A growing number of children and youth are presenting as demanding, prescriptive, bossy, and controlling. Alpha children are more challenging to parent and predisposed to a number of problems including anxiety, aggression, oppositionality, and eating problems. An understanding of the alpha dynamic opens the doors to change in the family, classroom, and society.

Registration will open soon!

This course is being offered in a Scheduled Class format with Lisa Weiner and Robin Brooks-Sherriff on Tuesdays from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Pacific Time. The course will start with a pre-recorded orientation session one week in advance of the first live class on September 30, 2025 and will run for 4 weeks. 

Course participants will view Dr. Neufeld’s pre-recorded lecture videos and come together weekly in a live Zoom class to discuss the material. While individuals can take this course at any time in Self-Paced Study format, this is a unique opportunity to gain further insight from Neufeld Institute Faculty members Lisa Weiner and Robin Brooks-Sherriff.

All of the classes are recorded. If you can’t fit a live class into your day-time schedule, you can keep pace by watching the recording at your convenience.

Course Delivery

  • We are pleased to offer this Scheduled Class on our new learning platform. We look forward to showing you our enhanced course delivery features! 
  • If you’ve taken scheduled classes with us before, you will be receiving familiar campus course components. Please note, Virtual Campus (our original campus) access will not be available for this course.
  • Tuition includes Dr. Neufeld’s recorded lecture videos, live (Zoom) faculty-facilitated support sessions, supplementary course resources, access to a Discussion Forum to ask questions, PDF study guide, and course certificate.


Suitability

This course has implications and applications for every single relationship, including marriage and friendship, and provides a unique opportunity for self-understanding. The principal focus of the course is children and the primary venues of application have to do with parenting and teaching. This course will be directly relevant to all those involved in raising and teaching children, or supporting those who do.