Creating a Healthy Community
St. Luke’s Center for
Community Health
Annual Fall Conference
Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting –
Beyond Bribes and Threats
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Community Campus
~ 1050 Fox Acres Rd., Hailey
St. Luke’s Center For Community Health brings renowned author and speaker Alfie Kohn to Blaine County to offer parents, educators, youth leaders and counselors effective strategies for working with our children to facilitate success. Mr. Kohn will invite us to think about ways to work with our children to help them grow into good people, rather than doing things to them so that they do what they are told.
This powerful presentation, and the Learning Sessions that follow, promotes using our resources, cultures and collective energy to create and maintain healthy families and a healthy community. The Community Drug Coalition is partnering in this event to address the important and urgent challenges of drug prevention, control and treatment in our community and to keep our kids on a positive track.
Presented by St. Luke's Center for Community Health in Partnership with:
Keynote Speaker:
Alfie Kohn is the author of eleven books on education, parenting, and human behavior, including PUNISHED BY REWARDS (1993), THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE (1999), UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING (2005), and, most recently, THE HOMEWORK MYTH (2006). He has appeared twice on "Oprah," as well as on "The Today Show," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and many other TV and radio programs. Among his recent articles: "Five Reasons to Stop Saying 'Good Job!'" . . . . . "Standardized Testing and Its Victims" . . . . . "How Not to Teach Values" . . . . and "Atrocious Advice from 'Supernanny.' " Kohn works with educators and parents across the country and speaks regularly at national conferences. He lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.
Keynote Address: Unconditional Parenting ~ Beyond Bribes and Threats
Advice for raising children typically comes in two flavors: threats (known euphemistically as "consequences") and bribes ("positive reinforcement"). Either we make kids suffer to teach them a lesson, or we dangle goodies in front of them for doing as they're told. Rewards and punishments are two sides of the same coin, and unfortunately, neither can buy anything more than temporary obedience. Manipulating children’s behavior -- by means of time-outs, contrived praise, privileges offered and privileges taken away -- can never help them to reflect on the kind of people they want to be. Instead of encouraging kids to take responsibility for their actions, it makes them dependent on rewards and punishments. Rather than promoting generosity and compassion, it leads them to focus on the consequence to themselves of pleasing the adult.
Alfie Kohn will show why carrots and sticks are not only ineffective but actually counterproductive over the long haul. To raise children who are good learners and good people requires us to abandon strategies that do things to kids, in favor of an approach in which we work with them. And underlying those "working with" strategies is the message that children do not have to earn our approval, that we love them not for what they do but just for who they are.
Schedule
of Events
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Community Campus ~ 1050 Fox Acres Road, Hailey
- 8:30 AM to 9:15 AM ~ Check-in
- 9:30 AM to 11:45 AM ~ Keynote Speaker ~ Alfie Kohn presenting “Unconditional Parenting – Beyond Bribes and Threats”
- 11:45 AM – Noon ~ “Unsung Heroes” Community Awards
- Noon to 12:45 PM ~ Lunch
- Lunch will be available for purchase through the Golden Elk
Or bring your own - 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM ~ Learning Session #1
- 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ~ Learning Session #2
- 8:30 AM to 4:15 PM ~ Book and Community Resource Fair
Note:
Also join us Friday, November 7th
for two additional opportunities to hear Alfie Kohn
AFTERNOON LEARNING SESSIONS
Click here for a complete description of the afternoon learning
sessions
- “Telling it Like it is – A Dialogue with Teens” Panel of BC TAC Speakers
- “It’s Only a Beer, Right? The Neurobiology of Adolescent Learning and Substance Use”Nancy Kneeland, MS, and Eric Thomas
- “Creating the Environment to Create the Whole Child”
Gary St. George, MEd - “Community Cafe”Various Facilitators
- “Is This Really Normal? - Understanding Your Child’s Emotional Growth and Development”
Tod Gunter, LMSW and Tami Kammer, MFT, LPC - “Trials, Tribulations and Great Rewards; Parenting the Teen Years”Mark Gaskill, MFT
- “Ser un Participante Activo en le Educación de su Hijo” (Una sesión hablada en español )
Juan Salamanca
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FREE CHILDCARE:
(Update 10/20/2008 - Sorry, Childcare for infants to age 5 is now full)
Childcare is available for children up to 11 years of age on a space available basis. Pre-registration is required! You may sign up your child for day care with conference registration. See registration form for more details.
A Community Resource Fair
A Community Resource Fair with local organizations serving families and children will have information and resources available all day inside the Community Campus.
Book Fair:
Iconoclast Books representatives will be present at the Conference. Books relevant to the topics of the Conference will be available for purchase.
Lunch:
Lunch will be available for purchase through Golden Elk or you may bring your own lunch.
*We encourage participants to stay at the conference for the lunch break to check out the book and resource fair!
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