The researched based online curriculum is provided by the Jai Institute for Parenting. Its a proven parent centric method designed to create results.
The coaching brings the learning into real life each week with your child and this is where the transformation happens.
Week 1: Welcome and Orientation
This first week is about getting you settled and ready for the journey ahead. You will have your first session with your coach and commence your online learning. You will gain clarity around your intentions and what to expect moving forward into the next eleven weeks.
Week 2: Setting Your Intentions
Here will become clear about what you receive from our Empowered Parenting Process. We will explore your strengths as a parent and plan how you can support yourself through the process.
Week 3: The 10 Pillars of Transformational Parenting
Here we will explore the 10 Pillars of Transformational Parenting. We have broken down these pillars into three segments: The head, the hands, and the heart.
Week 4: Making Sense of Attachment Science
Here we will explore your generational patterns of connection, intimacy, and relational safety. How we parent ourselves and our children is an inheritance passed down from generations before us. We will not make your history nor your present bad or wrong. We will name it for what it is, and make a commitment for what you’d like it to be moving forward.
Week 5: Making Sense of Nervous System Science
The physiology of parenting is the cutting edge of understanding our internal world as parents and the internal world of our children. With understanding, comes calm. With information, comes internal safety. Knowing the ins and outs of our nervous system helps us support our children’s budding nervous systems.
Week 6: Making Sense of 'Mindsight' and Brain Science
Empowered Parenting includes a deep understanding of the power of the mind. This week we go deep into mindset and how our thoughts connect you to 'self' and compassion. We will explore the neurology of empathy and compassion and how parents are literally their children’s brain sculptors.
Week 7: Making Sense of Emotional Intelligence
The heart of Empowered Parenting is understanding how our physiology, brain, and emotions work together to create our inner orchestra. Understanding emotional intelligence provides both the parent and the child with inner and outer freedom to thrive together. We dive into how we can support our children’s emotional development and give them “permission to FEEL.”
Week 8: Empowered Conversations
We have laid the foundations of the head, heart, and hands of Empowered Parenting. Now, we move to the voice. Navigating this new paradigm of connection, relational safety, inspiration and presence, practically requires a PhD in communication. We begin that process here together.
Week 9: The PEACE Process
You’ve made it to the essence of Empowered Parenting! Here we combine everything you have learned so far into our Jai Methodology of PEACE. We believe ALL conflict within a parent/child dynamic or between siblings, can be solved PEACE-fully. With our methodology, all punishments, contrived consequences, threats, bribes and excess rewards can be set down. We have the practical, actionable steps you need to thrive through disconnection, confusion and parental overwhelm during your most challenging parenting moments.
Week 10: Exploring Anger and Healthy Aggression
As we continue our process through Empowered Parenting, we must confront every parent’s best friend or rather, worst enemy: anger. Hint: Emotional objectivity does not mean disconnecting from the emotion, rather it’s the ability to feel with healthy non-attachment and how to practice, and model, anger resolution for your child.
Week 11: Playful Parenting and Storytelling
Play is every parent’s superpower! We will explore your playful inner self, so you can meet your children in theirs, no matter the age. We explore the twelve play languages, the four temperaments and the barriers that keep parents from playfulness.
Week 12: Your Personal Transformation
In our final week, we will come together in the spirit of celebration and reflection. We will reflect on the shifts you have made as you implement your learnings and how that has influenced the behaviour of your children. Is there more peace? Is there more joy? This week we look back with deep appreciation of the huge shift that has happened within your family life.
This work applies for any and all human beings. Its a parent-centric program, meaning that the work is 100% parent-focused. This is not behavioural modification for children. The strategies taught show parents how to connect deeply with their children, with dignity, honor and mutual respect.
Neuro-diverse children thrive when parents model conscious parenting methods in a consistent, calm and compassionate way.
The theory is based on the work of Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson authors of The Whole Brain Child and the The Power of Showing up as well as Mona Delahooke author of Beyond Behaviours.
The tools and strategies are based on Nonviolent Communication created by Dr Marshall Rosenberg; the emotional intelligence work of Dr Marc Brackett; and the Neuroplasticity work of Dr. Bruce Lipton.
My coaching also draws on the work of Dr Shefali Tsabary, Dr Ross Greene, Dr Laura Markham, Dr Vanessa Lapointe and Dr Becky Kennedy.
This is common in this work and absolutely not a problem! I mostly work with individuals (mums or dads) but I do work with couples as well. The good news is that it only takes one person to change an entire family dynamic and if you want change, the key is to focus on yourself and make a start.
Inevitably this work changes all relationships for the better, so often partners eventually see the benefits and get on board.
Coaching and therapy are two very different professions. Therapy is a healing profession, focused on the past and meant to support mental health challenges.
While coaching reflects on the past, its main focus is to support people to create intention and vision, then follow through with action and commitment.
In Parent with Confidence we do coaching. If there is unresolved childhood trauma or mental health needs we refer to licensed mental health professionals.
The 1:1 coaching component ensures the knowledge gained on the course is then integrated into real life. Without the coaching and the commitment to creating change, the knowledge alone is inert.
Practice is everything so from week 2 onwards you will have opportunity to ‘try out’ a new approach with your child and to workshop the results with your coach. This is how clients see results even in the first few weeks!
Essentially, coaching provides support as well as accountability which is a powerful combination to make your parenting vision a reality.
The work is very gentle and supportive and doesn’t really feel like ‘work’ at all. However, it will require a time commitment of at least 2 hours per week plus our 1 hour 1:1 coaching call. 3 hours total.
The 12-week Stress-free parenting program was a revelation. I was expecting to come away with strategies for ‘fixing’ my children but came away with a fuller understanding of myself, how my thinking and behaviour translates to the kids, how children’s brains work, and what they’re actually capable of. I feel like I’ve been parenting half-blind for all these years.
Danielle has the gift of being able to build a strong sense of trust with parents and a safe space to share, even for us reluctant sharers. She gently examines your parenting struggles with you from all angles, probing just enough to help make real change without scaring you off. She brings the theory to life in startling and enlightening ways. And how amazing to have such a knowledgeable, non-judgemental ally in your parenting corner.
I feel better equipped to understand and work with my children’s different personalities, to continue building a real connection with them to see us through the tough years, and to actually solve the day-to-day niggles rather than just hoping to outlive them. What a magical gift – and what might the world be like if everyone had this opportunity for greater calm and connection in their homes?
Sonia (NZ)
Working with Danielle has had a monumental impact on me as a parent and generally from a personal development perspective.
The online course is perfectly complimented by the 1:1 coaching sessions with Danielle.
It is hard to narrow down to the specifics that have been so impactful as it has felt like an organic growth.
Certainly at the beginning the explanation of, and normalisations of the concepts of power over and power under parenting were very helpful for me and the exploration of where those mindsets had come from provided a simplified platform from which to develop.
Simplification is a theme. I have found myself gathering questions that I intending to raise with Danielle at our sessions but increasingly knowing what her answers would be; connection, connection, connection!
My relationship with my children has come on immeasurably, I have connected with them to a whole new level.
I am more confident of the importance of my role as a father and this is providing a perpetual improvement in our family life.
Thanks very much Danielle!
Mike (Dad of 2 under 10)
We feel so fortunate to be working with Danielle. Her coaching has helped us gain new insights into our parenting process, and a constructive perspective on our children's behaviour.
Thanks to Danielle, we feel inspired, motivated and better equipped with understanding, and actual tools we can utilise on our parenting journey. We are grateful for the insights and strategies that have evolved during our time with Danielle.
Through the program, we've taken a transformational journey through our own childhood and become aware of how our upbringing influences our parenting.
We've been introduced to well organised resources which encompass the nervous system, compassionate communication, emotional intelligence and seminal works from other leaders in the field of early childhood development and parenting psychology.
Through this work, we are now on a journey to disrupt our negative parenting behaviour and are working towards a more peaceful and harmonious household.
The work is quite profound and we couldn’t ask for a better guide than Danielle.
Carla (mum of 2 under 5)
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Danielle has helped me so much in finding joy in my day to day parenting.
She worked with me to identify my inherited belief around my son hitting. Once we understood what was happening, Danielle was able to help me access a new belief with some regulating techniques for me to access when feeling overwhelmed.
I am so grateful for Danielle's patience, empathy and presence during all of our sessions.
Danielle has been amazing at coaching me through a difficult time for my family.
She has been so supportive and helped to open up my eyes to the patterns of repetitive behaviour I have been displaying from my childhood.
Danielle is a great listener and doesn't judge but is kind and calm as she lets me say what I haven't had the courage to say before now.
I don't know how I would have stayed on track without her.
I was immediately put at ease by Danielle’s warmth and sensitivity.
I felt that I was completely safe in sharing my deepest thoughts and feelings with her. Danielle listens with compassion and understanding.
With her guidance I was able to gain greater clarity and awareness of why I held certain negative beliefs about myself.
I would highly recommend Danielle if you are seeking help. Coaching with her is truly empowering.