Correction & Update: Parents of Teens & Tweens: Join Dr. Laura Kastner This Week

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From Chaos to Calm

Building Teen Resilience & Agency

LAURA KASTNER, PhD

In Conversation with

NANCI KAUFFMAN

Head of Castilleja School

Thurs Oct 8, 7pm-8:15pm PDT

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Parenting teens is not easy, even in ideal circumstances. But parenting with imposed social distancing when adolescents thrive on face-to-face interactions creates unprecedented challenges.

Dr. Laura Kastner identifies resilience and personal agency as key strengths that can help both parents and teens in these complex times. With warmth and calm reassurance, Dr. Kastner will provide parents with action-oriented and effective strategies for encouraging coping, problem-solving, and optimism in our teens today.

Laura Kastner, PhD is a nationally recognized author and speaker and a clinical professor at the University of Washington. She is the author of academic articles on topics ranging from medical education to eating disorders, teenage sexuality, and chronic illness. Dr. Kastner has authored several parenting books such as The Seven Year Stretch: How Families Work Together To Grow Through Adolescence; The Launching Years: Strategies for Parents from Senior Year to College Life and Getting to Calm: Cool-headed strategies for parenting tweens and teens.

Dr. Kastner will be joined in conversation with Nanci Kauffman, who has been the Head of School at Castilleja School since 2010. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Wagner College and the Peninsula Bridge organization.

Up Next in October

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We Need to Talk

How to Have Conversations That Matter

Featuring

CELESTE HEADLEE

In Conversation with

KHADIJA FREDERICKS

Head of Saint Andrew's Episcopal School

Tues Oct 20, 4pm-5:15pm PDT

In a time when conversations are often minimized to a few words in a text message and lack of meaningful dialogue abounds, improving how we engage with one another can be beneficial at work, at home and within our communities.

Celeste Headlee sheds much-needed light on the lost and essential art of conversation. She will outline the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist – and offer simple tools that can help us all have conversations that matter.

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. Her TED Talk, “10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation,” has been viewed more than 20 million times. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and has anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.

Celeste Headlee will be joined in conversation by Khadija Fredericks who is the Head of School at Saint Andrew's Episcopal School and has over 25 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in independent schools in the Bay Area.

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