Trainers: Catherine Bronnert DeSchepper, CPDT &
Marcilie Smith Boyle, CPDT
Dates and Times: 10/18/2025 - 10/19/2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Language: This workshop will be facilitated in English
Location: In Person
Rockridge Montessori School, 5633 Manilla Avenue
Oakland, CA, USA
Cost: $449 early registration, available until 09/18/25. $499 regular registration. Groups of 4 or more who register together get an additional $40 off /person. Use coupon code ECEGROUP at registration. Registration limit: 40 participants.
Trainers Information:
Catherine Bronnert DeSchepper is a Certified Positive Discipline Trainer and Certified Integral Coach dedicated to creating communities of belonging and compassion with the adults who teach and raise children. She has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience at the preschool through graduate school levels with an MS in Early Childhood, a Montessori Administrator Credential and is a Certified Realization Process Meditation, Embodiment and Healing Ground Teacher. She is an Adult Third Culture Kid of European and Persian heritage who was raised in Southeast Asia and on the East Coast. Catherine lives in the East Bay of San Francisco with her family.
Marcilie supports parents, educators, and professionals to find more peace, purpose, and joy in work and life. A Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Trainer and Career & Executive Coach, Marcilie leverages her previous sixteen-year consulting and marketing career to ensure her clients get a high return on their coaching investment. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, BA from Dartmouth, and CPCC from The Coaches Training Institute. Her services include leadership coaching, career transition coaching, and parenting coaching for individuals and groups as well as Parenting with Positive Discipline classes and speaking events. She loves living in Oakland with her husband and three children.
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.
To Register: https://workingparenting.com/workingparentingevents/ece2025/
Contact: Catherine Bronnert DeSchepper, catherine@interweavers.com, 510-859-4160
Special needs/accommodations: If you have any special accommodation needs, please contact Catherine Bronnert DeSchepper 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:
a) 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.
b) 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.
c) 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.