Education - Waldorf Collaborative Counseling

2008 Program

Program Structure - Block 8 - Waldorf Community Collaborative Counseling - Education - Antioch University New England

Block Eight - 2008 Program

The Soul of Discipline

This program is Block 8 of the nine–block Waldorf Collaborative Counseling Program. The program focuses on supporting parents and teachers to meet a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues.

The goals of this block are:

To help the participant learn to articulate the essential difference between punishment and accountability in the restorative approach
To build participant understanding of the nature of parent teacher relationships involving discipline
To help teachers and parents create healthy discipline approaches
To practice skills and meeting styles that create a safe collaborative space for parents and teachers
To stimulate a process of self–awareness so that participants get in touch with their own attitudes regarding discipline

We will explore:

The history of parenting and educational discipline outlooks
Shifting discipline approaches away from those that are not helpful
Our own biography and how this influences our disciplinary attitudes
The disciplinary culture clash that can occur between home and school
Three–fold discipline that creates creative compliance in early childhood, social responsibility in the elementary years, and management of critical choices for teens
Understanding the anger that undermines temperaments
Healthy, restorative school discipline policy

Dates and Times TBA

Last Updated: 10/9/07