Monthly Conversation: Your Survival Guide to Separation & Divorce
January 28, 2010
Title: Your Survival Guide to Separation & Divorce
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: February 8, 2010
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Separation and divorce are among the most stressful life events adults and children ever face. They often entail additional major changes with finances, housing, school, childcare and work. Dr. Hill will review many critical elements for creating your own divorce “survival guide” as a single adult or parent.
presented by Stephen H. Hill, Ph.D.
Start Time: 7:00pm
Date: 2010-02-08
the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
January 20, 2010
Title: the write path: The Heart of the Matter: Creative Writing – Creative Living
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Mondays, January 25 – March 15, 2010
Time: 5:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m
Early Registration: $180 before January 15. After January 15 – $210
Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous.
– Garrison Keillor.
Creative inspiration lives in everyone, but it is often dulled by criticism and comparison. Through a series of playful and serious writing assignments:• Silence uncertainty • Uncover your true thoughts & feelings • Learn to trust your voice • Open the door to your creative self. In an always-supportive-environment, beginners will learn to trust their voices. Experienced writers will blast through doubt and every vestige of writer’s block. Join the fun and change your life. All ages . . . junior high school through octogenarians. For more information and to register for this class, call 208-385-0888 or email: writing@writepath.org
* Ask us about insurance reimbursement, scholarships, and senior discounts.
Start Time: 17:15
Date: 2010-01-25
the write path: Reviving Hope
January 20, 2010
Title: the write path: Reviving Hope
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Time: 10:00am – 3:30pm.
One-Day Class with Susan Reuling Furness, LCPC, LMFT, PTR
Registration cost: $85 Before February 1; $110 After February 1.
An interactive day dedicated to re-learning the language of hope. When health problems, opportunity, or life itself become difficult, your attitude is the strongest predictor of your future. Through the elixir of poetry, reflection, and facilitated journal writing, Reviving Hope will help transform despair into revitalized living. Join us for a day that may, indeed, save your life. *Lunch provided. For more information about this class, send us an email: (writing@writepath.org)
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-02-13
Organizing the Paper of Life
January 20, 2010
Title: Organizing the Paper of Life
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Why is organizing paper so hard for all of us? You will learn systems, strategies and tactics to help you on your journey of taming your paper piles. Relax and take comfort that you will join other courageous individuals who are ready to learn how to take control of paper clutter. Free workshop presented by Perfect Order
The Perfect Order team believes that clarity begins with organizing. For the past 9 years, they have been developing and fine tuning ways to help families balance their things, time and energy, and assist clients who are entering a new phase of life. Perfect Order helps Seniors, families, couples and individuals mentally, physically and emotionally through some of life’s most stressful situations including sorting, moving, organizing, or simply re-modeling their relationship with the things around them.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-02-18
Principles of Parenting from A to Z
January 20, 2010
Title: Principles of Parenting from A to Z
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Friday & Saturday, February 19 & 20, 2010
Time: Friday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm & Saturday, 9:00am – 3:00pm
2-day workshop presented by Lorn Adkins, LCPC, LMFT
Registration cost: $240 individual/ $360 couples*
Registration will close: February 15.
* A couple is any two people concerned about the same child.
Parenting is the most important job for which we receive no formal training. This class will utilize new brain research about parenting a child from the inside out. Parents will also learn developmental stages of growth that are necessary for a healthy childhood. Why is it that we invest our time and money in so many places, but not in helping us become better parents? Contact Heather @ 385-0888 for further details.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-02-19
Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
January 20, 2010
Title: Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Changing the pattern of criticism and defensiveness in your relationship is essential to its long-term stability and success. While empathy and understanding go a long way toward maintaining a healthy connection with your partner, it is the zingers, the negative behaviors, which are truly destructive. This program will explore some of the negative ways many couples inadvertently use these with each other and help find healthier, more useful ways of communicating to help insure the long term stability and success of your relationship. Free workshop presented by Timothy J. Furness, LCPC, LMFT
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-02-22
Monthly Conversation: TBD
January 20, 2010
Title: Monthly Conversation: TBD
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, March 8, 2010 (2nd Monday of Every Month)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
This is a free opportunity to learn more about Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Topics and speakers vary monthly. Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting, presented by Randall D. Meenach, LPC.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-08
Monthly Conversation: Get Off The Argument Merry-go-Round: Building Respect In Your Relationship
January 20, 2010
Title: Monthly Conversation: Get Off The Argument Merry-go-Round: Building Respect In Your Relationship
Location: jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Monday, April 12, 2010 (2nd Monday of Every Month)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
This workshop will help couples explore different communication solutions and respectful ways of relating with each other while putting an end to the patterns of destructive conflict. Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting presented by Timothy J. Furness, LCPC, LMFT.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-04-12
Clash of Cultures: What To Do About High Risk Teens
January 20, 2010
Title: Clash of Cultures: What To Do About High Risk Teens
Location: Jefferson Street Counseling & Consulting
Description: Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
We all know the story: Teenagers abuse drugs and alcohol; Teenagers have more car accidents than any other age group; Teenagers engage in unsafe sexual behaviors, and Teenagers are under performing in academic areas. We know the story. We know that our teens want to go to parties and hang out with there friends, but what can we do to prevent this behavior from becoming the high risk behavior pattern that changes the rest of their lives? Let’s face the real issues and talk about who owns which part of this problem. Let’s talk about real ways (realistic solutions) to help our children, now. Free workshop presented by Lorn H. Adkins, LCPC, LMFT
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-15
Learning to Trust your Intuition: Waking up to your own Intuitive potentials
January 19, 2010
Title: Learning to Trust your Intuition: Waking up to your own Intuitive potentials
Description: Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
We are all born with Intuition. This discussion will cover the basic types and how we can start to learn to interpret them in order to benefit most from their full impact. How many times have you had a “gut” feeling, and decided not to listen to it? How often do you use your “knee jerk reaction” to make important decisions in your life. Perhaps it’s time for you to pay more attention, and begin to explore intuition with a deeper awareness. Free workshop presented by Randall D. Meenach
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-04-29