MINDFUL PARENTING

What This Course will Offer You:

Mindfully looking at our patterns of behavior: what works and what doesn't.
Dealing with difficult emotions
The impact and how to transform harmful automatic ways of being.
Discovering beliefs and shoulds that we have and perhaps impose on our children.
Looking at subtle unintended ways we may be damaging our children's relationship and trust with themselves.
Building lasting love and connection with our kids as they grow up.
How to empower our children to take responsibility for their behavior and their life vs. demanding that they do thus causing distance and compromised listening between us.

For more information and or to join the OPEN trial session, please call Natalie at 99.488091 or express interest below. There are weekly sessions both in the mornings and in the evenings.

Monday mornings 10:30-11:30 am in English and Tuesday evenings 8:30-9:30 pm in Greek.

For the dates and times of all our classes for kids, parents and adults please see our calendar.

Express Interest

MINDFUL PARENTING - THE COURSE SESSION BY SESSION

The sessions do not have to be done in order, so it is not important that you start with session 1. These classes go in cycles. They complete and then start again.

Session 1: Basic Rules and exercises of Mindful Parenting/ Why mindfulness is a gift for parenting

Session 2: Developmental Stages of Children

Session 3: How to deal with your children's upsets using Mindfulness

Session 4: The importance of validating our children's feelings (MET)

Session 5: Being Mindful of the context from which to set limits with your children

Session 6: Dealing with misbehavior/ Consequences and Acknowledgment Vs. Punishment and Bribe
Session 7: Fostering Gratitude and Appreciation

Session 8: Distinguishing how we unknowingly diminish our children's self-concept

Session 9: Mindful Time/ Bonding Time

Session 10: Empowering our children to deal powerfully with bullying/ Building Self-Resilience
Session 11: Empowering our children's self-concept vs teaching them obedience

Session 12: Heal your inner Child and Find the parent you truly want to be

Session 13: Love as a presence

Session 14: Dealing with our own Shame and its impact/ Transforming Shaming

Session 15: Dealing with our own Guilt and its impact

Session 16: Dismantling Emotional Experience to reduce Overwhelm/ Transcending Guilt

Session 17: Uncovering our hidden Listening and hooks

Session 18: Addiction to being right vs. letting go

Session 19: Being mindful of how we speak and of our child's language

Session 20: Teaching responsibility

Session 21: Growth mindset. Speaking possibility instead of limits
Session 22: Releasing our children to find their way

Session 23: Our automatic parenting, the impact and how to transform it - April 22nd and 29th

Session 24: Being mindful of our automatic patterns and creating new ones- May 13th

Session 25: Authentic vs. in-authentic emotions- May 20th

Session 26: Dealing with Anger using Mindfulness - May 27th

Session 27: Types of Emotional Regulation- June 3rd

Session 28: Mindful Communication - June 10th

Session 29: Transforming Complaints - June 17th

Session 30: Dealing and Transforming Fear/Anxiety/Worry using Mindfulness - June 24th

Session 31: Helping our children deal with fear, panic attacks, nightmares and phobias - July 1st

Session 32: Healing the Past/ Creating a New future- July 8th
Session 33: Moving Attention from Ego to World- July 15th

What People say about this Course

"Brilliant, life altering course. Enjoyed every session and found such insight in Natalie's techniques and knowledge. Fantastic journey xx"

- A. M

"I have known Natalie for a long time now and so I knew without a doubt that taking part in her Mindful Parenting Webinar would be amazing. Her passion and content has already provided me with breakthroughs and a shift in my perception of parenting on a deeper level. A deeper sense of calmness and certainty has come over me when I am interacting with my beautiful daughter, who is seven. It has empowered me as a mother and also as an educator of young people. I would like to thank her for making this available to everyone."

- O. Mehmet-Radji

"My son was actually bullied in elementary school by a specific kid over and over. I was really desperate, I didn’t know how to handle it and get him to understand that it’s not his fault and he should make meanings and most probably the kid that was bullying him was the one suffering etc etc. It’s really easier to make an adult to understand and not to take bullying personal but it’s a whole other level of training to get a child to understand that!Thank you Natalie for making this happen ! I don’t know how else I could have saved my son from this very common yet detrimental situation."

- D. E

"After every Mindful Parenting session I feel full of positive energy and the power to deal with the everyday challenges of family life. Even though I have not yet participated in many sessions with Natalie, I am already noticing how this is changing me for the better. I begun to be more aware of my thoughts and how they affect me, be more aware of my emotions and my behavior and this is helping me better understand both my self and my children and thus to better communicate with them. I have more peace of mind and this affects everyone at home. Through the sessions, I am learning, together with my children, to pause, to be mindful of and be grateful for the small everyday joys of life! We thank you Natalie."

- R. N

About Natalie

Natalie Zannettou is the founder of Mindfulness for Life. She founded this organization inside her commitment for people, and particularly kids to find true freedom. It is her belief that true freedom comes from deep self-awareness and understanding of what influences our being-ness, our actions and thus the way we live our life.

To find out more about Natalie click here.