You’ll learn exactly how to reflect and where you stand on your parenting path with tools and questions to stimulate reflection and bring about awareness, so that you begin to gain comfort with observing your physical, mental, and emotional states, and get clear about your parenting vision and goals. This means that you won’t be jumping into the learning part of this material without having properly self-assessed first, a crucial step in the transformation process.

You’ll learn the 10 core pillars of empowered parenting, the traditional parenting styles, and become aware of your own generational parenting patterns, so that you can recognize the behaviors you were raised with and how it influenced you. This means that you’ll be able to identify unhelpful parenting tactics and avoid repeating the same behaviors with your children.

You’ll learn the different attachment styles and how your system learns how to organize behavior to meet your need for safety and security, so that you can understand, not only how your attachment style was formed, but also all about your child’s attachment to you. You’ll also do some extensive personal reflection exercises here, so that you can begin making sense of the ways you seek security and connection today, no longer having to unconsciously react to reach a state of safety.

You’ll learn and understand how the body responds to threat, why so many of your child’s behaviors are perceived as a threat, and how to retrain your nervous system to resolve this. You’ll also learn the different states of the nervous system and how to work with your child to reach a state of security. This will teach you how to have the capacity to be present. This means that you will know how to feel peace, ease, and patience during conflict and emotional outbursts, without having to struggle managing your own emotions or your child’s emotions.

You will learn how to really see your child and what they are really trying to tell you underneath their behavior, and clearing out what gets in the way of us being able to do that daily, so that you can develop greater understanding and responsiveness when your child struggles, being able to give them exactly what they need most from you. This means that you’ll no longer keep spiraling down each time with your child into disconnection, conflict, or further dysregulation.

You’ll learn how to name and monitor your own feelings and emotions, as well as help your child do the same, how to most effectively communicate feelings and needs, and develop a deep capacity for empathy, so that you’ll increase your comfort and ability to feel your emotions without feeling the need to rage or hide all the time.

You’ll learn all about your relationship with your voice and self-expression, processes for the most effective communication, and generational habits that keep us from connecting in conversation, so that you can speak in a way that fosters the utmost connection and cooperation in your family. This means that you won’t have to resort to shouting, threats, or keep repeating yourself to gain respect or acknowledgement. You’ll be able to have conversations with them that go smoothly and don’t actually end in a feud every time.

You’ll learn my 5-step signature process that can be used for any everyday parenting scenario with your child, replacing all disciplinary strategies like threats, punishments, bribes, timeouts, and trying to come up with consequences. You’ll also learn how to establish boundaries and limits that are respected, and the absolute best ways to approach consequences that promote trust, collaboration, peace, and connection. This means that you won’t have to exhaust yourself with constantly trying to use force or manipulation to gain respect and cooperation ever again.

You’ll learn the purpose and value of anger, your personal relationship with anger and how to develop a healthy and appropriate relationship with it, and powerful everyday tools for navigating anger and aggression, so that you can show up for your child in total security and confidence when they display anger and aggression, and know exactly how to be with them in their anger and guide them. This means that you won’t have to feel dread or fear your child’s big feelings, or have to fight against their anger, which often leads to explosive arguments, disconnection, and the gradual erosion of your relationship with them. So that they feel like they can lean on you in their distress, rather than need to protect themselves from you.

You’ll learn the huge variety of playful ways you can connect with your child, no matter their age, the types of play that your child prefers most, and the types of play that you like best, your limits in play, and even your wounding around play, so that play is not just a luxury once all the chores and to-dos are checked off, but an important and integral part of your daily parenting, that can alleviate a lot of the seriousness that comes with accomplishing our daily tasks. You’ll also learn how to teach your child important life lessons and concepts through storytelling.

Each video lesson is approximately 15 min - 1 hour. And each assessment is 7 questions long. Depending on your specific schedule and responsibilities, most parents complete the course within 1 week. Please check with your coordinator to make sure this course meets your specific court-appointed requirements.

This course is 100% online and self-paced. To complete this course, simply log in to your portal with your username and password to watch the tutorial videos and complete the assessment for each lesson. There is no in-person portion of this course.