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“It opened my eyes and HEART when I discovered that good parenting is about working on yourself—not fixing the children. Working with such knowledgeable therapists, I realized that parenting needs no special ‘tools’, just a true and honest connection with our children.”

— Anne Adair Wilkins



“Parenting is not as natural as you think it is. . . It’s hard work. Two things that impacted us were the idea of making your house child focused with-out the ‘fear of spoiling’ and the ‘fair fighting’ model.” “Everyone there said they wished this program was available when their kids were younger. We feel fortunate that we’re there now, so we could do this early.”

— Dan and Nikki McCarthy


“The Voice of the Child was very helpful— demonstrated the impact of the techniques as we were learning them.”

— Patrick & MaryAnne Hopping

 
 

Parenting from Your Heart
Building Successful Families

The closest thing to a Parenting University

This program is offered twice a year on 3 Consecutive Tuesdays
Dates for the next scheduled session:
April 10, 17, and 24, 2012, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
FEE: $70/individual; $125/couple

Parenting From Your Heart is our newly designed parenting skills series based on our collective experience working with children and families. We are proud to offer this comprehensive program to the community.

  • Raising your child’s self-esteem
  • Improving your skills for being effective parents
  • Parenting together more effectively with your partner
  • Dealing with conflict within your family
  • Leading your family

Would you like to learn more about these concepts?
If the answer is “Yes”, then Parenting From Your Heart: Building Successful Families is the program for you! This program is more than just learning intellectual concepts and learning ideas. It is experiential, sharing, and learning how to apply, in the moment, the skills of the Parenting From Your Heart process with your family and child-rearing experiences. The Parenting program is concrete and gives you the opportunity to actually learn and experience how to apply Parenting From Your Heart is offered in three sessions. Each session gives you an opportunity to hear the concepts, see them demonstrated, listen to other experiences, and then have the opportunity to really experience how to integrate this into your parenting and family life. In addition to the unique way this is taught, Parenting From Your Heart includes the “Voice of the Child”. Child therapist, Margie Mapes, makes vivid what a child actually feels by sharing from the child’s perspective, responses to issues, questions, problems, situations and the ideas, philosophy, and sharing that is done by participants in the program.

SESSION SERIES:

Session 1:

  • Joining
  • Looking
  • Hearing
  • Seeing
  • Noticing
  • Responding
  • Acknowledging
Session 2:
  • Melting and Supporting
  • Ability to drop your defenses and let your vulnerable self emerge in the interaction
  • Noticing when you move from okay to not okay, fluid to rigid, soft and flexible to hard and right
  • Being caringly concerned during a difficult time
  • Why is support necessary?
  • What makes up support?
Session 3:
Fair Fighting and Building a Child-Focused Home
  • Handling a conflict with your child in a way that focuses on the situation and not the child
  • Understanding how to help your child learn and grow by avoiding using shame, blame, and fear
  • Creating opportunities for your child to expand, experience, and develop by integrating your child in processes and opportunities you normally don't think about as parents

Please register early. While we hope to never cancel a workshop, it may be necessary due to low registration. It may also be cancelled due to inclement weather or illness.
The fee is refundable within 7 days written notice of intent to cancel less a $15 processing fee. Cancellation via fax within 7 days is also acceptable.


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