Teacher conferences. How to be heard and understood.
13. When your kid hates school
14. Body image and self esteem
15. Fostering resilience
16. Self harm and childhood depression
17. Building confident kids
18. When kids suffer trauma or crisis situations – divorce, disabilities, serious illness situations, financial struggles, moving house, changing schools etc.
19. Parenting teens – understanding the developing brain
20. Developing a child’s moral and value compass
21. Switching on your child’s brain
22. Creating physical and emotional security for your child

Each topic is explained from a neuroscience perspective, along with strategies to assist students in dealing with the challenges they are confronted with in their growing up years.

Primary Students

• Our clever brain
• Neuroplasticity
• Our basic needs
• Frightening situations
• When I am anxious
• Being bullied and being the bully
• How to face exams
• Growing a healthy brain
• Not just surviving school – but thriving!

Secondary Students (all primary topics are relevant for Secondary students as well as the following additional age appropriate topics)

• Effective communication – how to get my needs met
• Bullying and being bullied
• Being a little kid in a big school
• Guilt and Shame
• Facing exams
• Feeling unmotivated
• Manners and Etiquette
• Managing parents
• When I don’t like my teachers
• Dragging my feet – when I don’t want to be in school
• Social Media – why I can’t live without it!
• Surviving exams
• Managing failure
• Alcohol, drugs and brain development
• Self harm
• Depression

Senior Students (All primary and secondary topics are relevant for Senior Students, as well as the following additional Senior Student topics)

• Preparing for that first job
• Keeping calm when I feel panicked
• What if I don’t get into University?
• Dress, deportment, social skills and success
• When I don’t like my boss
• Independence and responsibility – what that actually means
• Effective leadership