Events
Upcoming Events Featuring Dr. Sharon Saline
may
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2022 Health and Wellness Conference Hosted
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“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
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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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“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
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Solutions for Social Anxiety in Children and Teens with ADHD
A CHADD ‘Ask the Expert’ Webinar by Dr. Sharon Saline:
Rescheduled Date: June 1, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
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
Join Dr. Saline on Fridays for Live Q&A!
Every other Friday at 4pm ET on Facebook Live
Each week is a different topic! We welcome questions from parents & caregivers of kids with ADHD, adults with ADHD, educators, mental health professionals & more. Join us!
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