Aggression is one of the oldest and most challenging of human problems. Indications are, that in children at least, it is on the rise. What grabs our attention are the more violating acts of aggression but what is truly alarming is the ground swell of attacking energy within and between our kids that erupts in…
Upcoming Scheduled Online Class – Save the Date! Making Sense of Adolescence Part I will start January 30, 2025 with faculty members Robin Brooks-Sherriff and Lisa Weiner. Classes will run on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Pacific Time, running for 10 weeks until April 3, 2025. Robin and Lisa will run Adolescence Part II…
Courses in the 3-part Power to Parent series may be taken in any order. However, Dr. Neufeld recommends completing them in the original sequence, if possible. If taking the courses out of order, we recommend first viewing Relationship Matters for additional foundational context (see Free Resources). Part III of the Power to Parent series focuses…
Courses in the 3-part Power to Parent series may be taken in any order. However, Dr. Neufeld recommends completing them in the original sequence, if possible. If taking the courses out of order, we recommend first viewing Relationship Matters for additional foundational context (see Free Resources). Part II of the Power to Parent series focuses…
Courses in the 3-part Power to Parent series may be taken in any order. However, Dr. Neufeld recommends completing them in the original sequence, if possible. If taking the courses out of order, we recommend first viewing Relationship Matters for additional foundational context (see Free Resources). Part I of the Power to Parent series focuses…
In Neufeld Intensive III: Becoming Attached, Dr. Neufeld unfolds each of the six ways of attaching that are core to his comprehensive model of attachment. There are two focuses: one a deeper theoretical understanding of the material and the other the personal integration of the material. Becoming Attached is also a journey through Dr. Neufeld’s…
Building on the foundations of the Intensive I, this course sheds light upon the profound impact of separation on a child's personality and behaviour. Special attention is given to the problems of aggression, resistance, oppositionality, bullying, distractability, impulsiveness, anxiety, alarm problems, alpha problems, attachment problems, and more. This course is a prerequisite to entry into…
This flagship course provides a grounding in the conceptual foundations of Neufeld's formulation of the attachment-based developmental approach. The three conceptual keys to making sense of children are addressed: attachment, vulnerability and maturation. Dr. Neufeld weaves these factors together into a three-dimensional map that can be used to locate children developmentally as well as discover…