Session 1: Transitioning Into Conscious Parenting

In this first session we will:

• Discuss what conscious parenting is, how it compares to other parenting styles, and the benefits to you your family.

• Discuss what it looks like in practical every day situations.

• Discuss the challenges and how to work through them.

• Practice and discuss Conscious Parenting responses through role play scenarios

• Give you some concrete action steps that you can begin implementing now.

Session 2: Decolonize Your Parenting 

In this session we will :

• Talk about the true definition of discipline

• Talk about child brain development and how it impacts their behavior

• Discuss the impacts of punishment and physical discipline

• Discuss how colonization and our respective cultures impact our parenting choices.

• Discuss various ways to approach undesirable behavior using what we've learned.

Session 3: From Control and Coercion to Connection and Collaboration

In this final session we will:

• Discuss the role control plays in our parenting

• Discuss triggers and how to work through them

• Evaluate our automated "no"response and explore the power of "yes"

• Discuss forced respect

• Look at parenting in action videos, and workshop scenarios from participants.