Presentation topics and titles

Richard and Linda Eyre

I. Family and Parenting:

1. Raising Responsible Kids. A presentation originally prepared under contract for the Young Presidents Organization, this topic includes a completely proactive approach to parenting involving family laws, family traditions, a family or household economy (a system for sharing responsibility in the home and shifting initiative and motivation to children), and a "value of the month" process.
2. The Nature of Nurturing. Drawing from the Eyres newest book (The Book of Nurturing, McGraw Hill, 2003) This presentation uses nine symbols or metaphors from the world of nature to help parents and family remember and apply the basic principles of communication, consistency, and love within the home. The symbols create a new language of symbols that even small children can use and understand (ie: instead of saying "We need to communicate better" parents can say "Lets remember the Humpback Whales.")
3. Teaching Your Children Values. Based on their New York Times #1 Bestseller by the same name, this audience involving speech gives parents a powerful set of methods to teach basic values (honesty, self-reliance, respect, kindness, etc.) to children of all ages.
4. Raising Children in Affluence. Here the Eyres show us how to use money as a vehicle to teach responsibility and motivation rather than allowing it to spoil our children and undermine their character. Presented to influential groups of parents and grandparents throughout the corporate and philanthropic world, the principles of this lecture have changed the very fabric of families.
5. Teaching Children Joy. A presentation for the parents of small (pre school) children, this is the Eyres acclaimed approach to giving children the gift of enhanced happiness while they are young. The principles of this lecture have spawned "Joy Schools" which now involve over one hundred thousand parents and children throughout the world.
6. Empty Nest Parenting. Actually, this lecture should be called Emptying Nest Parenting, because it is for parents who have had one or more of their children leave home for college or work. It deals with the interesting challenges of continuing to be a "consulting parent" after the management role is gone.
7. Especially for Mothers. Linda Eyre's presentation on the indescribable ups and downs of motherhood. Moms will laugh and cry together as Linda takes them on a review of all they have gone through, and all that is left to go through. Helpful hints along the way.
8. Especially for Dads. Richard Eyre views fatherhood as the most challenging and the most important role any man can have. In this lecture, he shows how different fathering is from mothering and presents revolutionary and stimulating ideas for how dads can do it better.

1. Lifebalance. Based on Richard Eyre's bestselling book by the same name, this presentation presents a whole new way of dayplanning and scheduling that creates a paradigm of balance and family priority rather than putting things ahead of people.
2. Spiritual Serendipity. As a follow up to the book Lifebalance, and in response to the lively interest in his use of the word "serendipity" in that book, Richard wrote Spiritual Serendipity which continues to be a bestseller among planning and work-family balance advocates. This lecture explains the deeper meanings of serendipity and how individuals can cultivate the art of the unexpected.
3. Programing Yourself Instead of Your Time. For those who want the advanced course on life planning and the proactive pursuit of creative living, this lecture gets into the use of key "trigger words" in the mind and the development of "right brain charts" to find more creative paths to the accomplishment of personal goals.
4. The Three Deceivers: How Our Obcessions with Ownership, Control, and Independence are Ruining the Quality of our Lives. A discussion of the three most common self-help topics of all time, and how each of them is ultimately a lie. How to replace them with the true paradigms of Stewardship, Serendipity, and "Synergicity".

1. Appetites 101. A fascinating exploration of human appetites, along with new perspectives for controlling and bridling them. The art of slowing time down, and the fundamental difference between animals and humans as it relates to the following or the controlling of appetites.
2. Love More. A presentation on how love can be increased in life, including an expanded vision of the dimensions that love can cover and the applications of expanded love in family, in business, in re-creation, and in self image.

1. The Family is the Basic Unit of Society. A stimulating examination of the old cliché and some new looks at how literally true it is and how important it is to the way we view the larger units within our politics and our society.
2. Education for the New Century. Why are our schools failing us today? What can parents do? This lecture is intended to wake up the educational establishment, but also to give parents the information and the tools they need to go to work on improving their local educational institutions even as they supplement their own children's education in the meantime.

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