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Parenting circle coming soon...
Exploring parenting 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 enable us to more quickly go to self empathy in our everyday lives. We so often leave parts of ourselves behind to fit with what we've been told. Parts of us get shut down, labeled wrong, etc. What is it like to acknowledge what these parts have to say, to welcome these parts and their wisdom. How can we do this for ourselves and for our children?
We will be paying attention to what stimulates us and exploring how to sit with the discomfort that gets stimulated. We make space for what comes up to emerge organically, welcoming all parts of ourselves. We explore what contributed to getting stimulated and how this gives us information about how we want to respond. This facilitates eventually being 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
- welcoming all parts of ourselves
- how to have more choice about responses vs. reactions
- how to integrate parenting ideas you are exploring 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