"Heart of the Matter" - 6 Step Parenting Program
For Parents of Primary School Children
What will I get out of doing this Program?
At the core of this program is the heart to heart relating you can have with your children. When you nurture the resilience of your children’s Innate Morality they will have a strong sense of themselves that will assist them to navigate challenging life experiences as they grow. This is an investment in your child’s future sense of themselves and their own nature.
The one thing that every parent wants is to see that their kids are going to be ok as they grow up, and move out into their adult lives.
Whether you are having the ordinary challenges of parenting, or have deeper issues to face as a family, such as: Addictions, Mental Illness, Domestic Violence, Chronic Serious Illness…, this program has a unique and profound but simple pathway.
There is no expert advice.
This program will take you through a series of steps and through self-exploration and discovery you will get the tools to achieve self-confidence as a parent according to your own values.This Program will show you how to cut through the clutter, compliance and confusion that parents frequently experience when there are challenges and conflicts.
Our intention is for you to parent from your own heart and mind.
This is the best investment you will ever make.
Who are the team that developed the Program?
This program has been compiled over a period of years by a small but greatly experienced team of clinical psychotherapists, psychologists, and relationship counsellors.
Between us we have the accumulated experience of a century of clinical practice in our community as well as all the knowledge that comes from our own lives as parents and grandparents.
One of the greatest learnings from this experience has been that rather than telling people what to do in the struggles of their lives, it is more important, and long lasting, to inspire people to come to their own solutions. Solutions that they can embrace wholeheartedly because they come from their own heart and minds.
- Shamana Reed: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist/Trainer, Supervisor, Mentor/Retired Consultant Psychologist
- Paula Owen: Integrated Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Herbal Medicine & Remedial Massage - Working in Private Practice at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub in Katoomba
- Barbara Rose: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist/Dream Analysis/Retired Midwife - Working in Private Practice at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub in Katoomba
- Shahida Jobling: Clinical Psychotherapist - working in Private Practice with Men and their Families at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub in Katoomba
Our collective clinical interest focuses on the work of D.W.Winnicott, paediatrician & psychoanalyst, who worked with mothers, children and families, and has been at the heart of our program.
Program Registration & Pricing
Note:
There are currently no Medicare rebates for family therapy. A course in family therapy is an expensive & time consuming process (which may or may not work).
For $ 100 you are getting the equivalent of 6 family therapy sessions. The program is underpinned by the wisdom of 4 highly experienced therapists who know what the ups and downs of family life look like.
Because you are doing this program in your own time, in your own home, in your own private space, you are investing in a program based on self identification and not the rules of "good behaviour".
The rewards of investing in this program are that you will be able to rely on it for the rest of your life.
"Heart of the Matter" 6 Step Parenting Program
Step 1 - Making the Big Picture of your current Life
Step 2 - Mapping & trouble shooting your family's Activities
Step 3 - Self-identifying Influences for better or worse
Step 4 - Transforming your Concepts
Step 5 - Getting down to the Nitty Gritty
Step 6 - Trusting your Heart & Your Wisdom
By Paying for Access to our Program you agree to our Terms & Conditions
Purchase of this option will give you access to our complete "Heart of the Matter" 6 Step Parenting Program via a login. You will also be able to download a PDF File of the 6 Step parenting program content.
Online access is until 30/06/2025
Freebie
Whether you are struggling with the ordinary challenges of raising children or something more serious and alarming is happening in your family, this program will give you the confidence to handle it.
This is a unique, sophisticated and intelligent parenting program which you won’t find anywhere else. This is not your ordinary resilience program; it is about more than just “resilience”. A bully or a corrupt politician may be extremely resilient.
You know yourself and your children better than anyone else. This program invites you to go beyond expert advice.
FREEBIE - IN A NUTSHELL
- This program is about nurturing a core part of yourself and your child/children. It is based on the view that every child is born with a fundamental core of their own innate morality. This may be referred to as a Buddha Nature, Soul, Sacred Life Force, Core Self, Conscience. What we are calling here “Innate Morality” is a core sense of what one finds ok or not; one’s moral compass, free from external concepts. It is the part of ourselves that we really like. A spontaneous sense of fair play.
- Self-Discovery is the key
- At the centre of this work is a process of self-discovery of your concepts around child-rearing and family life. What are they? Where did they come from? Are they constructive or destructive?
- When children are not supported to live from their innate morality, they will meet the world through compliance, from a false/survival self. This will not stand the tests of time in a difficult world, and will lead to complications and life struggles of varying degrees.
- Parents who are supported to live from their own innate morality, rather than the latest expert advice, can support children to live from their innate morality as authentic beings, leading full and authentic lives.
- This program has been inspired by the work of D.W. Winnicott (Paediatrician and Psychoanalyst in the British Independent School, whose work with parents and children became internationally recognised). Winnicott stated that compliance is immoral.
- A clear example which will give you a hint at Winnicott’s understanding: When a child steals he/she is making an illegitimate attempt to obtain something the child had a legitimate right to expect to be given by a particular person at a particular time, and it didn’t happen.
- To live from one’s own Innate Morality and to support the Innate Morality of your children, to live and work in that potential space is not necessarily easy.
- It was central to Winnicott’s work that to live from one’s Innate Morality is to live creatively. It is not so much the creativity of the artist, but the result of living from one’s own core self, and the satisfaction and joy that can come from that.
- This is your own private program. Don’t censor yourself. You can be honest about what’s working for you or not in your family.
- You can do this program in your own time and explore your family relationships in a new way living authentic lives with each other.
- We intended for the steps in this programme be done in sequence, in order to best experience the cumulative effects
- You can get in touch with us if you wish. Our team of therapists are available for family and couple’s consultations.