Trainer: Foteini Karagrigori, CPDT
Dates and Times: 10/25/2025 - 11/09/2025
October 25, 26, November 1, 2, 8 & 9, 2025
10:00 – 12:30 (EEST) - Athens Time
Location: ONLINE via Zoom - Patras, Greece
Language: This workshop is facilitated in Greek.
Cost: 450€ Early Registration, available until 09/25/2025. 500€ Regular Registration. Four (4) or more registering together take 30€ off the fee. Limit 20 participants.
Trainer Information:
Foteini Karagrigori is a passionate educator and Certified Positive Discipline Trainer with a strong foundation in Early Childhood Care and Education. Based in Greece, Foteini is committed to nurturing meaningful connections between children, parents, and educators, believing that these relationships are key to every child's emotional, social, and academic growth.
With a BA in Early Childhood Care and Education, an MSSc in Child Studies, and an M.Ed, Foteini brings both academic depth and heartfelt dedication to her work. She integrates Positive Discipline into her teaching practice, creating inclusive, respectful learning environments where children develop self-discipline, empathy, problem-solving skills, and a sense of responsibility.
Beyond the classroom, Foteini leads workshops for parents, caregivers, and educators, offering practical tools and compassionate guidance for implementing Positive Discipline in everyday life. She values collaborative learning and works to strengthen the bonds between families, schools, and communities—building a united support system around each child.
As an Attachment Parenting Consultant, she brings a trauma-informed, relationship-centered lens to her work, always emphasizing the importance of emotional safety and connection. Supported by her loving partner and inspired by her role as a new parent, Foteini is deeply committed to creating a more empathetic world, one relationship at a time.
Join Foteini in her mission to promote respectful, empowering, and emotionally supportive practices that help children—and the adults who care for them—thrive.
Workshop Description:
This interactive on-line live and streamed video workshop is designed for parent educators, teachers, therapists, childcare professionals and others who want an effective discipline approach. This method is based on Adlerian Psychology and integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging behaviors. Successful participants will earn recognition as a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and will:
- Learn research based and effective tools and techniques for teaching parents how to use discipline that is kind and firm at the same time (non-punitive, non-permissive)
- Learn how to facilitate a parent class from the position of a non-expert.
- Gain practice with experiential exercises that help parents go beyond intellectual understanding to be able to respond in empowering ways that teach children.
- Learn how to use materials and activities in group settings, parenting classes, and individual work with families.
To Register: https://forms.gle/WsKWUFgtSU8tfAFd8
Contact: Foteini Karagrigori, f.karagrigori@gmail.com, 00306975029856
Special needs/accommodations: If you have any special accommodation needs, please contact f.karagrigori@gmail.com, in advance.
The Positive Discipline Association is pleased to provide the opportunity for educators to earn graduate-level university credit. Whether you attend one of our live workshops or participate in an online workshop, you may choose to earn 1 to 4 non-degree credits. These credits are for licensure renewal and salary step increases only. The cost of graduate-level credit is separate from the workshop registration fee. Click Here for more information.
Positive Discipline Association courses approved for Graduate-Level Semester Credits through University of the Pacific will appear on an Official Transcript with a letter grade.
This program is AMS CE approved!
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.
