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Dr. Neufeld uses slides in most of his presentations. These accompanying slides can be downloaded along with the recordings. The slides are in pdf format, containing six slides to a page. Some of Dr. Neufeld's presentations are recorded using a technology that captures the slides as they accompany the audio. These have been converted into quicktime movies allowing you to see the powerpoint presentation as you listen.

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For those interested in the development roots of social responsibility, this presentation provides much needed insight. This particular recording is of an address to an audience of 350 parents and educators in Winnipeg in February, 2007. We all want caring and considerate children but there is much confusion about how to get there. Dr. Neufeld unravels the mystery by uncovering the developmental roots of these esteemed virtues. What may come as a surprise is the negative effect that some of our prevailing practices in parenting and education have on caring. Included in this presentation are suggestions for how parents and teachers can best cultivate these characteristics in children. This presentation serves as a good introduction to the developmental approach to raising children.

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This topic is one of Dr. Neufeld's most requested subjects for speaking on. This particular recording is of an address to a large audience of parents in Montreal in 2006. Children are naturally inclined to resist and oppose when feeling pressed upon or controlled. Although the reaction is quite normal and even healthy in certain circumstances, its manifestations and impact can be highly disruptive and disturbing, making life difficult for parents and teachers. Counterwill can take many forms: negativism, disobedience, rebellion, passivity, noncompliance, disrespect, nonconformity, belligerence, incorrigibility and even antisocial attitudes and actions, depending upon the age and personality of the child. Dr. Neufeld discusses the meaning of this deep-rooted instinct as well as the dynamics that control its existence and expression. He also introduces strategies for how to handle this misunderstood and troublesome reaction.

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Dr. Neufeld is well-known in educational circles for his conceptualization of the teachability factor as being the most important factor in the learning equation. He is asked to keynote on this subject in regional, national and international conferences. This particular recording is of a presentation to 1200 teachers at a regional conference in B.C. As many experienced teachers are aware, teaching is getting harder over the years. This phenomenon is rather ironic, given that curriculum has never been better honed, teachers have never been better trained and technology has never been so advanced. The problem, according to Dr. Neufeld, is that we are losing the natural contexts in which to teach our children. In this keynote presentation, Neufeld outlines the four natural contexts for learning, their erosion in today's society, and the implications for teaching.

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This is a video-recording of an online presentation recorded in January of 2007 using state-of-the-art web-conferencing technology and enabling viewers to hear and see Dr. Neufeld in his office in Vancouver, BC. The presentation was enthusiastically received and resulted in a strong demand to make it available for others. Due to some technical problems during the online presentation, the video flutters at times but the audio is strong and the technical problems do not distract from the content. Time-outs - the kind that involves separation from parents - has become a popular practice for dealing with problem behaviour. The issue is not that it works when it does, but why it works and what it costs in the long term. Developmental science is unequivocal in its findings of relationship and emotion being the two most important factors in healthy development. Time-outs, in the way they are typically practiced at least, are injurious to both these factors, wounding children and provoking defensive instincts to back out of attachment and numb vulnerable feelings. Once assumed to be safe practice and still recommended as the discipline of choice by over 80% of today's pediatricians, we must now become conscious of the risks of such discipline. Dr. Neufeld elucidates the trouble with time-outs and points the way to discipline that is attachment-safe and developmentally friendly.

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Dr. Neufeld was invited to address a conference hosted by an international adoption agency on this subject. The art and science of transplanting children needs to be founded on a firm foundation of understanding the attachment needs of children and the effects of early attachment disruption. Dr. Neufeld shares insights that stem from his mastery of the developmental literature as well as his many years of experience consulting for adoptive parents. In this presentation, he discusses how attachments are meant to develop and how adoption can impact this. He discusses the normal reactions to attachment disruption in children and the problem of competing reactions in dealing with adoptive children. Also discussed is how to bring adoptive children into right relationship with their adopted parents. This material is also applicable to other arenas that involve parenting another's child, especially foster parenting and step parenting.

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This is the audio track of the DVD by the same name. The video is a professional recording of one of Dr. Neufeld's many addresses on the subject of his book. The audio track is provided for the convenience of those who prefer to attend to the material in this way. To view a description of the DVD, click here. A pdf document of the slides used are also provided for reference and study.

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This is a recording of a keynote address to a national congress of the same name. Delegates included all those involved with the educational community, including policy-makers, administrators, consultants, school board representatives and high-school teachers. Dr. Neufeld addresses the escalating gap between what is taught and what is learned and shares his conclusions about where our efforts should be focused if we are to make headway in educating our youth. This address covers some of the same ground as the keynote on the Teachability Factor but with a different focus and arena of application.

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This address was given to an assembly of 475 parents of high school students, underlying the importance of teen-parent relationships