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Schedule of Events

Read more about the lectures of:
Aletha Solter, PhD
Ba Luvmour, MA and Josette Luvmour, MA
Sheila Murphy, DC

Children's Conference
Designed and Facilitated by
EnCompass Institute

In a different meeting room, running along side the main program events, a children's conference will provide cooperative learning games and activities for kids.

EnCompass Institute is renowned for work in child development and experiential learning.

“In my 25 years of experience with children, families, schools, practitioners and family service agencies, I have used Cooperative Games and Activities to enhance social skills, improve communication, build self-confidence, teach academics, and for sheer enjoyment—the results have been marvelous.”

—Conference speaker, Ba Luvmour, MA, Executive Director of EnCompass and author of the best selling cooperative activities book Everyone Wins.

Saturday October 20

8:00 - 8:30	Registration
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome —Ed Hofmann-Smith, ND
8:45 - 10:30	How to Respond to Tears, Fears, and Tantrums —Aletha Solter, PhD Read the workshop description.
10:30 - 10:45	Break (visit the sponsors tables)
10:45 - 12:30	Tears, Fears and Tantrums, continued —Aletha Solter, PhD
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch (visit the sponsors tables)
2:00 - 5:00	Optimal Parenting: Part One – Play, Learning and Development; Part Two – The Dance of Mutual Development; Part Three – Further Applications; Questions and Answers —Ba Luvmour, MA and Josette Luvmour, MA Read the workshop description.

Sunday October 21

8:30 - 10:30	Discipline without Punishment or Rewards —Aletha Solter, PhD Read the workshop description.
10:30 - 10:45	Break (visit the sponsors tables)
10:45 - 12:30	Discipline without Punishment or Rewards, continued —Aletha Solter, PhD
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch (visit the sponsors tables)
2:00 - 3:45	"Becoming an Extraordinary Parent —Sheila Murphy, DC Read the workshop description.
3:45 - 4:00	Break (visit the sponosors tables)
4:00 - 5:00	Panel: Aletha, Ba, Josette, and Sheila, questions and wrap-up

Children's Program for Saturday and Sunday

Portland Parenting Connection supports well-being for all family members. In this spirit, EnCompass Institute will design and facilitate a children’s program for the Fall 2007 conference.

The children’s conference features cooperative games and activities for children between the ages of 4 and 16. Each group will have a different set of activities matching developmental capacities. The children’s conference will take place at the same time adults are listening to conference speakers, just one room over.

Each day from 8:30 to 10:30, 10:45 to 12:30, and 2:00 to 5:00 children as well as adults are invited to participate. Children will be in groups depending upon their age: Group I ages 4-8, Group II ages 9-13 and Group III ages 13-16.