Events Calendar

September 25th, 2009
Mentoring and Counseling Boys

This professional development workshop will explore boys’ developmental issues and consider techniques to effectively engage boys in counseling and mentoring settings.  Evergreen School District, Vancouver, WA.

October 8th, 2009
What About Boys?

Look at the data describing how boys are doing in their schools and communities. Consider the role that nature and nurture plays on boys’ development. Learn strategies to maintain your relationship with boys. Presented with Kathy Masarie at Emanuel Hospital, Portland, OR.

November 2nd, 2009
Full Day BAM! Leader Workshop

Learn all you need to know to confidently lead BAM! groups. Participants will learn about the research that underlies the BAM! approach as well as practice the adventure based activities and strategic storytelling methods used in BAM! groups. Presented in partnership with The Ophelia Project.  Erie, PA.

November 5th, 2009
Full Day BAM! Leader Workshop

Learn all you need to know to confidently lead BAM! groups. Participants will learn about the research that underlies the BAM! approach as well as practice the adventure based activities and strategic storytelling methods used in BAM! groups. Presented with Peter Mortola, PhD and Stephen Grant, LCSW. Registration through Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.

November 16th, 2009
What About Boys?

This parenting workshop will look at the data describing how boys are doing in their schools and communities. Consider the role that nature and nurture plays on boys’ development. Learn strategies to maintain your relationship with boys.  Sherwood High School, Sherwood, OR.

November 19th, 2009
Helping Boys Succeed in School

This parent workshop will examine common causes of academic struggles for boys and consider strategies for parents to partner with schools to improve boys’ academic success.  Vestal School, Portland, OR.

January 12th, 2010
What About Boys?

Join this parent conversation as we explore the factors that effect boys’ development.  We will pay particular attention to boys’ communication preferences.  Parents will leave with new strategies to develop and maintain strong connections with their sons.  Metropolitan Learning Center, Portland, OR.

January 20th, 2010
Helping Boys Succeed in Schools

A professional development presentation with a focus on boys’ classroom performance.  We will examine strategies to strengthen relationships with boys, make classrooms more active and consider approaches to guide boys’ literacy development.  Evergreen School District.  Vancouver, WA.

January 21st, 2010
What About Boys?

Participants in this parent workshop will look at the data describing how boys are doing in their schools and communities, consider the role that nature and nurture plays on boys’ development, and learn strategies to maintain your relationship with boys. Rosemont Ridge Middle School, West Linn, OR.

January 27th, 2010
Parenting Young Boys: An Evening For Parents of Preschoolers

We will look at the developmental forces at play upon boys and help parents and caregivers consider the factors for boys success in their families and schools.  Wee Works School, Portland, OR.

February 4th, 2010
The Owner’s Manual For Raising Teens

This parent presentation examines current data on high risk behavior, biological development in adolescence and the social context of teens that leads to risk taking.  A number of strategies will be shared to assist your family in navigating the adolescent years. There will be time for conversation. Advanced registration here. Emanuel Hospital, Portland, OR.

February 9th, 2010
Boys and Girls Side By Side

Too often the topic of gender differences is approached as a zero sum game as if one gender has it worse and that by helping one gender we will hurt the other. This workshop explores the strengths and challenges boys and girls tend to face in terms of relationships without pathologizing either boys or girls. Parents will leave this workshop with new ideas about how to best support their sons and daughters.  Sunset Primary School, West Linn, OR.

March 16th, 2010
Engaging Teen Fathers

Conversation with staff of teen parent program.  We will consider what interrupts engagement for teen fathers and explore what it looks like when a young man is involved in fathering.  Portland Public Schools teen parent program.  Portland, OR.

April 2nd, 2010
Preventing and Responding to Teen Substance Use

Workshop for middle and high school staff.  The focus will be on prevention strategies that work, identifying students who are using substances and tips for intervening.  Colton, OR.

April 24th, 2010
Raising Teens: Keeping Perspective and Staying Connected–A Full Day Workshop

This interactive parenting workshop will examine current data on teen behavior, biological development in adolescence, and teens’ social context.  A number of strategies will be shared to assist your family in navigating the adolescent years. In particular we will discuss styles of communication that work best for teens, tips for staying calm, the impact of technology and managing school issues. There will be time for conversation.  Download the flyer for Keeping Perspective and Staying Connected.  Reserve your space by calling Legacy Healthcare Systems at 503 335-3500.  Meridian Park Hospital, Tualatin, OR.


May 4th, 2010
What About Boys?

Look at the data describing how boys are doing in their schools and communities. Consider the role that nature and nurture plays on boys’ development. Learn strategies to maintain your relationship with boys. Presented with Kathy Masarie at Meridian Park Hospital.  Tualatin, OR.

June 22nd, 2010
Challenging Indifference: Creating Schools Where Boys Thrive

This two day continuing education course examines the data on how boys are doing in schools, reviews boys unique developmental issues, and shares strategies for incorporating more movement into the classroom, addressing boys behavioral issues, utilizing literary strategies that tend to work for boys, improving boys relational capacity, and managing elements of violence and humor in boys’ writing. Registration here. Portland State University, OR.