With Fiona Clarke, Senior Trainer at Mind With Heart, you will explore how to bring more calm, connection and joy into family life, so you can meet the daily challenges of parenting with more ease.

This course will help you:

• reduce stress, anxiety, reactivity and self-criticism

• reconnect with inner confidence, and the heart of parenting

• discover fun, simple tools to share well-being with your children

Each session blends mindfulness and emotional health practices with the latest well-being research — and plenty of space for real conversation and connection. No previous mindfulness experience needed, just an open heart.

The setting

This will be a small, supported and safe group, in a tranquil, natural sanctuary – a real retreat from the home environment.

What we will explore together

• Understanding causes of stress and well-being, and what helps us thrive

• Building a simple daily mindfulness practice, and an “on-the-spot” practice

• Feeling well in ourselves so we can care well for others

• Finding calm and presence

• Changing our relationship with challenging thoughts and emotions

• Making space for self-care and emotional health

• Empathy, boundaries and healthy relationships

• Communicating with more emotional intelligence

• Emotional regulation for children and adults

• The latest research on well-being

The course includes:

• 6 weekly sessions x 1.5 hours

• a course booklet with session highlights and practices

• weekly follow-up emails with session summaries, guided audio exercises,

• short videos and other helpful resources

Week by Week:

Week 1: Prioritising self-care

Week 2: Out of our heads, into our senses

Week 3: Who is the boss, me or my thoughts?

Week 4: Feeling emotions without becoming them

Week 5: Becoming a good friend to myself

Week 6: Bringing it all home