SUCCESS - Military Family Reunificaton Workshop

The SUCCESS workshops strives to help families reconnect after a deployment. This highly interactive workshop is designed for children/youth ages 5-17 and their parents. Through social-emotional play-therapy approach, children are able to relax, get in touch with their emotions, creatively express their thoughts and better communicate and bond with their parents. 
Soldiers learn how to better understand what their children experience while they are on deployment, how to actively listen and reconnect with their children and family members.

 Workshops are facilitated by U.S. Army Veteran Karen Johnson, MA. 

Mrs. Johnson served in the U.S. Army at Fort Sill Oklahoma. After leaving the military she traveled with her military husband and family to live on Fort Polk LA and Schweinfort Germany Military Bases. Mrs. Johnson trained with the Purdue University Military Family Research Institute and is Certified in the areas of

•  Developmental Stages and Policies
•  Curriculum Design/ Family Relationships
•  Developmental Characteristics & Program Adaptation for Adults/Children

 To learn more about how you can schedule or attend a workshop email: karen@johnson-johnsoncfls.com or Karen@1karenjohnson.com


Karen Johnson, MA, Ph.D. Behavioral Psychology student.

is the Founder of the  Father-Daughter  Institute (FDI); an online education, training and transformation center for fathers, daughters and families; the Publisher of The Journal for Father Daughter Communications and a Transformational Coach

"Its been said that everything you need, is already inside of you -- I believe that! As the next-to-the youngest of nine of my father's daughters I was a shy child, and basically scared most of the time. I was often told by people I loved that I was pretty, but just not very smart.  I learned how to move beyond what others thought of me, how to hold my own opinion of  who I am, and how to live my highest vision of myself.  

I serve individuals by teaching you how to silence negative self-talk and replace confusion with clarity, how to harness your untapped-personal-power, and push past wherever you've stopped before, to transform into the person you believe yourself to be, and create a life you enjoy" 

Mrs. Johnson's workshops help bring into awareness, unconscious established patterns of behavior, which act to prevent positive forward movement by triggering limiting beliefs; beliefs that do not support desirable life goals. She helps reveal the I CAN'T and I WON'T messages in your subconscious mind and challenges you to push through the muck and mire of negative self -talk  toward I CAN and I WILL.

As a U.S. Army veteran, she understands the difficulty military families experience. Her workshops for military families focuses on successful reunification after deployment. After the workshop, children and parents affected by multiple deployments and separation, better understand their emotional reactions, communicate more clearly, solve problems more effectively and develop a stronger relationship. Families learn to use tools that will better prepare them for each new deployment.

Karen is also driven by her first love and deepest passion to support the development of healthy families, by increasing awareness, and understanding about the life-long Influence of the Father Effect on female psychosocial and emotional development. She helps them uncover neurologically established female-male communication patterns. She has inspired women, who do not or did not, have a healthy father-daughter connection, toward healing, health and happiness. She teaches them to now longer stand IN their story but to stand ON their story to serve others.

She has written a timeless collection of poems, "Voices of Daughters“; a tool used to stimulate conversation and facilitate father-daughter relationship change. Karen continues to research, and write about the dynamics of fathers and daughters --look for her upcoming book "The Father's Guide for Parenting Daughters“ Ms. Davis-Johnson earned her M.A. in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology.