Contact us to schedule a free lecture at your workplace: hello@rootsnwings.org
Estela De Wulf,
Executive Coach and Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator |
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Dr. Jennifer Johnston-Jones, Executive Coach, Licensed Psychologist and Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator
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Providing parent education in the workplace can contribute to increased employee loyalty, satisfaction and productivity, reducing out-of-office time. Often, respectful communication skills gained in parenting education programs also transfer to improved workplace interactions, improving team relationship and overall climate.
When parents gain competence and confidence in their important job of raising and preparing their children for life, it results in more peace at home and happier family relationships. This directly impacts their overall wellbeing and enables them to be mentally and emotionally freer to focus on work and career.
Understanding the schedule challenge of working parents, Roots & Wings Institute for Personal Growth and Family Excellence collaborates with selected companies who value the general wellbeing of their employees and understand the strong link between a healthy, balanced family life and sustained professional success and fulfillment. We come to you in your workplace to work with small groups (up to 10 at a time) of employee parents interested in getting highly personalized and in-depth support to develop their parenting strengths.
We combine evidence-based best practices of psychology and Positive Discipline as well as executive coaching tools to help create tangible progress and results. High Performance Parenting is unique in its experiential nature, providing structured content, role playing and individualized goal based action plans, including weekly follow up and fine tuning.
Companies we work with may facilitate the space for the classes and leave cost of the program to employees or may choose to subsidize in full or in part on a first-come-first-serve basis. An open introduction lecture is offered to trigger interest and enlist participants for the group.
There is a massive amount of research* that supports the teaching of social and emotional skills, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making, as key to help children achieve self-efficacy and success in life. This researches show that social emotional education contributes to: · improved academic performance and attitude towards school · reduction of negative behavior · improved environment at school and at home Knowing how to teach children life skills in practice, however, is not necessarily easy for parents or even for professional educators. No wonder so many parents today share the same sense of inadequacy and frustration of not properly equipping their children with what they need to navigate life with a strong sense of direction and purpose, self-confidence, responsibility, autonomy, the ability to solve problems and deal with adversities, communicate respectfully and work cooperatively. Parents’ self-confidence and self-esteem can dramatically improve once they learn concrete ways in which to teach actual life skills to their children. And they don’t need to wait for 20 years to know if it works, as they are able to observe positive changes in their children’s behavior as well as their family relationships and atmosphere very quickly. The earlier these life skills are developed, the strongest impact will they have on children’s optimum growth and life outcomes. What parents and teachers are realizing more and more is that they can play an active and significant role in teaching them. With the proper support, parents can use every day circumstances and challenges to identify skills their children need more support at and provide them the learning they need in a gradual, respectful and concrete way.
There is a massive amount of research* that supports the teaching of social and emotional skills, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making, as key to help children achieve self-efficacy and success in life. This researches show that social emotional education contributes to: · improved academic performance and attitude towards school · reduction of negative behavior · improved environment at school and at home Knowing how to teach children life skills in practice, however, is not necessarily easy for parents or even for professional educators. No wonder so many parents today share the same sense of inadequacy and frustration of not properly equipping their children with what they need to navigate life with a strong sense of direction and purpose, self-confidence, responsibility, autonomy, the ability to solve problems and deal with adversities, communicate respectfully and work cooperatively. Parents’ self-confidence and self-esteem can dramatically improve once they learn concrete ways in which to teach actual life skills to their children. And they don’t need to wait for 20 years to know if it works, as they are able to observe positive changes in their children’s behavior as well as their family relationships and atmosphere very quickly. The earlier these life skills are developed, the strongest impact will they have on children’s optimum growth and life outcomes. What parents and teachers are realizing more and more is that they can play an active and significant role in teaching them. With the proper support, parents can use every day circumstances and challenges to identify skills their children need more support at and provide them the learning they need in a gradual, respectful and concrete way.
Some of the corporations we've worked with:
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Contact us to schedule a free lecture at your workplace: hello@rootsnwings.org
Testimonials:
“Your guidance on how to raise a little person was invaluable and I never would have been able to attend your class had you not brought it to our company.”- Kate Raach - HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA
Taking on the responsibility of being a parent, a worker, a partner, and a friend has put huge demands on both my time and my energy. Bringing [High Performance Parenting] onto our campus afforded me the opportunity to participate in a course which would have otherwise been time-prohibitive. Still, an hour a week in my already packed-to-overflowing schedule felt like a hefty commitment. For my sake and the sake of my family, it was a commitment well worth making. The community aspect of the course was invaluable - we are not alone in raising our children, neither in our struggles nor in our successes. Learning to better meet my daughter where she is at has enabled our relationship to flourish. By learning to be the parent she needs, I am helping her to develop the tools necessary to thrive in this crazy, difficult, beautiful world. -Kate Raach HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA
Taking on the responsibility of being a parent, a worker, a partner, and a friend has put huge demands on both my time and my energy. Bringing [High Performance Parenting] onto our campus afforded me the opportunity to participate in a course which would have otherwise been time-prohibitive. Still, an hour a week in my already packed-to-overflowing schedule felt like a hefty commitment. For my sake and the sake of my family, it was a commitment well worth making. The community aspect of the course was invaluable - we are not alone in raising our children, neither in our struggles nor in our successes. Learning to better meet my daughter where she is at has enabled our relationship to flourish. By learning to be the parent she needs, I am helping her to develop the tools necessary to thrive in this crazy, difficult, beautiful world. -Kate Raach HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA
*To briefly mention just one of the studies around social emotional education, a study of 2015, published in the American Journal of Public Health, revealed a direct link between children's social and emotional skills and their success across a wide range of health, social, and even economic measures.
Leveraging 20 years of data, researchers tracked more than 750 children from kindergarten to their twenties to investigate whether "social competence" in kindergarten could predict how the same kids would perform as young adults. They found that early social competence was a consistent, significant predictor of outcomes in education, employment, criminal justice, substance use, and mental health.
Kids who scored "well" on social competence were four times more likely to obtain a college degree than kids at the bottom end of the spectrum.
Findings like this confirm the high importance of consistently investing in children's social and emotional competence. They also tell us how much is at stake when our children lack the necessary social and emotional foundation for a healthy and strong foundation for a well-functioning and successful life.
When deficient in appropriate life guidance from the adults around them beyond academic concerns, many children grow exposed to a wide spectrum of risk behaviors (including substance abuse, violence and early pregnancy), lack of purpose and self-motivation (later reflected in school drop-out and unemployment), dysfunctional relationships, mental health issues and very limited perspective of making a relevant contribution. As adults, we seem to expect that children naturally and instinctively show up one day with these skills on their own, just as they do with speaking, walking or using the toilet. How fair and realistic is such an expectation though when most of us adults have not managed yet to reach reasonable levels of competence in these very same skills, as basic as empathy, problem solving, impulse control, emotional management, personal responsibility, self-discipline, respectful communication, perseverance, to mention a few?