(Certificate) Connected and Compassionate Classrooms

Education Topic 5

Creating cooperation and connection.

One of the greatest challenges in parenting is getting children to cooperate. How can we do this without using punishments, rewards, or coercion? This talk explores other ways to help children to cooperate while keeping our connection strong. It explores the benefits of play and connection and gives practical ideas and strategies to use with your child.

The impact of punishments and rewards
The power of play for healing and connection
Take home ideas to use with children
Ways to stop yelling and start connecting
Healthy boundaries

Education Topic 4

Creating a new paradigm in education.

This talk for educators or anyone who works with children focuses on behaviour and helping children to thrive. Much of our education system still focuses on behaviorism paradigms and ticking boxes, instead of seeing the child in front of us. This conversation helps educators to look behind what they see and create new ways to helps children be the best version of themselves.

Navigating challenging behavior
Understanding our reactions
Supporting ourselves to support children
Ways to create connection and calm
Supporting intrinsic learning

Education Topic 3

Building resilience.

This talk explores how to help our children navigate a world with so many ups and downs. How do we foster resilience in our children without them becoming disconnected or pessimistic? What do we model to our children and how can helping them to much become a problem.

What is resilience
How to support our child through adversity
Navigating anxiety and worry
Helping our children find their power

Education Topic 2

Raising teens to be amazing humans.

Navigating the teenage years can be tricky and challenging and having a greater understanding of what is unfolding for teens in this modern age, can help to strengthen your relationship and foster deeper connection and love with your child.

This all sounds good in theory, but what does it look like in real life. This talk shares tips and tools to foster trust and connection with your teen, as well as help you unpack your reactions and responses.

I explore helping our children to be resilient as well as supporting them to find their wings so they can step into adulthood with confidence.

Changes in dynamics with puberty and growth
Managing technology
What conversations should I be having around puberty and sex
Alternatives to threats and punishments
Coping with resistant, defiant or aggressive behaviour
Exploring what triggers you as a parent

Education Topic 1

How to be a connected parent.

This talk explores how we can raise emotionally intelligent children, whilst not passing on our own baggage and wounds. So much of how we parent has got to do with how we were raised and the messages we interrupted to be true. Raising our children in this modern age with compassion and empathy, can be hard, especially in this fast paced stressed world in which we live. This talk gives parents and educators tips and insights into how we can raise emotionally aware children with boundaries, humour, and love.

Navigating big feelings
Limits and boundaries
Cooperation with play
Parents, imprints and why we get triggered
Fostering connection so our children feel safe
Helping children become resilient

Corporate Topic 6

Creating a compassionate classroom.

Bringing emotional awareness and connection into a classroom can be tricky in a system that works with punitive practices. This talk explores tools and techniques to use with children in the education setting as well as exploring our beliefs and reactions as educators. It also looks at why we need to focus on relationships and connections, not data and what we can all do to bring about change for children.

Simple ways to stay connected to your students
Navigating challenging behaviours
Understanding trauma in children and how to respond
Ways to bring more compassionate responses to your workplace
Taking care of your needs in a system that is data-driven

Corporate Topic 5

Do we all have trauma and what can we do about it?

After navigating a very tumultuous 2 years, many people are finding themselves with mental health issues and concerns that haven’t been presented before. Whether we know it or not, we have all just lived through trauma, and integrating that into our lives can feel challenging and confronting.

This talk explores mental health and understanding the triggers and responses that sometimes occur for us. The talk is designed to facilitate discussion and trust between colleagues and improve workplace compassion and understanding as well as foster greater connection, which creates greater cooperation.

Understanding trauma
Reflection on how this shows up in our lives
What can we do about it
Creating greater empathy and understanding for others
Tools to navigate and support our mental health

Corporate Topic 4

Raising resilient and cooperative kids.

Everybody wants to be resilient and every parent hopes for resilient children. But is it all about toughening up, or getting vulnerable?

This talk explores how we support children to become resilient as well as how we can use connection to facilitate cooperation. Not resorting to punishments and rewards feels risky for many adults, but this conversation speaks to why non-punitive measures are the way forward.

What is resilience
Why feelings matter
Alternatives to punishments and rewards
Creating cooperation
Unpacking what we have been told and why it needs to change

Corporate Topic 3

Raising teens to be amazing humans.

Navigating the teenage years can be tricky and challenging and having a greater understanding of what is unfolding for teens in this modern age, can help to strengthen your relationship and foster deeper connection and love with your child. This all sounds good in theory, but what does it look like in real life. This talk shares tips and tools to foster trust and connection with your teen, as well as help you unpack your reactions and responses. I explore helping our children to be resilient as well as supporting them to find their wings so they can step into adulthood with confidence.

Changes in dynamics with puberty and growth
Managing technology
What conversations should I be having around puberty and sex?
Alternatives to threats and punishments
Coping with resistant, defiant or aggressive behaviour
Exploring what triggers you as a parent

Corporate Topic 2

What are imprints and why do they matter?

What does the way I was raised have to do with how I lead and interact with others? This talk explores the imprints and belief systems that shape the way we think, interact and create in our lives. This is not just about positive thinking or goal setting, this talk invites people to reflect on what happened in the past that now affects their future. We explore why we get triggered, why we sabotage ourselves and what holds us back from living the life we want? A brilliant talk for leaders and their teams to dive deeper into the unconscious patterns that stop us from living our truth and creating what we desire. We often have to look at the past to see the future we want.

What are imprints and how do they show up in my life
Steps to unpack what doesn’t flow in your life
Tools to reflect on why we react the way we do
Insights into changing patterns in relationships, parenting, and work
Getting clear on what you want and what’s stopping you

Corporate Topic 1

Raising emotionally intelligent children.

How can we raise emotionally intelligent children, whilst not passing on our own baggage and wounds? So much of how we parent has got to do with how we were raised and the messages we interpreted to be true. Raising our children in this modern age with compassion and empathy, can be hard, especially in this fast paced stressed world in which we live. This talk gives parents and educators tips and insights into how we can raise emotionally aware children with boundaries, humour, and love.

What is emotional intelligence
Navigating big feelings
Limits and boundaries
Creating cooperation
Parents, imprints, and why we get triggered

After the great success of The Aware Parenting Podcast, my colleague Marion Rose and I are excited to release our first book on parenting. Be notified on the launch: