Parenting Workshop: ‘Rest in a Restless World: Helping a Child with Anxiety’
On November 4 and 5, the BCA staff will be engaging with Tamara Neufeld Strijack of the Neufeld Institute to learn about how we can best understand and meet the needs of our newest generation of students. She will be interacting with us around research from her latest book, Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever―And What We Can Do About It.
We are so convinced of the pressing need to engage deeply with our students in an informed way that we have contracted with Tamara to provide learning development for our staff from the perspective of a Christian professional. We would like to extend that partnership to you, the parents of our students. Please see the full details below of our Nov. 5 special event. Bring your friends and your neighbours, your kids’ youth pastors, grandparents, aunts and uncles–anybody who is building into the lives of your children. We all need to put more tools in our parenting and mentoring toolkits!
November 5, 2019: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
| Tamara Neufeld Strijack
Tamara is the Academic Dean of the Neufeld Institute, where she develops and delivers courses and workshops on child development for parents, teachers and helping professionals around the world. Tamara has worked with children and adolescents in various roles over the last twenty-five years. Currently, she works as a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Parent Consultant. As a sessional instructor for the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University, Tamara lectures on child development from a relational and developmental lens. As Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s daughter, Tamara offers a unique inside view, bringing together her own experience and insight with her father’s theoretical material. Connection, relationship and play continue to be central themes in all her roles, both personally and professionally. Tamara has two daughters and lives on Vancouver Island.
The Neufeld Institute: Making Sense of Kids Development Science in Practice |
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Community Learning Evening:
“Rest in a Restless World: Helping a Child with Anxiety”
Our world is not an easy place to live. More and more children and adolescents are being affected in various ways – reacting not only to the alarming world around them, but often to their own internal alarm. Understanding where some of this alarm comes from, as well as how the bodies and minds of our children handle this alarm, gives us insight into ways that we, as parents and caregivers, can help. Developing and maintaining a strong connection with our children and adolescents is key to this process and to helping our children feel emotionally safe and at rest.
Date: November 5, 2019
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Edwards Chapel
Briercrest Academic Complex
Light Refreshments Provided
Donations to offset the cost of this opportunity will be gratefully accepted. |
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Please RSVP by Oct.29 to Jolene.
Email or phone (306-756-3303)
We’d love to know that you’re planning to join us so that we can prepare well for the event. However, we don’t want people to feel that they can’t join us last minute. We’d love to have you with us no matter what! |
