COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Learn simple and practical tools to harness your innate relaxation response and to eliminate unnecessary sources of stress. Enhance your ability to deal creatively and appropriately with common parenting challenges -- as well as with the extraordinary stressors facing families in today's world.

This unique class provides a safe & supportive atmosphere for parents to learn and explore medically proven relaxation techniques as well as parenting and stress management principles which may be adapted to many different lifestyles and cultural traditions. 

Each class session will feature at least one relaxation technique and one stress management technique. Relaxation techniques will include: basic meditation practice, mindfulness practice, the use of a repeated phrase or other focal point, a special emphasis on breathwork & bodywork, and the use of self-guided visualization.  Time is included to practice each technique and enjoy the benefits of a peaceful group meditation experience.  This class is equally of value to those who have meditated before as well as those who have never meditated.  

In the stress management portions of our course the emphasis is learning and reviewing proven stress management concepts and putting them into immediate action!  Students will take stock of current stressors and "lifelines", evaluate goals and priorities, gain new tips and techniques, and make an action plan that will put them back on the road to more joyful living.  Together we will learn tools for identifying and replacing stress inducing beliefs, and we will learn how play and self-nurturing can revitalize our relationships, our parenting... and ourselves! 

Class discussions will provide an opportunity for parents to share their challenges and tips with one another, and to receive feedback and support as they work to bring their meditation practice into their busy daily lives. 

 

INSTRUCTORS: Linnaea Avenell is a Parent Educator and Preschool teacher at Santa Clara Adult Education & Wilson Preschool in Santa Clara. She is also the creator of Earthskids.com, an online educational resource for Parents, Teachers and Children. She has an Early Childhood Education certificate from UC Santa Cruz Extension, a Parent Education credential from San Jose State University, and a degree in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother of three children.

Michael Avenell is an Engineer, the father of three children, and a certified meditation teacher. He has been teaching meditation for ten years and has facilitated a monthly parenting group. He has a degree in Physics from UC Santa Cruz.

WHEN:

Tuesday Evenings
7pm-9pm.
Class begins June 21st, 2011

 

WHERE:

MAS Bay Area office
2116 Walsh Ave, Suite B
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2594


FEE:  $20/class or $75/entire course
(Discounted fee to be paid on or before the first class.) 

 

TO REGISTER
email  earthskids@earthlink.net to request a registration form.

FLYER:  Parenting From Compassion.pdf