WORKSHOPS
AND SEMINARS
Empowering Parents and Caregivers
At Emergent Kids Consulting, we offer a range of workshops and seminars to support parents raising children with special needs. Whether you're navigating neurodivergence, managing challenging behaviours, or seeking strategies for sensory sensitivities, our sessions provide practical tools, expert guidance, and a supportive community to help you feel more confident in your parenting journey.
Workshops and Seminars Available
Our sessions are available upon request, providing flexible options for parents who want to gain expert-level knowledge and skills to support their children’s unique needs.
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​See the list of workshops below to find the perfect fit for your needs.
Understanding Neurodivergence and
Sensory Needs
​These seminars and workshops focus on understanding neurodivergence, sensory sensitivities,
and how to support children in ways that nurture their unique traits.
1. The Sensitive Child Seminar
Duration: 3 hours
Learn how to recognize and manage emotional, sensory, and social sensitivities in neurodivergent children. This seminar is designed to help parents understand how their sensitive child actually experiences the world, offering a truly eye-opening experience for many parents.
2. Navigating Neurodivergence
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Duration: Half-day Workshop
​Explore the world of neurodivergence and gain practical strategies to better support neurodivergent children. This hands-on workshop offers a deeper understanding of the challenges children face and how to provide effective, compassionate support.
3. Managing Sensory Sensitivities in Everyday Life
Duration: Half-day workshop
Discover practical strategies to create a sensory-friendly environment at home and out in the world. We will work through each sense of concern, ensuring every parent leaves with a personalized set of strategies to begin using immediately with their unique child.
Behaviour Management and
Positive Support
These workshops focus on understanding and managing challenging behaviors, teaching parents positive reinforcement techniques, and building emotional regulation.
1. Positive Behaviour Support:
Managing Challenging Behaviours
Duration: Full-day Workshop
Learn the main principles of behaviour to help you better understand your child’s needs and responses, while gaining practical strategies to reduce challenging behaviours and promote emotional regulation in your child.
2. How to Make a Grown-Up Deal: Token Economy Workshop
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Duration: Half-day Workshop
Learn the essentials of using a token economy system to promote positive behaviours and encourage desired actions in your child. This hands-on workshop will guide parents through creating and implementing a token system that works for their child’s unique needs and goals.
3. Mastering Behaviour:
A 3-Day Intensive Workshop
Duration: 3 Full Days
This intensive workshop offers a deep dive into understanding and managing behaviour. It covers key principles, effective strategies for behaviour modification, and advanced skills for teaching complex tasks. The workshop also includes hands-on practice and a Q&A session, where parents can tailor strategies to their child’s unique needs.
Enhancing Communication Skills
These workshops and seminars focus on how to effectively communicate with your special child, from understanding language use to enhancing communication at home.
1.How to Speak with Your Special Child
Duration: 3 hour
Learn the importance of language and communication style when interacting with neurodivergent children. This seminar explores language constructs and communication strategies as a whole, offering practical techniques to clearly and effectively communicate with your child in a way that fosters understanding and connection.
2. Enhancing Communication Skills in the Home Environment
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Duration: Half-day Workshop
Discover techniques to build stronger communication with your child in the home setting, fostering better connection and understanding. From situational cues to seamless prompts, learn powerful techniques to seamlessly enhance your child’s language skills.
3. NLP for Parenting a Special Child
Duration: Half-day Workshop​
Explore how NLP techniques can help both you and your child build confidence, resilience, and self-awareness. Add a few powerful tweaks to your everyday communication style and watch how both you and your child transform in your interactions and understanding of each other and the world around you.
Why Work with Us?
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Expert Guidance: All of our workshops are led by professionals with years of experience working with children with special needs, including our founder and clinical lead, Alice Kim.
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Flexible Learning: Our workshops and seminars are available upon request, allowing you to access support when it fits your schedule.
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Real-World Tools: Learn strategies you can immediately implement in your daily life, empowering you to support your child like a professional.
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Ongoing Support: We provide continuous resources and a community of parents and professionals to help you every step of the way.
Ready to Create Your Own Custom Workshop?
Get in touch so we can start working together.