Planning for next year's Preschool, Parenting, Early Years or Childcare conference?

Tired of speakers reading bullet points?

Get an interactive keynote speaker and a two breakout speaking package for only one low price!

Judy Arnall, BA, DTM, CCFE (Certified Canadian Family Life Educator)

Package Includes:

1 Keynote: "Play is the Key to University" 75 minutes 1 Breakout, "Creating Calmness" 1-3 hours 1 extra Breakout, your choice of topic 1-3 hours 6 of Judy's products for door prizes or speaker gifts 1 Print Book "Parenting With Patience" for each attendee Interactive materials and worksheets

*Optional: 1 Day Facilitation Train-the-Trainer for Professionals of the Terrific Toddlers program authored by Alberta Health Services or one day Train-the-Trainer of Plugged-In Parenting. Extra charge for this option.

Your investment:Speaker fee for keynote and 2 breakouts $3000Average travel expenses $1000*(Includes meals, taxi, airfare, worksheets, materials and baggage charges.)Books @ $5 per person @ 100 people $ 500

That's it. $4500.

The small print:

For one keynote and one or two breakouts, you will save on multiple speaker fees and expenses. Judy will present for the bargain investment of $4500.00 including expenses (*depending on location within North America and whether she drives or fly's. Some remote locations may entail extra transportation and extra charges.) GST extra. That is all. No other surprise charges. Travel includes meals, book shipping, ground transfers, flight, or mileage, baggage, and all expenses. You will provide the hotel room under your conference booking. Past expenses have been around $1000 for conferences across Canada between Whitehorse to New Brunswick.

Add on an additional Train-The-Trainer Facilitation Day

If Judy is already there, put her to work! Add an additional day for staff training to enable them to teach the Terrific Toddlers course created by Alberta Health Services or the Plugged-In Parenting Course. One extra day will entail an extra night hotel and the extra training fee of $1000.00

You will provide the training room, projector, microphone and $20 per person printing charges for the training binders if choosing the additional Train-the-Trainer Day.

In the 6 hour Terrific Toddlers Train the Trainer you will learn:

Discover what new challenges and fun that life with a toddler presents! This course aims to increase knowledge, confidence and skills in parenting toddlers and preschoolers from the ages of one to four.The facilitator manual developed by Alberta Health Services, covers 8 module topics with 50 interactive activities to facilitate parent learning of the key concepts. There is also a 70 page handout package for parents.More information about Terrific Toddlers herehttp://www.albertahealthservices.ca/ps-1025591-terrific-toddlers-courses.pdf

This Train-the-trainer one-day professional development will cover:

• Terrific Toddler Content and Basic Facilitation Skills in Delivery to Parents and Caregivers• Normal developmental changes and challenges; temper tantrums, picky eating, bedtimes, separation anxiety and toilet training• Understanding parenting styles and the effect on the behaviour of children• The importance of play, safety and healthy best practices• Positive discipline techniques, avoiding power struggles and dealing with the world of No!• Effective communication with your toddler that builds healthy self-esteem and emotional intelligence of feelings

In the 6 hour Plugged-In Parenting Train the Trainer presentation you will learn how to teach parents digital literacy parenting practices:

• Trends and changes in the last twenty years in how children work, communicate and play and the impact of media on the family.

• Current recommendations from the Canadian Pediatric Society for each age group, and the 7 Keys to live a balanced life.

• Understanding children and parent’s needs in media literacy and the 5 Essential elements of successfully parenting children and media.

• How to successfully navigate: advertising, personal information, cyber-safety, health effects, cyber-bullying, luring, critical thinking, signs of obsession, and netiquette,

• Top 10 ways to limit screen time without scream time.

Keynotes available as listed below. There are 50 breakout topics to choose from (too many to list here) so check them out at http://www.professionalparenting.ca/workshops.html

Keynote: Play is the Key to University (or another topic)

This interactive talk will take a look at why children play, barriers to play, and how they learn most of what they need in life, academically, socially and emotionally, through play. Judy will discuss how adults, teachers and caregivers can support a free "play ethic" and further the development of creativity, problem solving and communication skills so desperately needed in the digital age. Your audience will:

• Learn why free play is a component of a healthy life and a brain building activity essential for children and adults.• Examine how categories of free play impacts child development socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively.• Identify the barriers to free play and how to overcome them.• Discover how parents and teachers can facilitate play and creativity.• Distinguish between free play and organized play.• Compare the benefits of unstructured toys with structured toys.• Learn how to continue play into the adult years.

Keynote: Building a Three Pound Computer: How Parenting Affects Childhood Brain Architecture

In this presentation, Judy will use plain talk and interactive exercises to demonstrate important concepts in children's brain development and how parents, teachers and caregivers can contribute to children's health and wellbeing.Your audience will:

• Explore the age old concept of "nature versus nurture" and the effect on brain development.• Consider the influence of genes, fault lines, wiring and foundations.• Identify the three kinds of stress and the effect on the brain.• Discover how parents contribute to the "serve" and "return" interactions between parents and children.• Investigate the parenting style axis and evaluate the benefits of "nurturing" and "structure".• Review best parenting practices that build resiliency and develop children's best potential.• Hear Judy's personal story of surviving ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and how supportive relationships can• ignite healthy change in only one generation.

Keynote: Parenting With Patience (for parent groups) or Creating Calmness When Working with Children (for professionals)

Based on the new book, Parenting With Patience, this interactive talk will explore anger in the home and workplace and take the audience through the three simple steps of creating calmness.

Are there times that you find yourself losing patience when working with children? You can develop some new tools!Are you at a loss on how to respond to children's anger? You can help them without getting involved in their anger!Wondering how to help children resolve their conflicts? There are better ways!Come to this talk and come away with new tools for work and your personal life.

Your audience will:

Discover why adults feel angry when working or parenting children and how to remain calm in the face of chaos. Determine children's anger triggers and implement ways to calm children of all ages. Practice how to teach and model problem-solving between adult and child, as well as child to child disputes.

Keynote: From Sand Comes Pearls: Helping Children Cope with Traumatic Events

In this presentation, Judy will use plain talk, empathy and analogies to discuss how children in all age groups, from babies to emerging adulthood, perceive disastrous events such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and human induced tragedies. Judy will then outline concrete strategies for parents, teachers and caregivers to help the children in their care cope with their emotions and situations.

Your audience will:

• Explore the age old concept of "nature versus nurture" and the effect on brain development.• Consider the influence of genes, fault lines, wiring and foundations and the effect of ACE (Adverse Childhood

Experiences) • on a child's development and well-being.• Identify the three kinds of stress and the effect on the brain.• Discover how parents and caregivers contribute to the "serve" and "return" interactions between parents and children.• Review best parenting, teaching and caregiving practices that build resiliency in the face of trauma and develop

children's best potential.

Keynote: Delete Your Distress: Mastering Work-Life Balance in the Digital Age

"Five kids, five jobs and ten tips to regain sanity!"The digital age brings new stresses to parents combining career, work travel and parenting. Through humour and multi-media, Judy, who has five kids, and five jobs will cover ten tips to strip stress and combat guilt for today's parents at work.

Your audience will:• Identify the challenges of combining parenting, family and work life and reconcile normal feelings of guilt, worry and

tiredness.• Learn how to juggle responsibilities without having to multi-task.• Explore ways to streamline parent and working life while building strong family relationships. • Bonus! Every participant will enjoy a free copy of the printed book "The Last Word on Parenting Advice" which is a 128

page journal with only one page of printed advice "Trust Yourself. You are the best person in the world for your children."

Keynote: Parenting: The Hardest/Best Job on Earth</span></h2>

Parents are the lasting gift for families and are the building blocks of society. Without parents, no other occupations, relationships, or social, economic or political structures can exist. Yet parents can't function without a network of support, information and validation. Learn how you can be part of "the village" to cherish a parent, nurture a child, and empower peaceful healthy families in society.

Your audience will:

• Feel validated, honored and supported in their most important role. This keynote celebrates parents!• Gain insight into mindful parenting, parenting anger and stress, problem-solving, and the power that parents have

above • all else: peers, electronics and the world.• Understand how society can contribute to healthy families individually and on a macro level.• Love the videos, stories and interaction with Judy.• All attendees will receive a printed copy of the journal book, "The Last Word on Parenting Advice."

Keynote: Self-Determined Education: The Key to Engaged Learning This interactive talk will focus on the research of self-determined learning throughout the primary and secondary age groups and the later attendance of post-secondary attendance.

Your audience will:

• Discover the key element of self-determined learning • Distinguish between self-directed studies, institution-directed studies, home education studies and self-determined

studies • Determine how to implement self-determined studies in different environments; preschool, school, home education and

workplace training

Keynote: Eggs For Dinner Again? Holding Down the Fort While Your Parenting Partner Works Away From Home

Discover how to maintain connection, communication and cohesiveness in the family when one partner works away from home. Great for families that work for the military or in the oil patch.

Your audience will:

• Learn the challenges and joys of living together long-distance.• Discover how to build and maintain communication between partners and how to continue relationships with children.• Examine each partners role whether at work or at home. • Explore local community supports and resources.

Breakouts: Your choice of topics from the 50 titles at www.professionalparenting.ca/workshops.html

Judy Arnall, BA, DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster), CCFE (Certified Family Life Educator), teaches parenting at The University of Calgary, Continuing Education, Chinook Learning, and has taught for Alberta Health Services for 13 years. Judy is the author of the International bestseller, Discipline Without Distress: 135 Tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, spanking, punishment or bribery and the DVD, Plugged-In Parenting: Connecting with the Digital Generation for Health, Safety and Love and the new Parenting With Patience: Turn frustration into connection with 3 easy steps. WWW.PROFESSIONALPARENTING.CA

Cell: (403) 714-6766 Email jarnall@shaw.ca Address: 12018 Lake Erie Rd SE Calgary T2J 2L8Website: www.professionalparenting.ca Demonstration: http://www.professionalparenting.ca/demo.htmlYoutube channel with media and speaking demos: www.youtube.com/parentingspeakerLinked-in: www.linkedin.com/in/judyarnall Twitter: www.twitter.com/parentspeakerAmazon blog: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002BME25YYoutube channel with media and speaking demos: www.youtube.com/parentingspeakerFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/judy.arnall View Discipline Without Distress, at Google Books: http://books.google.ca/books?id=-1Q7vTcQhAUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=discipline+without+distress#v=onepage&q=&f=falseReferences: provided upon request.

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