Workshops, Seminars, and Keynote Addresses

Conference Keynote Addresses
Early Education Seminars
Organizational and Corporate Seminars

Dr. Scott is available for keynote addresses and to conduct professional development workshops for organizations and businesses. Participants are introduced to tools that help them become more effective adults, improving their capacity to do whatever they do in life. The sessions listed below provide examples of topics Dr. Scott has addressed for other audiences. She can also tailor a session to your specific interests and needs. Contact her for more information.

Conference Keynote Addresses

7 Childhood TreasuresTM to Enrich Your Life Now
If, like most people, your life isn’t working quite as you would like, if you are unsatisfied with relationships at home or at work, you may be missing one of the 7 Childhood Treasures ^TM. Your childhood may not have given you the support to build sufficient capacities for Trust, Independence, Faith, Negotiation, Vision, Compromise and Acceptance. But it’s never too late…you can build them now.

Opening to What Children Need
Stories of real children in real life settings weave humor and tenderness into practical advice on how to give children more freedom and still protect and accountably educate them.

“Our Worst Days with Children are Still Better Than….”
The relief of laughing at ourselves lets early education professionals shake off the everyday annoyances and stresses of their intense work and be reminded of its rewards.

Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, a Dollar
A sobering look at the issues of compensation and financing in early education. This session leaves early education professionals motivated and equipped to make positive changes to advance the field and better serve children and families.

Dealing to an Inside Strength
Interactive and powerful in its impact, this session invites participants to make a paradigm shift. Scenarios show professionals their orientation toward the needs and deficits of those they serve or work with and offer a new orientation based on recognition of others’ strengths.

Early Education Seminars

Administrative

• Winning Personnel: Blue Ribbon Staff Assessment and Development
• Orientation Oreos: Sandwiching New Staff into Your Essential Boundaries
• The “Little Talks” You Want to Avoid: Communicating with Parents about Sensitive Issues

Classroom Management

• Creating a Caring Community of Learners
• Dream Spaces for Children: Designing Environments to Prevent Problems and Maximize Fun

Learning

• “The Answer to How is Yes:” Positive Guidance and Discipline That Works
• Talking to Kids Who Don’t Talk: Facilitating Child Language in Any Setting

Leadership and Professional Development

• Listen to, Play with, and Express the Child Within: Stress Reduction for Early Education Professionals
• Start with “Waterloo”: Getting a Grip on Normal, Healthy Sexuality in Young Children (a.k.a. What Does NOT Indicate Sexual Abuse)
• Just Say “No:” Being Assertive with Your Clients

Organizational and Corporate Seminars

• Trust in the Workplace: Essential for Productivity
• Where I End and You Begin: Effective Boundaries in Team Work
• Believe in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast