Speaker’s Name: Katherine Perry
Bio about the speaker: My name is Katherine Perry, I have a degree in Early Childhood Education, I am Montessori certified, director qualified, parent educator, Speaker and mom of three wonderful children. 10 and 8 years old boys and a 1 year old baby girl. After 20 years of experience working with children, as a Summer Camp counselor, teacher, parent educator, nanny and mom. I put together different workshops for parents with tools that are very helpful to use so we can enjoy parenting and have more quality time with our children. Along with that, a Mom’s Retreat that helps moms to connect with each other, connect with nature, learn from each other, have a fun weekend of rest and laugh with powerful women.
Here is a list of some of my workshops: (scroll down for more specific info about them)
- No tantrums with Kindhabits! (This is offer in 1 or 3 sessions)
- Self-care for parents 101
- Sexual Education
- Emotional Intelligence
- How to prevent suicide (Base on PPR training institute)
- Montessori at home
- Selfcare for parents
- Emotional education
- How to comunicate with children with Kind Habits
- Leadership for parents
Here is more specific info about the workshops:
1. Session Title: No tantrums with Kindhabits!
How to communicate with your children in a kind and successful way.
Workshop/class description:
The Topic of the workshop is how to communicate with children in a kind and successful way.
What would you get from the workshop?
- Tools and suggestions to the best way to communicate with children to start using right away.
- Help to understand your child better, enjoy parenthood, and appreciate these precious early childhood years.
- Have the opportunity to hear other parent stories and learn from others.
With a very interactive workshop, Katherine will capture parents with activities that make them engage with the topic, think about their own children’s needs, and the way to understand and communicate with them in a kind, positive way. She will talk about how to make connections that will lead to a better relationship, and there will be space for questions from parents with examples of how to solve problems they have with their children.
NOTE: This workshop is also offer in 3 sessions (recommended): The 3 sessions will give parents space and time to learn, go home and apply the tools they have learned in class and come back to the next class with questions and feed back.
Session 1: (1.5 hour session): Introduction of participants, we will talk about resilience, development stages, theory about the importance of good communication, goals, challenges and activities to practice at home.
Session 2: (1.5 hour session): Review activities at home. Space for questions and comments in group.Session 3: (1.5 hour session): Group activities to comment, share and ask questions, self-care for parents 101, Importance of self care as a tool to have a better performance as a parent. conclusions.
2. Session Title: Self-care for parents 101
Easy, non-time consuming tools to apply for taking care of ourselves and be more present with our children.
Workshop/class description:
The Topic of the workshop is the importance of put ourselves first to be able to care of others.
What would you get from the workshop?
– 5 minute guided relaxation exercise.
- Tools and suggestions of how to find time for yourself.
- Information about four dimensions of the human being
- Tools to control stress
- Have the opportunity to hear other parent stories and learn from others.
With a very interactive workshop, Katherine will capture parents with activities that make them engage with the topic, think about their own needs, and the way to understand and communicate with their children in a kind, positive way without loosing control. She will talk about ways to manage stress and how to make connections with ourselves and our children that will lead to a better relationship, there will be space for questions from parents.
3. Session Title: Sexual Education
How to talk with your children about Sexual education in a comfortable and informed way.
Workshop/class description:
The Topic of the workshop is how to teach/help your child to have a healthy relationship with his/her body and how to answer age-appropriate questions.
What would you get from the workshop?
- Tools and suggestions on the best way to communicate with children.
- Give your child good simple, straightforward, and age-appropriate answers of most common questions about sex, the human body, reproduction and development.
- Have the opportunity to hear other parent stories and learn from others.
With a very interactive workshop, Katherine will get parents ready to do “the talk” with their children about sexual Education without feeling awkward or uncomfortable. She will talk about how to have real conversations with children about this topic in a very honest, informative way. Making these connections will lead to a better relationship between members of the family, respect for their own bodies and other people’s bodies, there will be space for questions and answers.
4. Session Title: Emotional Intelligence
Workshop/class description:
The Topic of the workshop is to explain what emotional intelligence is, why it is important, how we can help our children understand their emotions, and how to regulate them to feel better and eventually regulate their own behavior with confidence.
What would you get from the workshop?
- Tools to support your children through life’s ups and downs in a way that builds confidence and helps them grow emotionally, socially, and intellectually.
- Reflexion about your childhood and the way you were raised.
- Help to understand your child better, enjoy parenthood, and appreciate these precious early childhood years.
- Have the opportunity to hear other parent stories and learn from others.
With a very interactive workshop, Katherine will capture parents with activities that make them engage with the topic, think about their own children’s needs, and the way to understand and communicate with them in a kind, positive way. She will talk about how to make connections that will lead to a better relationship, and there will be space for questions from parents with examples of how to solve problems they have with their children.
5. Session Title: How to prevent suicide (Base on PPR training institute)
Workshop/class description:
The Topic of the workshop is basic information about suicide and how to look for signs from victims to help prevent it.
What would you get from the workshop?
- Basic information about suicide
- How to detect alarms and signs from people that would commit a suicide.
- Examples of how victims communicate their actions and feelings about suicide.
Katherine will talk about myths and realities about suicide and will give some tools to act to prevent and help people that are thinking about ending their lives. Learn hot to detect some signs of alarm, how to ask, persuade and refer this people.
6. Session Title: Montessori at home
How to implement ideas and suggestions to organize your home environment with the Montessori method.
Workshop/class description:
Who was Maria Montessori, why is her method so famous and effective? How to implement ideas and suggestions to organize your home environment with the Montessori method.
What would you get from the workshop?
- Tools and suggestions to the best way to adapt your house with a home- Montessori environment.
- Help to understand your child better, enjoy parenthood, and appreciate these precious early childhood years.
- Set up your house for success. Katherine will help parents with ideas and suggestions to organize their home environment with this method, they will be will be less stress, and the children will be more independent.
With a very interactive workshop, Katherine will capture parents with activities that make them understand the Montessori method engage with the topic, think about their own children’s needs, and the way to understand and communicate with them in a kind, positive and Montessori way.
She will explain the Montessori philosophy, but will be more focus in how to apply this method at home not just creating and giving ideas to set up the environment , but also giving you some tips in how to communicate with your child in a kind and successful way.