YOUR JOURNEY SO FAR

Perhaps you've listened to The Aware Parenting Podcast, or maybe you've been practicing Aware Parenting for some time, or are you completely new to Aware Parenting?

PARENTING DIFFERENTLY

Perhaps you know the pain of not having your feelings heard as a child and you really want your child to experience their feelings being heard by you?

THE PAST COUNTS

Maybe you've been into inner work for years and you really want to apply it to your parenting?

THE FEELING CAUSE

Or your child isn't sleeping and you've discovered that with Aware Parenting, they really can sleep soundly and be securely attached?

RETURNING TO THE CALM

Perhaps your child is antsy and agitated or hitting and pushing and you really want to help them return to a natural state of calm and gentleness?

MEETING YOU WHERE YOU'RE AT

Would you like to learn about Aware Parenting, or deepen the understanding and embodiment you already have?

Even more understanding:

I'm here to help you understand what's really going on for your child underneath their behaviour, including when they're showing signs of accumulated feelings or unhealed trauma. Plus, I'll offer ways of thinking that will help you stay connected with that understanding even during challenging moments.

Compassionate and calm:

I'm here to help you to feel more calm, present and compassionate so that you can create an even more welcoming and healing family environment.

Practical actions:

I'm here to help you to know what kinds of things you can do and say to maximise the healing for your child and the connection and harmony between you.

Welcoming you to the course and showing you around!

MODULE ONE: The foundations

1.1 The three principles of Aware Parenting: Attachment-style parenting, non-punitive discipline and healing from stress and trauma

1.2 The three reasons for children’s behaviour

1.3 The three options with feelings: Expression, repression and aggression

1.4 Understanding our place in healing our lineage as first generation Aware Parenting parents

MODULE TWO: Our relationship with ourselves

2.1 Tending to our own needs

2.2 Receiving support and empathy

2.3 Our relationship with our own feelings

2.4 Compassion for ourselves as we practice Aware Parenting

MODULE THREE: Living in a non-Aware Parenting world and creating community

3.1 Of course it’s hard! Compassion for ourselves

3.2 Sharing with others and spreading the word in easy-to hear ways

3.3 Creating new forms of community

3.4 Would you like to take action?

MODULE FOUR: Eliciting cooperation

4.1 Why don’t children cooperate?

4.2 Eliciting cooperation

4.3 Using play to elicit cooperation

4.4 An intro to loving limits

5.1 Your childhood experiences of play and feelings that show up nowadays and your willingness for joy and play in your life.

5.2. Nondirective child-centred play, contingency play and power-reversal games

5.3 Body-contact game, Nonsense play and separation games

5.4 Cooperative games, role play and regression play

MODULE SIX: Creating a welcoming space for feelings

6.1 Reflecting on how your own feelings were responded to as a child

6.2 Are you inadvertently repressing your child's feelings?

6.3 How our suppression affects our child’s suppression

6.4 Creating a welcoming space for feelings

MODULE SEVEN: Crying

7.1 When crying is most likely to happen

7.2 The broken cookie phenomenon

7.3 Matching your child’s crying times with when you are most able to listen

7.4 Being with what shows up for you when your child cries

MODULE EIGHT: Healing from stress and trauma through raging and tantrums

8.1 Why raging and tantrums are so healthy

8.2 Your thoughts and feelings about raging and tantrums

8.3 Keeping your child safe during raging and tantrums

8.4 Differentiating between aggression and expression

MODULE NINE: Being with our own frustration, anger and outrage

9.1 How was your own frustration, anger and outrage responded to as a child?

9.2 Befriending and welcoming frustration, anger and outrage in yourself

9.3  Expressing frustration, anger and outrage in healthy ways

9.4 Modelling the healthy expression of frustration, anger and outrage to our child/ren

MODULE TEN: Loving Limits and holding

10.1 What loving limits are, when we can use them and what happens when they don't work!

10.2 Why loving limits can be so hard for us and how we can embody loving limits

10.3 Loving Limits and language

10.4 Holding

MODULE ELEVEN: The balance of attention

11.1 The balance of attention

11.2 The balance of attention with attachment play

11.3 The balance of attention with crying

11.4 The balance of attention with loving limits and holding

MODULE TWELVE: Our own control patterns

12.1 Compassion for our control patterns

12.2 The antidote to suppression is compassion

12.3 Attachment play with our control patterns

12.4 Loving limits with our control patterns

MODULE THIRTEEN: Our child’s control patterns

13.1 Understanding what's happening and having compassion (Not judging ourselves or our child when they’re using a control pattern)

13.2 The first step is connection

13.3 The second step is attachment play

13.4 The third step is loving limits

MODULE FOURTEEN: Aggression - hitting, pushing and taking

14.1 Exploring what shows up for us when there’s aggression

14.2 Offering more choices to reduce aggression

14.3 Power-reversal games for aggression

14.4 Loving limits and holding in response to aggression

MODULE FIFTEEN: Our own aggression and how we can repair

15.1 Exploring when our own aggression shows up

15.2 The source of our aggression

15.3 Offering ourselves compassion and not punishing ourselves

15.4 Offering repair to our child

MODULE SIXTEEN: Eating, food and feelings

16.1 Why hunger and feelings get connected. Differentiating hunger from a need to express feelings

16.2 Noticing eating control patterns in yourself and your child

16.3 Bringing in harmony, ease and pleasure related to food

16.4 Bringing in attachment play and loving limits related to food

MODULE SEVENTEEN: Screens

17.1 Taking stock of your screen use and your child’s screen use and being unwilling to judge yourself

17.2 Differentiating screens to meet needs and screens to suppress feelings

17.3 Attachment play and screens

17.4 Loving limits with screens and listening to feelings

MODULE EIGHTEEN: Sleep

18.1 The three things needed for sound sleep

18.2 Creating connection before sleep

18..3 Attachment play before sleep

18.4 Loving limits and listening to feelings before sleep

MODULE NINETEEN: Trusting our child

19.1 Exploring how we were trusted and not trusted

19.2 Trust in relation to food, sleep, healing, learning and play

19.3 Where do you find it easy and hard to trust your child?

19.4 Increasingly trusting your child and their development

MODULE TWENTY: Supporting friendships and sibling relationships

20.1 Preparing for harmony

20.2 Expecting feelings to bubble up

20.3 The child who has it gets to keep it

20.4 Attachment play and loving limits in friendships and sibling relationships

MODULE TWENTY ONE: Partners, exes and other family members

21.1 Compassionate listening to your feelings and thoughts

21.2 Healing on the inside

21.3 Seeing what they are doing and understanding their feelings, needs and values

21.4 What conversations do you feel called to have?

21 COURSE MODULES

21 Modules in video, audio, PDF and Evernote versions.

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES

Guides you can access easily and quickly for common challenges or when you're stuck or need some empathy!

COMMUNITY ZOOM CALLS DURING LIVE ROUNDS

Available afterwards as recordings.

FB GROUP WHERE I RESPOND TO EVERY QUESTION

Come and ask questions in the FB group and receive tailored answers.

ACCESS TO ALL FUTURE LIVE ROUNDS

Yes, you are welcome to stay and deepen your connections with the other participants!

OPTIONAL UPGRADE

Usually you can only access 1-1 mentoring with me through a 6 or 12 month package.

Now, imagine having 1-1 support on your AwP journey through the course!

The

AWARE PARENTING WITH MARION COURSE IS ALL ABOUT YOU LISTENING TO YOURSELF

21 modules sounds a lot, doesn't it! I want to let you know that:

As of 2024, this is the distillation of:

22 years of practicing Aware Parenting;

19 years of being an Aware Parenting Instructor and Mentor;

18 years of creating Aware Parenting workshops;

10 years of creating online courses about Aware Parenting,

10 years of mentoring people to become Aware Parenting instructors;

9 years of offering my Aware Parenting Instructor Mentoring Course;

Many years of being a Level 2 Aware Parenting instructor;

Being the regional coordinator for Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.

PAYMENT

The Course is AUD$999, 5 monthly payments of $199.80 or 9 monthly payments of $111.

OPTIONAL UPGRADE

The upgrade is an additional payment to the course.

Message me for details.