What You’ll Learn

1. Stepping into Leadership and Right Relationship

Be in right relationship with yourself and your child.

Cultivate a compassionate and productive relationship with your emotions through a parts work lens (Internal Family Systems).

Relate to yourself and others with greater authenticity and compassion.

Lead yourself and your family in alignment with your intuition.

See, hold and attend to the needs of your family without putting yours aside.

2. Shifting Paradigms and Special Time

Understand the foundations of respectful parenting and why they differ from dominant parenting practices.

Center relationship as the why and how of family resiliency, healing and thriving.

Master a daily, doable connection practice through Special Time.

3. Holding Space

Cultivate a culture of healthy, compassionate and resilient relating to challenging emotions.

Listen to your child’s upsets in an embodied, present and authentic way.

Hold and contain your own difficult emotions, even when called to be present for your child’s.

Move beyond the scripts and motions of “handling tantrums”, and acquire a simple, solid and grounded approach for supporting your child through expressions such as:

• Whining

• Insults

• Kicking, hitting, biting

• Screaming

• Crying

Grow and deepen your toolkit for supporting yourself through high-intensity emotional triggers.

4. Understanding Brain Science & Emotions

Gain a deeper understanding of your child by knowing how our brains and emotions work.

Cultivate a culture of meaningful, healing and age-appropriate conversations with your child to help them make sense of life’s events.

5. Applying Non Violent Communication

Integrate nonviolence into the culture of your home through:

• A compassionate understanding of our emotional nature as humans,

• A basic understanding of the principles of nonviolent communication,

• A greater capacity to understand and respect each individual in the home.

6. Setting Boundaries & Honest Love

Practice setting honest and healthy boundaries with yourself, your child, and other loved ones.

7. Embracing Limits & Honest Love

Practice setting loving and honest limits for your child that foster safety, connection and trust.

Get clear on when, why and how to set good limits.

8. Examining Systems & Affirming Values

Confidently navigate the dominant systems of our culture while maintaining the values of nonviolent and respectful relationships.

Facilitate conversations with your child about your values within often opposing dominant structures in the extended family, community and educational settings they might experience.

Examine your boundaries and limits within the context of your parenting “why” and chosen values.

9. Respecting Their Boundaries

Relate and speak with your child in a way that respects their autonomy, personal boundaries, and needs for your caregiving.

Teach your child to honor their own boundaries and effectively entrust safe adults to help them when necessary.

10. Intentional Communication

Use simple, powerful and authentic language to center relationship as you navigate parenting responsibilities such as:

• Conveying unconditional acceptance,

• Teaching manners and politeness,

• Inviting cooperation,

• Facilitating repair after rupture.

Liberate your family from language that limits connection, stifles creative expression and creates unnecessary noise.

11. Centering Play

Protect your child’s play as a fundamental act of self-creation and emotional hygiene.

Respect their play and keep your own agenda out of it.

Know when and how to foster connection, healing, and cooperation through playful parenting.

12. Integrating Embodiment & Healing Trauma

Incorporate some basic principles of embodiment into your parenting toolkit.

Relate to your own story with greater understanding and less fear.

Parent from a place of grounded hope, daily healing and true transformation.

Recognize the many ways in which you are breaking cycles and healing lineages of trauma.

13. Holding Space for Ourselves

Embrace healing while parenting as a calling and invitation to a daily practice of greater peace, understanding and connection.

Face the inevitable ups and downs of the human experience with togetherness, a sense of belonging, and joy.