Why a Workshop for Mothers?

There is no other job in the world that requires someone to be physically, mentally and emotionally available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Even with this demanding schedule, a mother tries to be in good spirits for her children and her partner.

In most cases when there are no grandparents or community to lend support on a regular basis mothers manage to perform most of their duties with dedication.

For the first time a workshop was designed to introduce new techniques to further enrich a woman’s experience being a Mother. Our series of thematic workshops are designed according to the findings of our latest survey to best respond to the needs and aspirations that mothers have for themselves and their children.

Learn more about our workshop:

• We believe that bringing up children that are able to live balanced and fulfilling lives is one of the most important jobs anyone can ever perform.
  
  
• We live in a complex world that is making a mother’s job very demanding. The influences that our children get from the external environment are often in competition with the values that we wish to instil in them.
  
  
• While fathers share some of the responsibilities of child rearing today, it is still mothers who act as the decision makers on their children’s upbringing, education, healthy lifestyle for the family and more.
  
  
• At the same time, like all effective leaders, mothers wish to take better care of themselves as individuals.
  
  
• After years of working as trainers and coaches, we have come to realize that while there are a lot of tools of professional development for women in the work field, there is little or nothing for mothers to fulfil their job as family leaders.
  
  
• Now, for the first time, we are bringing all of the tools of effective communication and cooperation applied in professional settings today in order to support you in your career as a mother.
  
  
• Together we can work to help our children “become the change we want to see in the world”

About the Workshop facilitators:

Deborah D’Alessandro from Esprit Seminars and Dr. Photini Pappas from Wisdom in Action International have great experience in working to support women in all their endeavors. In addition to their work with women, both have a proven history with young people in the school systems.

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Deborah D'Alessandro is a New Yorker and has spent her working career in the States, Italy and France. She holds a Bachelors in Marketing and a Masters in Education with a specialization in Inter-cultural settings.

Her career has been a blend of using communication and education in profit and non-profit settings to bring career and personal success to adults and young people alike. While living in Italy, she wrote an award winning children's book sponsored by the Province of Rome, destined for the public school system. She is presently, president of Esprit Seminars, helping women launch small businesses based on their Natural Abilities and Passions.

www.espritseminars.com

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Photini Pappas is Greek by birth and has lived and worked in Greece, England and France. She holds a Doctorate in Political Communication and a Masters in Professional Education. A senior lecturer at the University of the Arts-London for 15 years, she has considerable experience in adult learning and development. Her expertise and publications include Adult Education, Politics, Comparative Culture and Communication.

A certified coach and trainer, Photini coaches professionals and specialises in the Brief Solutions Focus approach and in Intercultural training. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research. Presently Photini is Director of Wisdom in Action International, working with individuals and teams across different cultures and supporting them to achieve excellence in their performance and communication skills.

www.wisdominactioninternational.com