| About Managing My Life: The Art of Joyful Parenting |
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Managing My Life: The Art of Joyful Parenting, is a program designed to help you improve your parenting skills and bring additional fulfillment in your life. |
| Managing My Life: The Art of Joyful Parenting is a cost-effective, comprehensive, and extremely user-friendly e-learning course, which helps you improve your parenting skills and bring as a parent, additional fulfillment in your life. The program is made up of the following three chapters: |
Chapter One: The Introduction introduces you to the key concepts which will be covered in this program.
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| Chapter 2 Understanding the Dynamics of Parenting will lead you to complete a comprehensive introspection. |
Completing chapter 2 will help you determine: What motivates you about parenting and what challenges you; your responsibilities as a parent; your personality style, your parenting style; the needs of children at different stages of their lives; and the extent of your attributes and knowledge areas when it comes to parenting.
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| Chapter 3 Parenting Effectively provides you with ideas and techniques to help you improve specific parenting skills so that you can become more effective parents. Areas covered include self-management, values to impart our children, organizing the household, communication, fitness and nutrition, health-related issues, education and crisis management. |
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| How Are Managing My Life Programs Used? |
Managing My Life programs are offered on a self-study basis, with one-on-one coaching, in teleclasses and in webcast sessions. It can also be offered in lunch and learn sessions on site. For infomation on how Professional Coaches, Trainers, Consultants, Counselors and Financial Professionals can make Managing My Life programs available to their clients please go to: Options for Professionals. You can also download a FREE Guide by going to: Free Guide for Professionals. |
What Is Included In The Program With Your Individual License |
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An E-Learning Course to cover the content of the Managing My Life: The Art of Joyful Parenting. The e-Course includes reading materials as well a variety of exercises to help you learn the key concepts of the program and to help you integrate the concepts in your daily life. |
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The option of purchasing a a CD with recordings of two Deep Relaxation and Deep Relaxation and Sleep Audio-Tracks. The first relaxation audio-track will help you remain calm and focused, so that you can manage stress more effectively at work and in your personal life. The second audio-track will also help you feel more rested and experience better, more consistent sleep. |
| Benefits For Individuals |
| Extremely time and cost effective process to help you: |
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Understand your motivation for parenting and the responsiblities that come with parenting. |
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Understand your personal style and your parenting style. |
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Become aware of your strengths and of the areas you need to improve. |
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Determine your values and the one you want to impart your children. |
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Improve your self-management skills. |
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Learn effective techniques for listening and communication, and for organizing the household. |
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Improve your ability to monitor your children's education, help them with their homework and maintain good relationships with their teachers. |
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Become a better parent who will maximize the opportunities for your children to be happy and successful in their life. |
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Deal with different difficult situations that can come up when parenting. |
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Maximize your opportunity for personal joy and fulfillment with your parenting experience. |
| How To Purchase Individual Licenses |
| To make your purchase, please go to: DOWNLOADS AND PURCHASE |
| Follow the instructions to install the DNL Setup and to download the PREVIEW copy of Managing My Life: Managing Change. After you have opened and reviewed several pages of the program, you will be automatically prompted to the Purchase Page on the Internet. (You must be connected to the Internet). Once you have purchased the program, you will be able to open the remaining pages of the E-Course. |
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| Continuing Education Credits |
You can request to write an exam which is related to the content of the e-course you have previously completed. If you pass successfully the exam, you will receive from us a certificate of completion, as well as a letter confirming the content of the course that you successfully completed as well the estimated number of hours of study. You may be able to use this letter to receive continuing education credits from your professional association or to be reimbursed by your employer for having satisfactorily completed the program.
Two example associations which would accept several Managing My Life e-Courses for CE Credits are: International Coach Federation and the Academy of General Dentistry. More information about this option is available at: Continuing Education Credits |
| What Is Included In The Program For Organizations |
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Site-Licensing Option to place the E-Learning course on your Intranet for downloading by all of your employees for BLITZES of 4 weeks or BLITZES of 6 weeks. As an incentive to ensure participation, we recommend that you provide employees who complete the course, and pass with 80% or more the opportunity to have their names entered into a draw for some interesting prizes. This is especially important if you are asking employees to complete the program on their own time. Alternatively, if you do not wish to make the program available to all employees, employees can purchase individual licenses for their personal exclusive use on an as need basis. |
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CDs with recordings of two Deep Relaxation and Deep Relaxation and Sleep Audio-Tracks. The first relaxation audio-track will help users remain calm and focused, so that they can manage change more effectively at work and in their personal lives. The second audio-track will also help users feel more rested and experience better, more consistent sleep. The CDs are available as an option when you provide the program to your employees. |
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A completion exam for to prove that employees have completed the program and have learned the materials in the program. This is applicable for Site Licensing Options only. |
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Assistance for promoting the program in your organization. |
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The possibility of customizing the program to meet specific needs you may have. |
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The possibility of providing employees along with the program, one-on-one coaching, teleclasses, webimars and on-site workshops. |
| Benefits For Organizations |
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Extremely cost-effective method to inject wellness and healthy thinking to the heart of your organization: ITS PEOPLE. Employees who are also parents, who are happier, more fulfilled and less stressed at home, are better employees, who are rarely absent from work. |
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Requires very little administrative time, to deliver the program. The only requirement is the announcements to staff, as well as occasional reminder messages. You must also arrange for the program materials to be posted on the website. We provide you with drafts of the announcements. |
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A very positive way to help your staff become more productive and more focused in their efforts since an important part of their personal is managed more effectively. |
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The possibility of becoming more involved in the delivery of the program by providing support services around the program. |
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The possibility, if needed, of providing external support in the implementation of the program by retaining Professional Coaches and Trainers, to deliver-one-on-one coaching sessions, teleclasses, web-cast programs, and/or on-site workshops, around the materials. |
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The possibility of customizing the program materials to meet your specific needs. |
| How To Purchase A Site Licence Blitz |
| To make your purchase, please go to DOWNLOAD PREVIEW AND PURCHASE BLITZ |
| Follow the instructions to install the DNL Reader and to download the PREVIEW document that explains the Site-Licence Blitz in more detail. After you have opened and reviewed several pages of the document, you will be asked to contact us to arrange for a telephone meeting to discuss your needs in more detail. At that time, after our telephone meeting, and depending on the size of your organization and whether you seek a 4 week or a 6 week BLITZ, we may issue a DISCOUNT COUPON, which will reduce your cost when you go to the PURCHASE PAGE of the document you have downloaded. |
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The Co-Authors of Managing My Life: The Art of Joyful Parenting |
| George Beshara is a Professional Trainer and Career Transition Coach with more than 20 years of consulting and human resources experience. |
 In private practice since 1983 he has helped thousands of individuals from all walks of life in their career transition through his job search, career planning and retirement planning self-study materials, workshops and individual counseling. In addition, George has developed and delivered numerous comprehensive training programs for some of North America's largest corporations. Programs include: Managing My Life: Managing Change, Managing My Life: Managing Stress, Managing My Life: Managing My Time, Managing My Life: Direct Approach to Employment, Managing My Life: Career Choices Made Easy, Managing My Life: Planning My Retirement, Coaching and Counseling, Hiring Your Winning Team, Training Your Winning Team, and Building Your Winning Team. |
| More than 100,000 individuals have experienced renewal and personal growth as a result of completing one or more of his programs. George's educational background includes a business degree with a specialization in organizational behavioral and human resources management from McGill University. |
| Clients Who Have Used George Beshara's Services and Programs Include: |
| Royal LePage; CIBC Wood Gundy; Prudential; M.R.S. Inc.; Swiss Bank Canada; Government of Ontario; Government of Canada; Credit Union Central of Ontario; Loomis; The Cooperators; Foresters; Cadbury; Standard Products; Molson’s ; Eaton’s; Petro-Canada; Kraft; Smith Kline Beecham; Sun Life; Dunwoody; Sears |
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Michelle MacIntosh, MSW, completed her undergraduate studies in 1995 and began her career in social work counseling disadvantaged youth at a community level. Michelle continued her studies and graduated with a Masters in Social Work from the University of Toronto in 1999 and worked in child protection with families in crisis.
Michelle’s career took an exciting, new direction developing and facilitating corporate programs focusing on leadership, wellness and personal responsibility. She has taught managerial communication courses at Brock University and has traveled across Canada to deliver workshops and keynote addresses at numerous professional conferences.
Since 2000, Michelle has a maintained a busy private practice, providing therapy and life coaching services for teens, individuals and corporate leaders.
Michelle lives with her three children and partner. They are a successfully blended family and work hard at supporting, understanding and loving one another. |
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Meg Zuccaro, M.A. is an educator and researcher at Simon Fraser University. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Faculty of Education in Curriculum Theory and Implementation. Her teaching and research interests focus on exploring the listening body as a site of deep wisdom bringing attention to the sacred art of listening as a pathway for connection, healing, and social change. Her work has been presented at educational conferences and appears in various educational journals and publications.
Meg brings her passion for listening to her teaching, students and research as well as into the community. Working with various community organizations much of her time has been dedicated to supporting youth and young adults. Through a deep concern for the care of others she opened her home to teen-agers as a gathering place for conversation and listening. She designs and conducts workshops on the practice of listening, dialogue and social consciousness. Meg has been involved with The Compassionate Listening Project, a non-profit organization that teaches heart-based skills for peace building and reconciliation since 2002.
Meg and her husband have been married for 29 years and enjoy the company of their three grown children. |
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