Training Calendar

The holiday season can bring joy, but for many foster and adoptive families, it can also stir up complex emotions, sensory overload, and unexpected behavior. This webinar will help you navigate the season with intention, compassion, and connection. Join us as we explore how to prepare your child and yourself for the challenges and opportunities the holidays bring. From managing overstimulation and honoring family traditions to responding to grief, loss, or tricky family dynamics, you’ll gain tools to help your child feel safe, seen, and supported during this emotional time of year.

Talking with young children about their history, difficult experiences, or challenging current events can feel overwhelming, but avoiding these conversations can leave children to make sense of things on their own. This one-hour webinar will explore why these conversations matter and how to approach them in ways that build trust, safety, and connection. Designed for adoptive and foster families, the session includes practical strategies, age-appropriate language, and simple scripts you can adapt to help you talk with confidence.

As children grow into adolescence, conversations about their history, identity, loss, trauma, and difficult current events become even more important and often more complex. This one-hour webinar is designed for adoptive and foster families who want to strengthen communication with the teens in their lives. Participants will learn why honest, ongoing conversations matter, how to respond to difficult questions, and practical strategies and scripts that can help create meaningful, supportive dialogue.

Love is essential, but for children who have experienced trauma, loss, or disrupted attachment, love alone may not be enough to help them feel safe and secure. Join Harmony’s a Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator to learn how early adversity shapes a child’s brain, behavior, and relationships. You’ll gain practical, attachment-based strategies to become a secure base from which your child can explore and a safe haven to return to in times of distress, helping foster healing, resilience, and stronger family connections.

We should always process after a crisis so that both the child and the caregivers can learn from what just happened and how to keep a crisis from happening, or getting so big, in the future. Sometimes, it is appropriate to use natural, logical, and teaching consequences (NOT PUNISHMENT) afterwards to help set patterns of behavior and to repair relationships. This webinar will explore which of these types of consequences may be helpful.