Past Events
Events featuring Dr. Sharon Saline over the past 12 months
july 2021
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Chaos to Calm Parenting Academy A Masterclass Series hosted by grief/trauma therapist and parenting coach Jill Falling Parenting can be brutal. Unfortunately, many parents find themselves
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Chaos to Calm Parenting Academy
A Masterclass Series hosted by grief/trauma therapist and parenting coach Jill Falling
Dates: July 18 – July 31
Price: FREE
Claim your free seat & register here!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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18 (Sunday) 8:00 am - 31 (Saturday) 11:59 pm
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SENG 2021 Annual Conference “Motivating 2E kids to do the no-fun, boring stuff: From academic assignments to household chores, helping children and teens get started,
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SENG 2021 Annual Conference
“Motivating 2E kids to do the no-fun, boring stuff: From academic assignments to household chores, helping children and teens get started, persist and finish tasks”
A Presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline
About the conference:
SENG is thrilled to bring the experience of our renowned Annual Conference to our worldwide gifted, talented, and twice-exceptional community! Join us for four dynamic days packed with keynote presentations, LIVE breakout sessions, and making connections – all from the comfort of home! Each day will offer an array of speaker sessions featuring renowned presenters, and will cover a range of topics focused on the social and emotional needs of the gifted community. The best part? You will have access to recordings of every session for 3 months after they happen LIVE!
Dates:
Dr. Saline’s Presentation: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 11:30am ET
Full Conference: Jul 23, 2021 8:00 AM CDT – Jul 25, 2021 2:00 PM CDT
Click here to learn more & register!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com
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(Saturday) 11:30 am
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4th Annual ADHD Parents’ Palooza “ADHD Differences Between Boys and Girls” By Mary Ann Richey, M.Ed. & Sharon Saline, Psy.D. “We’ve culled only the cream of the
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4th Annual ADHD Parents’ Palooza
“ADHD Differences Between Boys and Girls”
By Mary Ann Richey, M.Ed. & Sharon Saline, Psy.D.
“We’ve culled only the cream of the crop experts for the ADHD Parents’ Palooza talking, about the high priority topics you want and need: homework, transition to college or job, girls’ special needs, digital distractions, medication and alternatives, executive function challenges, communication, sleep issues, and more.”
Presentation Date: Wed. July 28, 2021 (Released at 7am ET and expires at 7am ET on 7/29)
Full Event: July 26 – July 30, 2021
Click here to learn more & register!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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26 (Monday) 12:00 am - 30 (Friday) 11:59 pm
august 2021
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Best School Year Ever Giveaway Hosted by Life Success for Teens Dr. Saline’s FREE gift: Avoiding the Homework Hassle (Video + Handout) This giveaway is JAM PACKED
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Best School Year Ever Giveaway
Hosted by Life Success for Teens
Dr. Saline’s FREE gift:
Avoiding the Homework Hassle (Video + Handout)
- Effective strategies for avoiding the homework hassle (my free gift!)
- 4 skills your teenager absolutely needs to have a successful high school experience;
- Tried & true strategies for opening doors to college options with a well-planned college process, from freshman to senior year;
- A guide to help all students learn the six key habits for college success, and so much more!
Dates: August 1st – August 7th
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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august 1 (Sunday) - 7 (Saturday)
september 2021
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Chadd Bergen County Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline Returning to School with ADHD & COVID Uncertainty (again) As kids go back to school, uncertainty looms once
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Chadd Bergen County Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline
Returning to School with ADHD & COVID Uncertainty (again)
As kids go back to school, uncertainty looms once again. When you consider the academic and social challenges for many kids with ADHD, it’s tough to know what to do to stay safe and create viable, rewarding learning experiences for your children and teens.
Dr. Saline’s presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
This meeting is open to all who seek support and information, including parents, clinicians and teachers.
Date: Monday, September 13th 8:00 – 9:15 pm EST
A free gift from Dr. Sharon will be available to all attendees.
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(Monday) 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
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Confident and Curious: Overcoming Anxiety in Neurodiverse Adolescents and Young Adults A Gifted & Thriving Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline & Dr. Michael Postma Does your
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Confident and Curious: Overcoming Anxiety in Neurodiverse Adolescents and Young Adults
A Gifted & Thriving Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline & Dr. Michael Postma
Does your neurodiverse, bright-minded teen struggle with anxiety and stress? Join neurodiverse experts Dr. Sharon Saline and Dr. Michael Postma for this 6 week workshop that will arm your kids with the tools and insight they need to manage anxiety and thrive in their journey to self-reliant adulthood. Each session will include lessons, interactive discussions, break-outs and coping strategies to equip your teen/adolescent for living with more confidence and success.
We will run two groups of 20 teens each (40 total):
Group 1 – Teens aged 12-15 will meet each Monday evening from 7:30-8:45 pm EST (4:30-5:45pm PDT) on Sept. 20, 27 + Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25
Group 2 – Teens/young adults aged 16-20 will meet each Thursday evening from 7:30-8:45pm EST (4:30-5:45pm PDT) starting Thursday, Sept. 16, 23, 30 + Oct. 7, 14, 21
Cost of 6 week workshop: $297 per person
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
Enrollment is limited.
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(Thursday) 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
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Confident and Curious: Overcoming Anxiety in Neurodiverse Adolescents and Young Adults A Gifted & Thriving Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline & Dr. Michael Postma Does your
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Confident and Curious: Overcoming Anxiety in Neurodiverse Adolescents and Young Adults
A Gifted & Thriving Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline & Dr. Michael Postma
Does your neurodiverse, bright-minded teen struggle with anxiety and stress? Join neurodiverse experts Dr. Sharon Saline and Dr. Michael Postma for this 6 week workshop that will arm your kids with the tools and insight they need to manage anxiety and thrive in their journey to self-reliant adulthood. Each session will include lessons, interactive discussions, break-outs and coping strategies to equip your teen/adolescent for living with more confidence and success.
We will run two groups of 20 teens each (40 total):
Group 1 – Teens aged 12-15 will meet each Monday evening from 7:30-8:45pm EST (4:30-5:45pm PDT) on Sept. 20, 27 + Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25
Group 2 – Teens/young adults aged 16-20 will meet each Thursday evening from 7:30-8:45pm EST (4:30-5:45pm PDT) starting Thursday, Sept. 16, 23, 30 + Oct. 7, 14, 21
Cost of 6 week workshop: $297 per person
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
Enrollment is limited.
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(Monday) 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
october 2021
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“You’ve got this! How to overcome procrastination, improve motivation and get stuff done!” 12th Annual ADHD Awareness
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“You’ve got this! How to overcome procrastination, improve motivation and get stuff done!”
12th Annual ADHD Awareness Expo Presentation by Dr. Saline
The ADHD Awareness Expo is a unique and innovative online event! This is THE place to find the help and support that YOU need to understand and treat ADHD. You will also have the opportunity make life changing connections with members of the ADHD community.
Expo Dates: October 1st – October 31st.
Video sessions will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the month of October. Once sessions are released, they will remain in the Expo area for attendees to watch at no cost until October 31st.
Learn more and register today!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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Month Long Event (october)
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Troubled about time: Tips and Tools I’ve learned to work with my time management challenges ADDA TADD Talk by Dr. Sharon Saline TADD Talks are an
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Troubled about time: Tips and Tools I’ve learned to work with my time management challenges
ADDA TADD Talk by Dr. Sharon Saline
TADD Talks are an ADHD-friendly riff on “TED talks.” TED talks are 18 minute presentations on a variety of interesting subjects, TADD recordings are only 9 minutes long (we do have a shorter attention span, you know!) on interesting ADHD topics.
Our speaker lineup is always amazing! Many professionals everyone will recognize as “the best of the best” will be address virtually every topic that could be of interest to adults with ADHD throughout ADHD Awareness Month this October.
Dates:
– Full Event: Month of October 2021
– Dr. Sharon Saline’s TADD Talk: October 12, 2021
Sign up for the TADD Talks here!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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Month Long Event (october)
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Introduction to Building Better Brains: How Improving Executive Functioning Skills Fosters Social, Emotional and Academic Success in ALL Types of Learners Training #1 of 2
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Introduction to Building Better Brains: How Improving Executive Functioning Skills Fosters Social, Emotional and Academic Success in ALL Types of Learners
Training #1 of 2 with Dr. Sharon Saline at The Bridge Training Institute (Virtual Training)
Would you like practical tools to help kids harness their natural potential, reduce stress and get things done with less arguing and more cooperation? Whether it’s academics, social challenges, mental health issues or technology, many children and teens struggle with feeling overwhelmed and can’t seem to keep up, especially those young people with ADHD, high-functioning ASD, twice exceptional profiles (2E) or learning disabilities. You’ll learn how to navigate their complex mix of biology, behavior and emotion, strengthen essential executive functioning skills to improve both home and school experiences and foster self-reliant, connected independence.
By focusing on a strength-based, positive psychology approach and including kids’ voices in problem-solving, participants will learn how to create effective interventions that go beyond medication and crisis management. You will have opportunities to discuss your clients and brainstorm new interventions for your work together. You will leave this workshop with tangible strategies for identifying and nurturing cognitive strengths in young people to help them overcome daily challenges and improve their home and school experiences.
Moving on from high school to the next chapter can be particularly challenging for these young people. It’s hard to know when to support them at home and at school, how to teach them tools for self-reliance and what type of support parents need to let them go. Dr. Saline will offer you a theoretical context for addressing emerging adulthood that begins in middle school while sharing useful tools to balance autonomy and connection and identify appropriate accommodations during this extended transition.
Following this training, the participants will be able to:
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- Create effective strategies and collaborative programs for improving executive functioning skills that increase kids’ participation and promote lasting change.
Recognize how co-existing disorders and learning disabilities affect and interact with ADHD and executive functioning skills. - Learn practical treatment interventions for motivating kids with ADHD with less conflict and more cooperation at home and school.
- Identify warning signs of risky behaviors and gain potent tools for managing them.
- Investigate the relationship between ADHD and technology and formulate appropriate programs to help families struggling with screens.
- Create effective strategies and collaborative programs for improving executive functioning skills that increase kids’ participation and promote lasting change.
Date: Friday, October 1, 2021, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Where: VIRTUAL TRAINING
NOTE: Training #2, Intermediate Strategies for Building Better Brains, is separate & optional. That virtual training is on Friday, Nov. 12th from 9a-4pm ET.
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Friday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Organizer
The Bridge Training Institute
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Confident and Curious: How to help neurodiverse students reduce worrying and develop the competence they need to handle life’s challenges A Presentation for Parents of Kids
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Confident and Curious:
How to help neurodiverse students reduce worrying and develop the competence they need to handle life’s challenges
A Presentation for Parents of Kids at The Cove School
Living in a world that’s increasingly unpredictable, today’s kids are more anxious than ever before. For children and teens who are alternative learners–those with ADHD, ASD and learning disabilities, managing anxiety in conjunction with executive functioning deficits can seem daunting and unmanageable. Dr. Sharon Saline, veteran psychologist and author of “What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life” and “The ADHD solution card deck” discusses the grip of anxiety and what educators and parents can do to help reduce kids’ worries.
After reviewing the physiology and psychology of anxiety, she will show you how to help kids change their relationship to worry, avoid the pitfalls of negative thinking and reduce social awkwardness. Instead of reassurance and rationalization, you will learn techniques for separating the person from the anxiety, talking to the worry itself and creating effective responses to ‘what ifs’.
Dr. Saline offers tools for teaching kids how to realistically evaluate situations, tolerate uncertainty, engage appropriately with peers and calm down. You’ll learn how to transform worry and insecurity into curiosity and confidence.
Date: October 6, 2021
Time: 6:30 CST / 7:30 EST
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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“You can do this: Motivating kids who are outside-the-box thinkers” A presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline at the 3rd Annual ADHD EdCamp HOME 2021 Join ADHDEdCamp
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“You can do this: Motivating kids who are outside-the-box thinkers”
A presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline at the 3rd Annual ADHD EdCamp HOME 2021
Join ADHDEdCamp organizer, ADHD/Executive Function Coach, Brooke Schnittman, MA, ACC, BCC, from Coaching With Brooke, Dr. Christina Seamster and Lynn Miner-Rosen, M.Ed., ACC, CDCS from LMR Coaching, and Melissa Knight from CASC Coaching as well as others to learn all of the ins and outs of ADHD and how to manage the symptoms at home, in school and at work!
There will be 30+ presenters all speaking on ADHD topics and the best part is this event is absolutely FREE!
When: The ADHD EdCamp is on Saturday, October 9, 2021, 12pm – 3:30pm ET
Where: This EdCamp will be held ONLINE.
*Tickets must still be reserved in advance.
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Saturday) 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Better together: Improve partnership parenting with the 5C’s approach A presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline at the On the Right ADHD Trail Telesummit hosted by
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Better together: Improve partnership parenting with the 5C’s approach
A presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline at the On the Right ADHD Trail Telesummit hosted by Cathy Goett
Cathy Goett of GOETT FOCUSED is once again holding her ADHD Telesummit just for men! This year, several highly educated experts in the field of ADD/ADHD join her and provide their best tips for hiking the ADHD trail. Sign up to listen in for free for an extended weekend – October 15-17, 2021 – and also receive free gifts from our presenters to help you navigate the ADHD Trail!
Dr. Saline’s presentation:
Are you tired of struggling with your partner about parenting issues? Do you struggle to arrive on the same page when it comes to hot topics or agree on the big issues but get stuck in the weeds? In this engaging session, Dr. Sharon Saline will show you how to overcome your differences, improve communication and translate your best intentions into achievable plans. Using her effective 5C’s parenting approach will help you reduce blame, set mutual goals and negotiate compromises. You’ll learn how to celebrate the good stuff and have more fun as a couple and a family!
Telesummit Dates: October 15 – 17, 2021
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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october 15 (Friday) - 17 (Sunday)
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Northampton Public Schools Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline on Zoom For Parents & Caregivers of NPS Middle
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Northampton Public Schools Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline on Zoom
For Parents & Caregivers of NPS Middle and High School Students
“Confident and Curious: How to help tweens and teens reduce worrying, navigate social challenges and develop the competence they need”
Are you concerned about the amount of anxiety your tween or teen lives with? In a world that’s increasingly unpredictable with new COVID challenges, today’s kids are more anxious and uncertain than ever before. For middle and high school students who are alternative learners–those with ADHD, ASD and learning disabilities, managing anxiety in conjunction with executive functioning deficits can seem especially daunting and unmanageable.
Dr. Saline discusses the psychological and biological roots of general anxiety, explains the causes and consequences of social anxiety and offers parents practical strategies for helping their kids calm down and build resilience. You’ll walk away with effective tools to help your tween or teen worry less, realistically evaluate situations and feel more confident.
Date: September 29, 2021
Rescheduled Date: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET
Registration is REQUIRED: Register here!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Northampton Public Schools Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline on Zoom For Parents & Caregivers of NPS Elementary
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Northampton Public Schools Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline on Zoom
For Parents & Caregivers of NPS Elementary School Students
“Confident and Curious: How to help kids reduce worrying, navigate social challenges and develop the competence they need”
Are you concerned about the anxiety your child is experiencing? Living in a world that’s increasingly unpredictable with new COVID challenges affecting all aspects of daily living, today’s kids are more anxious than ever before. For children who are alternative learners–those with ADHD, ASD and learning disabilities, managing anxiety in conjunction with executive functioning deficits can seem especially daunting and unmanageable.
Dr. Saline discusses the psychological and biological roots of general anxiety in children, explains the causes and consequences of social anxiety and offers parents practical strategies for helping their kids calm down and build resilience. You’ll walk away with effective tools to help your child worry less, realistically evaluate situations and feel more confident.
Date: October 27, 2021
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET
*Registration is required! – Register here!
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
november 2021
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2021 Virtual International Conference on ADHD Hosted by
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2021 Virtual International Conference on ADHD
Hosted by CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), ACO (ADHD Coaches Organization) & ADDA (The Attention Deficit Disorder Association)
2 Presentations with Dr. Sharon Saline:
1. “Off You Go!”—Helping Distracted, Unmotivated Teens with ADHD Successfully Transition from High School to the Next Chapter
Date & time: FA04: Fri 11/5/21, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Many families struggle with the pressure and anxiety of figuring out how to launch teens with ADHD after high school. It’s hard to know when to support them and when to let go. How can you teach them the life skills they’ll need to thrive independently, while balancing autonomy and connection?
In this webinar, a veteran psychologist will help you navigate this tricky transition, offering a comprehensive, research-based framework for understanding emerging adulthood, including the risks for substance abuse. You will learn useful tools to improve self-reliance and strengthen coping strategies to manage the stress of “adulting” while working with the ADHD brain—not against it.
Dr. Sharon Saline will leave you with the practical tools to forge a successful partnership and build necessary structures around organization, focus, and time management.
2. When Nothing Seems to Work: How to Help Kids With ADHD Get Unstuck and Build Resilience
Date & time: FC03: Fri 11/5/21, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT
Do you live or work with tweens and teens with ADHD who seem to make things tougher than they need to be? The amalgamation of the traits of ADHD with the onset of puberty can create a volatile mix of seemingly impassable obstacles.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline, PsyD. and Coach Kate Barrett ACG, ACC will pull back the curtain and show you how to talk with kids about what’s really going on, reveal opportunities for collaborative solutions and reduce conflict at home and school. After reviewing the biology of ADHD and adolescent brain development, they will explain how to avoid blowouts, improve motivation, repair relationship ruptures and facilitate emotional regulation both at home and at school.
You’ll learn easy, practical tools for transforming stuckness and obstinacy into optimism and cooperation while nurturing resilience. This workshop is geared towards mental health clinicians, coaches, educators and parents.
Full Conference Dates: 11/4/21 – 11/6/21
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
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november 4 (Thursday) - 6 (Saturday)
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Intermediate Strategies for
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Intermediate Strategies for Building Better Brains: How Improving Executive Functioning Skills Fosters Social, Emotional and Academic Success in ALL Types of Learners
Virtual Training with Dr. Sharon Saline, hosted by The Bridge Training Institute
Would you like practical tools to help kids harness their natural potential, reduce stress and get things done with less arguing and more cooperation? Whether it’s academics, social challenges, mental health issues or technology, many children and teens struggle with feeling overwhelmed and can’t seem to keep up, especially those young people with ADHD, high-functioning ASD, twice exceptional profiles (2E) or learning disabilities. You’ll learn how to navigate their complex mix of biology, behavior and emotion, strengthen essential executive functioning skills to improve both home and school experiences and foster self-reliant, connected independence.
By focusing on a strength-based, positive psychology approach and including kids’ voices in problem-solving, participants will learn how to create effective interventions that go beyond medication and crisis management. You will have opportunities to discuss your clients and brainstorm new interventions for your work together. You will leave this workshop with tangible strategies for identifying and nurturing cognitive strengths in young people to help them overcome daily challenges and improve their home and school experiences.
Moving on from high school to the next chapter can be particularly challenging for these young people. It’s hard to know when to support them at home and at school, how to teach them tools for self-reliance and what type of support parents need to let them go. Dr. Saline will offer you a theoretical context for addressing emerging adulthood that begins in middle school while sharing useful tools to balance autonomy and connection and identify appropriate accommodations during this extended transition.
Following this training, participants will be able to:
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- Create effective strategies and collaborative programs for improving executive functioning skills that increase kids’ participation and promote lasting change.
- Recognize how co-existing disorders and learning disabilities affect and interact with ADHD and executive functioning skills.
- Learn practical treatment interventions for motivating kids with ADHD with less conflict and more cooperation at home and school.
- Identify warning signs of risky behaviors and gain potent tools for managing them.
- Investigate the relationship between ADHD and technology and formulate appropriate programs to help families struggling with screens.
Date: Friday, November 12, 2021, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Where: VIRTUAL TRAINING
For more information, please contact me at hello@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Friday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Organizer
The Bridge Training Institute
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Building Better Brains: Empowering your teen for success in school and life with less conflict and more cooperation Free Killingly High School Workshop with Dr.
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Building Better Brains: Empowering your teen for success in school and life with less conflict and more cooperation
Free Killingly High School Workshop with Dr. Sharon Saline
For Parents and Guardians of KHS Students
Are you tired of struggling with your teen over school, homework, or chores? In this dynamic and interactive presentation based on current research about the teen brain, neurodiversity and mood issues, Dr. Saline will show you how and why executive functioning skills are critical to adolescent development.
With this deeper understanding of executive functioning skills, you’ll be able to create more effective strategies to nurture cognitive strengths, improve social-emotional learning and overcome daily challenges. She will also address the ways that stress and anxiety affect students, their academic performance and peer relationships and how they contribute to lying and pushback behaviors. You will walk away with practical techniques for reducing conflict at home and improve cooperation and positive connections with your teen!
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Time: 6:00 –7:00 pm ET
Location: Killingly High School Auditorium
Learn more at www.killinglyschools.org.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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An Evening with
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An Evening with Sharon Saline, Psy.D.
Hosted by The Havertown Village Project
Please join us for this free interactive Zoom presentation to gain new strategies and coping mechanisms that will help you better support your children with ADHD, learning differences, and executive functioning challenges.
This presentation is open to the public–for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents who are diagnosed or exhibit symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, OCD, challenges with executive functioning and other related issues.
Sharon is an expert in helping children learn necessary skills to cope successfully with anxiety, ADHD, Executive Functioning issues, and learning differences. Her integrative approach helps kids to improve challenges related to attention, learning, and behavior.
The Havertown Village Project is a grass-roots, Pennsylvania nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. Their mission is to provide a comfortable, nurturing, confidential, nonjudgmental and supportive environment for parents or guardians whose children are experiencing mental health/related disorders, as well as to educate our community and provide resources regarding these illnesses.
Date: Wednesday, 11/17/2021
Time: 7:30pm – 8:45pm EDT
Location: Zoom
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Organizer
The Havertown Village Project
december 2021
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2021 ADHD Couples’ Palooza Free and Online! | Hosted by Linda Roggli Featuring a presentation
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2021 ADHD Couples’ Palooza
Free and Online! | Hosted by Linda Roggli
Featuring a presentation with Dr. Sharon Saline on 12/3.
Relationships can be tricky for anyone, but for ADHD couples, things are even more challenging! That’s why I am happy to announce the first ever ADHD Couples’ Palooza, hosted by my friend and colleague, Linda Roggli of ADDiva.net.
Join us for interviews with top ADHD experts (recordings are released each morning!). Registered participants can also join a LIVE panel of ADHD couples who will share their stories and insights, plus answer questions on Sunday, December 5 from 1:00–3:30pm ET.
You’ll have more than 30 hours of FREE access and the opportunity to own all of the sessions & transcripts if you prefer.
Here are just a few of the topics covered on this significant weekend for ADHD Couples:
- “I’m SO Angry” – for both the ADHD and non-ADHD partner
- Gaslighting and why ADHD partners are especially vulnerable
- Reacting vs Responding – the key to real communication
- Mindful Relationships
- Fun, sex and conversation: how they help ADHD relationships thrive
- Non-ADHD partners – what are THEY thinking?
- Divorce – yes, a sad truth for many ADHD couples
…and SO MUCH MORE!
Perfect for both ADHD and non-ADHD partners alike–even better when experienced together!
Dates:
Full event: Friday, 12/3 – Sunday, 12/5
Dr. Saline’s presentation: Released on Friday, 12/3
LIVE panel of ADHD couples: Sunday, 12/5, 1:00pm-3:30pm ET
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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3 (Friday) 12:00 am - 5 (Sunday) 11:59 pm
january 2022
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ADDA
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ADDA Webinar by Dr. Sharon Saline
Confident and Connected: How to overcome social anxiety and make rewarding relationships in 2022
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 at 7:30 pm ET | Online
As we embark on a new year, you may be concerned about restoring social connections or making new ones. You may be afraid of missing conversational cues, saying something embarrassing and/or being judged negatively. Your social anxiety and rejection sensitivity can kick in.
In this inaugural ADDA webinar for 2022, Dr. Sharon Saline, award-winning author, international speaker and consultant, will share tools to overcome anxiety, improve your conversational skills, initiate and maintain friendships and perhaps even enter the dating scene again. You’ll learn how to participate in social situations with more confidence and less self-criticism. By the end of this webinar, you’ll be ready to head out into the social world with more courage and authenticity. Join us!
Learning Objectives:
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- Understand how social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria work and learn tools for overcoming limiting beliefs and behaviors.
- Develop effective strategies for managing social situations and personal relationships with greater ease and confidence.
- Improve communication skills to engage in clear, appropriate and meaningful conversations.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Small Group Therapeutic Coaching | Winter 2022
For Parents of Tweens and Teens with ADHD Ages 12-16
“When Worrying Takes Over: Essential Tools for Parenting Anxious Tweens and Teens with ADHD and More”
- 6 weekly, 75-minute Zoom meetings
- Mondays, 7:15 – 8:30pm ET: Jan 10, 17, 24, 31 + Feb 7, 14
- Limited to 10 families
As we kick off 2022, would you like some practical strategies to help your tween or teen with ADHD manage their anxiety? Would you benefit from effective support from a professional and a community of peers sharing similar struggles?
In this unique 6 week therapeutic coaching group, Dr. Sharon Saline, clinical psychologist, author and consultant will give you useful tools for helping your kids reduce their anxiety and increase their confidence. With her unique Overcoming Anxiety Successfully in Stages (OASIS) family plan, you’ll strengthen your child’s ability for emotional regulation, self-evaluation, reality-testing and social engagement.
This is a special opportunity to have semi-private consultations with Dr. Sharon and learn from other parents, too. Every session will have a short teaching, followed by a group discussion and individual support. You will leave this course with a customized program for decreasing anxiety in your family and increasing connection and resilience!
You will gain:
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- Evidence-based answers to your pressing questions and concerns
- Knowledge and understanding about ADHD, anxiety and motivation
- Effective strategies for decreasing stress and increasing calm
- A customized plan for reducing worry and building resilience
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(Monday) 7:15 pm
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School Parent Education Cafe An Intrepid ED News monthly forum, featuring Dr. Sharon Saline Free & Online “At
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School Parent Education Cafe
An Intrepid ED News monthly forum, featuring Dr. Sharon Saline
Free & Online
“At these monthly forums, our School Parent Education Columnists collaborate with Heads of Schools, Communications Directors and other administrators on articles for Intrepid Ed News.”
Dates:
Tues. Jan. 11, 2022 / 1:00 – 1:30pm ET
Tues. Feb. 8, 2022 / 1:00 – 1:30pm ET
Learn more about Intrepid ED News at IntrepidEdNews.com.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Perfectionism and ADHD: Making ‘Good Enough’ Work for
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Perfectionism and ADHD: Making ‘Good Enough’ Work for You
ADDitude Live Webinar with ADHD Expert Dr. Sharon Saline
Register for this FREE expert webinar to learn about how perfectionism takes root in the ADHD brain.
Do you set unrealistic goals and worry about disappointing others? Are your personal expectations based on “shoulds” instead of your known strengths and interests? Does this result in shame and low self-esteem?
These behaviors point to a cycle of perfectionism, an unhealthy insistence on personal flawlessness that increases anxiety and holds you back from the natural process of learning that’s part of daily living. Perfectionism is common among teens and adults with ADHD who struggle with wanting something to be right so much that it becomes difficult to start (and complete) tasks, assignments, and projects. Though perfectionism can be motivating, it can also keep you overfocused on the end result and not the process of getting there.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will explain how to stop setting unreasonable standards, engaging in negative comparisons to others, and criticizing yourself for living with ADHD. You will learn how to understand and manage the root causes of perfectionism, examine the role of imposter syndrome, decrease negative self-talk, and increase your capacity for personal compassion. You will understand how to improve executive functioning skills related to procrastination and productivity, stop reflexive shame, and create techniques for managing stress. With these resources, you’ll begin to nurture the essential resilience of a growth mindset and accept yourself as you truly are — perfectly imperfect.
In this free, hour-long webinar, you will learn to:
- Understand the relationship between anxiety, perfectionism, and ADHD
- Improve executive functioning skills related to procrastination and productivity
- Set realistic expectations based on previous successful experiences
- Develop techniques for addressing imposter syndrome, fear of failure, and shame
- Increase the capacity for mindful self-compassion and self-acceptance
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 1-2pm ET.
Sign up and you will receive the free webinar replay link after 1/19 as well!
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Wednesday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Organizer
ADDitude
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CHADD of Prince George’s County – Parent Support Group, Ft. Dr. Saline “Motivating Kids with ADHD to do
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CHADD of Prince George’s County – Parent Support Group, Ft. Dr. Saline
“Motivating Kids with ADHD to do No-Fun, Boring and Tough Stuff: From homework to household chores, helping children and teens get started, persist and finish tasks”
Rescheduled Date: Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 / 6:30pm – 8:00pm ET.
JOIN US! >> Please contact prince_georges@chadd.org for a link.
Presentation Description:
Does your child or teen have a tough time starting and completing things they have to do? Many educators and parents feel frustrated and thwarted in their efforts to teach responsibility, motivation and persistence to kids with ADHD and learning differences. You want to make sure that they have the executive functioning skills to succeed in life but you can’t seem to work together towards your goals.
About the Parent Support Group:
“The PGC (Prince George’s County) PSG meets monthly to provide parents with resources, information, coping strategies and a safe place to connect with other parents. Nested within our Howard University roots and CHADD family, we’re encouraging other agencies and organizations within the National Capitol Region to come alongside with us in serving our community. Given the diverse challenges families endure with ADHD, we want to ensure your voices are heard and your needs are met.”
Please contact prince_georges@chadd.org for a link.
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(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
february 2022
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The ADHD Toolbox LIVE Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline
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The ADHD Toolbox LIVE
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline
I wanted to be the first to let you know that a very powerful and valuable FREE resource will be available to you starting on February 1, 2022.It’s called The ADHD Toolbox LIVE: Experts reveal keys to improving child behavior so they can be calm, focused and ready to learn. This free event is a video series that’s packed with tools, strategies, and free gifts from top experts in the field of ADHD, including myself.
This resource is a must-have for any parent searching for solutions for their child’s ADHD challenges.
There are 12 experts featured in The ADHD Toolbox LIVE, and availability is limited so make sure you register now before this event is full!
The event will go live on February 1st at 9am Pacific Time and run till 3pm. We will be recording the event, so even if you can’t make it you’ll still want to register. The event will be replayed on February 2nd and 3rd for those who cannot attend.
The experts featured in The ADHD Toolbox LIVE include Dr. Edward Hallowell, Dr. Sharon Saline, Alma Galvan, Elaine Taylor-Klaus, Patricia Lemer, Leslie Josel, Helen Irlen and more.
Some of the topics these experts will be covering in the video interviews include:
– 3 Tools For Reducing Social Anxiety
– How To Get Your ADHD Child To Do What You Want
– Access The ADHD Superpower
– Motivating Your Child and Overcoming Procrastination
– How Minecraft Can Actually Help ADHD
– The 3 Secrets To Improving Behavior
– ADHD Alternative Diagnosis You Need To Hear
– 5 Reasons Why Speech is Vital to Development
– Why Vision Is Linked With ADHD
– and more…
Get the information you need about ADHD in short 30-minute videos! Real conversations with real experts!!
Imagine being able to sit in the front row and listen to the top experts in the field of ADHD giving you advice about how to help your child. Wouldn’t that be empowering and invaluable? So Register Now and don’t miss out!
The ADHD Toolbox. Real conversations from real experts!
Dates: February 1, 2022 at 9am Pacific Time
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Tuesday) 9:00 am - 11:59 pm
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Gift-a-Palooza 2022: Gifted/2e Over a Lifetime
Featuring a Presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Beyond Just Do It: Tools for Improving Motivation in 2E Kids and Teens”
Event Description:
The Gift-a-Palooza conference is a LIVE 3-day online celebration of being a neurdivergent individual over a lifetime. It is dedicated to bringing a deeper look at the issues, challenges and joys of the gifted and multi-exceptional individual over their life span.
Gifted and Thriving are thrilled to join you in this 3 day journey of learning, where we have brought together over 30 TOP experts in this field to share their knowledge with YOU and our communities.
Presentation Description:
Does your 2E child or teen have a tough time starting and completing things they have to do? Many professionals and educators who work with these kids and parents who live with them feel frustrated and thwarted in their efforts to teach responsibility, motivation and follow through. You want to make sure that your child has the executive functioning skills they need to succeed in life but you can’t seem to work together towards your goals.
Dr. Sharon Saline believes that successfully motivating kids who are out-of-the-box thinkers relies on using a strength-based, collaborative approach. When you include them in creating solutions to daily challenges, you increase their buy-in and their motivation. Participants will learn how to create and use strategies to teach all-important executive functioning skills that increase personal accountability and foster independence.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the executive functioning skills that affect motivation.
- Describe how to teach goal-directed persistence, time management, and organizational skills that stick.
- Understand how to create meaningful, collaborative incentives.
- Create effective routines and help kids make positive long and short-term choices.
Dates:
Full Event: February 3-5, 2022
Dr. Saline’s Live Presentation: Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, 1:00-2:15 pm EST
Recordings are also available and for yours to keep!
Learn more and register today!
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
3 (Thursday) 10:00 am - 5 (Saturday) 5:45 pm
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LIVE Webinar with Dr. Sharon Saline “Defeating the Worry Monster: Tips and tools for helping elementary school children with ADHD and anxiety” DATE:
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LIVE Webinar with Dr. Sharon Saline
“Defeating the Worry Monster: Tips and tools for helping elementary school children with ADHD and anxiety”
DATE: Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 7:15 – 8:45 pm ET
*Recordings are available to those who register!
This is the inaugural webinar of Dr. Saline’s NEW Building Better Brains Webinar Series!
Dr. Saline will show you how to improve your child’s ability for self-regulation, reality-testing and social interactions in the face of persistent worries.
Would you like some practical strategies to help your child with ADHD manage their anxiety and reduce some of your own? In this parenting webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline, clinical psychologist, author and consultant, will give you useful tools for helping your kids reduce their anxiety and increase their confidence. She will show you how to improve your child’s ability for self-regulation, reality-testing and social interactions in the face of persistent worries.
You’ll also gain techniques for your own reactions in the face of your child’s irrational concerns and disruptive behaviors. Walk away with a Family Anxiety Management Plan, unique to your situation!
In this parenting webinar, you will gain:
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- Knowledge and understanding about children living with ADHD and anxiety
- Interventions to reduce worrying, social anxiety and reactivity
- Effective strategies to decrease stress and increase calm
- A customized plan for building resilience based on validation instead of reassurance
Time
(Wednesday) 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
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Decoding Behavior Summit (Online)
Hosted by Penny Williams & Sarah Wayland, PhD
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Why Your Kids Say No & How to Communicate Better”
Dates: February 11-13, 2022
Summit Description:
Ready to tame challenging behavior and help your neurodivergent child thrive?
This parenting summit is all about providing hope for your child’s future and helping you to help your child — and your family — feel better to do better. Twenty-seven of the world’s behavior, ADHD, autism, anxiety, and parenting experts have come together to share the most effective, scientifically-supported approaches to challenging behavior.
You’ll learn:
- what triggers behavior
- what your child’s behavior is actually telling you
- how behavior is often an involuntary, biological response
- how to build a great relationship with your child
- regulation strategies and how to offer co-regulation
- and so much more…
Join thousands of parents improving life for their neurodiverse children — as well as for themselves and their families.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
11 (Friday) 12:00 am - 13 (Sunday) 11:59 pm
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NEARI School Presentation By Dr. Sharon Saline “Building Better Brains: How improving executive functioning skills fosters academic and social success” In this dynamic and interactive
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NEARI School Presentation
By Dr. Sharon Saline
“Building Better Brains: How improving executive functioning skills fosters academic and social success”
In this dynamic and interactive workshop designed for teachers, administrators and school counselors of students, participants will learn concrete strategies to meet learners where they are and help them strengthen essential executive functioning skills.
With current research on the developing brain and real-life case examples, Dr. Saline shows you how and why executive functioning skills are critical to cognition, social-emotional learning and the management of anxiety and depression. Innovative tools to improve focus, organization, planning and motivation will also be covered.
Dr. Saline will address the ways that stress and anxiety affect students, their executive functioning skills and, subsequently, their academic performance and social relationships. You will leave this workshop with practical, tangible strategies helping your students cope effectively with daily challenges.
Date: Friday, February 11, 2022 / 12:30pm to 2:00pm ET
This is an in-person event for the NEARI School.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Friday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
NEARI School
201 East St.
Organizer
NEARI SchoolWe help each student find the best ways to learn, relate, communicate effectively, and make a difference in the world.
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ADHD – What Now? 2022 Summit Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline: “Help! I’m
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ADHD – What Now? 2022 Summit
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Help! I’m At the end of my rope: Tools for managing defiance, negativity, and reactivity in kids with ADHD”
Summit description:
ADHD – What Now? 2022 Summit: Comprehensive keys to help your child succeed at school, home, and friendships
When you raise a child with ADHD, you want them to succeed in life as an adult. And you’d probably like to enjoy the journey too. If your search for practical advice, resources, and tools has resulted in frustration, then ADHD – What Now? is the answer you’ve been looking for.
This FREE virtual event has been designed to provide comprehensive keys to help your child with ADHD succeed at school, home, and friendships. Airing online from February 15 – 25, 2022, ADHD – What Now? features an all-star lineup of ADHD experts.
I will be joining 20+ other professionals to share specific and proven resources and tools so that you can get started fast. Here are just some of the questions we’ll answer:
- Thriving with ADHD:
- What is effective ADHD treatment?
- How will they learn to manage so they can be a successful adult?
- What is ADHD and what is ‘normal’ kid stuff?
- Is it really ADHD? Is there something else going on too?
- Support Options
- How to help with self-regulation.
- Tools to support common co-existing conditions in sensory-motor, language, and visual development.
- Parenting
- How and when to discipline.
- Dealing with emotional roller-coasters.
- Tools for managing defiance, negativity, and reactivity in kids with ADHD.
- School Success
- How to help your bright child thrive, even with ADHD.
- What are school accommodations for ADHD?
- Kids can become self-advocates; here’s how…
Reserve your seat to get FREE access to resources and strategies that are working right now for families like yours.
Dates: February 15 – 25, 2022
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
12 (Saturday) 12:00 am - 15 (Tuesday) 11:59 pm
Organizer
march 2022
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45th Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon
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45th Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Loosening Anxiety’s Grip: Helping neurodiverse tweens and teens build resilience”
Dates: March 10-13, 2022
*Use code SYM50 to save an extra $50 on registration to attend in-person or online!
Event Description:
The Symposium is a special place where you not only learn with many of the best in the world and dive into what’s new in the field, but you can join a warm community of like-minded professionals to truly rest, rejuvenate and be inspired for the year to come.
This year’s keynote presenters include:
- Esther Perel, renowned couples therapist and author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs
- Steven Hayes, developer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
- Resmaa Menakem, author of NYT Bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands
- Emily Nagoski, NYT Bestselling author of Come as You Are and Burnout
- Ramani Durvasula, author of Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist.
- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, critically acclaimed author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace hailed as “a classic” by Buddhist pioneer and psychologist Jack Kornfield.
PLUS a special evening appearance from comedian Gary Gulman, host of the acclaimed HBO comedy special and documentary, The Great Depresh. And so many more!
Symposium is truly a transformative clinical conference focused not just on learning, but also on taking care of the caretakers – I know you’ll walk away not only with notebooks full of clinical insights, but feeling cared for, connected, and with a renewed passion for what we do.
Check out the entire lineup and register for the in-person or online experience today!
Learn more & register here!
*Use code SYM50 to save an extra $50 on registration to attend in-person or online!
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
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10 (Thursday) 12:00 am - 13 (Sunday) 11:59 pm
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The ADHD Women’s
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The ADHD Women’s Palooza 2022
Hosted by Linda Roggli, featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Perfection: The Bane of Productivity”
Dates:
Full Event: March 14-19, 2022
Dr. Saline’s Presentation: March 15, 2022
Presentation Description:
Do you ever feel like perfectionism holds you back in life and limits your personal, school or professional satisfaction and success? Many women with ADHD struggle with wanting something to be right so much that it becomes difficult to start tasks, assignments and projects, and complete them. Sometimes perfectionism can be motivating but it can keep you over-focused on and dissatisfied with the end result. Either way, shame, imposter syndrome and self-criticism wear you down, increasing your anxiety and lowering your self-esteem.
Dr. Sharon Saline will provide you with effective tools to understand the root causes of perfectionism, stop setting unreasonable standards for yourself and decrease negative comparisons to others. You will walk away with practical tools to nurture the essential resilience of a growth mindset and mindfully accept yourself as you truly are–perfectly imperfect.
Event Description:
The 7th annual ADHD Women’s Palooza starts Monday, March 14th with ALL NEW TOPICS, 26 TOP drawer experts, and information you can use TODAY to support your ADHD (or that of your family, clients, patients or friends). And, it’s absolutely free!
Hosted by my colleague Linda Roggli of the ADDiva Network, the ADHD Women’s Palooza is a week of 26 video interviews about perfectionism, time blindness, planning, mind-mapping, decision-making, menopause, legal issues, minority and LGBTQ ADHD, inattention, relationship boundaries and dozens of other topics that top the ADHD list.
You’ll hear from ADHD experts you know including:
- Dr. Ned Hallowell
- Sari Solden
- Terry Matlen
- Dr. Mary Solanto
- Dr. Ari Tuckman
- Melissa Orlov
- Alan P. Brown
- Dr. Stephanie Sarkis
- Dr. Stephen Hinshaw
And SO many more (check the website for more details)
All the video sessions are recorded so you can watch any time (we try to keep things ADHD-friendly!). By the way, registration is FREE!
There are a lot of online conferences these days. This one is truly worth your time (and, um, attention).
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
14 (Monday) 12:00 am - 19 (Saturday) 11:59 pm
Event Details
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Mindfulness Para Vivir Mejor Con TDAH
Mindful approaches to living better with ADHD for parents, children and teens
An Actualizados workshop by Dr. Sharon Saline
Would you like to help children, teens and young adults with ADHD live with better self-management, social skills and personal insight? In this workshop, Dr. Sharon Saline will show you how mindful self-compassion improves metacognition, emotional regulation, impulse control, and other executive functioning skills that frequently challenge people with ADHD.
After reviewing recent research on ADHD, executive functioning skills and co-occurring conditions, Dr. Saline will show you how to reduce stress, anxiety and shame in your clients through mindful self-awareness. Mindfulness builds cognitive skills over time that support people in being more focused, making thoughtful choices, starting and maintaining routines and treating others better.
When children and teens and young adults learn and practice these techniques, they engage in less negative self-talk and possess more confidence to apply themselves more successfully in school or work, at home and with peers. This workshop will be both didactic and experiential in nature. You will leave with practical, innovative tools to assist your clients in living with more calm, contentment and satisfying connections.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the biological, behavioral and emotional factors related to ADHD and executive functioning skills based on recent research.
- Discuss how co-existing disorders including anxiety, depression and trauma affect neurodivergent children and teens.
- Define the primary tenets of mindfulness and how its practice affects cognition, emotion and specific executive functioning skills related to living with ADHD.
- Understand how to use mindfulness in sessions with children, teens, young adults and families to reduce stress, shame and negativity and increase confidence and connection.
- Manage your own reactivity and frustration with mindful self-compassion.
Date: March 19, 2022
Time: 10am – 1pm ART (UTC-3) // 9am – 12pm ET
This workshop will be accessible to English & Spanish speakers.
To Register:
Visit Actualizados.com (in Spanish) OR email cursos@actualizados.com.ar.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
april 2022
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Bright & Quirky Child Summit 2022
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline on April 6th:
“Overcoming Post-Pandemic Anxiety & Social Anxiety”
Dates: April 4 – 8, 2022
Summit Description:
When is the last time you thought about your child’s best case scenario?
When it comes to bright kids with learning, social, emotional or behavioral challenges, it’s natural to think about their worst case scenario. It’s no wonder we think about the negative — our medical model focuses solely on kids’ deficits and we’re living in the midst of a global mental health crisis.
But in interviewing hundreds of experts, we’ve learned there are very important ingredients missing from that equation: Bright and quirky kids who turn into successful adults have… 1. At least one caring, understanding adult in their corner. 2. The adults in their life blow on the embers of their strengths and interests, and 3. Their parents learn how to create a safe haven for them.
According to our research, your roadmap is simple: The more you put into learning about how best to support your bright and quirky child, the more they will thrive. Now is your time. Seize the day by joining us for the 5th annual Bright & Quirky Child Summit!
You will learn in this summit what’s possible for bright and quirky kids:
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- How to use mindfulness to manage anxiety, stress and worry
- How to solve challenging behaviors and demand avoidance
- What to say to empower self-driven motivation
- How to defuse anger, aggression and shutdown
- How to find the best-fit learning environment
- How to instill self-advocacy to help kids get their unique needs met
- How to stack habits to build essential life skills
- How to harness the power of your child’s unique mind for a future of thriving
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
4 (Monday) 12:00 am - 8 (Friday) 11:59 pm
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Start with ‘Hello’: How to Reduce Social Anxiety and Foster Connections ADDitude Live Webinar
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Start with ‘Hello’: How to Reduce Social Anxiety and Foster Connections
ADDitude Live Webinar with ADHD Expert Dr. Sharon Saline
Register for this FREE expert webinar to to learn about how to counteract social anxiety in adults with ADHD, on Wednesday, April 6, at 1 pm ET.
Sign up and you will receive the free webinar replay link after 4/6 as well!
Webinar Description:
Do you hesitate to reach out to old friends — uncertain whether they’re eager to hear from you? Do you seldom make new friends — apprehensive about risking rejection or just too exhausted to invest time and energy in social endeavors? Is speaking in public so uncomfortable that you avoid ordering take-out at your favorite cafe?
Many adults with ADHD struggle with fears of embarrassment, rejection, or criticism and hold back from participating in the relationships they truly desire. Still others are worried about missing conversational cues, and then being mocked or excluded. During these past two years of pandemic isolation and restrictions, social anxiety and rejection sensitivity have increased across the board. In other words, you may feel alone, but many others are sharing this experience.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline — award-winning author, international speaker, and consultant — will help you learn to participate in social situations with more confidence and less self-criticism. She will explain how social anxiety works and offer tools for reducing your discomfort while improving your communication skills. You will learn how to initiate and maintain friendships, manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria, and improve your ability to connect with partners, peers, children, and even love interests. By developing resilience and shifting your mindset, you’ll be prepared to head out into the world with courage, authenticity, and concrete techniques.
In this free, hour-long webinar you will do the following:
- Understand how social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria impact adults and older teens with ADHD
- Learn to overcome limiting beliefs and behaviors with practical tools based on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness
- Develop effective strategies for managing social situations and personal relationships with ease and confidence
- Improve communication skills to engage in clear, appropriate, and meaningful conversations
- Explore tools for improving resilience and maintaining a growth mindset.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Wednesday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Organizer
ADDitude
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School Parent Education Cafe
An Intrepid ED News monthly forum, featuring Dr. Sharon Saline
Free & Online
“At these monthly forums, our School Parent Education Columnists collaborate with Heads of Schools, Communications Directors and other administrators on articles for Intrepid Ed News.”
Dates:
Tues. April 12, 2022 / 1:00 – 1:30pm ET
Learn more about Intrepid ED News at IntrepidEdNews.com.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Event Details
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Extended Adolescence – When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood
A PESI Live Webinar
By Sharon Saline, Psy.D. & Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., PA
- Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
- Time: 8:00am – 4:00pm EDT (7:00am – 3:00pm CDT)
- Cost: $219.99
*Also available as a digital seminar or DVD.
Event Description:
The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.
Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later…resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.
Join award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.
You will learn strategies to:
- Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
- Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
- Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
- Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
- Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
- Promote “connected independence” in young adults
This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Wednesday) 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Organizer
may 2022
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2022 Health and Wellness Conference Hosted
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2022 Health and Wellness Conference
Hosted by AISNE, featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Scattered Kids: Motivating Students who are Outside-the-Box Thinkers for Success in School and Life”
- Date: May 5, 2022
- Time: 8am – 4:30pm ET
- Dr. Saline’s Presentation Time: 10:30am – 11:45am ET
- Location:
Four Points by Sheraton, Norwood
1125 Boston-Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA 02062
Presentation Description:
Do you know children and teens with ADHD, ASD or learning disabilities who have a tough time starting and completing things they have to do? Many of these neurodivergent students struggle not only with procrastination but also with perfectionism and low self-esteem. Successfully motivating and supporting these kids relies on a strength-based, collaborative approach that synthesizes cognitive behavioral interventions with mindful awareness.
In this workshop, Dr. Sharon Saline, award-winning author, international speaker and consultant, explores the challenges of teaching scattered students and offers effective strategies for how educators can better support them academically and personally. Participants will learn essential tools for improving executive functioning skills specifically related to motivation, strategies for reducing procrastination, and techniques for building self-confidence. With this support, outside-the-box thinkers develop better accountability and increased levels of independence.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the executive functioning skills that affect motivation.
- Describe how to teach goal-directed persistence, time management, and organizational skills that stick.
- Understand and reduce perfectionism in neurodivergent learners.
- Teach prioritization and create effective routines with meaningful, collaborative incentives.
- Determine appropriate levels of parent participation in kids’ academic and personal lives.
Event Description:
Rediscover the joy of teaching and being in community with your peers at our first in-person Health and Wellness conference in nearly three years. Our program will focus on moving forward with purpose, confidence, and clarity. Join us for a day of learning, connection, reflection, and rejuvenation! The theme is From Grieving to Thriving: Making Space to Heal and Find Joy.
You will find workshops to help you reinvigorate your love of education, help students cope with the anxiety of the past two years, center on mindfulness for yourself and students, and support other neurodivergent students in your classroom. The conference will conclude with a rejuvenating session of self-care experiences, including massages, yoga, and meditation.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Thursday) 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location
Four Points by Sheraton, Norwood
1125 Boston-Providence Turnpike
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LIVE Webinar with Dr. Sharon Saline
“Beyond High School Graduation: How to help neurodivergent teens prepare for their next chapter”
DATE: Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 7:15 – 8:45 pm ET
*Recordings are available to those who register!
This is the second webinar of Dr. Saline’s Building Better Brains Webinar Series!
Target Audience: Parents of neurodivergent high schoolers (and their kids!), as well as educators and mental health professionals.
Webinar Description:
Are you and your teen struggling with the pressure and anxiety that comes with preparing for life after high school? It can be hard to know how and when to support neurodivergent teens and when to let go. You wonder if they’ve grasped the life skills that they’ve been taught and if they’ll be able to find the support that they need so they can thrive.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline, PsyD – clinical psychologist, author and consultant – will help parents and their teens navigate this tricky transition. She will share useful tools to help balance your teen’s autonomy and connection while fostering coping strategies to manage the stress of young adulthood. She will also help parents learn how to cope with their concerns and uncertainty, and how they can best offer support to their growing teen. The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A, where parents (and teens) can ask questions about their most pressing concerns.
After attending this webinar, you will be able to better help your teen forge a successful post-high school path with less conflict and more confidence.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the developmental milestones in transitioning to adulthood
- Apply the 5C’s of ADHD in parenting older teens and young adults
- Build tools and practices for managing your anxiety and concerns
- Identify strategies for fostering your teen’s confidence and resilience
- Improve family communication and strengthen relationships
Time
(Wednesday) 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Event Details
Guided Support Group for Adults with ADHD & Anxiety “Confident and Calmer:
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Guided Support Group for Adults with ADHD & Anxiety
“Confident and Calmer: Tools for reducing anxiety and living with more resilience”
Led by Dr. Sharon Saline, Psy.D.
- 6 Weekly Sessions on Zoom
- When: Thursdays, 12:00 – 1:15pm EDT
- Dates: May 12 – June 16, 2022 | 5/12, 5/19, 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, 6/16
- Group Size: 15 people (max)
Webinar Description:
Are you tired of living with persistent anxiety that is complicating your ability to work, manage family responsibilities or engage in fulfilling relationships?
In this guided support group, Dr. Sharon Saline will help you reduce patterns of worry and improve key executive functions related to emotional regulation, productivity and self-esteem. Each session will have a short teaching, followed by a discussion of how a challenge manifests in your life and how to cope with it.
This is a special opportunity to have semi-private consultations with Dr. Sharon and learn from other adults with ADHD, too. There will be optional homework, recommended readings and access to a private, ongoing discussion group as well. You will learn practical and mindful strategies for feeling calmer and more confident!
Group Format:
After an initial short check-in and moment of mindfulness, there will be a brief 10 min teaching on the topic, followed by a discussion that includes individual consultations. There will be optional homework and recommended readings as well.
Learning Objectives:
- How anxiety works in the brain and body and why you become activated
- Identifying and shifting patterns of negative thinking
- Understanding the relationship between anxiety, perfectionism and procrastination
- Shifting limiting beliefs at the core of social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria
- Transforming worry into curiosity with mindfulness and growth mindsets
- Nurturing resilience and decreasing shame
Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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The Art of Adulting Live Q&A
Hosted by Lynn C. Davison, featuring Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Getting Stuff Done: How to Improve Executive Functioning Skills Through Collaboration and Harnessing Grit”
Date: Friday, May 13, 2022 at 12pm EDT
Location: Live on The Art of Adulting on Facebook
Register here!
Time
(Friday) 12:00 am
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Strengthen Growing
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Strengthen Growing Brains: Improve Executive Functioning Skills and Foster Academic and Social Success
Hosted by MA Partnerships for Youth, featuring a presentation by Dr. Sharon Saline:
“Strengthen Growing Brains: Improve Executive Functioning Skills and Foster Academic and Social Success”
Date: May 18, 2022 / 10:00am – 12:00pm ET
*Note: Registration will close one business day before the event.
Event Description:
In this dynamic and interactive workshop designed for teachers, administrators and school counselors of students, participants will learn concrete strategies to meet learners where they are and help them strengthen essential executive functioning skills. With current research on the developing brain and real-life case examples, Dr. Sharon Saline shows you how and why executive functioning skills are critical to the learning process for all students, especially for kids with learning disabilities, ADHD, 2E and level one autism.
Innovative tools to improve focus, organization, planning and motivation will also be covered. Exercises designed to improve participants’ understanding of living with learning differences, teaching students with these challenges and brainstorming about specific classroom challenges are threaded throughout the workshop. Dr. Saline will address the ways that stress and anxiety affect students, their executive functioning skills and, subsequently, their academic performance and social relationships. You will leave this workshop with practical, tangible strategies for identifying and nurturing cognitive and emotional strengths in your students and helping them overcome daily challenges.
MA Partnerships for Youth Webinar Details:
Registration is required for the webinar, whether viewed “live” or recorded. Registration will close one business day before the event. Following the webinar, MPY will email registered participants a link to view the recorded webinar. The link to each recorded webinar will be active for 72 hours. Professional Development Points (PDPs) are offered for most MPY professional development webinars and are issued for a minimum of 10 hours. Learn more here.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Extended Adolescence – When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood
A PESI live webinar with Sharon Saline, Psy.D. and Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., PA
- Date: Friday, May 20, 2022
- Time: 8:00am – 4:00pm EDT (7:00am – 3:00pm CDT)
- Cost: $219.99
*Also available as a digital seminar or DVD.
Event Description:
The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.
Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later…resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.
Join award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.
You will learn strategies to:
- Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
- Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
- Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
- Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
- Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
- Promote “connected independence” in young adults
This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Friday) 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Organizer
june 2022
Event Details
Solutions for Social Anxiety in Children and Teens with ADHD A CHADD ‘Ask the Expert’ Webinar by Dr. Sharon Saline: *THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED.
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Solutions for Social Anxiety in Children and Teens with ADHD
A CHADD ‘Ask the Expert’ Webinar by Dr. Sharon Saline:
*THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. NEW DATE: TBD.
This webinar will be recorded, and a link will be emailed to those who register 24 hours after the event.
*Registration link coming soon!
Webinar Description:
Does your child or teen struggle with making and keeping friends, speaking in front of others, or joining group activities? It’s common for children and teens with ADHD to receive significant negative feedback from others about being different. Concerned about rejection, embarrassment, and exclusion, they often feel misunderstood and lonely. As a parent, it’s tough to watch them struggle. You may feel uncertain about how to intervene, powerless to help them, and frustrated when they refuse your help.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will talk about how you can help your child learn how to participate more fully in social situations with greater confidence and less self-criticism. After explaining how social anxiety works, she will offer practical tools for teaching kids how to engage more effectively with peers and adults at school, at home, and in life. You will leave this webinar with useful strategies to improve your child’s conversational skills, ability to initiate and foster friendships, and increase their self-esteem.
Learning objectives:
1. Understand how social anxiety works and why it is a common issue for kids with ADHD.
2. Develop effective tools for helping kids build conversational skills, develop friendships, and speak in public.
3. Create strategies for reducing social anxiety and rejection sensitivity and increasing your child’s participation in social situations.
4. Improve kids’ self-confidence and courage in peer relationships.
*Registration link coming soon!
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Mental Health Out Loud
Webinar by Dr. Sharon Saline | Hosted by ADDitude
“Youth Traumas and Anxieties Today”
When: Friday, June 10th at 4:00 pm EDT
Register here!
Event Description:
In December 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an unprecedented public advisory regarding the youth mental health crisis in America, which took root before COVID but has grown alarmingly more severe in the last two years. Roughly 1 in 5 children ages 3 to 17 in the U.S. has a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. And 1 in 3 high school students reports persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness. The COVID pandemic has disrupted the lives of all children, but its adverse effects are particularly severe for children and teens with disabilities, for racial and ethnic minorities, for LGBTQ+ youth, and for other young people in vulnerable populations.
Add to all of this yet another horrific school shooting — this time the murder of 19 students and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24 — and many parents are justifiably worried.
- How do we talk with our neurodivergent kids without increasing their anxiety?
- How can I make them feel safe without lying to them?
- Is my child’s level of worry normal?What if my teen is just apparently numb, avoiding any discussion of hard topics?
- How can we keep our kids safe, above all else?
This conversation with Sharon Saline, Psy.D., will touch on all these important and immediate mental health concerns. Dr. Saline will talk with us about “small t” traumas from repeated exposure to stresses; the dissociation and numbness that often accompanies these traumas and compassion fatigue; and ways to move forward in the wake of a tragedy or family stress. She will also answer questions from the ADDitude audience — including questions submitted prior to and during the live event.
Register today!
For more information, please contact me at info@drsharonsaline.com.
Time
(Friday) 4:00 pm
Organizer
ADDitude
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LIVE Webinar with Dr. Sharon Saline
“Navigating College with ADHD: Setting yourself up for success”
DATE: Monday, June 20, 2022, 7:30 – 9:00pm EDT
*Recordings are available to those who register!
This is the third webinar of Dr. Saline’s Building Better Brains Webinar Series!
Target Audience: Future + Current College Students with ADHD
Webinar Description:
Are you a current or future college student who isn’t sure how to make a strong transition to higher education? In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will help you figure out how to get what you need to set yourself up for success at college. She’ll show you how to discuss accommodations with professors, use the resources of the student services office and overcome anxiety about these conversations. You’ll leave with practical tools to manage your time, stay organized and keep motivated academically, personally and socially.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe appropriate accommodations for college students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
- Learn how to advocate for yourself with professors and learning support staff.
- Develop strategies for time management, organization and motivation.
- Manage anxiety and shame about executive functioning challenges related to ADHD.
Time
(Monday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
