Fine-tune Parenting Workshop:
Positive Parenting skills through Dramatherapy
Fine-tune your parenting skills and reduce burnout in your family's life with this supportive and didactic group that will help you tap into proven strategies from drama therapy and Parent-Child therapies.
The goal of Fine-tune parenting workshop is to help you and your child grow, to build connection instead of disconnection and become more mindful of you and your child's needs.
Other Goals of Fine-tune parenting workshop:
- Strengthen parenting skills
- Learn to slow down and build connection
- Create an environment of understanding and growth between parent and child
- Access you and your kid's playfulness and creativity
- Identify ways of incorporating techniques into real life parenting situations
- Provide opportunities to practice (role play) new strategies
Drama therapy is a great way for children to work out how they feel about things, or to vent feelings they’ve been too afraid to share. Children already use drama therapy every day, without being aware that they do so. When they play “house” or play with their dolls, they are role-playing and exploring their feelings about parenting and family dynamics.
Drama therapy uses playacting to explore feelings in a safe environment. In drama therapy, participants may use storytelling, improvisation, and performance to solve problems, vent feelings, or work toward emotional goals. Drama therapy can succeed where other forms of therapy fail, because first of all, it’s fun. Second of all, drama therapy helps participants experiment with different behaviors and responses to events without any risk, because it’s all play, with none of it real.
Another reason drama therapy works so well is that it touches more of the senses than simply sitting and talking with a therapist: it’s multisensory. Getting up and acting something out makes it more real, than talking about what you did and what you might have done instead.
Instructor
Lead instructor is Diana Chu, M.A. in Counseling Psychology focusing on Drama Therapy.
Special Needs Workshops
Drama Therapy Fine-Tune Parenting workshop for parents of children with special needs is also available.
Other Parenting Workshops
- Understanding your child's brain
- Techniques in counseling your kids
- Expanding your child's creativity
- Video game addiction
- Handing Parenting Stress
I also provide in-person and online psychotherapy to children, individuals, couples and families. I have experience working at a Counselling Enriched Educational Program (CEEP), School Based Clinical Program, Family Engagement Program and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Clinic.
Time: This is a 3 hours workshop on Saturday.
Location: San Francisco
Price: $150 per person, $200 per couple
Registration: Please send your name, contact information to dianachutherapy@gmail.com for the next workshop date.
I am available for one to five hour parenting / training workshop at your location. Please email dianachutherapy@gmail.com to book a workshop.
“Diana is a gifted and caring clinician. She is well versed in solution focused therapy and is able to craft to the best approach for her clients depending on their needs. She is a supportive and energetic colleague, who brings imagination and aliveness to her therapy practice.”