Mindful Parenting

Mindful Parenting course

This practical 6 sessions Mindful parenting course, teaches effective Mindful parenting solutions that reduce parenting stress, improve relationships and create deep and lasting connections with your children.

This course will equip you with knowledge and tools to make Mindful parenting work for you and your family.

You will learn practical tools to:

Manage stress and resolve conflicts
Increase connection in difficult times
Simply enjoy your family more

In collaboration with

The Parenting Place - Renew Your Mind Psychology Practice

Greenlane

Shirley Pastiroff Counsellor

Start date: Wed 13 February 2019
Time: 7.30 – 9.00 pm
Duration: six evenings
Location: Parenting Place
Cost: $150
Special couples rate: $250 per couple

St Heliers

Shirley Pastiroff Counsellor

Start date: Thu 14 February 2019*
Time: 7.30 – 9.00 pm
Duration: six evenings
Location: St Philips Church
Cost: $150
Special couples rate: $250 per couple

*note that there will be a break on the 28th of Feb and the course will continue on 7 March for a remainder of 4 weeks.

Mt Albert

Deanna Wharton BSc in Psychology

Start date: Wed 13 February 2019
Time: 7.30 – 9.00 pm
Duration: six evenings
Location: Mt Albert Community & Recreation Centre YMCA
Cost: $150
Special couples rate: $250 per couple

SHIRLEY PASTIROFF

Counsellor, Mindful parenting course facilitator and mother of 5.

Shirley is one of New Zealand’s leading Mindful parenting teachers. She is on a mission to help parents take control of their stress and transform their families to become stronger and more connected using researched based mindfulness techniques that have transformed her own family life.

DEANNA WHARTON

BSc in Psychology, Mindful parenting course facilitator and mother of 2.

Deanna’s unique journey to mindful parenting and knowledge of psychology makes her the perfect course facilitator. She is on a mission to help parents take control of their stress and mental health and become the parents they want to be.

I loved what Shirley shared. It is approaching parenting and discipline from a different angle and reaching a place in parents that is transformative.
Jenny HaleFamily coach at the Parenting Place

Mindful parenting online resources

A Mindful Mum

Mindfulness took me on a surprising journey to becoming a more mindful person and radically changed not just my own life, but especially my parenting.

Shirley’s Top 3 Tips

Mindfulness is to be present in a kind and non judgemental way. When it comes to parenting these are my top 3 tips to add a bit of mindfulness to your parenting.

Raising Confident Kids

Imagine that you are feeling upset about something and are explaining this to your partner or a close friend. They respond by saying “you are not upset, you are fine.”