Parenting as a Spiritual Practice
A two-day introductory course on applying an integral perspective to the initial years of a child’s life
Dates: Saturday and Sunday (March 13th and 14th, 2010), 10:00am-noon; 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Nelson, BC, Canada, exact location still to be announced
Cost: $80/person; $120/couple. Pre-registration required; limited spaces
For more info and to register, contact Next Step Integral:
Tel.: (250) 355-2206; Email: info@integralparenting.ca
We will explore, learn about, and practice:
- Meeting the whole child—a being made of body, mind, soul, and spirit.
- Understanding a young child’s levels of development so that we neither expect too much nor too little.
- How parenting is intimately connected with who we are, and therefore dependent on our own growth and consciousness.
- Riding paradoxes, for example,offering our child unconditional love and providing direction, guidance, and at times very clear boundaries and correction.
- Parenting within an evolutionary context—lifting the bar of what parenting can be by bringing evermore consciousness to the task, whilst not creating more self-doubt or stress about our ability and capacity to parent.
The course is made up of experiential, explorative, practical and theoretical components.
Main course facilitator: Miriam Mason Martineau is mother of a 6-year old daughter. She holds an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Zurich,with specialization in Youth and Child Psychology, and has been working in private practice as an integral therapeutic counselor since 1993. She is presently writing a book on Integral Parenting and is passionately interested in parenting as a spiritual path – both in theory and in practice – a humbling and delightful adventure it is! She is vice-president of Next Step Integral, an international organization that brings an integral perspective to ecology, education, parenting and community. She lives in Winlaw, BC, with her husband, Stephan and daughter, Adonia.
Upcoming
We are continuously expanding this branch as a rich resource of information, inspiration, support, learning and connection. This will include interviews with parents attempting to apply an integral approach to their parenting; a discussion forum; a picture gallery (if you have an inspired picture on this topic that you would like to share, please send it to us); and links to useful resources.
At present we are mainly focusing on the pre-school years. As we expand and grow we will extend our research and writing through childhood to adolescence.