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This collection of creative, educational, and fun workshops have been appreciated in hundreds of parent education meetings and teacher in-service trainings. They have also been presented at state, national, and international conferences. Many are also great topics for lunchtime education sessions in a corporate or professional environment to help the parents on your staff with some pertinent education at a convenient time and location.Linda Levine is Milpitas Parent Preschool's #1 choice for Parent Education Meetings. Her topics enthrall and inspire. We've hired her for 5 consecutive years. She receives rave reviews.
Jill Reese, Director, Milpitas Parent Preschool
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In this session, participants will learn how to organize developmentally appropriate, highly participatory activities to entice the senses of two- to eight-year-olds. Come learn finger plays, arts and crafts, drama games, songs and activities to capture the interest of these enthusiastic toddlers and preschoolers.
Enliven language arts through circus arts including pantomime, magic, face paint, balloon sculpture, stage movement, and more. Experience math by constructing a circus tent, experience physics through juggling. Use creative writing as you write the Ring Master's opening speech. Learn attention-getters that allow you to “get on with your show!” This is a three- to five-hour workshop.
Activities from the wee to the wacky for children of all ages. This workshop gives a real twist to traditional games and can include physical, passive, dramatic activities, art, song, science and so much more. A valuable byproduct is that it is great for staff team-building. Participants learn tools and laugh while doing.
Communication with children is a continuum from hugs and smiles to door slams and tears. Whether your child has been easy or kicking since the womb, you know that communication can begin as calm, cool and collected and before long swing horribly out of control. Whether you are parenting a toddler or a teenager, good communication is the key to building self-esteem as well a mutual respect. But how do we do it well so we show respect to our children and to ourselves? This workshop provides useful information and techniques for parents on how to communicate successfully and effectively with their children. We all know that parenting is most enjoyable when positive parent-child relationships are established. Good communication is an essential parenting skill so, this workshop will remind us about what works.
Are you the most creative person that you know? Creativity is the process of combining known factors into new relationships to produce new results: a new product, a new way of thinking or perceiving, a new way of behaving or performing. Creativity is found naturally in healthy children in nurturing home environments, and it peaks at age 5! Without care and attention it declines from the age of school entry, but research and personal experience show me that everyone has the opportunity in this lifetime to enhance their creativity. Learn through this workshop how to stimulate creativity in yourself, and those around you. Robert Frost says, “an idea is a feat of association.” Learn the advantages of fostering creativity in yourself and children as well as fun tools and activities to lead a creative life.
To be truly effective, we need to relearn how to study people from baseline through growth. Video with audience participation is key. This workshop can run from two to four hours.
We try to shield our children from grief and loss, but it's all around them. A tree loses its leaves, a friend moves away, a pet dies, a grandparent dies. Learn what the experts say to do and what not to do, what to say and what not to say. Linda “Rainbow” Levine is respectful of various belief systems and lends her healing humor to this important topic.
In this session, participants will learn how to organize a parent-participation program for two- to five-year-olds allowing for a 10-session exposure to school. Come learn finger plays, arts and crafts, drama games, songs and activities to capture the interest of these enthusiastic toddlers, preschoolers and parents.
Kids love traditions and rituals because they foster a sense of belonging and security. We know that most children thrive on routine, so family rituals add depth to those desires for structure. Sure, those Labor Day barbecues or Thanksgiving gatherings are great but don’t wait for major holidays to create a family ritual. Make traditions part of your family culture, and celebrate them often. Things that celebrate your family values like game nights, bed-time routines, annual vacations, or beach clean-ups can add greatly to your family’s sense of “we-ness”. Research shows that children with routines have more confidence, a greater sense of identity, exhibit better social skills and perform better in school. In this workshop you will learn tips for creating traditions that support your family values. Both families who practice religion and those who do not will leave with practical ideas for exciting, family-focused fun.
Linda “Rainbow” Levine and guest enthrall the audience as they learn what really happens on an archeological dig. Learn what the roles are of each person on a dig, and follow up with an archeological simulation (indoors at stations). This creative endeavor is a hit with dads, moms, and kids alike. Maximum of 40 children.
Welcome to a unique workshop that's all about personal and professional “Balance.” Juggling the many aspects of life is a whole lot like juggling clubs or balls: it's not an easy task but the rewards are great once you get the hang of it. With a dynamic presentation, Linda shares practical pointers with the audience on the task of “keeping lots of balls in the air all at once!” Our exciting and busy lives can lead us to great joy and success or quite the opposite. Life involves making choices to keep your own lives in balance, and, hence, experiencing greater life success. This success comes about by balancing your career, leisure, social, physical, intellectual, spiritual, financial, family, and other needs without going crazy! Come laugh and learn with Linda “Rainbow” Levine as we giggle, struggle and juggle together. As we juggle the dimensions of life together, research shows that our health is improved and our productivity in the workplace is increased! Let's start juggling the dimensions of life!
Some people have a knack for turning lemons into lemonade, and they see minor miracles in the mundane. Learn tips for turning ordinary tools, found objects, and scraps into extraordinary treasures and gifts of the spirit.
A friendship ends, a loved one dies, a dream is shattered. Loss is all around us--in the lives of children, adults, and senior citizens--yet we are so unprepared. What do you say after, "I'm sorry?" How do we mend our broken hearts? Come learn with Linda "Rainbow" Levine as we become better supports to our friends, our colleagues, and ourselves. Begin to survive and thrive after a loss!
These expressive therapeutic art activities can open doors to the soul. Learn to facilitate these projects and many more, and to process the activity through meaningful discussion.
Who am I and how did I become me? Our behavior is highly dependent on the values we hold dear. Our values are the things left behind when we are stripped bare of work, relationships, and roles. When we know where have we been, we shed a light on where we are going. Come ready to “look in the mirror” and perhaps walk right through to the other side.
What do moms really want when they're away from their kids? This workshop has it all. Friends gather in a home and Linda brings all the supplies. Participants learn a skill in a safe and playful environment that's open to socializing, laughter, stories, and creativity. Everyone takes home their creation and memories. One night or a series available. Topics include: rubber stamp card creation, collage, mask making, chocolate molding, jewelry making, terracotta pot painting, sacred objects, and so much more.
Explore the work of Howard Gardner, and see how we all can find our gifts and passions in this lifetime. It's not how smart we are. It's how we are smart!
Are you mired in meetings? Enliven your meetings using tools that ensure communication and goal acquisition with competent leadership. Learn to facilitate, rather than dominate, and learn coping strategies for even the most withdrawn or hostile participant in the audience. Agendas, group stages, group roles, responsibilities, and facilitation techniques will be discussed.
More than fifty easy process-oriented activities for children and teens that expand creativity and celebrate learning by doing. Most adults say they learn too!
Ethics and Spirituality are essential components of the healthy person, yet parents seldom are given information or support in raising these issues with their children. In this workshop parents and educators will learn what children in the early years know and don't know about God, death, ritual, right and wrong, family traditions and spirituality. Ideas for more deliberate parenting in the areas of ethics and spirituality are given to people of every faith or no faith at all. Come to this workshop and you'll be pondering and discussing its content for a good long while.
In a one-day family program, religious retreat, or special event, children/teens will create clay, bead, Fimo, wooden, or fabric ritual items, study their significance, history, and associated prayers. They thus take home a piece of themselves to share with their families to extend the learning.
Expand and explore your deepest creative core. Some say creativity peaks at age 5. Others argue it peaks at 60. I contend we can be ever growing in our abilities but it's a choice. Choose to unlock your blocks and create a yet more meaningful life.
Is our country a mosaic, a patchwork quilt, or a melting pot? Are children, people using wheelchairs, gay parents, people of color, economically disadvantaged youth, and seniors being served fairly? What do you do when covert and overt racism rears its ugly head? Simulation games and activities will help us to get into our own skin and others as well. Every person can make a difference.
Topics include hands-on art, science, cooperative and competitive games, attention-getters, discipline, physical and emotional safety, and so much more. This training is perfect for early childhood educators, summer helpers, afterschool staff, and permanent and part-time employees. Trainings range from 1 to 8 hours depending on your agency needs. Let's design the perfect training session for your staff.
What are the elements that make trainings educational and entertaining? Experience training games and strategies that facilitate learning objectives and promote continual development. All this using low-tech supplies and high-tech ingenuity.
What is authoritative parenting? It's not autocratic and it's not permissive. It's the happy medium allowing for real life families to live in greater harmony and mutual respect. Learn to break old patterns and try some tools that really really work!
Teen behaviors seem to be coming in the preteen years. What is authoritative parenting? It's not autocratic and it's not permissive. It's the happy medium allowing for real life families to live in greater harmony and mutual respect. How can family meetings, limit-setting, logical consequences, and new parenting skills enhance your family communication and keep those gray hairs at bay?
Trying to capture the attention and stimulate significant dialog with pre-teens and teens? Do you know what's “in” for these cool kids? This workshop will help to identify 15 dynamic creative arts activities that will grab their attention and keep them busy.
Welcome to a unique workshop that's all about you and your “Wellness.” Wellness is the journey and process of becoming a whole human being. Wellness means to take on the responsibility to live life fully and joyfully. Wellness is a dynamic state of making choices to keep your own life in balance, and, hence, experiencing greater life success. This success comes about by balancing your career, leisure, social, physical, intellectual, spiritual, financial, family, and other needs without going crazy!
Many of us think of illness, and assume that the absence of illness indicates wellness. In fact, there are many degrees of wellness just as there are many degrees of illness. In this workshop, we will explore ways to become more and more well as we rid ourselves of undesirable stress. Please allow yourself to step out from behind your professional mask for a session of playfulness and self-exploration. Let's start now.
Developmental Education is a hands on approach to early childhood development. It is based on the theories of Piaget and Erikson and is a motivational and respectful way to reach children as individuals. This workshop will answer many of your questions about how children learn. We will compare and contrast Academic, Montessori and Developmental methods, and learn why playful preschools actually prepare children better for life.
There's so much to do with pictures and images these days! Uniquely decorated picture frames and photo creations are wonderful for creating family heirlooms and building family unity. Pictures provide years of lasting memory sharing for children, teens and adults alike. Learn 20+ novel activities that can be executed at school, on retreat, or at camp. This activity requires a minimum of two hours.