SELF-CARE IN PARENTING:

Each day will go from 1.5 to 2 hours, including time to answer your questions.

No worries if you can't stay the whole time, we'll be recording it, and the recording will be available until July 15.

This seminar is for anyone overwhelmed with parenting, including parents who have particularly big challenges:

1) parents of children with special needs, including complex trauma, neurocomplexity, medical complexity, and mental health challenges

2) parents with special needs themselves, including complex trauma, neurocomplexity, medical complexity, and mental health challenges

Yes, kind of. We're providing a lot of information about the what and how of achieving self-care in parenting, and the course supports parents in getting there if they don't feel they can do it on their own.

We find that children do best when parents follow some basic practices that are common across modern hunter-gatherer societies around the world. 95% of our evolution happened while we were hunter-gatherers, and when we apply what these wise cultures teach us about child rearing, the families we work with report that life becomes calmer and more joyful with their children. 

It makes sense: hunter-gatherers are living similarly to how children are genetically accustomed to being raised. They come out of the womb expecting this treatment, and when they don't get it, conflict ensues.

Children with challenges are especially averse to our modern deviations from hunter-gatherer practices. When these practices are restored, they express a sense of relief and calm. The stress release frees them up to become more cooperative and connected.

To apply these practices, we use current neuroscience that is very much in alignment with hunter-gatherer parenting practices. Neuroscience helps contextualize the ideas, providing us with additional understanding about why these practices work and how to apply them in our modernized society.