SIMPLY STATED, this workshop series is a formal initiation into a different parenting style that’s very effective for helping a teen navigate his way through the challenges of adulthood in this culture that’s filled with unlimited distractions. 

 In order to motivate my son, I've tried sending him to therapists and doctors, hiring tutors, changing school, or removing his devices. Nothing has been a permanent solution. I don't see how a workshop will open my son up to taking better care of himself.

This workshop is like a modern rite of passage initiation for parents, where you learn how to use my proven, ‘RIGHT Way of Family Unity’ method. This “Way” shows you how to confidently translate your healthy parental instincts into effective communication and motivational techniques with your son. This new method of parenting, created 20 years ago, uses the practical ancestral wisdom from small clans and combines it with the best insight from the sciences of positive discipline, stress management, adolescent brain development, personal growth and parental bonding.

By learning this up-to-date way of parenting teens, you’ll know how to “challenge” your son to become more responsible inside of the home, more resilient outside of the home and more relaxed with himself and with the world.

EXAMPLE:

One family I worked with - like all of the other parents I work with - said their 17 year old son was a great kid but they were concerned that he was withdrawing from them, and that he was unconcerned about becoming more responsible for taking care of himself. He was not taking any initiative to become more independent. After a few months of working together with the parents and their son (who also attended YMUW), I received this email that was sent to me by the parents while their son was away visiting his grandmother:

Mark, here’s what my mother emailed me:

“What a difference a few months can make. Our grandson is a wholly different person. We very much enjoy being with him. He's funny, engaging and he takes the initiative to speak. Last night our neighbors brought supper. They all enjoyed him and couldn't stop raving about him. I guess all the work that you've put into him has paid off. Congratulations!”

The email ended with the mom saying to me in Caps: “THANK YOU, Mark.”

When you have a specific “way” that calmly “challenges” your son to activate his own biological wisdom, someday he’ll thank you for having an organized system for helping him take better care of himself. 

 Many of my discussions with my son end up either with me or my son getting frustrated or angry and then 

nothing gets handled. I don't see how this workshop can resolve that kind of stress.  

I’ve listened to thousands of young men talk about their parents. They know you love them and they believe that you can’t help them in their transition into adulthood because you overly react to their instinctual, impulsive and often, immature behavior. Since I specialize in stress management, I’ve shown thousands of patients how to immediately convert their “fight or flight” reactions into positive responses based on their true values. At the workshop I’ll show you how to use simple and powerful mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques to calm yourself right in front of your son or spouse. As you become more adept at this important energy-saving skill, your son will be way more open to your knowledge, because you’ve earned his respect.

As a kid, my own mind and body operated in a way that would now be called, attention deficit hyper-active disorder. Back in the day, there was no term like ADHD. The “street diagnosis” labeled it as, “fidgeting”. No one taught me how to adapt to the demands of daily life with the kind of brain I had.

When I was raising my son, Gabe, I often became anxious when we disagreed and then I would yell, which only made the growing gap between us even wider. In a short time, I was able to master the simple stress management techniques and that’s what started to move my relationship with Gabe in a healthier and happier direction for both of us.

EXAMPLE:

Here’s an email I received from a mother who attended the workshop with her husband and whose son attended the YMUW:

“Things are generally more peaceful around the house. Thank you!! We still get into it here and there, but it does not last as long and we apologize to each other faster. Our son has been upbeat, kind, chill and even just got done cleaning the bathtub for me! I did not ask, he just volunteered. The other day he offered to buy me something from the coffee shop using a gift card that he received at Christmas.

So sweet!!!

Thank you!

Whether you are the mother or father, when you remain relaxed, you demonstrate to your son that you have the main “alpha” quality required for him to trust you: calmness.

In this workshop you’ll learn that the secret to inspiring your son to became a happy and responsible teenager is to know how to foster his personal growth while skillfully using your authority and influence. The method does use consequences - not punishments - as a way to teach your son how to be better prepared for the challenges of adulthood. Ultimately, the method avoids unnecessary psychological over – analysis by keeping you focused on you focused on your ability to channel your son’s natural instinctual desire to live a meaningful and fulfilled life.

EXAMPLE:

This text literally came to me from a mother the next day after attending the parent workshop:

When you know how to help your son discover what his personal values are and how to turn his qualities into positive beliefs and productive behaviors, he’ll always be loyal to you.

 I'm hoping that by sending my son to that YMUW, he'll get the skills he needs to be more responsible so I don't see the value in attending a workshop.

Away from the influences of technology, the media, and their familiar family surroundings, the YMUW rite of passage adventure camp provides a “village” of trained and devoted mentors who will help your son develop self-respect by mastering his strengths, overcoming his weaknesses and learning the importance of cooperation through teamwork.

 

However, It’s unrealistic to expect your household to become less stressful and more cooperative just by having your son attend the YMUW. By attending the workshop you’ll know how to support the natural individuation process of your son.

When you learn the same technology that your son learns at the YMUW, the entire family will enjoy an immediate improvement in their relationships.

 I'm a single parent so I don't see why should I go to the workshop if my former spouse is not willing to attend. 

Together with my former wife, Suzanne (a licensed family therapist), we teach the divorced parents how to reunify a working relationship with the former spouse so that their children receive the best nurturing from both masculine and feminine wisdom. We show parents how to set aside their emotional grief, as well as their conflicting beliefs and behaviors, in order to effectively combine their parenting skills. This way, they can work together to create two cooperative households.

We accomplish this by showing you how to:

- Release the obstacles that block your family unity

- Teach your children how to benefit from divorce

- Communicate without anger

- Develop mutual respect & trust

If both parents are not willing to work together for the benefit of their son, the technology that we teach at the workshop is effective with your son, even if you’re the only parent that knows how to use it. If you do have to attend the workshop as a single parent - without your former spouse - you’ll earn greater respect from yourself knowing that you’re giving your best effort to guide your son into young adulthood.

By fulfilling your biological obligation to guide your son into adulthood, your son will notice and appreciate that you know how to be a loving and trust-worthy mentor for him – even though he won’t tell you this!