Mindful Parenting
An 8-week course to strengthen your inner resources as a parent
Are you the mindfully present parent you want to be?
- Do you often multi-task causing you to feel distracted and disconnected from your child?
- Do you find yourself reacting too quickly, saying or doing things that you regret later?
- Are you hard on yourself when making mistakes or not being the kind of parent you want to be?
Parenting can be immensely rewarding and nourishing, but it can also be stressful, involving a non-stop stream of changing emotions, often causing us to react reflexively, especially during challenging moments.
You're Not Alone!
But what if you could learn to slow down, respond with greater awareness, and fully appreciate precious moments with your family?
That’s what Mindful Parenting is about!
To learn more about what the Mindful Parenting Course entails, sign up for the wait list:
What Is Mindful Parenting?
This 8-week course is designed to teach mindfulness to parents.
Mindful Parenting was originally developed by Prof. Susan Bögels at the University of Amsterdam. It is based on the proven effective mindfulness trainings of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
At the heart of this course lies mindfulness training. Mindfulness is clear, non-judgmental awareness that allows us to perceive and accept all experiences—whether pleasant or unpleasant—with curiosity and kindness.
For parents, this can include:
- Continually seeing the uniqueness of our children
- Consciously enjoying pleasant moments with them
- Accepting challenging moments with more inner peace
- Treating ourselves kindly and practicing self-care
Or, based on the definition of Jon Kabat-Zinn:
Mindful parenting is not a fixed destination; it’s an ongoing, creative journey. It invites us to intentionally cultivate non-judgmental awareness in every moment. This awareness extends to both our inner world—our thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations—and the outer world of our children, family, home, and broader cultural context.
How Mindfulness Helps with Parenting Stress
In this course, you will develop:
- Deep Awareness: You attune to our child’s unique nature, feelings, and needs. This sensitivity allows you to respond with empathy and understanding.
- Present Listening: You learn to truly listen, giving your full attention to your children. In doing so, you create a space for authentic connection.
- Radical Acceptance: You embrace things as they are, whether pleasant or challenging. This acceptance frees you from unnecessary struggle and allows you to meet each moment with grace.
- Skillful Responses: Recognising your own reactive impulses, you choose to respond imaginatively and with kindness. This clarity helps you navigate parenting challenges more effectively.
Mindful Parenting
An 8-week Group Course
Course features
Format: Online Sessions (Zoom)
- A personal preliminary discussion with me – book your free call HERE.
- Eight weekly group sessions – online, on Zoom – lasting one and a half hours. Practice meditation and mindfulness in real-time, supplemented by theory and group discussions, providing you with the practical experience to find more presence in your daily life.
- Daily Practice: practical exercises that are easily integrated into everyday life enabling you to build a sustainable, daily mindfulness practice.
- Half-Day Retreat: a chance to deepen your mindfulness practice.
- Follow-Up Session: taking place eight weeks after the course, to reconnect and share insights.
- Course materials: reflection exercises and instructions for meditations.
Mindful Parenting course: CHF 650.
To hear about the next dates for the Mindful Parenting course first, join the waitlist:
How Can I Guide You?
As a mum who has overcome burnout, I made it my mission to help others going through similar challenges. I have trained as Mindful Parenting Teacher with Susan Bögels, professor in Family Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and leading researcher on mindfulness for children and parents.
I will help you experience mindfulness, rather than just intellectually understand it as a concept. Drawing on my own yoga and mindfulness practice, and experience as a mother, I will guide you towards a lasting positive transformation.
In working with me, you’ll find a safe space for you to navigate the challenges of parenthood supported by my empathy and expertise.
FAQs
Mindful Parenting is an 8-week live online course designed to teach mindfulness to parents through various mindfulness practices, meditation, and self-reflection exercises. The course includes live sessions, at-home practice and support materials.
Key results include establishing a regular personal meditation practice, which can create a positive ripple effect throughout your entire life.
Parents (individuals or couples) of children of all ages, from babies to adults.
The course involves 8 one-and-a-half-hour group sessions, every week, and a follow-up 2 months after completion, with additional resources provided for your use. The commitment extends beyond the sessions, encouraging the integration of strategies into your daily life.
Typically, you would want to allocate an additional 30 to 40minutes of practice a day.
The Mindful Parenting course specifically teaches key mindfulness skills through practical experience to help parents cope better with stress, anxiety, and everyday demands, recognising that the one variable parents can influence the most is themselves.
In the context of Parental Burnout, Mindfulness is one stress management tool, while the Back into Balance coaching programme is a more comprehensive programme adressing the multiple challenges faced by mothers experiencing burnout.
The Mindful Parenting course teaches mindfulness skills to apply in a family context, to help parents cope better with stress, anxiety, and everyday demands.
Other parenting courses may focus on external strategies or behavioral techniques directed towards the children without delving into inner self-awareness.
If you may be interested but are not fully clear on the content of the course, please reach out and book a FREE call HERE.
A key result of the course is the establishment of a regular personal meditation practice. The benefits of meditation are proven and go way beyond the realm of parenting, so this will create a positive ripple effect in your entire life.
The Mindful Parenting program, developed and rigorously tested over the past 20 years by Prof. Susan Bögels and her colleagues, has yielded remarkable outcomes.
Independent international researchers worldwide have confirmed its effectiveness in various contexts:
- Parental and Child Wellbeing: Participants experience profound and long-lasting positive effects on parental and child psychopathology and overall wellbeing.
- Reduced Parenting Stress: The program significantly reduces parenting stress, allowing parents to navigate challenges with greater ease.
- Improved Parenting Practices: Parents become less reactive and more sensitive, enhancing the quality of the parent-child relationship.
- Co-Parenting Benefits: Mindful Parenting positively impacts co-parenting dynamics.
Diverse Settings: These results extend across clinical, preventive, mental health, somatic, and online settings.
As a mum who has overcome burnout, I made it my mission to help others going through similar challenges. I have trained as Mindful Parenting Teacher with Susan Bögels, professor in Family Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and leading researcher on mindfulness for children and parents.
Mindfulness is something to be practiced and experienced rather than just intellectually understood as a concept. Drawing on my own yoga and mindfulness practice, and experience as a mother, I will guide you towards a lasting positive transformation.
In working with me, you’ll find a safe space for you to navigate the challenges of parenthood supported by my empathy and expertise.