Easeful • Joyful • Skillful
Parenting isn’t easy. Babies aren’t born with an instruction manual, and there are so many conflicting ideas of what it means to be a good parent. Add to this the many stressors of parenthood—finances, relationships, work-life balance, and so much more—and it is no wonder we make mistakes.
A mindful approach to parenting will not make the stressors go away, but it will give you better tools to deal with them, and help you parent more effectively than you already do.
Once a month, InStill Mindfulness hosts Mindful Parenting classes in partnership with Pulaski County Library System. Each month we host a different class with a different teacher to expose you to a broad range of approaches that help make parenting more easeful, joyful, and skillful.
Childcare, snacks and drinks will be available in the library for each session, to give you the space you need to enjoy and get the most out of each offering.
These classes are freely offered, and donations gratefully accepted.
Shaping a Healthy Brain Together
Join Sandy Jahmi Burg, author, Certified Focusing Coordinator, and neuroscience educator, as we explore the relational skills, including interoception, that help us shape a healthy brain from our daily interactions.
A healthy brain means healthy relationships, both those around us and within ourselves.
Most of us are not as highly skilled at relationships as we would like to be. It turns out our best and safest teacher is within us. Interoceptive skills are a precious gift to ourselves and our children. Rather than becoming a reactive puppet to the mixed messages coming in from the world around us, interoception gives us the ability to pause, sense, interpret, integrate and regulate signals from within ourselves. What follows is a bigger picture response than we would give in a quick reaction.
In this session we’ll utilize a story called “The Bus Ride” from Sandy’s Smartview Stories series to practice how to help ourselves navigate feelings of doubt or anxiety that can make or break a day. Smartview Stories utilizes three Inner Companions who help us understand our body-mind neuroscience and how to create a safe inner world.
The Three Inner Companions will join Sandy in this workshop, and simple drawing materials will be provided for an activity during the workshop.
Smartview Stories books will also be available for purchase.
