Basic Information

In this seminar, usually a 2-day event, Mark Gregston unwraps several vital principles designed to help parents better understand the world of today's teens and shows how even the simplest principles, consistently applied, really do work.

About Mark Gregston

Presenter Mark Gregston shares his 30 years of experience working with teens in crisis and offers insight, wisdom, humor, and direction, with the belief that strong relationships create an arena for change.

Understanding Today's Teens

A primary facet of this seminar is understanding how losses affect teens and how parents can effectively deal with an adolescent that is struggling. You will also learn how to determine the reasons for your teen's behavior and how to develop a strategy to confront specific issues and set boundaries for behavior. Above all, this seminar will encourage loving perseverance amidst a time of crisis and will bring a sense of hope and direction to the struggles your family faces.

We Want To Help You With Your Teen

Please join us for an insightful presentation of Biblically-based material that is critical to your role in dealing with your teen, or those you are involved with you. The seminar will address issues critical to struggling teens, including:

• Help, My Teen is Out of Control
• Understanding the World of a Struggling Teen
• A Teen's Search for Security and Significance
• "My child, my Family, and Myself are Falling Apart"
• A Teen's Need for Relationships During Crisis
• Creating an Arena for Relationships
• The Damage done by Performance-Based Relationships
• Immaturity that Requires Boundaries, Defiance that Demands Consequences
• Determining Needs & the Cycle of Meeting Needs
• My Child's Relational Style and Why They Appear the Way They Do
• The Purpose of Pain in My Child's Life
• Setting Boundaries During a Crisis
• The Impact Loss on My Child, and How to fill the Empty Spots in their Life
• Having the Right Expectations for My Adolescent
• Developing a Belief System & Rules at Home that Help Establish Peace
• Giving Responsibility and Developing Maturity
• Encouraging My Child to be in Control of His/Her Life
• Issues of Adoption, Death, Divorce & Abuse
• What to Do when Everything is Failing, and My Child Can No Longer Be at Home

For information about Dealing With Today's Teens and booking a seminar for your church or ministry, please email amanda@heartlightministries.org or call 903-668-2173 Monday - Friday (9 am to 5 pm CST)

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