C.A.L.M.™
Finding The No-More-Tantrum Trail
with Sharone Lee, M.A. In Developmental Models of Parent Education
& Professional Autism Consultant
A WORKSHOP GROUP FOR ALL FAMILIES NEW TO AUTISM & NOVICE AUTISM SERVICE PROVIDERS
In this dynamic and practical presentation you can "Learn to Communicate Clearly as an Authoritative Adult who can set Limits with Love and foster Mutual Maturity." This lets us help young children to adults along the full spectrum of Autism who may lose, or have not yet gained, self-control realize their full potentials. It also allows us to build basic best practice strategies, as a very solid foundation to behavioral, eclectic, or developmental interventions. For newer Autism family members and novice Autism service providers seeking use-able practices information and what-to-do tips you will want to enroll in the L>E>A>P > C-A-L-M group. This not a reflection of your ableness at all--it is just the best match for your current needs--that is the key here--find best matches to your needs. And graduates will tell you--THIS IS NOT YOU USUAL AUTISM WORKSHOP. We get down to the reality of the problems you face and established research on unearthing optimum potentials. As soon as you have gotten this strong universal best practice foundation under you and back on your feet, you will be more ready to choose the practice models you need, able to learn them, and willing to engage in them. The C-A-L-M > A.D.A.P.T group will be just one of your options.
With this training you can begin to immediately transform your relationship with all your children and students, with and without Autism. This workshop is intended for parents, guardians, teachers, and therapists of children (and adults) with Autism who are tantruming, and all of those of us struggling to parent and teach each other in our Autism community. This class can release you from the mutual binds of Autism--no matter what the type or stage of Autism you are facing. You can begin to get unstuck from meaningless communication quicksands of confusion and behavior briar patches of endless upsets and starting walking the No-More-Tantrum Trail today. Then you can be free to begin using best practices. Participants report that it is a "wonderfully life-changing approach to Autism."
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT C.A.L.M.
"YES! That is it! Why are we both so stuck, when I have worked so hard to help my child/my students?"
We rarely meet a parent or teacher that is not doing the very best with the internal and external resources we have, and who have even pursued a great deal of information about Autism, and yet we become more and more stuck in tantrums. This is because we keep doing the same well-intended things over and over expecting to get a different result, and yet the tantrums continue and even get worse and the person with Autism just keeps getting bigger more and more upset, until we all are suffering. We are hoped and were assured "they will just grow up and stop getting so upset"--but instead they are just becoming more expert and dangerous tantrummers--even if the look on their face tells us they are feeling stuck. We ARE BOTH doing our very best with the resources we have at hand, and may have used may things we have learned from typical parenting books and classes, yet still we are getting the very worst results. We both need new resources which are proved effective in ending the tantrum cycle in a gentle, ethical and sure way. There is such a trail--C.A.L.M.
"What can we do to escape this tantrum nightmere?"
First, we must come to accept that people always do the best we can with the internal and external resources we have, and that this is true for both we adults and people with Autism. Therefore, if we have only our current resources which have into tantrum quicksand, even with the best of intentions and typical best practices, then we must change and gain the new internal and external resources we need to know how to end the tantrum cycle Along the way we can then help the person with Autism gain the internal resources to become an expert at self-control. That is the key to getting CALM.
"Where did these techniques come from?"
Over the last decade, Thresold has researched, trialed and daily practiced effective typical parenting tools, best basic Autism intervention strategeies, and best adult provider development methods with great and consistent success across the full spectrum and life span of our children, students, parents and professionals to come up with a set of very simple, yet transformational "no-more tantrums techniques" which fit into a dynamic four-part one-day C.A.L.M. workshop.
"What do the letters in C.A.L.M. stand for?"
"Learn to Communicate Clearly as an Authoritative Adult who can set Limits with Love and foster Mutual Maturity." This lets us help young children to adults along the full spectrum of Autism who may lose, or have not yet gained, self-control realize their full potentials. It also allows us to build basic best practice strategies, as a very solid foundation to behavioral, eclectic or developmental model approaches.
Communicate Clearly: Learn the specific form of exchanging information that your person with Autism can understand when they are calm and focused communication that minimizes unnecessary tantrums, while letting you work with their emergent developmental skills versus those that can still make sense to them when they are out of control and tantrumming. This builds a new foundation for our work and moves us away from the zone of tantrum quicksand and onto solid parenting ground again.
Authoritative Adulthood: Explore adult roles and ranks and how they need to relate to getting into positive, proactive, productive parenting and teaching relationships with people with Autism. You will quickly see that every person with Autism, even those who may initially resist the change in roles and ranks, will quickly be so relieved learn how to identify and follow reliable adult leaders across home, school and community.Over time they often will demonstrate leadership skills based on your example.
Limits with Love: Access all the techniques that will immediately end all your confusion about how to offer the appropriate balance of real empathetic caring and consistent and well structured discipline methods. You will leave with a changed and changing seemless and unconflicted message that all people with Autism can understand Be amazed at how responsive a person with Autism of any age and any spectrum level will be to the warmth and firmness with an adult who can move into this centered state of everyone's mind, heart, and hands. Each technique is just common sense with an Autism reality twist.
Mutual Maturity: Practice key self-development methods that can return you to the path of adult maturity. The mutual impacts of Autism on communication, social relatedness, and sensory stress levels can push even the most well balanced typical adult into total chaos over time. We all have witnessed this secret tragic reality across all our homes, classrooms and communities. But there is a way out and it is possible for any adult with the responsiblity to care for and teach persons with Autism to find their way back to a good life. We know it sounds impossible. Everything is impossible when you are caught in quicksand.
Begin the journey to a CALM life here and now, and very soon you will be able to look back over your shoulder and see people with Autism following you out--calmly.
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