Mediated Tools and Training
Develop your teaching skills and engage your child.
- WISDOM Mediated Learning workshops will teach you how to apply a proven method for change, no matter the challenge.
In-person:
- Full-day, practical and meaningful workshops are available in three Alberta locations - North, Central, and South.
- After a day of immersing yourself in mediational methods, you will be surprised at how easy it is to have an immediate and lasting impact on the results of your home schooling.
Online:
- WISDOM offers occasional online workshop opportunities.
Which workshop have you been waiting for?
Foundations in Mediated Learning
This workshop covers the basics of Mediated Learning. Although not a prerequisite, this workshop is a springboard to all the other workshops.
Through instruction, discussion, and skill-building exercises, get a solid grasp of the foundations of the mediational teaching method; learn to apply to life and learning.
Who is it for? Every child.
- Spark learning and cooperative behaviour.
- Understand better how the brain learns best.
- Access tools that make learning engaging and meaningful for your child.
- Explore the importance of parent/child attachment and learn ways to keep it healthy.
- Discover problem-solving techniques that help to strengthen cognitive weaknesses.
- Leave the workshop energized to put personal and family goals well in place, as well as the method to achieve them.
Behaviour and Focus Issues
This workshop session focuses on how children’s behaviours are shaped, helping them to become competent, secure, and resilient learners
- Move from conflict to cooperation
- Find positive ways of addressing behavioural challenges.
- Grow in skills which help in dealing with delays, blocking, fear of failure, fear of succeeding, lack of confidence, and argumentative behaviour.
- Learn nine key areas of living, performance, and stability.
- Engage in personal and group activities that will increase your ability to identify learning barriers and address frustration.
- Bring your home to a new place of success and peace.
Spectrum and Processing
This workshop explores cognitive processes and addresses AS challenges. Children can better understand their world, discern God’s will for them, and act in accordance with His will in faith and integrity.
In this workshop:
- Go from struggle to success.
- Explore student attitude and belief through the mediational method.
- Assess weaknesses and strengths.
- Help the child struggling with focus, memory, confusion, processing, frustration, planning, social functioning, and learning delays.
- Come away with an action plan.
- Find more hope; moving from “I can’t” to “I can”.
Reading and Math
These two 2-hour sessions (on the same day) will include instruction, parent participation, and practical tips to jump the hurdles encountered in reading and math challenges.
In this workshop:
- Take a fresh approach at helping those with reading or math barriers.
- Use Mediated Learning to work past blocking behaviours.
- Explore readiness.
- Learn about perception challenges (dyslexia/dyscalculia) and how to work with your child.
- Learn the roots of reading and math struggles, and direct this knowledge toward a fresh start for children wounded by negative experiences.
- Come away with a strategy.
Mediating High School
Unlock growth and launch forward into greater independence and self-mediation in the high school student! This workshop is offered directly to youth, ages 13 yrs. to 19yrs., with a parent present. It is designed to inspire self-direction, boost motivation, and equip students for success both in high school and beyond.
In this workshop:
- The student will focus on goal-setting, healthy ambition, study skills, and responsible living.
- Students should come away with a more mature mindset.
- Youths will learn to self-mediate, to ask meaningful questions, and to grow as critical thinkers.
- Your child will explore “calling”, gifts and strengths, and interests.
- They will be motivated to take greater charge of choices, behaviour, and will learn to plan for the future.
Also available through WISDOM:
- Daylong, in-person, Mediated Learning Family Day.
- Screen Impact presentation.
"The presenters did a wonderful job! Loved that we did activities that were challenging. It was a good reminder for me to understand my children better and to have more patience and understanding when they don't grasp a concept right away."
— WISDOM mom