FOR MANAGERS, HR LEADERS AND DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

BREAKDOWN, BREAKTHROUGH: RECLAIMING PASSION, POWER, AND PURPOSE IN LIFE AND WORK

In this stimulating, interactive coaching seminar, Ms. Caprino shares important findings from her national research study on Women Overcoming Professional Crisis: Finding New Meaning in Life and Work on key factors that contribute to, and help women overcome, crises in their professional lives. Caprino’s research study, co-sponsored by The Esteemed Woman Foundation, explores the experiences of women ages 35-60 nationwide who’ve experienced one of the 12 common crises that working women face today, such as:
 

	“I Can’t Use My Real Talents in Life and Work,”
	I Can’t Get Out of This Financial Trap,”
	“I Can’t Balance Life and Work,” and
	“I Can’t Do Work and Play That I Love.”

From her research, Caprino developed a new Guide for Empowered Living, which demystifies the underlying causes behind professional disempowerment, and offers concrete coaching advice to help women overcome these challenges. Her guide facilitates professional women’s continued growth, fulfillment, and balance, and helps women embrace transition as a stepping-stone to greater self-mastery and success.

Caprino’s seminar draw on important material from her new book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, November 2008).

Other Topics for Managers, HR Leaders, and Diversity Programs:

	3 Key Steps to An Empowered Life and Work
	Making Sense of Conflict in Communication – And Resolving It
	Achieving Personal and Professional Balance and Integrity
	Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace
	Using Your Inner Compass in Leadership
	Integrating Life Purpose with Professional Mission
	Finding Your Center at Work

FOR WOMEN AT WORK

FROM THE FAST TRACK TO A FULFILLING TRACK: CRAFTING A REWARDING CAREER WITH BALANCE AND PURPOSE

Today, balancing a high-powered career with other family and personal roles and responsibilities can be overwhelming and exhausting. Now more than ever, professional women are realizing that “having it all” is not what they thought it would be, or what they want it to be. In this stimulating seminar, Kathy shares key information to help working women reclaim the direction of their lives for greater balance and fulfillment.

Based on recent research findings presented in her new book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose (Berrett-Koehler, November 2008), Caprino shares what hundreds of women nationwide have revealed – that balancing life and work isn’t working given many of their current assumptions. She presents three key actions for stepping away from an unfulfilling yet overly-demanding career, and crafting a new path that is more suited to your specific values, needs, and preferences.

TURNING CONFLICT INTO CONNECTION

This program explores the common communication and interpersonal challenges professional women face in dealing with conflict, resistance, or challenge from others and outside events in professional life. Professional women are given new tools to re-assess and reframe their behaviors and attitudes, effective communication skills in the workplace, and new thinking to increase self-efficacy and expand success, balance, and fulfillment in life and work.

THE TIME IS NOW! 5 STEPS TO MOVING TOWARD WORK RE-ENGAGEMENT

Have you been thinking about returning to work for months, even years? Have you been longing to re-enter the workforce, after taking time out to raise your family or attend to other personal life issues? If you have been contemplating returning to work, then now’s the time to take concrete action to explore it.

In this engaging, informative seminar, Ms. Caprino shares key information for women who have been out of the workforce for several years and wish to seriously explore -- and take steps toward -- returning to part-time or full-time work.

FOR INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND TEENS:

For Individuals

Breakdown, Breakthrough Circle

Empowering Coaching Support for Positive Change in Life and Work

Next Session: Spring 2009

“Breakdown” in our lives often comes dramatically, swiftly and without preparation. Breakdown means that how you are working or living is no longer working for you, and significant change is called for. How can you make the most of these times of transition, weather them successfully, and break through to the life and work you dream of?

In her Breakdown, Breakthrough Circle programs, Kathy Caprino, MA – empowerment and life coach, author, and seminar leader – brings a direct understanding of the critical steps necessary to make lasting positive life change. She’ll help you: understand the important messages beneath your situation, embrace new opportunities for growth, release the beliefs that hold you back, access your intuition, and take steps toward intentionally creating the life you choose.

Take this opportunity today to break through to the changes you want most in life! Register now!

Other Topics for Individuals:

	Overcoming Professional Crisis and Claiming Your Power and Purpose
	Thriving Through Change
	The Emotional and Spiritual Dimensions of Helping Those in Distress
	Getting Back on Track to You
	Making Sense of Conflict – And Resolving It
	From Conflict to Connection – Transforming Interpersonal Relationships
	Powerful and Positive Communicating in Times of Stress
	Positive Thinking Just Isn’t Enough – How to Create the Life Changes You Desire most

For Families:

EMPATHIC PARENTING: FOSTERING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-RELIANCE IN OUR CHILDREN

This interactive seminar helps parents of school-aged children explore the critical ingredients necessary to be an effective and supportive caregiver who also facilitates your child’s fulfillment of his/her own potential with self-confidence and self-reliance.

Caprino explores various parenting styles and key responsibilities, and offer new ways to assess your child’s developmental needs in relation to your style and approach. Tools will be given to understand the “structure” of your family, and determine how this structure may be causing conflict or difficulty. Caprino then shares a powerful parenting and relational approach called Empathic Parenting that fosters self-reliance and self-confidence in your child and entire family. Problematic patterns in family communications, and ways to break these patterns, will also be explored. In the end, participants will be given an opportunity to examine their own beliefs about their children’s self-reliance as a way to transform current conflict into opportunity for growth and positive change.

ENHANCING YOUR CHILD’S COPING SKILLS THROUGH HEALTHY FAMILY DYNAMICS

This workshop is aimed at helping parents of children of all ages explore aspects of family dynamics necessary to create an effective, supportive, and healthy environment for your children. In such an environment children can successfully develop skills to cope with all life has to offer.

Parents attending will learn ways to identify the “structure” of their family, and explore where this structure may be causing conflict or difficulty. Key patterns and issues that may be underlying the current dilemmas in raising your children will be discussed. We will explore the critical role of authority and discipline in children’s lives, from the importance of consistency, appropriate discipline and rule-setting, and flexibility, to the softer side of authority, including acceptance, empathy, and active listening. Finally, we will examine the power of awareness to transform conflict into opportunity for growth.

Helping Children Deal with Stressors in the Home: Ways of Relating that Help Children Cope

This workshop is aimed at helping caregivers of young children in private and public settings explore the critical stressors in the home that young children often face, along with the essential ingredients necessary in being an effective and supportive caregiver during these times of stress.

Key issues regarding discipline and authority will be addressed, including the essential role of consistency and appropriate rule setting. The importance of the soft side of support will also be discussed, including active listening, validation, acceptance, and empathy. Effective techniques for eliciting support from the child’s family will be shared. Finally, we will explore new ways to transform difficult situations into opportunity for growth and positive change for the child.

Other Workshops:

	Strengthening Family Bonds – A New Way to Love
	From Conflict to Connection – Transforming Interpersonal Relationships

For Teens:

Stress Busters - New Ways to Understand and Reduce Your Stress

In this interactive, stimulating workshop, Kathy explores the various stressors that family, school, and social life today can generate for teen girls, and shares effective approaches that can help teens understand their stress, make use of the messages it provides, and effectively transform it for positive growth.