HeartMentors’ Inaugural 10 Week Webcourse
(September 8th thru November 21st 2010)
Key Concept that we will explore each week,
Reflection questions to help personalize the learning,
Practices for the week that create an experiential understanding,
Readings on current research and input from diverse fields, and
Activities to do with your children and reinforce what we are learning.
Interactive webcourse: Every person can write to every other person in the class, and I will respond to each participant weekly.
Parent-tested toolkit: You will practice and master over 15 powerful, practical tools for truly parenting from the heart.
Additional webinars and teleconferences: I will be doing live demonstrations of key practices, sharing uplifting (and sometimes humorous) real-life stories and answering your real-time questions.
Follow-up Parenting-from-the-Heart Blog. This will enable you to continue to share with myself and the other web-participants after the webcourse finishes.
Selected Topics:
Managing Stress from the heart for parents and children
Heart’s crucial role in child’s social-emotional-cognitive development
Triune Brain: brain downshifting & emotional hi-jacking
Heart-Rhythm Practices: for physical and emotional health
Forgiveness: freeing ourselves and our children from the prison of the past
Emotional Acupressure: reducing stress & releasing old baggage
Entrainment: the key to empathy & effective communication
Multiple Intelligences: honoring diversity & finding purpose
EQ vs. IQ: why smart people do dumb things