Below are Workshops held by Arden. Please reach out if you are interested in requesting or participating in any! Also click Here to see what people have to say!
Aerial Mindful Self Care: YOU Are Your MOST Significant Other
Get ready to Chillax, fly like the eagles, and leave feeling relaxed calm and more deeply engaged with your authentic special self. This workshop is both experiential, didactic and conversational with the goal of introducing my Aerial Mindful Approach along with Mindful practices that can be integrated into your personal daily life.
Learning Objectives:
• Empathically connecting to your SELF through the Aerial Mindful Approach.
• What is the Aerial Mindful Approach?
• Opening Blessings: Actively Practicing Kindness Loving Blessings and Self Blessings
• Simple and Easy Breathing Exercises that will facilitate your awareness of the importance of pressing your Pause and Reset Emotional Buttons
• Learn the difference between Selfless, Selfness and Selfish
• Learn about the importance between Balancing Self and Other Care to prevent burnout
• Learn through Guided Imagery, fun singing and mindful exercises some daily self soothing strategies
• Closing Blessings and Guided Imagery
Great for: Women's Groups, PTA Parents, School Personnel, Clinicians, Nutritionists, Doctors, Nurses,
Dancers, Dance Companies, Personal Trainers, Athletes, Coaches, Corporate Wellness
Power Point Handouts.
Being and Becoming a Positive Aerial Mindful Empathic Parent of Your Tween, Teen & Young Adult
Aerial is about, connecting with yourself first with TLC, coming from a place of Self-love, Self-care, collected and calm. Mindfulness is a kind, non-critical, non-judgemental approach that involves radical self acceptance. Empathy is standing in your own shoes. Gaining perspective accelerates and role models faith, hope, confidence, resilience, flexibility for both you and your Tween/Teen/Young Adult.
Put these qualities all together and that spells a very connected empathic approach to building a deep connection with your precious offspring:)
Learning Objectives:
Learn how to develop objectivity, respond rather than react.
Learn how to move into an aware wise mindfulness, a common sense, intuitive approach based on Who your child is.
Learn my 22 Mindful Aerial tips, from my book, What Do You Expect? She's A Teenager!
Format: Experiential with guided imagery, Didactic with life coaching conversational starters.
Keynote, Couples, Group Workshop Series.
Open to Questions from Parents: Suggested Topics may include
Navigating the Internet: What you child is Into and Up to (Social Media Sites), School and Academic Stress, On and offline Bullying and Cliques, Friendship, Dating, Sex, Porn etc.,
Being a Positive Mindful Aerial Parent for your Child: Tackling Temper Tantrums with Humor and Puppets for Parents of Children ages 1-5
Our children are unique one of a kinds and it's my mission to help you help them become all that they are meant to be.
Learn how to playfully negotiate a potential power struggle and stave off a temper tantrum.
See their "No's" as opportunities to teach and learn from your child in an empathic, objective, self loving and Self Kind and Child kind TLC approach.
Learn how Playing and making it a game helps to neutralize bedtime struggles, eating issues, toilet training, getting up and dressed in the AM, getting them from point A to point B with a more stress-less approach.
Format: This is a lively interactive workshop filled with laughter, smiles and helpful coaching conversation starters from Arden and her daughter, life coach and child expert Samara Goldberg. The approach includes using puppet characters from Sesame Street to help facilitate a fun connection and conversation with your child.
Great for; Parent Groups, Pre-K programs, teachers, Conferences.
We are bombarded!!! The Media, Internet, TV shows, Commercials, the latest diet, the diet industry, new diet appetite suppressant pills, photo shopped ads, cosmetic, plastic surgery, body contouring, porn, all portray over-sexualized distorted images through unattainable "body perfection." How does this onslaught impact our brains, ourselves, our youth. We must challenge the ongoing Myth "You can't be too thin, emaciated or too buffed up, with abs of steel."
When taken to an extreme, when habit and calorie counting becomes compulsion and moves to addiction we have a set up for disordered eating and the development of an eating disorders, Anorexia, Bulimia, Exercise Bulimia, Compulsive Eating and Binge Eating Disorder.
Learn how to become an Advocate and Activist and become an Active, Thinking, Screening, Resistant Smart Consumer. Tips, Strategies and Tactics toward developing a life affirming positive radical acceptance of your SELF and develop a more realistic and attainable healthy body image.
Learn how to Love your Body via Mirror exercises, Self Blessings and Affirmations
Learn how to measure yourself by the Size of your Heart.
Learn more about the HAES (Healthy at every Size) Approach to Self and Body Acceptance
Format: Power Point, Experiential and Didactic
For Schools, Teen and College Students, Parents, PTA's, Keynotes, Conferences.
Myth of the Barbie Doll and the Man of Steel: Body Image and the Myth of Perfection
Some alarming Statistics: How teens see their need to lose weight
Images in the Media
Body Image Questionnaire-Identify kids and teens at Risk
Red Flags and Warning signs:
Anorexia
Bulimia
Binge Eating Disorder
Conversation Starters: How to approach your student, patient with compassion
Involving the Parents
When to refer to an Eating Disorder Specialist
When to refer for a higher level of care
Format: Power point, Didactic and Role Playing, Psycho-educational.
Keynotes and Conferences
Also open to Nutritionists, Clinicians, Coaches, Teachers, College and Health Educators.
Identity, Perfection, Body Image and Eating Disorders: Your Role as Conduits and liaisons for Parents and Youth: For Nurses, Doctors
Self-Mutilation is a complicated and addictive form of self and body hate. Underneath the "Body is weeping tears of blood," expressing and crying and acting out that which is inaccessible to be articulated. If the act of self mutilation could talk, what would it say?
We will talk about Cutting, pin pricking, scratching, burning.
Learn about Body Dysmorphia
Learn about Dual Diagnosis-the concurrent development of an Eating Disorder, Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Cognitive Tips and Alternative Constructive Self Soothing Strategies
What a Parent and friend can do to identify and direct toward getting help.
Vignettes from Arden's private practice and her book.
Format: Psycho-educational
For: parents, youth, schools, school nurses, health, physical education teachers, PTA's, College Students
Self Mutilation Among Our Youth
Alarming Statistics: Approximately 66 percent of rape victims know their assailant. Girls ages 14-19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. This does not account for many children and teens that are too frightened and refuse to come forward to report and prosecute!
Red Flags and Warning Signs that your Child has been raped
First hand accounts from my private practice and the SEX chapter of my book
Tips on Being Supportive, proactive and protective of the victim
Steps to Report the crime
• What to expect in Court
• What is PTSD? What is secondary PTSD?
• Helping a friend who is in an abusive relationship
Being with the Wrong kind of partner-Red Flags
What in RAINN? (Rape, Abuse, Incest, National Network)
Format: Psycho-educational, Didactic
For: High School Students, College Students, Health Educators, Nurses, School and PTA
It can't happen to me! Date and Acquaintance Rape, NOT for Women only
*A note to parents, educators
Learning Objective:
A thorough talk about your teen’s( students) physical and emotional maturation.
Clarity about “Why Am I The Way I Am, goes a long way to insure their Health Safety and Welfare.
My interactive Q and A talk with your teens, “Your Hormones, Teen Years, Social Media,” encourages them to become active participants in making Mindful Intuitive Healthy choices.
For Teens to see their parents(teachers)as allies, their brain trusts, lending libraries, enhancing trust and faith to run by their thoughts and concerns.
Three keys to prevention: APA - Anticipation, Preparation and Awareness
“A well equipped teen deters risk taking behavior”
I'm so excited to meet, listen, talk and learn from your children and teen(students).
Format: Solution Based PowerPoint, Didactic, Role Playing, Experiential, Fun and uplifting
Teen Students, Hebrew Academy, Church Youth Groups, Private, Public Schools
For Teens: Your Hormones, Puberty, Teens, Social Media
Hormones, Teens, and Social Media
Do you know what your children are into and up to? Join the Interactive Discussion
Learning Objectives:
Learn about the social media climate that your child is currently in.
Learn to have key ongoing conversations with your children who initiate internet use at an earlier age.
Hear about the importance of being an educated and aware, finger on the pulse parent.
Alarming Statistics: 92% of American Teenagers ages 13-17 go online daily, including 24% who say they are on their devices “almost constantly.” 71% use Facebook, half are on Instagram and 41% are Snapchat users. There has been a steady increase of online usage in the last 5 years. (Pew Research Center) Compared to 84% of teens online daily in 2010. 71% of kids say their parent’s never monitor them.
As parent’s we expect our children to experiment, to make mistakes while we are simultaneously teaching them self care, self and body respect, and the importance of tuning into themselves and building a Mindfulness approach. Come learn proactive tools and tips that will increase your parental prowess
“A well equipped proactive parent is a prepared parent”- Arden Greenspan-Goldberg
Psycho- Educational Support Group for Women Who Binge Eat
Q - Aside from food, what else are you hungry for? Worth, acceptance, love, feeling plenty & a significant relationship with yourself.
This is a one hour virtual weekly support group for women who struggle with binge eating. It is inspirational, uplifting and helps with mutual accountability led by a very seasoned psychotherapist and certified eating disorder specialist. Mindful intuitive eating is the foundation for this affirming, validating, feminist group. If you are interested in joining and would like more information, feel free to email Askardengreenspan@gmail.com.