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raising great girls

Speaker Series for Parents

HIGHLIGHTS

Informed Parenting

In the Social Media Era

featuring

Pascale Burns

On January 10th, Pascale Burns, Licensed Clinical Professional MA, took us into a deep dive of the pros and cons for our teens on the most popular social media platforms. 

She unpacked social media’s impact on mental health, ran a live demonstration on one platform, and discussed strategies to curate our own approach to social media to show we are working with our children and not against them.

Pascale has over 18 years of clinical experience. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Speech from Northwestern University and her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.

Thank you also to all who attended and made this event possible. Read more below about our upcoming events!

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2024-25 Series

Homelife is the engine of a healthy society. This is a truth so foundational and obvious that it takes a host of manipulations to obscure it. The Woke movement, like all cultural revolutions, aggressively targets the life and stability of the family. In this Willows Academy keynote, Noelle Mering outlines the current landscape, how this ideology operates, and how to counter it, especially within our families.

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Featuring Doug Hinderer

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Featuring Pascale Burns

Join us for a deep dive into the pros and cons for our teens of the most popular social media platforms. We will run a live demonstration of one of them and unpack recent data on social media’s impact on mental heath. Together, we will discuss strategies to curate our own approach to social media engagement so that our children see us as working with them and not against them.

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Featuring Julie Larkin & Monica Hinderer of GirlTalk

Girl Talk plans to highlight the personal and practical aspects to building healthy self-confidence in teenage girls. We know that the greatest predictor of a teenager’s mental well-being is the quality of the relationship with his or her parents. With this in mind, Girl Talk speakers and licensed counselors, Monica Hinderer and Julie Larkin, will focus on the ways that parents of teenage girls can build strong foundations, navigate moments of crisis, and foster true confidence in their daughters.

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Featuring Keynote Speaker Andrew Abela

Virtues are a set of “superhabits” that underlie all human thriving. Virtues are not values, they are not principles, and they are not exclusively about morality. Anyone can acquire them with steady practice and the help of grace. In this Willows Academy keynote, Dr. Andrew Abela will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’ system of virtues and how parents can foster the superhabits that lead to lasting joy and improved physical, mental, and emotional health in their families. No matter what problem you are facing in life, “there’s a virtue for that!”
 
Dr. Andrew Abela, is the founding Dean of the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America and is the project lead on a $1 million grant to expand programs to cultivate virtue among Catholic University students.

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Featuring Dr. Alison Lechner, DO

Our human body is not merely a physical entity but a sacred gift where God’s spirit resides. As parents, it is our responsibility to model maintaining the sanctity , health and integrity of our physical selves. In our modern world of  genetically modified and ultra processed foods, chemicals and pollutants and technology, this task of maintaining health is becoming increasingly more challenging. In this talk, Dr. Alison Lechner will reveal the hidden, and not so hidden, factors that sabotage our families’ health and provide tangible and sensible solutions to the challenges we face.

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Past Events and Speakers

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The Raising Great Girls Speaker Series for Parents aims to provide relevant, inspiring, and practical formation to parents of adolescents to empower them as primary educators of their children.