Mindful Parenting Course

Service Description

This Program offers a pioneering approach to bring mindfulness into the domain of parenting and the lives of stressed families, for the benefit of both the children and the parents. This Program is both profoundly practical and, at the same time, potentially transformative and healing. This Mindful Parenting program can help parents in the following ways: - Respond less reactively to parenting stress. - Take better care of themselves. - Develop more empathy and compassion for themselves and for their child. - Tolerate difficult emotions in themselves and their child. - Become more accepting of themselves and their child. - Recognize patterns from their own upbringing as they arise in the here and now relationship with their child. - Resolve conflict better with their child. - Develop a stronger bond with their child. - Fully Experience both the joys and difficulties of parenting - Relate differently to parental suffering: while not all problems will change, parents attitudes towards these problems may. The Course is taught by David Fallon, Mindfulness Teacher, Parent of two, Community Organizer and Mental Health Advocate. Delivered in 8 x 90 minute Sessions. The Course outline is as follows: Week 1 - Automatic Parenting Week 2 - Beginners Mind Parenting Week 3 - Reconnecting with our Body as a Parent Week 4 - Responding Versus Reacting to Parenting Stress Week 5 - Parenting Patterns and Schemas Week 6 - Conflict and Parenting Week 7 - Love and Limits: Cultivating Compassion and Setting Limits Week 8 - Are We There Yet? A Mindful Path Through Parenting The Course Begins on Sunday, February 29 from 10am-11:30am (Pacific Standard Time) and will be conducted over Zoom. For any questions feel free to Call David Fallon on 604-889-0547.