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Parent Workshop: Big Reactors

Name: Parent Workshop: Big Reactors
Start: 2026-01-13T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-13T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Edlavitch DCJCC

Adults (18+)

Date : Tuesday, Jan 13

Time : 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location : Edlavitch DCJCC
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC

Join Claire Lerner for this in-person workshop that will empower parents to support their kids in managing big feelings and coping with everyday challenges. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, and Claire’s new book will be available for discounted purchase.

At this in-person workshop, Claire Lerner, author of the new book Big Reactors: Practical Strategies for Parenting Highly Sensitive Children, will empowers parents with the insights and tools to support their intense kids' significant strengths while also helping them manage their big feelings and cope with everyday challenges. Through detailed case descriptions from her 35+ years of work in the trenches with these complex and sometimes confusing kids, Claire will:

* Describe the key traits and challenges of highly sensitive kids

* Reveal the process—the “detective work”—she guides parents through to understand the root cause of their child’s challenges and to come up with sensitive, effective strategies that work in real life, not just in theory.

* Provide a reality-based roadmap for how parents and other caregivers can find solutions to their unique experiences with their extraordinary kids that take into consideration that every child and family is different, and that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

This session will also allow ample time for Q&A and community building, and Claire's book will be available for discounted purchase at the event. If you have any questions, please reach out to Miriam at mszubin@edcjcc.org.

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