Facilitator(s): Kelly Pfeiffer, CPDLT, & Kelly Gfroerer, CPDT, LPC, Ph.D.
Location:
1328 Peachtree Street Northeast
Atlanta, Georgia
Cost: $399 early registration, available until April 6, 2021. $450 regular registration. Limit 25. Four (4) or more registering together take $50 off the fee.
Facilitator Information:
Kelly Pfeiffer is a Certified Positive Discipline Lead Trainer, and has extensive practice applying Positive Discipline principles in her own parenting for twenty four years. She has been teaching Positive Discipline parenting workshops since the year 2000 and has twelve years of experience training parent educators. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Positive Discipline Association and travels to Europe and Asia to train parent educators and teachers about Positive Discipline and social emotional development. Kelly is also a Certified Master Trainer for the South Carolina Child Care Training System, a "Training from the Back of the Room" trainer and the owner of Go Interactive Training.
Kelly Gfroerer, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Positive Discipline Association. She has worked as a parent educator, teacher, school counselor, and educational consultant in the greater Atlanta area for over two decades. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Georgia State University.
Workshop Description:
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 best to teach those skills in a classroom or care setting. Participants will earn recognition as Certified Positive Discipline Early Childhood Educators and will learn to:
- 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.
- Understand how young children learn and how to adapt teaching to the needs of this age group.
- Foster essential social and emotional skills to support development and school readiness and to understand behavior and how to guide it in groups of young children.
- Teach the essential skills for developmentally appropriate participation in class meetings.
- Learn Positive Discipline and Adlerian concepts for use in the classroom, preschool community, and with parents.
Contact:
Kelly Pfeiffer, KellyPfeifferthinkitthrough@gmail.com, 8644770027
Kelly Gfroerer, positivedisciplineatlanta@gmail.com, 858-260-0026
Special needs/accommodations: If you have any special accommodation needs, please contact Kelly Pfeiffer, KellyPfeifferthinkitthrough@gmail.com, in advance.
Cancellation/Refund Policy: Workshop Registrations: A full refund (minus a $35 processing fee) will be given when the request for a refund is made up to 30 days prior to the first day of a workshop. Refunds are not available for cancellations less than 30 days before a workshop. However, paid registrants can transfer to another workshop within one year at no additional cost. Refunds are not available after a transfer is made or if you do not provide advanced notice that you will not be attending the workshop.
In the event of cancellation, participants will be notified by email.
