You will by the end of the 10-week course have started to build a strong and potentially lifelong support network for parenting.

• You’ll know how to help your child when their behaviour goes off track and how to prevent them getting to that point so often.
• You’ll discover how to set effective, respectful limits and know when limits are needed or not.
• You’ll start to develop your resourcefulness and ability to divert situations playfully.
• You can rediscover how to play and have fun with your child and feel like a good parent.
• Overall, you’ll gain confidence in your parenting and a clear idea of how to navigate most situations.

This approach can be applied across the board for any ages and will improve:

• difficult or defiant behaviour
• sibling relationships
• sleep
• picky eating
• challenges with separation
• aggression
• conflicts about getting dressed or chores or whatever

It will improve your child’s capacity to take bold steps in the world and access their intelligence.

These are trauma-informed, therapeutic parenting tools.

If you watch my story in the video at the top of this page, you’ll see I’ve turned my own family around from a pretty extreme place.

I would go so far as to say this might be the most likely thing to actually make a difference!

The Starter Class runs from Weds 6 October to Weds 8 December 2021. 

Please block out your diary from 11am - 1.15pm (UK time) on Wednesday for 10 weeks.

We meet on zoom for the Huddle from 11am - 12 noon UK time (that's the whole group).

Then we peel off into our Parent Pods of 6 + facilitator from 12.15 - 1.15pm.

If you're joining from a time zone outside the UK, you'll need to know that our clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday 31 October. That takes us from BST to GMT. The meeting times are local time in UK. 

We meet weekly as a whole group for the Huddle on a 60 minute live Zoom call (this is recorded so you can watch again on replay to scoop up any gems you missed in the moment).

After the Huddle there's a 15 minute break to make a cup of tea - and then you'll meet in your small group Parent Pod on Zoom for 60 minutes.

This all happens on Wednesdays between 11am and 1.15pm UK time.

Plus there are video tutorials from Hand in Hand founder Patty Wipfler to watch each week, lasting between 60 – 85 minutes.

Ideally you will also be able to schedule time to practice the tools we teach each week. There is also reading material if you have time. Please allow 30-60 minutes for this homework.

BUT if you’re pressed for time, this approach will work:

If you can only find 1 hour off work / parenting during daytime hours, we suggest you prioritise attending the Parent Pod on Wednesdays from 12.15 - 1.15pm. The Pod is only available live (it's so worth it, it will be like an oasis in your week). You can watch the Huddle with Q&A on the replay.

And if you can spare half an hour during the week to engage with the material and try things out, that’s enough. 

There's an app to watch the videos, or you can watch in a browser.

You have 6 months’ access to the videos to go over the content in more depth.

It is highly recommended for the best learning experience to attend both the live calls each week (the Huddle and Parent Pod).

And we know life happens and sometimes it's unavoidable to miss a call.

The Huddle calls are recorded and you can catch up on the replay. It will be posted later the same day in the learning portal.

The Parent Pod calls are NOT recorded. Nor is it possible to pop into another Pod for a week.  Your Pod is your safe circle of 6 parents plus the facilitator - you'll meet each week and the bond deepens. You'll soon be looking forward to this oasis of listening each week.

If your diary is packed on a regular basis and you can only find 1 hour off work / parenting during daytime hours, we suggest you prioritise attending the Parent Pod on Wednesdays from 12.15 - 1.15pm. Then catch up with the Huddle on replay.

You'll join a Parent Pod with 5 other parents plus 1 experienced facilitator - either Roma, Alice or Vaishnavi.

Your small group will meet for a live call on Zoom for an hour on Wednesdays after the Huddle.

The Parent Pod calls are NOT recorded. Nor is it possible to pop into another Pod for a week. 

Your Pod is your safe circle of 6 parents plus the facilitator - you'll meet each week and the bond deepens. You'll soon be looking forward to this oasis each week.

If you can only find 1 hour off work / parenting during daytime hours, we suggest you prioritise attending the Parent Pod on Wednesdays from 12.15 - 1.15pm. Then catch up with the Huddle on replay.

If you book on the course as a couple, it is usually recommended to join separate Pods.

We have Dad Pods facilitated by Tom Anderson. Fathers have the choice to join a men-only Pod or join a mixed Pod. Dads, please book using this page. 

You heard right! We have the wonderful Tom Anderson joining the team to hold a Dad-focussed space. 

Tom will join us at the weekly Huddles which are for everyone. Then Tom will host separate Dad Pods.

Fathers have the choice to join a men-only Pod with Tom, or join a mixed Pod. Fathers also have their own 'Dad Cave' private Facebook group to connect.

You'll find the Starter Class for Dads page here >

 Please share with the Dads in your circle.

The Couple price is available to 2 parents of the same child/children (maybe you're a couple or co-parents). It is also available to 2 adults in the same household (maybe one of you is the parent and the other is in a parental role). 

Whatever your individual constellation, you'll know that it's best for your kids if as (co-)parents you are 'singing from the same hymn sheet'.

When entering into a process of transformation and calling in a new paradigm (such as this course), it's natural to want to bring your partner along with you. However, they usually don't want to hear 'the new way' from YOU. There can be a resistance to being 'taught' by you.

Invite your partner on board to join you on the Starter Class. If they jump on, great. If they don't jump on, great. Perhaps it's not their time or their thing - but please don't waste energy trying to persuade them. Witnessing your transformation through participating will have the most powerful impact.

If your partner or co-parent is a full YES then joining the course as a couple will give you each full access to the course.

NB Please direct Dads to the Starter Class for Fathers which overlaps with this one and has Dad Pods facilitated by Tom.

You will each be able to attend the weekly Huddle and ask your own questions. You will each join a Parent or Dad Pod and receive valuable support through listening time from loving ears. 

But, if between you, you don't have time, space or finances to both attend live, you can book for 1 person and share the materials (you just won't both get the live interaction to ask your questions directly, and only one of you will receive the invaluably nourishing support of the Parent Pod).

Sometimes your partner doesn't have the capacity to listen to your parenting woes or gets triggered because they share the exact same woes. It can be enormously validating to be witnessed and held by a compassionate group (such as the Parent Pod) on the same wavelength. 

The Starter Class is tremendously valuable whether one or both of you attend. We are confident it will have positive repercussions on your family whichever way works for you.

This approach will give you a way of being that enhances every relationship in your life. It’s hard to imagine what more connection, fun and ease can look like before you’ve experienced it.

We take for granted that parenting involves struggle and that we need to do it by ourselves and yet here is a way to make life easier, more connected, more supported, more joyful and PLAYFUL!

Do get in touch with me if you are worried about affording the fee.

The Early Bird price is the most cost-effective way of joining the course, and I accept payment in instalments to make it more manageable.

This is a really good value course with a combination of live meetings where you get to ask your individual questions, and course materials in video and written format. You'll have access to the six modules and the private Parent Sanctuary group for 6 months You can download the manual and booklets and keep them forever. You can share the online course with your spouse or partner.

I offer a limited number of Bursary Places for the Starter Class. These places are donated by other parents in the community, usually who have benefited from this work and want to pay it forward. These are parents who understand that supporting families to access these trauma-informed, therapeutic parenting tools makes a really big difference.

If you cannot afford the fee and wish to apply for one of the bursary places, please complete the application form.

Please email Roma at [email protected] and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.