Learn techniques for shifting your relationship with your teen to help you parent effectively, with less conflict and better connection.

OVERVIEW

Do you want to help your teenager:

• build resilience?

• stay motivated?

• feel supported and understood?

Life is unsettling for us and for our kids. Schools can’t really offer what anyone needs right now. The college admission process is an even bigger mystery. Everyone is at home and probably on each other’s nerves.

While none of us can fix these issues by ourselves, we can do our best to give our teens a relationship that helps them face these times and whatever else lies ahead.

This 45-minute workshop will get you started with practices that empower you to 

• foster connection with your teenager

• respond more mindfully to whatever they say or do

• pivot your relationship for less struggle and more understanding

• model the emotional intelligence that you want them to learn

As a former high school teacher and dean, Andy Kitt understands adolescents. And as a father, he knows how challenging parenting can be. He has invested over a decade creating programs to help teens and parents be more effective and live more harmoniously by cultivating emotional intelligence and mindfulness.

OPTIONS

Sign up for one of these sessions to start parenting with less conflict, more effectiveness, and more joy (all Pacific Time):

• Wednesday, March 17, 4:30 - 5:15 pm

• Wednesday, March 24, 10:30 - 11:15 am

• Thursday, March 25, 7:30 - 8:15 pm

• Tuesday, March 30, 10:30 - 11:15 am and 4:30 - 5:15 pm

• Wednesday, March 31, 7:30 - 8:15 pm

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Andy Kitt taught History at the Menlo School from 2004 to 2020, where he loved helping students flourish even as many showed signs of the nationwide increase in adolescent stress. Concerned about their wellbeing, he studied the life skills that can help teens thrive into adulthood. He developed programs in mindfulness, social-emotional learning, and cultivating a sense of purpose, informed by training at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, UPenn’s Character Lab, the Center for Nonviolent Communication, the San Francisco Zen Center, and the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network. Andy has also led professional development seminars on using EQ in the classroom, training for faculty advisors on managing group dynamics, and in 2019, workshops on high-EQ parenting. He is a teen and parent coach at Village Coaches, a teen success coaching practice. Andy has a 16-year-old at Menlo and an 11-year-old at Synapse School.