Are you a parent, educator, health practitioner or professional who works with children? Perhaps you are interested in a development opportunity that could deepen your work and understanding of children and healthy families. Simplicity Parenting Training, led by Davina Muse (bio below), is being offered in Squamish on November 13 and 14, 2010. It is a rare opportunity to experience this training first hand and in person.
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Based on Kim John Payne’s new book Simplicity Parenting offers a simple, orderly, and effective pathway to simplify four realms at home, which reduces stress on children and their parents, and allows room for connection, creativity, and relaxation.
These four realms for simplifying are:
Environment: De-cluttering too much stuff at home.
Rhythm: Increasing predictability by introducing rhythmic moments for connection and calm.
Scheduling: Soothing violent schedules brings moments for Being into all the Doing.
Unplugging: Reducing the influence of adult concerns, media and consumerism on children and families to increase resilience, social and emotional intelligence.
Parents who take steps along this pathway to simplify their homes and their schedules, to introduce more predictable rhythms and to filter out concerns which children are not yet able to cope with, find that their children:
- Are calmer and happier
- Do better socially and emotionally
- Are more focused at school
- Find it easier to comply with family rules
- Become less picky eaters
These parents also find that they themselves:
- Have a clearer picture of what they value as parents
- Are more united with each other in their parenting
- Have more time and energy for connection, relaxation, and fun
Simplicity Parenting (Group Leader) Training
In this intensive 2-day program you will learn how to lead groups of parents through a carefully prepared and responsive process exploring each of the four layers of Simplicity Parenting. Participants build the skills they need to support parents through the simplifying process as they bring the vital change so many families are seeking to raise happy, secure and resilient children. The training includes two days of “live” learning, and active participation in an online learning community. You can incorporate this into your own professional practice, or if you are interested in becoming a Group Leader, you will be able to run your own first group after the initial training, with supervision and mentoring, as part of your accreditation process.
Group Leader training is required in order to participate in the coach training. Coach training is an intensive 2-day program, includes “live” learning, and active participation in a distance learning community. You will be trained in Simplicity Parenting Group Leadership, then you will convene a group in your local area. In the second part of the program you are trained to work individually with parents in a coaching role. You are free to offer our coaching process to your own clients after successfully completing this second phase. You will be mentored and supported throughout the process.
Registration for this training session is simple: visit http://www.simplicityparenting.com/registration.html
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and pass along this information to anyone you feel might be interested!
Warmly,
Kirsten Andrews, training site co-ordinator
kirsten [at] cedarvalleyschool.com
Davina Muse, LMHC, Training and Certification Co-ordinator
Davina Muse, born and raised in England, has lived in the USA for more than 20 years. Davina’s experience working with families as a clinical therapist, and in private practice, has taught her the value of deep and compassionate listening, truth-telling, kindness, and a sense of humor in helping families, whatever their particular form, to grow in love, laughter, and connection.
She is in recovery from the finest education Britain could provide at the time, and holds a Masters Degree in Counseling (College of Santa Fe), with a focus on family systems and at-risk youth. She graduated the Waldorf Collaborative Counseling training (Antioch University), and is completing a training in Family Constellation work. Davina is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New Mexico, whence she recently moved to Western Massachusetts, where she currently lives with many magnificent trees.
She is the astonished mother of two wonderful young adult children; she is developing the practice of Simplicity Grandparenting with her new grandson, Nikko Finn.
Davina strives to live according to the answers she gets to these questions: What best serves love? What brings the most joy? What is true? Her core values include collaboration, transparency, acceptance, gentleness, strength, and freedom for joy.
Simplicity Parenting is not just a book: It’s a movement.
www.simplicityparenting.com
Order it online: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0345507983/ref=pe_4690_16664340_snp_dp
About Kim John Payne: A consultant and trainer to over 110 North American independent and public schools, Kim John Payne, M.Ed, has been a school counselor, adult educator, consultant, researcher and educator for nearly thirty years, and a private family therapist for more than 15 years. He regularly gives key note addresses at international conferences for educators, parents and therapists and runs workshops and training’s around the world. In each role, Payne has been helping children, adolescents and families explore issues such as social difficulties with siblings and classmates, attention and behavioral issues at home and school, emotional issues such as defiance, aggression, addiction and self-esteem. A founding member of the Alliance for Childhood www.allianceforchildhood.org in Washington, DC, he has also consulted for educational associations in South Africa, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Kim has worked extensively with the North American and UK Waldorf educational movements. He is currently Director of the Waldorf Collaborative Counseling program at Antioch University New England, www.antiochne.edu. This is a course aimed at training future Waldorf School & Family Counselors and also teachers to better understand social and emotional issues of children and teens and to support home and school life. He is Co Director of an extensive research program that is exploring and developing a drug-free approach to Attention Related Disorders. Kim is the Founding President of The Center for Social Sustainability www.socialsustain.com.
