For Parents, Grandparents, Educators & Health Care Providers
Explore mindful approaches to help you and your child navigate childhood and adolescence challenges with no-drama discipline strategies.
Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and meaningful experiences of our lives, and at the same time it can be the most demanding one as well. We sometimes sacrifice our own needs, even our health, along the way, leading to physical and emotional exhaustion. This may include lack of motivation, feeling burnt out, anxious and even depressed. However, it does not need to be that way.
This workshop will provide you with effective no – drama, whole brain mindful strategies to connect to your child, help him/her rewire neuropathways to encourage life skills he/ she can use for the rest of his/her life. You will also learn tools to find equanimity, and diminish the stress in your life.
Unless you take the time to nurture yourself, there will be little left to give to your loved ones. Your children will pick up on your stress, and may suffer the consequences. Taking care of yourself is the best gift you can give to your children.
As a parent or educator you have a direct impact on how your child’s brain is wired, and consequently how he/she perceives and responds to his/her circumstances.
Parents of Adolescents will Learn
Myths & facts of adolescence- About brain development and how it affects behavior
- How to make sense of their own models & patterns
- How to support their teens to reflect and connect
- What works & what doesn’t to create connection
- How to improve their relationship with their teens
- Practical tools to no-drama discipline
- How to create a “safe harbor” for their teens
- How to honor the person the adolescent is becoming
- The essence of adolescence
- Why a mindful parenting approach is crucial
- The one thing you need to start doing right away
Parents of Young Children will Learn
How to support their child in self-regulating the child’s emotions- How to calm her/himself down
- Freedom from detrimental patterns of thought and emotional states
- Why punishment does not work & what to do instead
- How to respond vs. react
- How to deal with homework meltdowns
- The three essential questions
- About Brain development and how it affects behavior
- How to reframe challenging situations
- How to make sense of their own models & patterns
- How to support their children to reflect and connect
- What works & what doesn’t to create connection
- To listen and communicate skillfully.
- Mindfulness tools to use right away with their child
- Why a mindful parenting approach is crucial
- The one thing you need to start doing right away
Parents expecting a baby are welcome to join this workshop
The size of these workshops is limited