From Chaos to Connection: 9 Heart-Centered Essentials for Parenting Your Teen
 
Dave Herz, MA is the founder of and Director of Therapeutic Services at ViveNow. He leads Vive mentors and parent coaches in their application of the Vive Approach. Dave has an M.A. in Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is a certified and has worked with kids and families as a teacher, counselor, therapist, mentor, and coach for more than 20 years. Dave says that his roles as son, father of three teenagers, and husband are what keep him both humble and deeply passionate about his work with parents and young people. Dave's passion is to help young people find the courage and inspiration to move toward responsible, productive, joyful young adulthood, while helping parents engage this process with less pain and more hope.
 
Michael Behmer, MA is a Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked with youth and families in private practice, therapeutic groups, residential treatment, wilderness therapy, crisis debriefing, and family systems restoration for over 18 years. His passion is helping young people, especially those who are labeled "at-risk," their families, and their communities, nationally and internationally. Combining business and project management experience with clinical experience, Michael now directs the transformation of ViveNow's therapeutic model and practitioners' experience into powerful tools for families. He has worked with community leaders to restore families and communities nationally in New York City's Harlem and the Mississippi Delta, and internationally in Russia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Haiti, and China. Michael lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two children. (www.vivenow.com)
 
For ten years, ViveNow has been nationally recognized by its clients and the industry as a leading provider of practical, proven, and innovative relationship-based family health and healing solutions. Now Vive is pleased to launch a new parenting product to accompany its nationwide seminars, called Chaos to Connection: 9 Heart-Centered Essentials to Parenting Your Teen. Packaged as a box set, Chaos to Connection allows Vive to share the principles of its whole-family, action oriented approach that has helped thousands of young people and their families navigate the challenges of life's transitions. While historically targeted at families with teens, the philosophy and exercises are effective for families with kids of all ages, especially five to twenty-five. The product is supported by around the clock, real-time access to ViveNow's professional counseling team located across the country. In this interview Sandie chats with Dave Herz and Michael Beamer about VIVENOW's services, philosophies and success stories, and its 9 Heart-Centered Essentials for Parenting Teens.
 
Topics include:

• How to rediscover the joys of being a family
   
  
• The 9 Heart-Centered essentials for parenting teens
   
  
• What's so different about ViveNow's approach that makes it so successful?
   
  
• How ViveNow's unique Chaos to Connection kit and program is transforming family's lives across the nation
   
  
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