When you register for a Lift Off Workshop, you immediately get:

• Access to the workshop portal, the course material, and an online community.
• An exercise before we even begin to get the ball rolling!
• Each week you'll get the workshop content, which has a different focus designed to help teens and their parents decrease anxiety and take next steps together,
• A hands-on activity that will bring awareness and action steps,
• 10-20 "conversation starters" based on that week's topic, for parents to ask teens and teens to ask their parents.
• Homework if you'd like to dive even deeper that week.

This week the focus is all about helping teens and their parents have the same conversation!

There can be a HUGE disconnect between what a parent thinks they are trying to communicate versus what the teenager is hearing. This week we talk about that clash of expectations.  

We use a hands-on timeline exercise to communicate more effectively about different important milestones and bring awareness to the pressure, stress, and overwhelm that is often felt by teens and their parents.

This module helps parents shift out of fear and focus more on their teen's strengths and skills, and helps teens communicate their worries to their parents.

A big complaint that the teens I work with have is that their parents don't understand what they're trying to communicate. Parents just say, "you're awesome I believe in you" when teenagers are trying to have concrete conversations about the internal and external barriers to success they feel. 

The activity this week asks parents and teens to illustrate those fears AND the tools and skills that can be used to combat them. It provides an opportunity for parents and teens to compare perspectives and gain value from each other.

Module 3 is all about looking at why taking some steps to adulthood seem scary, and why so many teenagers want to stay in their comfort zone. 

We talk about what happens when we try to accomplish a large or scary task, how to get the most benefits out of our comfort zones, and how to understand what our brains do to protect us when it feels under threat. We discuss the logistical and emotional things that get in our way and make us feel stuck.

This week parents and teenagers are encouraged to look together at taking a task and break it up into steps - with the goal of greater understanding of our coping mechanisms.

Module 4 takes a look at specific steps that teens can take to accomplish their goals for successful adulthood. 

Parents hone their brainstorming, creative, imaginative selves in an exercise designed to help them help their teens imagine their future. Teens break big tasks into smaller steps and use their new awareness from past week's to think ahead about possible barriers and hardships.

This week we are building on everything that's come before, and as always the topics facilitate many important conversations between teens and their parents.

The last module helps teens and parents take everything they've uncovered throughout the last 5 sections and make realistic commitments based on genuine goals for the future. 

Teens and parents will spend this module working on setting themselves up for the future beyond this workshop, so that everyone can continue better communication, partnering together during difficulties, and building on their strengths and skills. 

This week the focus is on the parents and teens connecting with each other and deciding on a few important next steps together.

You'll have access to the workshop portal, presentations, handouts, conversation starters, homework, and other material for the foreseeable future!

You will also have the chance to join in the ongoing Launch Anxiety community in order to keep getting support and feedback while you and your teen navigate their launch to adulthood. 

If you purchased the at-your-own-pace workshop and realize you'd rather work alongside a group or meet one-on-one with me, that will also be available to you as well!