Description
Join internationally renowned developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld, bestselling author of Hold On to Your Kids, for a powerful series of live and on-demand training sessions this November. Grounded in cutting-edge developmental science and decades of applied experience, these workshops explore the attachment-based relational foundations of growth, learning, and emotional well-being in children and adolescents.
Each session offers practical insights and strategies for educators, clinicians, counselors, parents, and professionals who support children and youth. Dr. Neufeld’s integrated approach sheds light on the root causes of troubling behaviours, anxiety, and disengagement, while equipping participants with tools to nurture resilience, maturation, and healthy development across diverse contexts.
Format & Access
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Live Stream: Participate in real time on scheduled dates (see details below). Times are listed in Vancouver or Calgary local time – please adjust for your own time zone.
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On-Demand: All registrants will receive access to recorded sessions, certificate, videos, and quiz materials. Access is available until the listed dates; please allow 3–10 business days for footage processing. Extensions cannot be granted.
Schedule of Sessions
Working with Stuck Kids: An Attachment Based Relational Perspective
Live Stream: November 5, 2025 | 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
On-Demand: Available until December 10, 2025
This session explores psychological immaturity and developmental stuckness, offering strategies to address behavioural and learning challenges through attachment, vulnerability, and maturation.
Addressing the Root Causes of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: An Attachment Based Relational Approach
Live Stream: November 6, 2025 | 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
On-Demand: Available until December 10, 2025
Dr. Neufeld uncovers the underlying roots of anxiety, moving beyond symptom management to relational solutions grounded in attachment science and neuroscience.
Recognizing and Addressing the Emotional Roots of Behaviour Problems: A Working Model for an Array of Troubling Symptoms
Live Stream: November 18, 2025 | 8:30am – 4:00pm (Calgary, AB)
On-Demand: Available until December 22, 2025
This workshop reframes troubling behaviours not as disorders but as expressions of underlying emotional roots, offering a developmental lens for effective intervention.
Hidden Keys to Student Engagement: Optimizing Learning and Well-being
Live Stream: November 19, 2025 | 8:30am – 4:00pm (Calgary, AB)
On-Demand: Available until December 22, 2025
Focusing on the crisis of student disengagement, this session introduces a two-phase model to rekindle curiosity, motivation, and mental health while reducing burnout in educators.
Parenting for Resilience and Well-Being in a Changing World: Navigating Modern Life with Children and Adolescents
Live Stream: November 20, 2025 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Calgary, AB)
On-Demand: Available until December 27, 2025
A special evening presentation for parents and caregivers exploring how to foster resilience and thriving in children despite today’s stress-filled and rapidly changing world.
This transformative series offers both immediate tools and long-term perspectives for anyone invested in the healthy development of children and youth.
LIVE STREAM: November 5, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 10, 2025. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Working with Stuck Kids: An Attachment Based Relational Perspective
Not everyone grows up as they get older. The construct of psychological immaturity has been with us as an intuitive concept for ages, but only recently has developmental science advanced to a state where it can now yield effective strategies and interventions to address learning and behavioural challenges.
Bestselling author of Hold On To Your Kids, Gordon Neufeld presents an integrated developmental approach to reaching troubled kids, using the constructs of attachment, vulnerability and maturation. In this workshop, Gordon takes the best that developmental science has to offer and delivers it in a usable form to the professionals who work with these children or those responsible for them.
His model has been honed from years of application in a wide range of settings: education, special behaviour programs, therapy, corrections, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, parenting, and the foster system. This material is applicable to children of all ages, from toddlers to teens. The insights and interventions apply to a wide range of presenting problems and syndromes including attention problems, bullying, impulsiveness, anxiety problems, learning disabilities, autism spectrum, oppositionality, drug abuse, aggression problems, boundary problems, alarming behaviour, boredom and much more.
LIVE STREAM: November 6, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 10, 2025. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Addressing the Root Causes of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: An Attachment Based Relational Approach
The escalating level of anxiety in our children begs for an explanation as well as a solution. Dr. Neufeld sheds light on this age-old problem, paving the way for natural interventions that can actually get to the root causes as opposed to just managing symptoms. This workshop brings a fresh and promising perspective to one of our most troubling and perplexing human problems. Although the focus is on children, this enlightening material will benefit anyone suffering from anxiety.
The time has finally come to be able to answer the problem of anxiety. What makes it possible now is that we currently have enough pieces of the puzzle to create a coherent picture: a mastery of attachment theory, an understanding of human vulnerability, a working knowledge of attention, and the discoveries of neuroscience. Possessing the pieces are not enough however. It takes a theorist’s mind to put the pieces together and a seasoned therapist’s wisdom to test this model against human experience. Dr. Neufeld has been uniquely positioned, not only to answer this question but also to understand the implications for our children. The resulting solutions are surprising, not in that they are counter intuitive but rather that they run counter to the prevailing practice. The focus of this workshop is the anxiety of our children and what we can do about this, both as a society and as the adults responsible for them. the dynamics and insights however apply to all ages.
LIVE STREAM: November 18, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Calgary, AB) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 22, 2025. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Recognizing and Addressing the Emotional Roots of Behaviour Problems: A Working Model for an Array of Troubling Symptoms
Are there really 298 different disorders plus countless other syndromes of problem behaviour? Could it be that we have been missing something more fundamental about how the brain works and thus what can go wrong? Could there possibly be a common denominator across the spectrum of troubled experience and behaviour? Dr. Neufeld insists that there now are enough puzzle pieces to reveal not only the emotional roots of our troubled experience and problem behavior, but even the particular emotions giving us the most trouble in today’s society. Using the lens of development, he also helps us understand how these problems first develop in childhood and what they look like at their beginnings. In distilling these dynamics to their essence, he also opens the doors to reversing these problems in both childhood and adulthood.
LIVE STREAM: November 19, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Calgary, AB) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 22, 2025. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Hidden Keys to Student Engagement: Optimizing Learning and Well-being
No issue has ever been more important in education than how to engage students in the learning process. The lack of engagement of today’s students is therefore quite alarming. The downward trend has been noticeable for some time but has become even more acute after the pandemic. Teaching longer or harder has not been the answer. Changing curriculum is a never-ending exercise but also somewhat futile in making the needed difference. Restricting digital devices helps somewhat but doesn’t get to the root of the problem. Curiosity is fading: motivation is waning; mental health is deteriorating; and teacher burnout is escalating. This isn’t the complaint of only one school district or region; this phenomenon appears to be rather widespread. Dr. Neufeld insists that we cannot address a problem we do not truly understand. He will present a two-phase model of student engagement that will not only make sense of what is happening to today’s students, but also show us a way through, even with the hardest to reach students in our classes. We all want our teaching to translate into student learning. Our effectiveness and even our professional fulfillment depend upon it.
Parenting for Resilience and Well-Being in a Changing World: Navigating Modern Life with Children and Adolescents
This session will be live streaming to online participants on November 20, 2025 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Calgary, AB)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until December 27, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
We all want our children to thrive – to become all they were meant to be, despite the challenges they may face. But how is this to be accomplished? What conditions are required for optimal functioning? How do we build resilience and support well-being in an increasingly wounding and stress-filled world? Dr. Neufeld will put the pieces together to reveal rather surprising answers to this quintessential question of human development. Regardless of the challenge, this knowledge will help set priorities as well as help focus on what matters most. A consciousness of the irreducible needs of children and youth is a much needed antidote to a society that has become outcome driven and a culture that has lost its intuitive wisdom.
