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Parenting circle: 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 in with what we've been told. Parts of us get labeled wrong, rejected or shut down. Working with what gets triggered in us can help us connect to these parts. What is it like to acknowledge what these parts have to say? To welcome and trust all parts of ourselves and the wisdom they hold? 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. We make space for what comes up to emerge organically. We explore what contributed to our stimulation and how this gives us information. Through doing this, we gain more choice in how we meet our life situations.
We'll be exploring
- habits and conditioning that influence how we 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 we each are interested in and develop our own parenting style
Our next four week session is tentatively scheduled for the four Sundays in June. The meetings take place over Zoom from 11:30 am - 1 pm EDT, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT, 9:30 - 11 am MDT, 8:30 - 10 am PDT. Display time in your time zone.
We are also considering holding meetings on Fridays from 6:30 - 8 pm EDT Display time in your time zone.
The suggested contribution for participating in this circle is a sliding scale of $40 - $100.
To express interest in joining us on Sundays or Fridays at these times or to see other time windows that work for the facilitators and propose times that would work for you within those time windows, go to empoweringwisdom.org/signup You can also go to this signup to add yourself to a mailing list to be notified about future Empowering Wisdom events.
To learn more, email contact@empoweringwisdom.org or call 734-237-7676.