Seminars
"Understanding Today’s Youth" seminars have been given to a variety of groups - social workers, professionals, service clubs, civic leaders, public elementary school parents/teachers, youth workers and pastors, Christian school parents/teachers, and student leaders.
Each seminar is a dynamic, multi-media presentation designed to create better relationships with young people through a deeper understanding of their very unique and fast-changing culture. Seminars include handouts, reference material, and books for sale.
Seminars can be adapted to fit a variety of time frames - from one hour workshops to six hour, all day presentations. Content and issues of seminars can also be adjusted to address the pertinent issues for any particular group.
The special promotional PDFs are also available free of charge for all seminars. Great for making posters or emailing PDFs to your contacts. Click on PDF to enlarge.
"Paul Robertson is a true advocate for youth and their parents. His cultural expertise and compassionate heart combine with his great sense of humor to make an excellent platform for communicating healthy ways of parenting youth. It is no secret that families all around us face countless complications and with the help of Paul, they will be better equipped to face them head on and be stronger because of it."
Dr. Carson Pue
President: Arrow Leadership
www.arrowleadership.org
Titles
| Understanding a Generation Who Adore Themselves - NEW FALL 2010
Our youth culture has fallen in love with Me, Myself, and I. This seminar looks at the growing trend of naricissim - its implications for our kids and how we can help them cope with the growing pressure to focus only on themselves. |  |
| Understanding the Tween to Teen Transition - NEW FALL 2010
The movement from tween to teen is predictable. Some days will be fair while others will be stormy. There is no way of know what tomorrow may bring be we can prepare. This seminar takes a detailed look at the role of culture in the physical, emotiona, mental, moral, and social changes our kids go through. |  |
| Understanding Why They Do the Things They Do
Take a journey to the center of a young person’s brain and discover the reasons why they act and make the decisions they do. |  |
| Understanding the Casual Sex Revolution Focused on the social factors that have contributed to the new casual sex revolution, adults can begin to develop a positive response to this critical issue. |  |
Understanding Technology - Protecting Your Kids
The new alternative universe of technology can be a frightening place for parents. This seminar looks at a variety of the new technologies, parental concerns, privacy issues, and practical ways parents can monitor screen time. |  |
| Understanding Their World, Hearing Their Cries
See the world of today’s youth as it really is - a world of changing family structures, powerful media influences, and postmodern moral relativism. |  |
| Understanding the Five Cries of Caring Parents
Research shows kids can be greatly helped if they are able to draw on five great
sources of strength from their parents; each of these represent the desire to
become a better parent and deals with a basic issue in the home. |  |
| Understanding and Talking Culture With Kids
Our kids are struggling with an endless list of cultural issues often without adult input. This seminar looks at some of the latest youth culture trends and provides a framework for understanding and havingintelligent conversations about them. |  |
| Understanding Postmodern Youth Culture
Finding it harder to raise good kids in a culture of chaos, adults need to take a closer look at their postmodern world of anything goes to find some solutions. |  |
| Understanding How Music Molds Minds
Successfully navigating the confusing world of today’s popular music is possible when you realize that music is more than what meets the ear and understand the various ways music molds minds and shapes kids. |  |
| Understanding the Push and Pull of Peer Pressure
Like any warm-blooded species, young people have an innate orienting instinct which needs to be developed by loving parents and adults and not passionate peers. |  |
| Understanding Current Culture Trends
Designed to keep adults on the cutting edge of youth culture, current trends focuses on the latest changes that could endanger and ensnare our youth. |  |
| Understanding the Impact of Marketing on Children
With marketers now targeting younger children, parents need to be aware of the various approaches used to crawl inside the hearts and minds of our kids and how they influence even the youngest child's value system. |  |
