Embodied Parenting Online Course
Body Wisdom for Easier, Happier and Less Stressful Parenting
Join us for the first ever event of its kind!
In partnership with and hosted by
Mark Walsh at EmbodiedFacilitator.com
18th to 22nd March 2019
10 experienced teachers
20 + hours of interactive learning, recorded for you!
Note: Enrolment links will direct you to the main course page www.embodiedfacilitator.com/embodiedparenting
About The Course
Why is parenting such a struggle, when we have so much information available to us?
Why do we still behave in ways that don’t meet our values,
becoming angry, disempowered and overwhelmed?
Embodied Parenting offers new, practical ways to help you sustain healthy, dignified and compassionate relationships with your children and supports you to…
reduce stress and conflict
respond skilfully to challenging behaviour
grow your teen’s confidence, resilience and well-being
foster happier, more harmonious relationships
Community
Participants can ‘meet’ in virtual cafes before and after the calls, and have access to private FB and Linked-In groups, because we learn more deeply when we feel supported, and can share our reflections, challenges and progress with others
Practical Learning
This isn’t just another parenting summit, throughout the five days we will teach you to apply what you learn to your daily life, through demos, practices and discussions and you will have access to additional resources to support your learning
Expert Teachers
We are joined by trusted colleagues from across the world, who bring their own unique voice and knowledge, and know how to keep the learning practical and interactive
Why Join Us?
Because for the first time ever, we are bringing the wisdom of the body to parenting, online.
No matter how many books we read or theories we know, we still struggle to to put what we know into practice, because knowing what to do is not enough. We can’t change our minds with our mind alone, when our patterns, habits and attitudes are held in our bodies.
The good news is, it’s through body-based learning we find the key to change. But, despite increased awareness about the importance of the mind-body connection, it is still the missing ingredient in, or simply an ‘add on’ to, other parent-trainings.
This course is the first of its kind to delve deeper into this topic, and is our commitment to filling that gap. Throughout the five days, there will be live demos and interactive exercises to help you learn and apply new skills and tools to your parenting, when you need them the most. Although we hope you will join us on as many live calls as you can, we know they won’t all fit your schedule, so they will be recorded for you to watch in your own time and available to you for your ongoing learning and practice.
Who Is It For?
Parents, carers and professionals who want to learn accessible tools that help minimize stress and conflict, increase connection and compassion, and become the skillful, trusted leader their children need, no matter how difficult the challenge.
Themes
Regulation and Resilience
Learn principles and practices to reduce family stress and reactivity, and sustain connection and compassion, in the heat of the moment and over the long-term
Parenting in the Modern Age
Hold on to your ethics, values and boundaries in the face of external pressures and help your children meet today’s challenges with greater agency and ease
Power, Pleasure and Play
Be a role-model for positive power and play, keep your own sense of satisfaction and success alive, and hold shame-free conversations around sex, sexuality and consent.
Identity, Image and Belonging
Foster your teen’s self-awareness, self-leadership, positive body-image and mental well-being, and restore a sense of belonging, community and support
And Lots More...
Our approach helps you meet daily challenges with more confidence – whether faced with toddler tantrums, argumentative teens, or struggles with school, bullying, peer pressure or social media.
We will show you ways to stay steady under pressure, be more insightful about your child’s behaviours and more influential with your responses. You will learn essential skills including compassionate limit setting.
Here is some of the learning we will introduce you to…
Keep your head cool and compassion intact
Build trust through aligning values, words and actions
Understand the wisdom behind the challenging behaviours
Increase family regulation, resilience and wellbeing
Recognise and transcend reactive patterns and triggers
Keep anchored through temper tantrums and teenage outbursts
Stay connected to teens through the turbulent years
Uphold values and boundaries in the face of external pressure
Reduce conflict, defiance and other challenging behaviours
‘Feel and deal’ with intense emotions, without joining the chaos
Rediscover pleasure, play and joy in your relationships
Grow and learn from, instead of react to, your teens
Find and sustain support, and a nourishing self-care practice
Safely and authentically express, rather than suppress, feelings
Empower your teen’s confidence, positive body-image and self-awareness
Influence through curiosity and confidence instead of control
Keep communication open and safe, without triggering shame and shut-down
Foster identity, connection and belonging through embodied stories, rituals and routines
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Pragmatic, Empowering, Accessible Approach
Become Your Own Parenting Guru
The Embodied Parenting approach is not like reading tips and techniques in a book; it offers simple, pragmatic practices that you can feel and test out in your body. It doesn’t subscribe to any particular parenting model, because we don’t believe there is a one-size- fits-all approach.
That’s why we prioritise relationship over behaviour management, and we promote authenticity over perfect parenting; there is no ‘ideal’ parent we should be aspiring to. Our approach won’t solve all your parenting problems – but we are more likely to take wise action, more often, when we can see and perceive more clearly, and feel empowered, and resourced, rather than reactive and powerless.
When we use our body’s intelligence, we have an accessible and short cut route to changing how we feel, think and behave. We can choose how to respond, rather than be run by our unconscious habits. We build the practical skills we need to parent more effectively (e.g. setting limits). We parent with more insight and intuition. We remember we already have everything we need to be the trusted and compassionate parents we hoped to be.
Click here for a personal message from your hosts, Jane and Kirstie
Welcome to our first-ever online-course.
Our children look to us to be their source of strength and leadership. But living with the daily roller-coaster of intense emotions can leave the wisest parents feeling powerless. Like us, you probably felt ashamed when you discovered you were the angry, critical parent you said you would never become. How can we transform our triggers, make sense of our child’s behavours, and not take them personally?
Even when our relationships are happy and healthy, the pressures of education and social media mean we have to confront an onslaught of external pressures fighting to control our children’s mind’s bodies, and spirits; how do we help our teens access their internal power and self-worth, so we trust they can make smarter choices (with their smart phones!), and face modern life with self-awareness and courage?
How do we keep conversations open and shame free, when they turn to issues such as sex and consent – and restore our own sense of pleasure and play that we thought was long on, so we become role-models for living an imperfect, often messy, yet satisfying and nourishing life?
We have personally faced every one of these questions, and more. And though our family lives are varied and different (you can read more about us here), we share common parenting concerns, and we met through our joint passion for sharing embodied tools with parents.
We have learnt that when we connect to our body’s intelligence, we feel differently about ourselves – instead of defeated and depleted, we feel more influential and skillful, and worthy of receiving compassion and care for ourselves. We’ve created this course because we’d love for you to experience that too, so we hope you choose to join us.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark Walsh from Integration Training for supporting us to spread the word to a wider audience through this online platform.
We look forward to meeting you.
JANE DANCEY -your host and guide
Jane balances being a single Mum to her daughter, with working as a senior Embodied Yoga Teacher, Embodiment Facilitator, Embodied Wellbeing Coach and Rite For Girls Facilitator. She specialises in supporting and empowering women through life’s transitions from menarche to menopause and beyond. A qualified counsellor, she teaches yoga and mindfulness for teens experiencing stress and anxiety
KIRSTIE SEABORNE – your host and guide
Kirstie is the founder of Embodied Parent Education which grew from her experience as a foster, adoptive and birth Mum. She specialises in supporting parents and professionals at risk of blocked care. She is a Leadership Embodiment Coach, Compassion Fatigue Educator, with a PGCE and a Masters in Movement in Education from Laban, and certificates in traumatic stress studies, attachment and trauma-parenting approaches.
Susan Bauer
Susan (MFA, RSME/T) is a dance and somatic educator and a pioneer of embodiment in education. She is the author of The Embodied Teen (North Atlantic Books, 2018), the first book to offer a somatic movement education curriculum adapted to the unique needs of adolescents, based on decades of working with youth in the U.S. and abroad. Susan is also the founder of Embodiment in Education and offers workshops and teacher
Dr Lori Baudino
Lori is
Roma Norriss
Roma is lit up by listening, connection, intimacy and community. She has been supporting parents for 15 years as a birth-worker, and consults internationally as a Hand in Hand Parenting Consultant; the approach is relevant for babies to teenagers and on topics such as setting limits, aggression, separation issues, toddler tantrums, school struggles, and sexuality. She runs retreats and writes and speaks on parenting, listening and relationships, as well as teaching locally and online.
www.birthingabetterworld.co.uk
Sophie-Jane Mortimer
Sophie offers women the tools and support they need to live their soul work and co-create the world we all want for future generations. She has built successful marketing strategies and launches for individuals, organizations, and inspiring projects, like the TreeSisters ‘Million Trees’ campaign and Red School‘s global menstruality movement. She has clarified an embodied, feminine, soulful approach to marketing to support women change-makers to grow their audience, income, and impact, with ease.
Jamie Abrams
Founder of Embodied Badassery, Sexuality Empowerment Coach, Mother & Traveller, Jamie Abrams has been teaching internationally and living her yoga for 19 years. She has a constant appetite for learning and maintains an on-going education in yoga, biomechanics and embodiment practices. Jamie has many strings to her bow. She is certified in Thai Yoga Massage, Super Sleep Yoga, an Embodied Yoga Principles Senior Teacher, Embodied Facilitator Coach and Partner Yoga, to name a few.
David Weinstock
David Weinstock is
Miles Kessler
Miles is an internationally acclaimed teacher of Aikido, meditation, and Integral Practice, and is an expert at taking mindfulness practice off the mat, into
Kim McCabe
Kim is founder and director of Rites for Girls, a mother of three, author of From Daughter to Woman, counsellor and 5 rhythms teacher. As the originator and facilitator of Girls Journeying Together groups her vision is that every girl grows up expecting guidance as she matures and knowing of a Girls Journeying Together group near to where she lives
You will receive ahead of the course and every morning, practical instructions and guidance on how to:
- Connect to the online sessions
- Access additional learning resources and further information about the teachers
- Reflection questions to integrate your learning and “land” them in concrete applications in your work
Extra content for you
Downloadable ebooks, audio files, videos and documents by experienced embodiment teachers.
ebooks
documents
audio
video
The course includes:
20 + hours of calls
videocalls recordings (indefinite access)
free materials on the embodied parenting approach and practices (100+ pages)
questions answered in private Facebook & Linkedin groups by hosts
Logistics
How will the event work?
The event consists of 30 to 90 min Zoom sessions (these are like group Skype calls). Zoom is an online video conference platform; it’s free to use, easy to access and allows the opportunity for you to participate and interact with the speaker and/or other participants in plenary and breakout rooms.
Zoom calls will be interactive sessions by an experienced teacher, and will include practical exercises and opportunities for questions. There will also be two panel discussions.
There will be 2 to 3 live teaching video calls + one morning and one evening practice session per day, spread across time zones globally, so wherever you are you will have the chance to attend some live calls. All calls will be recorded and available for life after the course. This means you can choose to join the live event or listen, and re-listen to the recording of any session at a time that is convenient for you.
If you want to know more about Zoom, how to use it and its possibilities and limitations, we will be sharing an introductory “how to use zoom” video before the event…but basically, it’s free and easy and can be used on many devices – desktops, laptops, tablets and mobiles.
There will also be private Facebook and LinkedIn groups for conversations to take place and for other information.
Requirements
• The event will not be athletic and all bodies are very welcome
• No previous experience of embodied work, mindfulness or other techniques is required – simply an open-ness and curiosity to work with the body in mind!
• It’s recommended to have a Facebook or LinkeIn account as discussion and some resources will be posted there
• A good internet connection helps with Zoom and break-out discussions if you can make the calls live
• Remember calls will be recorded and available to download indefinitely if you can’t make them live.
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This event is hosted by, and in partnership with Mark Walsh from Integration Training. The main course page, enrolment terms and conditions and other information is found at www.embodiedfacilitator.com/embodiedparenting All links on this page will be directed to that site