Parents & Families
Online Workshop: "Parenting in a Post Pandemic World"
We invite you to join our online community of parents who are choosing courage over fear. Full Circle Leadership Center (FCLC) offers an 8-week book group series based on the foundational book, Children: The Challenge, by Rudolf Dreikurs. The series begins with two weeks of Family Demonstrations, where participants can observe how similar our challenges as parents are. Our workshops include a variety of topics such as building self-discipline, sibling fighting, sharing responsibility, routines, and more. Our participants are committed to supporting each other and learning solutions to everyday challenges in raising our children.
Parenting Topics Include:
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Understanding Children’s Mistaken Goals & Misbehavior
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Building on the Positive & Eliminating Criticism
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The Family Meeting
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Building Self-Discipline: Homework & School Issues
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Actions, not Words! Getting out of Nagging, Power Struggles & Conflicts
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Taking Time for Training
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Moving Beyond Punishment & Reward: Natural & Logical Consequences & The Power of Encouragement
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Bullying, Sibling fighting & Whining
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Sharing responsibility: Chores
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Routines: The morning rush & bedtime
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How to Manage Screen Time & Technology Peacefully
Registration Information
Dates: Wednesday nights on Zoom
Next 8-week session begins on October 1, 2025
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm PST / 7:30pm - 9:00 EST
Who: Parents/Guardians of children ages 0-18
Cost: $0 - $450 per 8-week session
($0 or reduced fee available based on a sliding scale)
FCLC welcomes all families in our parenting programs regardless of financial situation. If you need financial support, please email Anne Dalton (info@fullcircleleadership.org) to determine the appropriate fee for you and your family.
Our Facilitator
Parent Educator & Author, Mary Dalton, MA
Mary Dalton has been educating parents over 40 years. Her work is based on the work of Doctors Alfred Adler & Rudolf Dreikurs. She has raised 6 children and has 13 grandchildren. The pivotal moment in her life was meeting Dr. Dreikurs as he worked with her and her children in a live family demonstration.
Family Demonstration Format
Mary Dalton works primarily with two families per session. All families benefit by seeing themselves in the parents who are working with her that week.
Part 1: Introduction of a new parenting concept or strategy.
Part 2: Mary Dalton checks in with the family with whom she worked with the previous week.
Part 3: Mary Dalton works with a new family.
Part 4: Participants may offer encouragement & appreciation to the two demonstration families.
Part 5: Participant Q & A with Mary Dalton.
Parents are invited to be courageous, open and honest in the spirit of teaching other parents by example. Families are not required to be a demonstration family, and all are encouraged to attend at least two sessions before requesting to be a demonstration family.
Parents & Guardians
What they're saying
“I am an older parent and a veteran elementary teacher. I thought I knew how to parent well...I don't. Mary's parenting classes are helping me break old habits so that I can stop undermining my son by micromanaging him, and instead, raise a compassionate, responsible and independent man who will help shape a better society.”
Marjorie Lamarre
John Muir Elementary Teacher
& Parent Workshop Participant
"We have reaped many benefits from attending this class. Regularly rethinking and challenging ‘established’ traditional parenting practices in collaboration with others is more powerful than any book ever could be. There is a solidarity among the parents in attendance and an appreciation of the hard work of parenting in this age. We are finding our kids are becoming more responsible and independent, as we let them experience natural consequences of their missteps and enjoy the fruits of their own successes."
Pam
Parent Workshop Participant
“This isn't a class, it is a book club per se, that discusses your most important job, parenting, and suggests ideas and ways to interact with your children to encourage the behavior, respect and responsibility we all hope to see in our children. And the best part is the new friends you will make! I laughed at all our stories and enjoyed my special time at this parenting class each week.”
Heidi
Parent Workshop Participant