Supporting Spirited Kids (In-Person Session)

DATE/TIME:  October 8th, 10 AM to 11:30 AM (In-person)

LOCATION: Mission Grads, 518 Valencia ST, SF, CA

About this event

In your program, you might have a subset of spirited kids who take up a lot of your time. These kids have big feelings that lead to impulsive, often challenging behaviors. The dose of connection, boundaries, and behavior support doesn’t seem to matter. They may also have ADHD (whether diagnosed or not).

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to support spirited kids in a way that meets their needs  and doesn’t leave you exhausted and frazzled at the end of the day.

What will you learn?

• What makes spirited kids so spirited
• Tools to keep spirited kids engaged
• Creating a container for big feelings
• Tools to build leadership and significance
• How to support kids with ADHD

Who Should Participate?

• Youth developers
• Educators 
• Parents
• Childraisers
• Anyone who works with children

Presenter

Ed Center is a Triple P™ certified parenting coach, educator and founder of The Village Well, an organization that helps parents, educators, youth developers and childcare providers find more calm, joy, and connection. Ed’s goal is to help people to tap into cultural wisdom while interrupting intergenerational pain. Ed is a queer brown dad who has worked in education for 30 years. He and his husband built their family through foster adoption. The child of a Filipino American mom and White American dad, Ed grew up in Hawai’i, and feels at home there, in the Philippines, in San Francisco, and wherever he smells good barbecue.

Registration

N on-DCYF grantees [example, City and County of San Francisco and Recreation and Park Department, SFUSD], please scroll all the way at the end in registration form to select your correct agency.

Participation

All workshops are develop with opportunities to cross collaborate, create, learn and share. Please be mindful of workshops being interactive through video, chat or audio responses. If you're unable to actively participate, please share this with our providers during the workshop. We strive for flexibility and understanding of the vast responsibilities you may hold, if you have additional questions about active participation please reach out to the facilitator.

Any additional questions, please reach out to [email protected].

At the end of each workshop a survey is distributed, we greatly appreciate any feedback you include in that survey!

Thank you, enjoy your workshop.

Host or Publisher Ed Center