Peaceful Parent, Confident Children

Parenting is one of the most challenging and yet rewarding experiences that one can undertake. The art of loving discipline, consistency, flexibility, and creating highly respectful relationships are explored in this interactive program. Raising a child stretches our patience, understandings, and our self-awareness to new heights.

Peaceful parents and confident children go hand in hand. Parents of toddlers to teens will be able to explore new perspectives which increase awareness to our thinking, actions and behaviors. As we grow, our children grow. Personal growth, in relation to self-awareness or self-actualization is directly related to how well we connect to our children.

The Tao of Peace offers workshops to inspire adults in their quest to be a cherished mentor for their children. Please see our sister website www.taoofwisdom.com for resource material, course descriptions, dates and on-line registration*.
 

Parent with Awareness

Foundation Seminar

This workshop seeks to inspire adults in their quest to be a cherished mentor for their children. This is the foundation seminar and is a pre-requisite for all the Peaceful Parent, Confident Children seminars. 

The Conscious Intent Model

Create a vision for parenting, teaching or coaching from your inner wisdom. We start by building a common language and understanding. We look at how the polar opposites of Fear and Love create an umbrella for all emotions. The concept that all emotions are generated from either our fears or from the love that we hold, is pivotal for parenting. We’ll review the impact to you using real life and personal examples that we may face with parenting. The application of the Conscious Intent Model to create a peaceful and effective process is central to the first day.

Models for Increasing Awareness

Learn how to recognize the conditions that will allow you to establish authentic connection with your inner wisdom. The purpose of Day 2 is to increase personal-awareness by recognizing the sign posts of Conscious Intent Model, and the Above/Below the Line model and understand the implications to you and your family. Learn how to switched your perspective, and be clear thinking, calm and centered.


Respond versus React

Learn the 5 basic strategies that are the key to transitioning from reacting to responding. Be in the same state whether there is an ‘expansive’ or ‘contractive’ event. We welcome your real life situations to demonstrate the practical applications.

 

Respectful Connections

Pre-requisite is the foundation course - Parenting with Conscious Intent

This workshop focuses on creating deep levels of respect at the core of our being and parenting style. Respect is the foundational language necessary for a positive parent and child relationship. The ‘how to’ of modeling and teaching self-respect and unwavering confidence, along with great manners and positive communication skills, is explored.

This workshop examines our conditioned strategies that parents, educators and coaches use in their day to day interactions with children that are destructive to building that positive and trusting relationship that we desire.
Additional aspects of this workshop are how to nurture your children’s or students’ highest potential while incorporating the elements of play, fun & laughter into the parent’s role of discipline and coaching.

The course is designed to be interactive as we encourage questions and comments throughout the program. Participants are able to share or not share in keeping with their current level of comfort. Our continued goal is to see all our children’s or students’ behaviours as gifts or opportunities so that we can learn and grow together.

Respect

  • Destructive Games & Strategies

  • Encouraging and Modelling Respect

  • False Versus Real Respect

  • When Disrespect Is Normal

  • Language of Respect

  • Positive Communication

  • Teaching Great Manners

  • Building Pauses


Connect

  • Vulnerability and Openness

  • Listening

  • Capturing the Moments of Connection


The Bond

  • Time the Illusion

  • Play, Fun and Laughter

  • Creating the Highest Potential

  • Trust

 

Discipline is Love in Action

Pre-requisite is the foundation course - Parenting with Conscious Intent

How we create an environment and consciousness of loving discipline is the goal of these sessions. Shifting our perspective from the punitive form of discipline to the interactive learning, coaching, and loving style of discipline builds that powerful bond between child and parent. Strategies and guidelines of discipline and leadership are discussed that allow parents or educators to become a highly respected mentor.

How to encourage and allow for children to take greater levels of responsibility for their behaviours is vital to awaking within them the self-discipline that we wish to nourish. This seminar does not rely on rules that blanket all children and parenting situations with a similar response, rather we will embrace a greater awareness of human behaviour, needs and emotions. Loving discipline is an art and a science that allows all of us greater freedom.

Kids View of Fair Discipline as Love

  • Defining Discipline as Love

  • From Punitive to Learning

  • The Loving Boss

  • Natural & Collaborative Consequences


Communicate So Kid's Will Believe and Trust You

  • Your Word Is Your Bond

  • Say It Once

  • Impeccable Thought, Word & Action

  • Consistency Is the Recipe & Flexibility Rules

  • Art of Asking Questions

  • Being Crystal Clear

  • Identifying The Issues

  • The Behaviour Masks the Core Concern


Open to Change

  • Allow Children Their Feelings

  • Takes Two to Argue

  • Growing Gratitude for Discipline

  • Diminishing Rules Theory

 

Stress to Peace

2hr seminar, 12+ years Recommended for Adults with teens.

Stress is an inevitable part of life.

There are many external ways to deal with stress that are very valuable. For example, nutrition, time management, living conditions and life style choices, etc. This includes where you work and how you use leisure time.

Stress to Peace Workshop focuses on internal ways to deal with stress. We all can learn to reduce, re-frame, or to transform stress into learning opportunities.  Adjusting how we currently handle stress internally will impact and influence how we deal with stress externally. How we view the stresses in our lives impacts how that stress affects us. Learn to transform stress from a negative experience to a catalyst for physical, intellectual and emotional growth.

This 2 hour seminar provides participants with practical strategies that one can apply immediately to transform stress to peace.