Community Workshops on Family & Parenting
I design and facilitate workshops for churches, schools, and community organizations, translating research on parenting, family relationships, and child development into conversations that are practical, culturally grounded, and relevant to everyday family life.
Drawing on both research and years of engagement with families, these workshops address common challenges faced by parents raising children in an increasingly complex world. I also hold an Active Parenting facilitator certification.
Family Foundations: Building Strong Relationships
A workshop series that explores marriage and family relationships through both research-informed and values-based perspectives.
Topics include:
- The Blueprint for Marriage
- Understanding and Managing Conflict
- Communication Between Spouses
- The Need to Love and Be Loved
- Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Parenting & Child Development
Research-informed workshops designed to help parents build stronger relationships with their children and support healthy development from childhood through adolescence.
Topics include:
- Discipline and Boundaries
- Parent-Child Communication
- Identity Formation and Self-Esteem
- Physical and Mental Well-being
- New Challenges: AI, Social Media, and Screen Time
- Supporting Children’s Emotional Development
- Preparing Children for Adolescence
- Boundaries, Respect, and Personal Safety
Family Culture & Values
These workshops focus on how families develop shared values, identity, and a sense of meaning over time. They explore how couple relationships and parenting systems shape the emotional climate of the family, and how parents can intentionally build long-term patterns of connection, resilience, and shared purpose.
Topics include:
- How Couple Relationships Shape Children
- Building a Resilient, Values-Grounded Family Culture
- Passing on Values and Faith Across Generations
Parenting Across Two Cultures
In addition to general parenting topics, I also facilitate workshops and discussions focused on the opportunities and challenges faced by immigrant, bicultural, and Chinese American families. These conversations often explore intergenerational differences, cultural adaptation, identity development, and family life across cultural contexts. If you are interested in bringing this conversation to your community, I’d love to connect.
Topics include:
- Parenting in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation for Newly Immigrant Families
Selected Standalone Workshops
- No Yelling, No Controlling, No Tiger Parenting: A Family Dialogue on Guided Growth
- When Children Enter Adolescence: What Should Parents Do?
- How to Raise a Self-Motivated Child
Research, Data & Software Workshops
In addition to my work with families, I have extensive experience teaching research methods, data analysis, and open-source computing tools to graduate students, faculty, and researchers.
I am a certified Data Carpentry instructor and have taught workshops on research computing, data analysis, and open-source tools for graduate students and faculty through the OSU Carpentry Organization.
Past workshops include:
- Making Causal Inference in Nonrandomized Studies
- R for Data Analysis and Visualization
- Python for Research
- Data Carpentry (Spreadsheets, OpenRefine, and R)
- Software Carpentry (Unix Shell, Python, and Git)
- Reproducible Research Workflows
- Data Management for Research Projects
Selected workshop archives are available below.
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