The Blogspot of Beth Grosshans: February 2016

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Corporate Partnership Opportunities at the Metropolitan Opera

A retired clinical psychologist based in New Jersey, Dr. Beth Grosshans now focuses on serving as a speaker to parents and educators. Outside of her professional activities, Dr. Beth Grosshans sits on the Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the most prominent cultural venues in New York City.

Home to some of the most talented performers and creators in the world, the Metropolitan Opera (also known simply as the Met) owes much of its success to generous donors from the community. In addition to working with individual donors, the Met encourages corporate partnership with businesses across the private sector.

By partnering with the Met, corporate sponsors enjoy access to co-branding opportunities and customized opera experiences for employees and clients. Corporate partners receive such executive benefits as concierge service for reservations and access to dress rehearsals, as well as discounts at the Met Opera Shop for their employees. Most importantly, corporate patrons support vital outreach projects like student ticket programs and the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

About Beth Grosshans

After establishing her Flemington, New Jersey-based private practice in 1994, licensed clinical psychologist Beth Grosshans, PhD, assisted children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families with psychological assessments and interventions for over 15 years. Concurrently she worked as a private consultant, providing clinical training and seminars on child development issues for faculty members at local schools. Also serving as an instructor for the Princeton Center for Teacher Education during this period, Dr. Beth Grosshans taught the course Child Development: Infant, Toddler, and through the Elementary Years at the Princeton Montessori School.

Since retiring from clinical practice, Dr. Beth Grosshans has concentrated on writing for and speaking to parents and educators about child development issues and discipline. She co-wrote the book Beyond Time-Out: From Chaos to Calm, in which she introduced the concept of imbalanced family power, contradicting prevailing child-centric notions of effective parenting and emphasizing the importance of exerting parental leadership and authority to prevent unruliness and anxiety in children.

Dr. Beth Grosshans received a BA in psychology from the University of Cincinnati and earned both an MA in psychology and a PhD in clinical child psychology from Ohio State University. Under Habib Davanloo, MD, she has also completed several intensive professional training courses in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy. She is a retired member of the board of directors of the New Jersey Psychological Association Foundation and of the American Psychological Association.