Reparenting Ourselves
Raising Our Children
An 8-Week Journey into Connected, Conscious Parenting Focusing Course for Parents
The relationship you have with yourself shapes the relationship you have with your child.
Every child invites us into moments of joy, wonder, frustration, overwhelm and deep love. Often, the situations that challenge us most are not simply about our child’s behaviour—they are invitations to discover something within ourselves that is asking to be seen, understood and cared for.
This eight-week course offers a gentle, practical and compassionate approach to parenting that begins with you.
Rather than asking, “How do I change my child?” we begin with a different question:
“What is happening in me, and how can I stay present to both myself and my child at the same time?”
As we learn to welcome our own emotions, triggers and unmet needs with kindness, we naturally become more emotionally available to our children. We move from reacting to responding, from controlling to connecting, and from fixing behaviour to understanding what it is communicating.
Throughout the course we explore:
How can I stay present when my child is struggling?
Learn simple embodied practices that help you pause, regulate and remain emotionally available during difficult moments.
What are my child’s behaviours trying to communicate?
Understand behaviour as communication and learn to recognise the needs, feelings and developmental stages that sit beneath challenging behaviour.
What happens when my child triggers me?
Discover how your child’s reactions can awaken your own early experiences, offering opportunities for healing, greater self-awareness and personal growth.
How can I care for myself while caring for my child?
Develop greater self-compassion, emotional resilience and practical ways of meeting your own needs without guilt.
How do I respond rather than react?
Learn how slowing down creates space for thoughtful, connected responses that strengthen trust and emotional safety.
How do I communicate in ways that build connection?
Explore needs-based communication that helps children feel heard, respected and understood while maintaining healthy, age-appropriate boundaries.
What you will learn:
Over eight weeks you will develop:
- Greater confidence in understanding your child's emotional world.
- Practical ways to regulate your own nervous system during challenging moments.
- Skills to recognise and work compassionately with your own triggers.
- A deeper understanding of attachment, co-regulation and emotional development.
- Greater self-trust and confidence in your parenting.
- Tools for listening beyond behaviour into underlying needs.
- Age-appropriate ways to respond that support your child's emotional and developmental growth.
- A more connected relationship with yourself, your child and your family.
Who is this course for?
This course is for:
- Parents of babies, toddlers, children and teenagers.
- Expectant parents preparing for family life.
- Foster and adoptive parents.
- Grandparents and carers.
- Anyone who wants to parent with greater awareness, compassion and connection.
No previous experience is needed—only a willingness to become curious about yourself and your child.
My Approach
This is not a parenting course built around rewards, consequences or behaviour management. Instead, it is an experiential journey that helps you understand what happens inside both you and your child during everyday interactions.
Each week combines gentle teaching, guided self-reflection, embodied Focusing practices, real-life parenting examples and opportunities to explore your own experiences in a warm and supportive community.
You will learn to:
- pause before reacting
- welcome your own inner experience without judgement
- understand your child's developmental needs
- recognise behaviour as meaningful communication
- build secure attachment through everyday interactions
- create emotional safety while maintaining loving boundaries
- trust yourself as the parent your child needs.
As you become more able to accompany your own inner world with kindness, you also become more able to accompany your child’s.
Parenting becomes less about getting it right and more about growing together.
Course Structure
Week 1 — Parenting Brings Up You
Developing the Focusing Attitude
Embodied awareness and noticing what happens within us during parent-child interactions.
Week 2 — Pause Before You React
From reaction to response
The Focusing pause, bodily awareness and “something in me” language.
Week 3 — What’s Underneath My Reaction?
Triggers, needs and our own childhood
Recognising younger experiences activated through parenting and differentiating past from present.
Week 4 — Listening Beneath Behaviour
What is my child communicating?
Moving from fixing behaviour towards curiosity and listening in three directions: me, my child and our relationship.
Week 5 — Accompanying Big Feelings
Being with rather than fixing
Supporting crying, anger, frustration and disappointment while noticing our own response to our child’s distress.
Week 6 — Needs, Boundaries & No
Me here. You there. Still connected.
Holding parent and child needs, establishing boundaries and remaining connected when needs conflict.
Week 7 — The Expressive Child
Play, movement and symbolisation
Using drawing, play, movement, gesture, sound and storytelling as pathways into children’s embodied experience.
Week 8 — From Technique to a Way of Being
Integration and life-forward movement
Bringing the Focusing Attitude into everyday family life and strengthening self-trust, connection and autonomy.
Core Framework
Pause → Sense → Listen → Differentiate → Accompany → Connect → Respond
And the relational framework I would make central to the course:
My Inside Place → Your Inside Place → The Space Between Us
This builds naturally on the resource’s emphasis on bodily awareness, felt sense and inner wisdom
while bringing it into the parent-child relationship.
Dates: tba
Price : 440 EUR