Mindful Parenting

Who is it for?

This course is designed for mothers, fathers, guardians and primary caregivers of children of any age, especially those who:

• Feel stress, overwhelm or burnout from parenting.
• Tend to react with shouting, anger or impulsiveness and want to respond more calmly.
• Want to improve emotional connection and communication with their children.
• Want to break automatic or inherited parenting patterns and parent from a place of respect.

Duration and frequency

The programme lasts 8 weeks, with one 2–2.5-hour group session a week, plus daily practice at home of 15–20 minutes. Intensive weekend workshops and 4-week introductory workshops are also offered.

What do we work on?

• Mapping autopilot: Identifying how we react unconsciously to family stress and learning to “pause” before acting.
• Beginner’s mind in parenting: Learning to see our children as they are in the present moment, letting go of labels, expectations and judgments from the past.
• Stress management and self-regulation: Breathing and body-awareness techniques to calm our own nervous system when a child has a tantrum or behaves in a challenging way.
• Acceptance and compassion: Learning to treat ourselves kindly when we make parenting mistakes (self-compassion) and to accept our child’s limits.
• Conflict and repair: Strategies to resolve family disagreements assertively and to repair the emotional bond after a moment of tension.