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How to Talk So Children Can Listen and Speak Up
Help children discover: I can try, I can learn, and my voice matters.
Drawing on Albert Bandura's self-efficacy research, explore everyday conversations that help children trust their abilities. Practice supporting self-awareness and self-advocacy while making your own words easier to hear.
Next session
Thursday, March 4 at 10:00 AM PST
60 minutes · $79
- Format
- Live online workshop
- Duration
- 60 minutes
- Facilitator
- Sabrina Briceño, LPCC
- Price
- $79
For parents, co-parents, grandparents and caregivers. Come on your own or together.
Does this sound familiar?
Your child says 'I can't' before they've had a chance to try.
You step in to help, then wonder if you're doing too much for them.
You want your child to listen, but also to feel able to disagree and speak up.
What we'll explore
- Self-efficacy: supporting the belief that effort, practice and choices can make a difference.
- Self-advocacy: helping children express needs, ask for help and communicate boundaries.
- Self-awareness: noticing feelings, strengths and the situations that make things harder.
- Talking so children can listen: clear requests, genuine curiosity and fewer lectures.
- Giving useful feedback and room to try without rescuing or demanding perfection.
The research behind it
This curriculum draws on established relationship research, not generic advice. A few of the findings we build on:
Self-efficacy is the belief that you can act and make a difference. Experiences of mastery, succeeding through your own efforts, are an important source of that belief.
Albert Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control (1997)
Autonomy support combines room for choice with structure and connection; it does not mean leaving children without guidance.
Richard Ryan & Edward Deci, Self-Determination Theory (2017)
What you'll leave with
- Conversation prompts that support self-efficacy, self-advocacy and self-awareness.
- A small, age-appropriate challenge your child can practice independently.
- Ways to acknowledge effort and progress without relying on empty praise.
Plus a reflection workbook, one concrete action to practice, and a seven-day follow-up exercise by email.
Meet your facilitator
Sabrina Briceño, LPCC
Licensed professional clinical counselor · Founder of Chapter
Sabrina turns current relationship research into plain words and practical skills, with warmth and without jargon.
She holds a Master's in Professional Clinical Counseling with a focus in social justice from the University of San Francisco, and has practiced in public and private settings in San Francisco and Denver.
Her work draws on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy and attachment research, and builds goal-setting and accountability into the work. She is licensed in California and Colorado, and holds space for clients of every identity.
Practical details
Each workshop is capped at 10 people max, so there is room for real conversation.
On your own or with someone
Come by yourself, or bring your partner, a friend or a family member. Nothing in the session assumes you're a couple.
Camera on or camera off
Keep your camera off if you'd rather listen than be seen. You can still type, and no one will single you out.
Participation is optional
Speak when you want to and pass when you don't. You're never called on.
No judgment
This is a room for learning, not performing. Share as little or as much as you like.
Reserve your spot
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