December News from Visible Child!
Happy Holidays! May this season bring peace to our families, our communities, and our world.
Here’s what’s going on with Visible Child! It’s almost 2024, and with the new year comes FOUR big announcements for subscribers here at Visible Child! Please be sure to read through this newsletter for all updates, so you don’t miss anything!
Open Office Hours on Zoom for website subscribers has been a consistent hit – and a whole lot of fun for me! We will be meeting on:
Friday, December 15 at 2 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Tuesday, January 16, at 5 p.m. EST
Friday, February 16, at 10 a.m. EST
For those who have never participated, open office hours is an unstructured 90 minute slot once a month where subscribers can come (for all or part!) and ask questions, listen in, or just hang out with like-minded community. Robin is there for the full 90 minutes, answering questions and engaging with whoever is present. It can sometimes even function like a mini-consult, with parents able to ask their own questions, face-to-face, without the boundaries of the Facebook group, and collaboratively strategize in real time. Remember, it’s also okay to just come and listen! If you haven’t been, see if one of these dates and times might fit, put it on your calendar and join us!
Want to join us, but not yet a subscriber? Subscribe today!
You can find the link to the meetings on the “Zoom Meetings” page of the website, which can be found HERE
HOLIDAY HUDDLE!
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The holiday season can be a time of great connection, joy, and relaxation, and of course, I hope that it brings many of those things to you and yours! For parents (and children!) it can also sometimes be a stressful time of year.
Sometimes, it’s nice to touch base for a moment (or vent for more than a moment!) with a community of folks who know what we’re trying to do as we work on our own regulation and boundaries, and as we support our children through the maze of events.
So here’s what I thought we’d do. I will have an open zoom room for a total of about 3 hours. The first window will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST (U.S. East Coast Time) on Wednesday, December 20. The second window will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. EST, also on December 20. The third hour will be on Sunday, December 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. Stop by! Tell us how things are going. Share your frustrations. Bask in the glow of the moments that have gone well. Just be – even if it’s only for 10 or 15 minutes, as long as you can get away – with your Visible Child family. No time requirement, no need to talk, no pressures. And if you’re looking for or in need of solutions or ideas or empathy, we’re here for it!
Same Zoom link for all 3 meetings! You can find the link HERE
After some organizational delays, Webinar Wednesdays are back!
Live Webinars every other Wednesday (usually!), starting in January. You can submit questions in advance (a reminder will go out by email and on the site) to be answered in the Q&A portion of each Webinar. These will be recorded and available for subscribers to access at any time, so if you can’t make it at the actual time, no worries!
Here’s what’s on the schedule so far. Mark your calendars! Please be sure to send suggestions for future topics/webinars to visiblechild1@gmail.com!
JAN 3 2024: Navigating Children’s Friendships
JAN 17 2024: Responding to Aggression
JAN 31 2024: Natural Motor Development
FEB 21 2024: Becoming a “Translator” to better understand children
MARCH 6 2024: “Going Upstream”
NEW FEATURE: SMALL GROUP WORKSHOPS
Coming soon – first one starts in January!
These workshops, open to both the general public and subscribers, are an opportunity to dig in to particular topics or skills in a small, connected community, meeting together for several weeks–kind of like an extended group consult! We will meet on Zoom on a regular schedule–sometimes once a week, sometimes at different intervals.
Each workshop will be limited to 20 or fewer participants (depending on topic), so that we’ll get to know one another. There are many benefits of this sort of format, inclduing the ability for participating parents and families to build connections between themselves, expanding their network of support and connection. We all know how isolating parenting can sometimes be, especially for those of us who are choosing a less traditional way of relating to our children, so a community of support can never be a bad thing!
These workshops WILL be open to both the general public/Facebook followers and to subscribers–however, subscribers will get a steeply discounted price for these workshops (If you’re not a subscriber, think about joining today!). They do require registration, as attendance is limited. They will be announced in the group as well as on the Visible Child Facebook page and group.
The first of these workshops will focus on problem solving collaboratively with children, using Ross Greene’s model as a foundation, with some Visible Child twists, and it will begin on January 9, and meet weekly for 6 weeks. We will be focusing, this first time, on problem solving with children five and up, as problem solving with younger children is a bit of a different animal. If you have not seen the Webinar Introduction to Problem Solving, a recording can be found in the Resource Library (accessible for subscribers only, though I’m working on a way for non-subscribers to purchase access to recorded webinars, so stay tuned for more on that!). You can register by clicking on the photo or on the link below that says “Registration”.
IMPORTANT INFO:
***This workshop is contingent on a minimum of 10 registrants***
***Fees for this workshop are non-transferable and non-refundable***
REGISTRATION FOR PROBLEM SOLVING WORKSHOP
Questions? Comments? Requests? Be in touch! Email Robin at visiblechild1@gmail.com