Jane Adams, Ph.D.

Website : http://www.janeadams.com

Residence : Seattle WA and New York

Biographical information

Jane Adams, Ph.D. has spent over two decades researching and reporting on how Americans live, work, and love, and especially how they respond to social change. A frequent media commentator, she has published more than a hundred articles, essays and columns in national magazines and newspapers and is the author of eight nonfiction books ("When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us," "I'm Still Your Mother," "Women on Top") and three novels,("Tradeoffs, Good Intentions") many of which have been translated into foreign languages, selected by major book clubs, and adapted for television. A talented communicator, \she lectures widely to corporate and nonprofit organizations and has a coaching practice that focuses helping people manage personal, professional and family boundaries.

A graduate of Smith College, Jane Adams holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and has studied at Seattle Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Washington, D.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation. She has been an award-winning journalist, a founding editor of the Seattle Weekly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. She is a mystery book critic for amazon.com, an avid scuba diver, and received the Family Advocate of the Year award in 2004 from "Changes," an organization devoted to improving relationships between parents and adolescent children. The mother of two children and grandmother of four, she and her Portuguese water dog live in Seattle and New York

Discussion topics

• Boundary Issues In Love and Work
  Boundary Intelligence is a basic human capacity that exists in everyone. This innovative presentation explains how cultivating this ability improves relationships by resolving the paradox of two essential emotional needs - the desire for intimacy and the desire for personal autonomy and independence. Boundary issues are inevitable in every relationship; learning how to negotiate them without sacrificing the self on the altar of togetherness is the focus of Jane Adams' most recent work, and in this program she offers techniques and tools that enable audiences to regulate their personal and professional relationships to get more of what they want and less of what they don't in all their dealings with other people - families, partners, friends and colleagues.
• Grown Kids, Disappointed Parents
  Why are so many 20 and 30- something unable to grow up, leave home, get a life, a job, a goal? Why can't they get free of drugs or alcohol, depend on themselves instead of their parents, solve their own problems and make themselves happy? And why can't their parents cut the purse strings, turn responsibility for their kids' lives over to them, and get on with their own? This eye-opening presentation is aimed solidly at the baby boom generation whose kids have let them and themselves down. It challenges parents to look directly at their adult children's problems, determine who's responsible for solving them, lay down their burden of guilt and disappointment, and reinvesting their own lives so their kids can get on with theirs.
• Letting Go: How to Send Your Freshman To College
  A wise, practical and lively program about getting your child off to a good start in college. This presentation challenges parents to focus on their own psychological growth at midlife while understanding the developmental implications of the college transition for young adults. An interactive session that blends current psychosocial research with practical strategies and proven techniques for weathering this critical moment in family life with wit, wisdom and insight. Just right for your college orientation or senior year program.
• I'm Still Your Mother: Post-Parenting Your Grown Children
  A source of delight or a lifetime's worth of work? This unique program offers practical information, tools, and techniques to enrich and energize relationships with grown kids, whether they've boomeranged back home or are out of your house but never your heart.
• Transforming Yourself: Transforming Your Organization
  This presentation offers a new and different model of perception that encourages self-knowledge as a tool for organizational improvement. By bringing all of who we are to what we do, we discover untapped competencies that can truly change our organization, clarify how and where we can be of greatest use, empower others, and meet our needs for relationship and mastery. Ideal for volunteer and donor meetings!
• Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty! Taking charge of Your Life Right Now
  An empowering, liberating wake-up call for creating rich, satisfying, exciting personal and professional lives on your own terms. Instead of waiting for someone or something to give your life meaning, try Jane Adams' proven techniques and common-sense strategies that will inspire you to get what you want from it now.
• When Change Equals Choice
  Here's an intriguing possibility--embracing change and welcoming it as a tool to unlock your personal potential! A presentation that inspires improvement and enrichment in every area of women's lives--work, relationships, moral and spiritual values, and physical and emotional health.

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