6 week Parenting Starter Class (Oxford)

6 week Parenting Starter Class (Oxford)

This course is made up of 6 x 2hr, in person sessions. Also access to extensive online content. We’ll meet Friday mornings  from May 18th. The class has staggered start times so that half the group attend 9.30-12pm and the other half come 10.30-1pm. Please let me know which one you can make. Join me to connect with other parents like you, work on the specific challenges you face in your family, gain guidance and support. You’ll be part of a weekly class in Oxford, with access to all our online starter class video segments. This is the course from our amazing Founder Patty Wipfler, which you get to keep for 6 months and is a great way to consolidate your learning and share with your partner. Learning the approach in this intensive format will allow you to integrate this practice deeply into your family. You’ll also build strong community with like minded parents who you will get to know intimately.  During this 6 week course you will discover how to… Set up support for yourself that allows you to make changes in the automatic parenting responses you wish you didn’t have Listen to your child so that the feel connected and valued Understand your child’s emotions and what they are really asking for; crying, tantrums and how you can respond to them Set clear, effective limits with warmth Heal your child’s fears Help an angry child become playful and compassionate Work on any issues around sleep/food/separation/school/siblings/aggression and more Course content: Week 1 – Understanding children’s emotions, what is really going on? Receiving support for the emotional work of parenting using Listening...
Free talk – Understanding Children’s Emotions (Oxford)

Free talk – Understanding Children’s Emotions (Oxford)

An introduction to the amazing approach from Hand in Hand Parenting. The Hand in Hand approach is therapeutic, trauma informed and consistent with the latest developmental neuroscience. One of the most basic insights confirmed by the neuroscience is that connection is vital to children. A sense of connection is fundamental to children’s ability to learn, co-operate, build healthy relationships, to play and to be creative, as well as for their healthy physical development. Discover a new perspective on your child’s emotional moments and how to manage them in ways that fosters connection as well as practices to increase co-operation from even the most disconnected and difficult child. Active since 2003 as a birthworker, mother of two, ritualkeeper, facilitator and Hand in Hand Parenting consultant: Roma is lit up by listening, connection, intimacy and community. As well as running courses and workshops online and in the UK, Roma holds retreats on parenting, birth, listening, intimacy and creativity. She is a consultant for the acclaimed Arrigo Programme. Roma writes for publications like JUNO Magazine, Practicing Midwife and Huffington Post and consults internationally with individuals on parenting issues, birth preparation or resolution, and the impact of early trauma on relationship. Please email romakitty@gmail.com for information on how to...