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The first step is to complete one of our certification workshops.

If you are already certified we encourage you to join at the Educator level. If you are interested in pursuing our Advanced Candidate Training program, you can join at the Trainer Candidate level. When you apply to upgrade your membership to Trainer Candidate, we will send you an application. Those who have completed the Advanced Candidate Training are members at the Trainer level.

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Positive Discipline Association - Benefits and Pricing

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By joining the Positive Discipline Association as a Supporter, Educator, Trainer Candidate, Trainer or Lead Trainer, you're helping to create more peaceful homes, schools and communities.

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Keeping the Joy in Relationships is a fun and enlightening certification workshop packed with experiential activities designed for Positive Discipline Educators and Trainers as well as helping professionals. Participants will learn how to facilitate classes for couples using Positive Discipline principles to help them improve their relationships.

1. Understanding how Positive Discipline (Adlerian) tools can be applied to all relationships.

2. Facilitating experiential activities to help couples to:

take responsibility without guilt.

determine their Lifestyle Priority (Top Card) and how it affects their relationship.

understand how the beliefs formed in early childhood enhance or challenge current relationships.

how to communicate and problem solve with one another using the Couple's Dialogue Process.

apply many more Positive Discipline tools to bring fun and joy to their relationship.

Upon completion, you will be able to facilitate fun and interactive classes, retreats, or one-time events.

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Positive Discipline Association - Keeping the Joy in Relationships

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Positive Discipline Association promotes and encourages the development of life skills and respectful relationships in families, schools, businesses and communities.

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"The program provided me with the opportunity to learn how to connect more and relate better to my employees, and provided me with tools to motivate them and help them be more effective".

Paul Atang, CEO of Capital Care, Inc. in Silver Springs, MD

I was impressed by the quality of leadership offered by Jane and Dina and by the exceptional quality of my classmates. Every breakout group, every conversation brought great value. I have never had a better online learning experience and I'm deeply grateful for our time together. It's a gift that will keep on giving".

Scott Woolridge, Associate Regional Minister, Christian Church

"I've been managing people for over a decade, both large and small teams. After taking a class in Positive Discipline, I found myself naturally tailoring some of the principles and applying them at work without really trying. To my surprise, the cooperation, collaboration, and dedication of my team increased. So, when I found out about the EPW program I was thrilled. The workshop didn't disappoint - the format was fun and engaging, the content was powerful, and the people in our cohort were wonderful. After the workshop, I developed some quick exercises using the EPW materials that could be immediately implemented into my established team meetings. It was so successful that I now get asked to conduct the exercises to other peer groups. And this time, I'm not so surprised that my already highly collaborative team is that much more engaged, positive, and productive.

Farhana C., Sr. Vice President, Business Risk & Control Sr. Manager

Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration 5 Parenting Books That Can Help You be a Better Manager Big Business Can Take A Lesson From Child Psychology Sign Up for Empowering People in the Workplace Newsletter and Upcoming Events
If you'd like to go further and become an Empowering People in the Workplace Master Trainer, p lease contact act@positivediscipline.org. Applied practice in the workplace as well as co-facilitation (must be pre-approved) of two of these workshops are required.

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Classroom Educator Training classes give the theoretical background and activities you can use with co-workers to build a respectful, solution-focused school community.

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Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators

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Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators

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This two-day interactive workshop is designed for early childhood educators, teachers, and caregivers who work with children from birth to six years of age (Parents will also find this workshop helpful; however, the focus is on early childhood education.) Participants will learn to apply the principles and tools of Positive Discipline, an Adlerian research-based philosophy, to working with groups of young children. They will also gain a deeper understanding of how young children learn, the importance of belonging and social and emotional learning, and how to best teach those skills in a classroom or care setting.

1. Create a classroom or care setting where children can develop a sense of belonging and significance based on the importance of contribution and mutual respect.

2. Understand how young children learn and how to adapt teaching to the needs of this age group.

3. Foster essential social and emotional skills to support development and school readiness.

4. Understand children behavior and how to guide it in groups of young children.

5. Teach the essential skills for developmentally appropriate participation in class meetings.

6. Learn Positive Discipline and Adlerian concepts for use in the classroom, preschool community, and with parents.

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Positive Discipline Association - Early Childhood Educator Certification

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Classroom Educator Training classes give the theoretical background and activities you can use with co-workers to build a respectful, solution-focused school community.

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Positive Discipline Association - Classroom Educator Certification

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Classroom Educator Training classes give the theoretical background and activities you can use with co-workers to build a respectful, solution-focused school community.

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Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way

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Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way

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Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way (developed by Lynn Lott and Jane Nelsen) provides a step-by-step approach to starting and leading experiential based parenting groups. This Adlerian-based program stands alone or offers a significant enhancement to any program. It emphasizes experiential activities that reach the heart to inspire deeper understanding and change.

1. Learn research based effective tools and techniques for teaching parents how to use discipline that is kind and firm at the same time (non-punitive, non-permissive).

2. Learn how to facilitate a parent class from the position of a non-expert.

3. Gain practice with experiential exercises that help parents go beyond intellectual understanding and be able to respond in empowering ways that teach children.

4. Learn how to use materials and activities in group settings, parenting classes, and individual work with families.

Below is the full listing of upcoming Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way certification workshops.

I f your family agency, private practice, organization, or school would like to host a certification workshop or other professional development, please contact

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Positive Discipline Association - Parenting Educator Certification

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Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way (developed by Lynn Lott and Jane Nelsen) provides a step-by-step approach to starting and leading experientially based parenting groups.

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Dr. Dan Siegel's Hand Model of the Brain

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HOW TO teach Brain in the Palm of Hand to kids

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HOW TO teach Brain in the Palm of Hand to kids

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Compliments: Positive Discipline Family Meetings from Sound Discipline #2

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Problem Solving: Positive Discipline Family Meetings From Sound Discipline #5

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Agenda & Ritual: Positive Discipline Family Meetings From Sound Discipline #4

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Planning Family Fun: Positive Discipline Family Meetings from Sound Discipline #3

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Getting Started: Positive Discipline Family Meetings from Sound Discipline #1

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Getting Started: Positive Discipline Family Meetings from Sound Discipline #1

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Getting Started: Positive Discipline Family Meetings from Sound Discipline #1