Workshops

Conscious Parenting - 4 Part Series

Introduction - Raising Kids You Would Want To Hang Out With

• The basics of Conscious Parenting
• How does mindfulness fit in?
• The "Iceberg"
• What about discipline?
• Traditional vs. Conscious Parenting
• Connecting vs. Disconnecting Words
• How do we become more conscious as parents?
• Questions to ask yourself

Part 2

• The 5 myths of parenting:
  • Parenting is all about my child.
  • The goal of parenting is to raise a happy and successful child.
  • My child's behavior is paramount and therefore needs to be fixed.
  • Parenting is all about loving my child.
  • Be the parent.
• Parenting Choices:
  • Ego vs. Essence
  • Connection/Containment vs. Disconnection/Lack of Containment
  • Is this about me or about my child?
  • Do I see lack or abundance?
  • Do I own this or dump it onto my child?
  • Being or Doing?
  • Am I in the past, present, or future?  What time zone am I in?
  • How does mindfulness fit in?

Part 3

• Increasing your mindfulness and awareness
• Becoming more aware of your responses to your child
• Containment and boundary-making
  • Accept it
  • Change it
  • Leave it
• Agendas
  • Ego-affirming
  • Life-affirming
  • Whose needs is this agenda serving?
  • Is it negotiable or non-negotiable?
  • Have I created the conditions for change?
  • How does mindfulness fit in?

Part 4

• Awareness
• Reflections
• Sharing
• Challenges transformed
• New awareness, connection, authenticity

Conscious Teaching - 4 hour In-Service

• Flourishing teachers and leaders in education and schools
• Teacher stressors
• Increase teacher well-being
• Mindfulness
  • 4 fundamental processes
  • How it helps
  • Lessons from Daniel Siegel
    
  • Breaking the cycle of "misbehavior"
  • Activities
    • To build positive classroom climate
    • To use with students
      
• Mindset - Fixed vs. growth
  
• Resources

*Workshops may also be developed to address your specific needs.