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Reducing Behavioral Challenges with Tools from Neuroscience
Reducing Behavioral Challenges with Tools from Neuroscience
Learn how to help your child develop self-regulation skills using neuroscience-based tools and strategies.
- An introduction to polyvagal theory and what is going on in an upset child's brain
- How to create a plan with your child to avoid fight, flight, and freeze reactions to stress and disappointment
- Neuroscience-based tools and strategies for children labeled with ADD, ODD, Sensory issues, Anxiety, and more
- And much more!
Learn how to help your child develop self-regulation skills using neuroscience-based tools and strategies.
- An introduction to polyvagal theory and what is going on in an upset child's brain
- How to create a plan with your child to avoid fight, flight, and freeze reactions to stress and disappointment
- Neuroscience-based tools and strategies for children labeled with ADD, ODD, Sensory issues, Anxiety, and more
- And much more!
Confident Kids: Reducing Anxiety in an Uncertain World
Confident Kids: Reducing Anxiety in an Uncertain World
Get practical strategies to help your child build courage, resilience and confidence in the midst of life’s uncertainties.
- Understanding hidden signs of anxiety and reframing traits like sensitivity and deep thinking as strengths, not flaws
- Using co-regulation, calming tools, and a soothing home environment to help your child feel safe and supported
- Setting clear, loving boundaries and shift from over-reassuring to empowering strategies that build resilience—even around big world issues
- And much more!
Get practical strategies to help your child build courage, resilience and confidence in the midst of life’s uncertainties.
- Understanding hidden signs of anxiety and reframing traits like sensitivity and deep thinking as strengths, not flaws
- Using co-regulation, calming tools, and a soothing home environment to help your child feel safe and supported
- Setting clear, loving boundaries and shift from over-reassuring to empowering strategies that build resilience—even around big world issues
- And much more!
The Meltdown Map:
Tools For Tough Moments
The Meltdown Map:
Tools For Tough Moments
Tools For Tough Moments
Learn to confidently navigate the rough waters of parenting through meltdowns, while sailing into fewer storms.
- Learn to recognize early signs of overwhelm and use simple strategies to reduce triggers like overstimulation
- Learn how to use your steady presence during a meltdown helps restore calm—especially when kids can't express themselves with words.
- Learn to support sensitive kids by fostering routines, emotional release (like tears), and self-soothing skills over time
- And much more!
Learn to confidently navigate the rough waters of parenting through meltdowns, while sailing into fewer storms.
- Learn to recognize early signs of overwhelm and use simple strategies to reduce triggers like overstimulation
- Learn how to use your steady presence during a meltdown helps restore calm—especially when kids can't express themselves with words.
- Learn to support sensitive kids by fostering routines, emotional release (like tears), and self-soothing skills over time
- And much more!
The Gifts of ADHD
The Gifts of ADHD
Learn how to help your ADHD child or teen "unwrap" their gifts and thrive!
- Managing forgetfulness, distractibility, and impulsivity without shaming or punishing
- Supporting kids who struggle with low frustration tolerance and impatience
- Teaming up to work effectively with teachers and administrators
- And much more!
Learn how to help your ADHD child or teen "unwrap" their gifts and thrive!
- Managing forgetfulness, distractibility, and impulsivity without shaming or punishing
- Supporting kids who struggle with low frustration tolerance and impatience
- Teaming up to work effectively with teachers and administrators
- And much more!
Highly Sensitive Parents & Children
Highly Sensitive Parents & Children
Learn how to support yourself or your child with high sensitivity.
- Benefits and gifts of high sensitivity -- there are many!
- Support for highly sensitive parents who struggle to adjust to a child's need for stimulation and engagement
- Support for highly sensitive children who get easily overwhelmed
- And much more!
Learn how to support yourself or your child with high sensitivity.
- Benefits and gifts of high sensitivity -- there are many!
- Support for highly sensitive parents who struggle to adjust to a child's need for stimulation and engagement
- Support for highly sensitive children who get easily overwhelmed
- And much more!
Parenting Your Neurodivergent Child
Parenting Your Neurodivergent Child
Get supportive tools and guidance to help your navigate the challenges of raising your neurodivergent child.
- Identify specific challenges and define clear goals for positive change
- Create a step-by-step plan of manageable actions
- Learn to use community and professional resources, and prioritize progress over perfection
- And much more!
Get supportive tools and guidance to help your navigate the challenges of raising your neurodivergent child.
- Identify specific challenges and define clear goals for positive change
- Create a step-by-step plan of manageable actions
- Learn to use community and professional resources, and prioritize progress over perfection
- And much more!
Cultivating Secure Attachment
Cultivating Secure Attachment
Learn concepts, strategies, and practical advice to empower you to be the true source of safety and security for your children.
- How strong, secure attachments with caring adults can buffer against mental health challenges and guide kids toward emotional well-being
- How compassionate discipline and your role as a steady, supportive presence helps build resilience and trust
- How cultural pressures, trauma, and peer dependency can influence behavior and diagnoses
- And much more!
Learn concepts, strategies, and practical advice to empower you to be the true source of safety and security for your children.
- How strong, secure attachments with caring adults can buffer against mental health challenges and guide kids toward emotional well-being
- How compassionate discipline and your role as a steady, supportive presence helps build resilience and trust
- How cultural pressures, trauma, and peer dependency can influence behavior and diagnoses
- And much more!
Generational Healing
Generational Healing
Learn how to heal your childhood wounds while offering your children secure attachment.
- Why it's hard to respond calmly when triggered by childhood trauma
- How parents who suffered trauma as children can learn to heal and cultivate a curious, creative brain in their child
- Addressing common challenges: attention-seeking behaviors, emotional regulation difficulties, and relationship dynamics
- And much more!
Learn how to heal your childhood wounds while offering your children secure attachment.
- Why it's hard to respond calmly when triggered by childhood trauma
- How parents who suffered trauma as children can learn to heal and cultivate a curious, creative brain in their child
- Addressing common challenges: attention-seeking behaviors, emotional regulation difficulties, and relationship dynamics
- And much more!
The Work and Parenting
The Work and Parenting
Engage in The Work: a process of Self-Inquiry to release the grip of stressful, negative beliefs that lead to conflicts and power struggles with your kids.
- Use Byron Katie’s Four Questions to help you and you kids challenge stressful beliefs, reducing anger, frustration, and worry
- Use Self-Inquiry to shifting negative thought patterns to help you respond more calmly and compassionately, deepening your bond with your child
- Empower your children to examine their own thoughts, fostering emotional intelligence and greater understanding
- And much more!
Engage in The Work: a process of Self-Inquiry to release the grip of stressful, negative beliefs that lead to conflicts and power struggles with your kids.
- Use Byron Katie’s Four Questions to help you and you kids challenge stressful beliefs, reducing anger, frustration, and worry
- Use Self-Inquiry to shifting negative thought patterns to help you respond more calmly and compassionately, deepening your bond with your child
- Empower your children to examine their own thoughts, fostering emotional intelligence and greater understanding
- And much more!
Self-Led Parenting:
Internal Family Systems
Self-Led Parenting:
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems
Learn about Internal Family Systems (IFS), an approach that helps you make sense of your inner world to parent with greater calm, clarity, and connection
- Learn to recognize emotional triggers (“trailheads”) and respond calmly, rather than react from old patterns
- Learn to Use “Parts” Language to
introduce kids to the idea of inner parts to help them—and you—navigate emotions with more clarity and compassion
- Learn to use moments of conflict as powerful openings for healing, setting respectful boundaries, and deepening connection
- And much more!
Learn about Internal Family Systems (IFS), an approach that helps you make sense of your inner world to parent with greater calm, clarity, and connection
- Learn to recognize emotional triggers (“trailheads”) and respond calmly, rather than react from old patterns
- Learn to Use “Parts” Language to
introduce kids to the idea of inner parts to help them—and you—navigate emotions with more clarity and compassion - Learn to use moments of conflict as powerful openings for healing, setting respectful boundaries, and deepening connection
- And much more!
Sibling Harmony
Sibling Harmony
Learn practical strategies and helpful tips to help your kids develop closer bonds and gain conflict resolution skills
- Learn how to guide, rather than mediating, helping de-escalate tension and model healthy emotional regulation
- Empower kids with skills, not just solutions, helping them develop conflict resolution, boundary-setting, and empathy skills they can use independently
- Support individual needs for family harmony, honoring differences—especially with neurodivergent children—to create a more patient, inclusive home environment
- And much more!
Learn practical strategies and helpful tips to help your kids develop closer bonds and gain conflict resolution skills
- Learn how to guide, rather than mediating, helping de-escalate tension and model healthy emotional regulation
- Empower kids with skills, not just solutions, helping them develop conflict resolution, boundary-setting, and empathy skills they can use independently
- Support individual needs for family harmony, honoring differences—especially with neurodivergent children—to create a more patient, inclusive home environment
- And much more!
Essential Tools for
Compassionate Parenting
Essential Tools for
Compassionate Parenting
Compassionate Parenting
Learn practical tools and strategies to manage your emotional triggers, co-regulate your kids, and set empathetic limits to nurture confident, resilient kids
- Gain understanding about how your own childhood shapes your parenting so you can respond from your Wise Adult self, not old wounds
- Learn to manage your own emotions to co-regulating your child and stay grounded in tough moments
- Learn how to set compassionate boundaries and make meaningful repairs after conflict to teach your child resilience, trust, and emotional strength
- And much more!
Learn practical tools and strategies to manage your emotional triggers, co-regulate your kids, and set empathetic limits to nurture confident, resilient kids
- Gain understanding about how your own childhood shapes your parenting so you can respond from your Wise Adult self, not old wounds
- Learn to manage your own emotions to co-regulating your child and stay grounded in tough moments
- Learn how to set compassionate boundaries and make meaningful repairs after conflict to teach your child resilience, trust, and emotional strength
- And much more!
Susan Stiffelman, MFT
Susan Stiffelman, MFT
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Susan Stiffelman is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, teacher and parent educator. She is the author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence (an Eckhart Tolle Edition.) She hosts a monthly Parenting Without Power Struggles membership group, a support group with Wendy Behary on Co-Parenting with a Narcissist, and the popular Parenting Without Power Struggles podcast.
FAQs
FAQs
How long is each class recording?
The sessions are each 75-90 minutes long.
How long can I listen to the recordings?
These recordings do not expire. They are yours to watch now and in the future!
Who will benefit from this class?
The material covered in these classes will help parents of toddlers through young adults.
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