The Langley Middle Childhood Matters Committee is offering a free workshop for parents.

The Langley Middle Childhood Matters Committee is a community planning table funded through the United Way. The main purpose of the committee is to focus attention on the needs of children aged 6-12 and to build community capacity to address those needs. Committee members include a wide variety of community o...rganizations and agencies serving children aged 6-12 and their families, including Langley school district. Rob Butler represents the school district.

We are offering a workshop "BEYOND DISCIPLINE: ENHANCING CHARACTER GROWTH IN YOUR CHILD," delivered by Bart Begalka of Trinity Western University. The workshop is free of charge to Langley parents, and we can accommodate up to 20 participants at each session. In order to encourage participation by families who, for one reason or another, don't usually attend these workshops, we include food and child minding. We will bring the food (usually pizza or Subway) and provide child minding. All we ask of the school is a space in which to deliver the workshop and a space to provide child minding.

If you have any questions or would like to book a workshop please email or call Hattie Hogeterp (Middle Childhood Matters Coordinator)
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Phone: Mondays: Office 604-857-4662. Tuesday - Friday: 604-856-5982.

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A Description of the workshop below:

BEYOND DISCIPLINE: ENHANCING CHARACTER GROWTH IN YOUR CHILD

There are many workshops and books on child discipline which generally focus on dealing with unacceptable behaviors in children. They are remedies. This workshop is not about remedies, it’s about prevention – the preventing of behavior problems by focusing on building the character of the child.
Healthy psychological development in children makes it so they do not have the desire to “misbehave” and allows them to constructively deal with their mistakes. This workshop takes this huge body of research on psychological development and boils it down to a few easy to understand principles, along with practical ideas on how to support this psychological growth-this character-building-in the child.
Time of workshop: 2 ½ hours.
Presenter:
Bart Begalka, M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. (Cand.)
Registered Clinical Counsellor with 37 years experience working with children, 24 of which has been as a child therapist. Father of two grown children. He is the coordinator for clinical training in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at Trinity Western University.