Empowering Parents to Mindfully Manage Today's Challenges
Following an innovative framework for parental growth rooted in evidence-based techniques, integrating Eastern & Western health-promoting practices, and enhanced with an added dash of compassion, fun, and humor. We specialize in neurodiversity but are inclusive to all parents.
Creating a Strong Foundation for Wellbeing within the Family
This simple-to-implement yet impactful parent-centered framework aims to provide much-deserved support to those parents who may have neglected their own health and well-being in pursuit of meeting their child's extra needs.
Why help parents to stress less
Strengthening Connections
Our program fosters a deeper understanding of both the parents' and the child’s self-regulation needs, especially regarding sensory processing challenges. By learning to view behavior through this lens, parents can connect with their children more empathetically, leading to improved communication and minimized behavioral issues.
Practical Strategies for Home
Provide parents with actionable strategies for creating structured environments that foster skill development for their children. These strategies support smoother transitions and promote independence in everyday routines, helping parents stress less and children thrive.
The Empowered Parent Pathway aims to unite and empower parents globally.
By equipping parents with knowledge and resources to support their own and their child's mental, physical, and emotional well-being, methods utilized by top therapists, these tools become accessible to every parent.
These skills benefit both the parent and child while also enhancing parents' abilities to navigate the complex dynamics of raising a child with additional needs.
Stress Management
Self-Awareness & Mindfulness Skills
Emotional Intellegence
Taking this parental growth journey with us will change the prism through which you see yourself as a parent & your child. You will learn & use simple but effective tools & practices to approach everyday situations with more consciousness, connection, and calm.
Why Take this Workshop?
- When we experience high levels of stress, our relationships become strained and stressed. When we better manage our stress, we can create more positive and loving connections with those around us.
- When our health & well-being suffer, the family suffers.
- Our children (especially our sensitive ones) feel our emotions. When you are overwhelmed or feeling discontent, even when you say you are OK, your body and emotional energy tell a different story. What emotional energy do you want to share with your child? Frustration, guilt, sadness, or courage, gratitude, acceptance, and love?
- No one taught us how to handle parenting challenges, how to care for ourselves so we can better care for our children, & how to balance everything.
- Life can be different when we have the right tools, & support to create a new story.
- By showing children that being an adult does not solely equate to stress and burdens but also includes opportunities for joy and fulfillment, we can instill in them a healthy perspective on adulthood.
- When we are feeling happy and less stressed, it is MUCH easier to help our kids feel this way, too.
Parent's Feedback
This is something that every parent needs to do for themselves and their children. I did not even realize I needed this course, but I am so grateful I joined.
Rachel
Mom of 2-teens (one with ADHD)
My relationship with my son has completely changed. I have replaced feelings of guilt and resentment with love and acceptance. Thank you!
Ida
Single mother of child with developmental delays
Extremely helpful. Clearly we need to be able to reduce our own stress and stress in the household in order to help the kids reduce theirs.
Tracy
Mother of two with special needs
Dr. Shaffer is not only knowledgeable, but extremely empathetic and relatable. She shares and opens up fearlessly about her own parenting experiences to invite a safe space for parents and caregivers to get support, be heard and get inspired! She is a privilege to meet and learn from. A true gem!
Audray
Mother of a young girl with autism
Excellent resource for parents looking to make that leap from frustration to problem-solving mode. Parents will gain the confidence that working to regulate our own emotions and stress will help us carve out a safer space and a calmer environment for both parents and children to thrive.
Darcy
Grandmother of two highly spirited boys
Your Facilitator
Dr. Elizabeth Joy Shaffer
International Speaker
IFIP Distinguished Fellow & Educator
Mother Mindfully Managing Neurodiversity
Published Researcher (Parent Stress)
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
Parent Coach
Holistically supporting families worldwide since 2001, drawing from professional & personal experiences, adding in Eastern & Western wellness practices to bring innovative & impactful solutions to child development, neurodiversity, & parenting in a fun way.
Join us and change the parenting paradigm to make life as a parent more enjoyable and less stressful.
