Possibilities Of Parenting Center

OUR MISSION

Parenting is the most important profession because parenting determines, more than any other single factor, how children feel about themselves. And their sense of self-esteem, in turn, largely determines their success in relationships, their career effectiveness, and their fulfillment in life.

Many organizations try to help parents when a crisis such as drug or alcohol abuse involves their children. The Possibilities of Parenting Center (POPC) supports parents to take preventive action with their children in two ways:

1. To have parents discover that self-esteem (the experience of being able and worthy) and a positive attitude toward life are the key to children's happiness and success.
2. To empower parents to assist their children in the creation of self-esteem and other positive attitudes.

"The POPC presents a new way of looking at what the job of parenting really is, in a way that is very empowering. They then follow up with excellent skills courses."

Elaine Sellinger,
School Psychologist

Almost every occupation, from driving a truck to performing surgery, requires months or years of training. Only for the job of raising children do we expect that love will be enough. Unfortunately, it usually isn't.

The Possibilities of Parenting Center (POPC) offers group courses and private counseling that assist parents to make a significant and positive impact in the lives of their children and, at the same time make the process of parenting easier and more enjoyable.

All of the courses are highly interactive; most include exercises and role playing. Participants usually have the opportunity to review the specific problems of their own children with the workshop leader and the other parents. Because people learn more when they enjoy themselves, the courses are designed to be a lot of fun. We promise that parents will leave the courses:

• with a better understanding of how their interactions with their children are the most important factor that determine how their children turn out as adults;
• with powerful parenting tools that significantly enhance their ability to improve those interactions.

Shelly Lefkoe

Shelly Lefkoe is co-founder and Vice President of the Lefkoe Institute, and the founder and President of the Possibilities of Parenting Center (POPC), a division of the Lefkoe Institute.

She offers private in-person and telephone sessions for people throughout the world using The Lefkoe Method (TLM). This revolutionary approach has enabled over 12,000 people to stop a wide variety of undesirable emotional and behavioral patterns.

She has personally worked with over 1,000 individuals from around the world. Using TLM she has helped these people handle issues as serious as eating disorders, phobias and depression as well as everyday problems like procrastination, shyness, fear of public speaking and the inability to form healthy relationships. Shelly has also helped numerous businesspeople increase their personal productivity while reducing stress, improve their relationships with colleagues, and transform their family lives with The Lefkoe Method.

Shelly has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader to many parenting and teachers groups and leads workshops that train people to use The Lefkoe Method.

In 2004 she was voted Member of the Year at the Marin Association of Female Executives.

However, Shelly's true passion in life is to transform the way in which people parent.

As head of POPC Shelly offers several standard and custom-tailored workshops for parents and teachers. She co-designs and leads most of the workshops.

The mission of POPC is twofold:

1. To have parents discover that self-esteem (the experience of being able and worthy) and a positive attitude toward life are the key to their children's happiness and success.

2. To empower parents to assist their children in the creation of positive self-esteem and a healthy view of life.

She has co-written an eBook, Effective Parenting, available on the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” web site.