The Excell Foundation presents lively and immediately useful one-hour to three-day customized workshops, keynote addresses, and conferences on improving relationships in families, classrooms, and communities. Specialty workshops address the following subjects:

• Using Relationships for Improving Classroom Productivity

• Communication for Increasing Self-esteem

• Stress Management of Internal and External Environments

• Behavior Management for Building Trust

• Pros and Cons of Medication

Workshops use videotapes, role-playing, game-playing, handouts, and power point presentations to give participants multiple avenues of learning and experience.

Workshops for Schools

• Useful Definitions of Discipline

• Coping With Senior Year Stresses

• Leadership Styles, Skills, and Outcomes

• Increasing Family Involvement in Education

• Mainstream Management of Difficult Children

• Faculty Roles in Prevention of Teenage Suicide

• Ethical Dilemmas in Multiple Role Relationships

• Empathic Teaching and Boundary Maintenance

• Credibility and Compromised Leadership Values

• Emotional Disturbance vs. Social Maladjustment

• Peer Counseling: Models, Reliability, and Validity

• Ten Ways to Encourage Healthy Homework Habits

• Adolescent Depression: Assessments, Interventions

• Applying Psychological Test Results in the Real World

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders in Class and Athletics

• Advocacy Approaches to Student Drug and Alcohol Interventions

• Team Building and Attachment Issues in a Transient Environment

• Relaxation Strategies for Teachers: Practical Classroom Applications

• A Model for Group Intervention for Students with Emotional Problems

• Family Systems Therapy and Team Building Around Challenging Children

• Advocating for the AD/HD Child in School: Process and Content Suggestions 

• Education Approaches to Learning Styles: AD/HD, LD, ODD and ED Students

• Working with Families in an Educational Program for Multiply Handicapped Students

Workshops on Psychology and Psychotherapy

• Testing and Differential Diagnoses

• Using Test Results in Everyday Life

• Relaxation Training, and Applications

• Therapeutic Relationships with Children

• Communication for Building Self-Esteem

• Counseling Depressed and Suicidal People

• Giving and Receiving Therapeutic Assignments

• Humor and Games in Therapeutic Relationships

• Enuresis: Research, Intervention, and Prognosis

• Counseling Techniques and Intervention Strategies

• Defense Mechanisms: What They Are and How to Use Them

• Videotapes Positive and Negative of Child-Teacher Communication

• Assertiveness and Communication: How to Give Positive Feedback

• Data-based Decisions on Using Stimulants to Treat Attention Deficits

• Behavior Management & Communication Skills with the Chronically Disabled

• Children with AD/HD: Assessment, Therapeutic Management, and Goal Setting

• Interpersonal Communication Styles for Teaching Emotions: Theory and Role Plays

Workshops on Children and Adolesscent

• Issues in Adolescent Development

• Emotional Development in Childhood

• Stress Identification and Management

• Effective Discipline with Young Children

• Working with Child Reports of Sexual Abuse

• Developing Trust in Counseling with Children

• How to Read and Use Psychological Reports

• Peer Pressure, Stress, and Crisis Intervention

• Activity-Discussion Group Therapy with Children

• Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children

• Borderline Adolescents: Diagnosis and Intervention 

• Adolescent Depression: Assessment and Intervention

• Limiting Screen Time: Media Effects on Child Behavior

• Communication with Children Based on Developmental Stages

• Teenage Suicide Gestures: Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention

• Discipline Strategies, and Group Management Skills for Camp Counselors

• Children in the Court Diversion: Interview, Communication, and Goal Setting 

• Classroom and Home Management of AD/HD and Oppositional Defiant Children

• AD/HD: Communication, Environmental, Behavioral, and Medical Management

Workshops for Families

• Power of Positive Parenting 

• Parent-Teenager Communications

• Assertive Management in Family Life

• Parental Rights in Family Relationships

• Living and Working with Attention Deficit Disorders

• Parental Responsibilities in Dealing with Adolescent Drug Use

• One for Us, 167 for Them: Skills Learned in Therapy Applied to Family Life

Workshops for Residential Treatment Centers

• Crisis Intervention

• Management of Routines

• Activity Group Management

• Confronting Sexual Behavior

• Terminating Therapeutic Relationships

• Individual and Group Therapy Interventions

• Dealing with Burnout: Reasons and Resolutions

• Team Development for Building Valid Relationships

• Recognition and Interventions with Emotional Problems

• Group Therapy with Sexually Abused and Abusing Children

• Clinically Relevant Information in Reporting Critical Incidents

• Counseling Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Behavioral Program

• Management of Aggressive Behavior in Residential Treatment Centers

• Communication Exercises for Sharing Cottage and School Experiences

• Staff Communication Issues: Minnesota Couples Communication Paradigm