How To Parent In Cyberspace
September 23, 2009
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Title: How To Parent In Cyberspace
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free workshop presented by Lorn H. Adkins, LCPC, LMFT
Thursday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Today’s technology has opened new vistas for our children and new challenges for parenting. How can parents leave the door open for learning and knowledge and still protect and guide them in a world with few appropriate boundaries? New studies reveal (surprise, surprise) the best protection comes from parents and caregivers who understand technology and understand how to set limits and boundaries. This class is intended to help guide parents in this other reality of parenting.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-08
Monthly Conversations: Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
September 23, 2009
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009
Title: Monthly Conversations: Avoiding The Zingers Of Unhappy Relationships
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting
2nd Monday of Every Month, 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. October’s topic: presented by Timothy J. Furness, LCPC, LMFT
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-12
Everyone Talks About “Bipolar.” What Do They Mean?
September 23, 2009
Date: Monday, October 19, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Title: Everyone Talks About “Bipolar.” What Do They Mean?
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free workshop presented by Stephen H. Hill, Ph.D.
Many spend years of frustration receiving the wrong advice and the wrong medicines for this very treatable type of depression. Learn what “bipolar” really means, how surprisingly common it is in milder forms, and what treatments work.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-19
Through This We Live: One Counselor’s Use of Lakota Medicine Wheel Philosophy In Counseling Practice, Teaching & Self-Care.
September 23, 2009
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Title: Through This We Live: One Counselor’s Use of Lakota Medicine Wheel Philosophy In Counseling Practice, Teaching & Self-Care.
Description: Free workshop presented by Mike Cutler,Ph.D.
Monday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Traditional indigenous cultures have much to share with the counseling field. An enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe of Idaho, Dr. Cutler spent 38 years living amongst and working with the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota people of North and South Dakota, and the first 24 years of his life on reservations in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. His experiences serve as a foundation for most of the counseling-related work he does currently as a faculty member with the Department of Counselor Education at Boise State University. The presentation will explore Lakota themes regarding lifespan development, personal/ professional/spiritual values, and methods of self care as they related to doing counseling work in all contexts.
Mike Cutler, Ph.D., serves as faculty for Boise State University’s Counselor Education Department. A Native American, he recently moved to Boise from South Dakota. Dr. Cutler brings a unique perspective to cultural issues and personal behaviors.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-26
Get Off The Argument Merry-go-Round: Building Respect In Your Relationship
September 23, 2009
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
Title: Get Off The Argument Merry-go-Round: Building Respect In Your Relationship
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free workshop presented by Timothy J. Furness, LCPC, LMFT
Monday, 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.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-02
Mom’s New Boyfriend, Dad’s New Girlfriend: Helping The Kids Cope
September 23, 2009
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
Title: Mom’s New Boyfriend, Dad’s New Girlfriend: Helping The Kids Cope
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free workshop presented by Randall D. Meenach, MA, LPC
Monday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
With all the recent news events concerning children living with various parents and partners etc., integrating childern into new relationships can often be met with resistance, hostility and frustration. Divorce is stressful on everyone and children are often left to sort through their divorce-grief alone. Creating an environment that offers safety, continuity and communication is key to keeping children on track and connected. We will begin to discuss ways to help them more successfully deal with changes at home and with new faces in familiar places. Open discussion and personal experiences help us not feel so isolated and overwhelmed.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-16
Monthly Conversations: Ways To Cope With Stress
September 22, 2009
Canceled
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Title: Monthly Conversations: Ways To Cope With Stress
Location: jefferson Street Counseling
Description: Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting
2nd Monday of Every Month, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Getting mad, punishing and losing control often accompany the frustrations of ADD/ADHD in the home. We will explore and identify the stresses that can cause family members to lose touch with each other. We will discuss ways to cope and live with a loved one’s anger. Whether you believe in ADHD or not, anger is hard on families and friends. Share your thoughts and get some new ideas/skills.
November’s topic: presented by Randall D. Meenach, MA, LPC
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-09
Monthly Conversation: Have A Healthy Relationship
September 15, 2009
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009
Title: Monthly Conversation: Have A Healthy Relationship
Location: Jefferson Street C & C
Description: Free presentation sponsored by Jefferson St. Counseling & Consulting
2nd Monday of Every Month, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
We struggle at times to feel OK about ourselves. But when feeling OK depends on what others think, when their opinions and needs are more important than your own, and when your life often feels out of control and too chaotic, then you may be struggling with codependency. In this introduction to codependency, learn what the core symptoms are and how to begin your own healing process. Topics and speakers vary monthly. September’s topic presented by Cheryle Jones Andrews, LCPC, LMFT.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-09-14
Rightsize Your Life
September 14, 2009
Date: Monday, September 28, 2009
Free workshop presented by Lori Davies with Perfect Order
Monday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
In this program, Lori Davies will show you how to get started downsizing-or rightsizing-your life including your physical possessions and treasures, paper, your to-do list, activities, etc. Learn how and why to pare down your possessions to fit your lifestyle.
Perfect Order team believes that clarity begins with organizing. For the past 8 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 families, couples and individuals mentally, physically and emotionally through one of life’s most stressful situations including moving, re-modeling, or simply re-modeling your relationship with the things around you. Perfect Order breaks down the downsizing process into manageable pieces that can be divided up between family and friends or they can handle the complete process from beginning to end.