Company Overview
Stephen C. Gironda & Associates is an education company providing workshops for parents, teens, families and corporations. The workshops fuse a quarter century of success in youth and executive coaching to provide tools and training for:
- Parents to act as an effective coach in their children’s lives
- Teens to gain confidence, adopt accountability, gain leadership skills and achieve greater results
- Families to communicate successfully and support one another
- Corporations to effectively access their talent pool and have them work as a successful team
Workshops
Achievement Academy workshops combine interactive exercises with traditional classroom instruction. Workshops take place over the weekend to accommodate work and school schedules.
Parent’s Effective Coaching Workshop
Workshops take place Friday from 6pm – Midnight, Saturday from 10:00am – 6pm and Sunday from 10:00am – 6:00pm. During the Effective Coaching workshop, parents will learn to:
Listen with greater effectiveness. They will become, ”generous listeners”, so that they not only get a better picture of what their children are saying and meaning, their children will feel like they have been heard! Parents will learn the distinctions of coaching, right down to the Webster’s dictionary definition. Then through experiential games and exercises, they will practice being an effective coach. This workshop is designed to have the Parent/Coach become the coach every parent hopes their kid gets.
Torch Academy
The teen leadership program, Torch Academy, takes place approximately every 6 weeks and is held at different college and high school campuses.. In this program students will experience an enhanced ability to Trust and be Trustworthy, increase in Self Confidence, improved Problem Solving Skills, Mature Social Skills, Enhanced Communication Skills, Organization and Time Management. The workshop provides teens with the tools they need to be Self Motivated and to take a Leadership position in their community (school, family, etc.) and to possess Self Directed Motivation. Upon graduation, students may join the “Leader Circle”, where they can apply their skills and participate in the Torch Academy as a mentor/coach to others.
Family Workshop
The Family Workshop consists of a Friday evening from 6:30pm to 9:30pm, Saturday from 10am- 6pm and Sunday from 10am- 6pm. It is designed for families to improve their communication, enhance understanding, and build effective support for each other.
Children from age 7 and up may attend. In the Family Workshop parents and children learn to respect and support each other.
Abundance and Prosperity Workshop
This fabulous workshop may make the biggest difference in all areas of life. If you have struggled with finances or finding enough time to enjoy all that you have worked for and earned,
then this is for you. In the workshop (Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday) students discover the “underlying beliefs” that they have about wealth and prosperity. Once revealed, the students realize that the only thing stopping them is holding on to beliefs that work against their desire.
From that recognition that Beliefs are Not necessarily Facts, they can make new choices that will put them on the path to living with Abundance and Prosperity in all areas of life.
Relationship Workshop
In this weekend workshop, students begin to understand how they have been approaching their relationships and how they have been relating to themselves. The judgements they put on others and the judgements they put on themselves have a direct impact on every relationship. More often than not, we as humans, bring our past experience in relationships to our present relationships. Sometimes those past lessons serve our new relationship, unfortunately sometimes past lessons can stand directly in the way of creating a new and different type of relationship.
This workshop supports the student in identifying which parts of each relationship work for and which parts work against building lasting, fulfilling relationships. From that knowledge, the student can choose how their relationships will be.
Sexuality Workshop
It’s not just about SEX!
In this weekend workshop, participants are given the opportunity to explore how human sexuality affects so much of their life. The choices we make in who we date, what we wear, the car we drive, the shampoo we use, and the places we eat can all be influenced by some sort of sexuality. This is a true discovery workshop where the students see their roadblocks to intimacy
and deeper more fulfilling relationships. And, yes there is some talk of sex.
High Ropes Team Building
This is the ultimate in experiential outdoor learning.
An all day outdoor adventure, this breakthrough event gives new meaning to the word living.
By participating in this “challenge course” environment, each student is given the choice from event to event to either step forward in their life or stand still.
It is all about choice. Just like in our everyday lives, we are always making choices. Here, the participants get to see how and why they make the choices they make and how those choices either support them in their success in life or hamper and impede their success. Communication styles, goal setting, trust and trust worthiness, team play, and strategic thinking are all parts of the learning process during this Fun Filled, Powerful day.
** This workshop can be customized to fit different schedules and can be done in combination with indoor classroom initiatives**
Parent/Teen Workshop
Just as it sounds, this weekend workshop is designed to get parents and their teenager children on the same page. As children move into their teen years they are bombarded with information that often conflicts with what they have been learning at home. Peer pressure, TV, the Internet, not to mention their desire to find their own way and have independence, can combine to really strain families. This workshop sets up the parents and teens to go to the next level of communication and increases the commitment to respect each others point of view. From that point, true family support can be established or re-established.
Stephen C. Gironda & Associates Leadership Team
Stephen C. Gironda & Associates is led by professional coaches and community leaders.
- Stephen C. Gironda, President – Stephen has been an athletic coach for 25 seasons in the sports of Baseball, Soccer and Wrestling. From the youth levels(ages 4 and up) to the high school level, with 9 years of varsity coaching experience (5 years as head coach) and as an adult coach/ executive trainer and corporate team builder since 1993.
- Elisa Bridwell, Lead Trainer –Based in Southern California, Elisa has been leading teen trainings and facilitating adult learning workshops for many years. Elisa is the Core Trainer for the Torch Academy and will be instrumental in building the upcoming additional curriculum.
- Dan Mullan, Business Development Manager – Dan, who doubles as a fraud investigator working for the state of New Jersey, is also an experienced varsity coach, and has been working with different youth organizations and recreation programs for the past 10 years. Dan is a natural go getter and has already built the Monmouth /Shore Wrestling Club, which leads the way for developing and promoting the sport of wrestling in New Jersey. By the way, New Jersey is the National Champions in the sport of high school wrestling!
Contact Information & Registration
For information or workshop registration please contact:
Stephen Gironda
P.O. Box 1548
Wall, NJ 07719
TEL: 732-681-4208
FAX:732-681-5219
www.scgironda.com
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