Parenting with resilience and joy
A 6 Week Course for parents and carers.
Parenting is one of the most meaningful things we do, and one of the most demanding. If you’ve ever felt exhausted and stressed, snapped at your children and then been consumed by guilt, you are not alone. This course is for you, whether your children are babies, toddlers, teenagers, or adults – wherever you are at in your parenting.
Dates & time:
6 Thursdays | 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Nov 5th – Nov 12th – Nov 19th – Nov 26th – Dec 3rd – Jan 7th
Price: €270
Location: Aventine Wellness Gardens, Tresilian, Foxrock, Co. Dublin
Facilitators
Fiona Clarke
With Fiona Clarke, Senior Trainer at Mind With Heart, you will explore how to bring more calm, connection and joy into family life, so you can meet the daily challenges of parenting with more ease.
This course will help you:
- reduce stress, anxiety, reactivity and self-criticism
- reconnect with inner confidence, and the heart of parenting
- discover fun, simple tools to share well-being with your children
Each session blends mindfulness and emotional health practices with the latest well-being research — and plenty of space for real conversation and connection. No previous mindfulness experience needed, just an open heart.
The setting
This will be a small, supported and safe group, in a tranquil, natural sanctuary – a real retreat from the home environment.
What we will explore together
- Understanding causes of stress and well-being, and what helps us thrive
- Building a simple daily mindfulness practice, and an “on-the-spot” practice
- Feeling well in ourselves so we can care well for others
- Finding calm and presence
- Changing our relationship with challenging thoughts and emotions
- Making space for self-care and emotional health
- Empathy, boundaries and healthy relationships
- Communicating with more emotional intelligence
- Emotional regulation for children and adults
- The latest research on well-being
The course includes:
- 6 weekly sessions x 1.5 hours
- a course booklet with session highlights and practices
- weekly follow-up emails with session summaries, guided audio exercises,
- short videos and other helpful resources
Week by Week:
Week 1: Prioritising self-care
- What is driving the stress in my life
- Well-being is a skill we can build – what the research tells us
- An introduction to mindfulness, and mindful listening
Week 2: Out of our heads, into our senses
- Reconnecting with the body and what it is telling us
- Mindfulness of the senses – the mindful mandarin
- Running on autopilot, distraction and unhappiness
Week 3: Who is the boss, me or my thoughts?
- Why our minds cling to the negative, and what to do about it
- Understanding the brain, so we don’t flip our lid
- RAIN: a gentle practice to self-soothe in difficult moments
Week 4: Feeling emotions without becoming them
- Can I feel a difficult emotion and not react habitually?
- A real challenge I face as a parent: the gift of mindful listening
- Cultivating positive emotions, noticing the good that’s already here
Week 5: Becoming a good friend to myself
- Softening the self-critic, finding a kinder inner voice
- What nourishes me? What drains me?
- Wishing myself well, the way I would a good friend
Week 6: Bringing it all home
- Emotion coaching – helping our children with big feelings
- Emotional regulation exercises for children and adults
- Building a daily practice that fits our lives