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Parenting circle coming soon...

Exploring your own parenting style with less reactivity and more choice

Many of us would like to be able to have power with our children instead of power over, and to have collaboration instead of imposing obedience. A key to this is being relational, providing information about what's going on for us so that together we can adjust to the impacts that we are having on one another. Having this information creates more opportunity for us each to be coming from a place of wanting to make life more wonderful for each other.

A key is self empathy. The explorations in our circle are about enabling us to more quickly go to self empathy in our everyday lives. We experience what it feels like to have the space held for us in a helpful way in circle, and we learn how to create this for ourselves and others both inside and outside of circle.

We will be paying attention to what stimulates us and explore how to sit with the discomfort that gets stimulated. We make space for what comes up to emerge organically. We explore what contributed to getting stimulated and how this gives us information about how we want to respond. By working through things in this way, we eventually are able to meet these stimuli by responding skillfully rather than letting the discomfort unduly influence us.

We'll be exploring

• habits and conditioning that influence how you parent
• working with what gets stimulated in us
• how to have more choice about responses vs. reactions
• how to integrate ideas into your parenting style, making them your own and incorporating them into what you actually do

Join us for a four week introductory session (with option to continue) that takes place over Zoom.

To learn more, email contact@empoweringwisdom.org