Parent Express for 11-May-2006

Welcome to Parent Express, the PCI e-zine! Here you will find updates on the Parent Coaching Institute, along with ideas and practical tips for the parenting journey.

The full bloom of spring brings time for action. Movement in a positive direction feels great—whether cleaning out the closet or completing a long-standing project. The PCI has just completed a Video About the PCI Parent Coach Training Program. And it feels great!

No matter what we finally finish—it's always exhilarating to move toward our preferred future.

The featured article, Springtime: Time to Transform™ discusses three key qualities that support us in doing just that. Gleaned from recent research, it provides you with a thumb-nail synthesis. I find this research both exciting and inspiring. It is what I based the PCI model on. It is what makes our Time to Transform™ Workshop Series so powerful. It is what miracles are made of and where "out of the blue" delights come from. These three qualities give us a motivational framework to change society for the better.

One more thing: Remember to visit the PCI Blog! Here you will find commentary about important topics relevant to parents and professionals supporting parents. I invite you to comment and make your ideas known. Our blog has had a tremendous welcome reception. Your ideas can affect thousands. Another way to change society for the better!

Happy Springtime!

Gloria DeGaetano, Founder and CEO

Applications are being accepted now for Summer Quarter for both our one-year and our six-month training programs. (Application deadline, June 1 .) Check out our new Video About the PCI Parent Coach Training Program. If you are a forward-thinking professional with an undergraduate degree and a deep calling to work with parents, welcome home. We seek the “best of the best” for our acclaimed distance-learning Parent Coach Certification Training Program™ and Professional Certificate Program. Please click here for more information. As a PCI Certified Parent Coach™ you’ll have the opportunity to create a parent coaching practice, working with moms and dads who want to take their parenting to the next level. Call today for an application packet: 425-401-1519 or email: info@thepci.com.

Working with a PCI Parent Coach is giving yourself the gift of time out for reflecting, re-grouping, and renewing. To find a PCI Parent Coach in your area, please click here. Or call 425-401-1519 for a referral to a PCI Parent Coach selected especially for you. PCI Certified Parent Coaches™ are caring, thoughtful professionals with years of experience working with parents. PCI Certified Parent Coaches™ have successfully completed the PCI Parent Coach Certification Training Program™ —a comprehensive academic one-year, graduate-level program in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University.

Through a series of coaching conversations that can be either by telephone or in person, PCI Parent Coaches help you re-discover your dreams and design your life for more joy and satisfaction.

Moms and Dads, tune in every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. on 1150 AM for true understanding, authentic affirmation, and real-world solutions to parenting challenges while sharing laughter and conversation. We want to hear your stories too! So call us on Saturday!

In the Seattle area, call 425-373-5527. Out of town, call 888-298-5569. Listen to us on the web: www.1150kknw.com

Upcoming topics and guests:

Springtime: Time to Transform™
by Gloria DeGaetano

The energy of springtime is the energy of movement. When I think of transforming self or helping to transform declining conditions on our planet, I think of forward movement—one small step at a time, usually. The pace we go doesn't matter as much as the "how" we do what we are moved to do. For it is in the "how" that we catalyze good in our everyday lives for the people we touch. The ripple effect moves out from there. The pace at which it moves out can often astound when the "how" is in alignment with three key qualities.

These qualities define characteristics of internal states that shepherd our constructive actions, imbuing them with far-reaching results, making the good we do more sustainable. Here is a thumb-nail synthesis of each quality. By focusing on them and inviting them to grow within us, we bring more light to ourselves and to our world. (These three qualities are covered more in-depth in the Time to Transform™ Seminar Series.)

Integrity

In a thought-provoking article titled, "Awakening to the Highest Reaches of Integrity," in the Spring edition of the Vision in Action Journal, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura defines "integrity" on three levels:

"Integrity means being true to one's principles, one's word, and one's self, and true integrity involves the total accord between these three levels of being true. People who can sustain their commitment are those who say, "I am committed to making X happen," and then follow though with the necessary stages of action that ensure that X happens. Such people have integrity. They sustain their commitment to the end. God is reported to have said, "Let there be light," and immediately there was light. In the case of humans, it takes time for commitment to unfold, but the principle is the same. For example, we say, ‘Let there be peace on earth.' If the majority of us have true integrity, with which we are prepared to take sustained action, peace will surely prevail on earth."

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Time to Transform™ Workshop Series begins in September This series of 3 weekends (September 22-24, Nov, 10-12, and Feb, 2-4, 07) offers teachers, administrators, directors, or parents a comprehensive plan to radically revamp their school, entire district, or non-profit organization. Exciting, new research is shared, powerful assessment tools given, and practical ways to catalyze profound positives changes, the end result. Why not wake up next spring knowing you have entirely transformed your current challenge? For more information, please call Gloria DeGaetano at 425-401-1519 or 1-888-599-4447.

Podcasts of Parent Appreciation Radio are now available. New titles include: Teaching Children Gratitude, Staying Parents During a Divorce, Awakening Your Child's Creativity, and Parent Bashing: Why It Must Stop. Check these out and let me know what issue you'd like to hear more about by emailing me: gloria@thepci.com and PCI Coaches will address them. I will let you know when the interview on your topic will air.

May's topic of the syndicated column Your Parenting Coach is: How Young is Too Young to Start Watching TV and DVDs?

It’s not too early to register for either of these workshops.

 June 23, 1-5PM, Reston, VA Workshop with Morris Berman, author of Twilight of American Culture and other books, will present a workshop for PCI coaches and friends on issues he discusses in his latest book, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire. Berman, a controversial intellect with amazing academic breadth provides astute analysis to America’s growing challenges and will dialogue with workshop participants regarding his beliefs in the basic unsolvability of the downward trends and the emerging American empire. There are a few spaces left. Call 425-401-1519 to register today. Cost of workshop is $150.00. Please see this flyer for more information.

July 7, 8:30 AM- 4PM, Bellevue, WA Your Vocation Identity: Blessing Your Calling
A workshop with Diane Dreher Ph.D., Professor of English and member of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University. Diane has credentials in spiritual counseling and holistic health, is the author of The Tao of Inner Peace, Inner Gardening, The Tao of Womanhood, The Tao of Personal Leadership, and a forthcoming book on vocation, and leads workshops on leadership, callings, and personal growth throughout North America. Each season of your life offers new opportunities to develop your calling, to:

• Discover your personal strengths,
• Detach from energy drains and distractions,
• Discern the values that inspire you with joy and purpose,
• Direct your life with meaningful goals and vital strategies for success.

Drawing insights from Renaissance lives and the latest research in positive psychology, this workshop will help you affirm your vision, overcome obstacles, uncover hidden stepping stones to success, and create powerful new possibilities in this season of your life. Please call 425-401-1519 to register for this workshop. Cost: $129.95 (includes lunch)

To engage Gloria DeGaetano for a keynote or workshop, contact her at 425-401-1519 or 1-888-599-4447.

Taking Action: What Works for You? Here are a few questions to consider, adapted from Parenting Well in a Media Age Are you resisting? If so, what are the gifts you are discovering as you wait? What are you learning about yourself? Are you complaining? How can you better get your own needs met? Are you dragging? What energizes you about the potential outcome of taking the action? Who can you talk to? What relationship is key to inspiring you?