free webinar

Learn to Work with Your Triggers: Practices to Help Parents React Less and Stay Calmer

May 23, 2024 Noon to 2pm PT on Zoom

How would it feel to have practices for learning
to react less and stay calmer
with your sensitive, spirited kids
during intense meltdowns, conflicts or other difficult situations?

Maybe you’d:

Feel relieved because you’re fighting less with your child or teen?
Feel more confident and capable of helping your kids with big emotions when they’re losing control?
Have fewer moments of regret?
Have a more peaceful home?

If you’ve been in a cycle of losing your patience and reacting to your child

and then regretting it,

and you’d like to learn some skills for calming yourself (or reacting less in the first place),

this webinar is for you.

The ability to stay calm more often is a practice that can be learned.

This webinar was created to provide tools and relief for these challenges:

Feeling overwhelmed by your sensitive, spirited child’s outbursts and behaviour
Feeling frustrated with your child or bad about your parenting because you want to be more patient
Feeling like you’re failing because you keep losing your cool with your kids
Feeling hopeless or ashamed because you’re in a cycle of yelling, feeling bad, trying harder, then yelling again

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

How to recognize your triggers earlier so you can take better action and change your pattern of reacting
Effective science-based strategies to help you calm yourself so you can return to dealing with your child like the calm parent you want to be
Experiential practices for working with your emotions and body sensations as they arise, so you can get better at staying calm and grounded in difficult situations

This webinar is a good fit for you if you want:

Tools to use, in the moment, to help you get calm again after you’ve reacted
Regular practices you can use for improving your ability to stay calmer in difficult situations with your kids
To learn to learn how to connect more deeply with your child and guide them in challenging situations, rather than reacting.

Why learn from me?

Hi, I’m Colleen, and I’m a parent coach, author, and relational somatic therapist.

As a Mom, I’ve had plenty of moments of regret when I’d reacted to my spirited, sensitive child (and eventually teen) when he wouldn’t cooperate. However, I was determined to parent him differently than the authoritarian style I’d been raised with. I wanted to build the bond between us, not break it.

Eventually my search has led me to realize that learning to calm, regulate and connect to myself and my feelings was the key to connecting with my son and changing my parenting pattern. You can’t teach your kids something you can’t do yourself–I had to learn better skills for calming myself.

In this webinar, I share some of the foundational knowledge and tools I’ve discovered over the years in my research, training, and experience. If you want to check out my formal education, I have a Masters Degree in Nursing, training as a relational somatic therapist, and several other trainings you can read about here.

Learning to calm and regulate ourselves and our kids is life changing. It builds resilience and gives us the ability to have loving, mutually respectful relationships throughout our lifetime–friendships, spousal partner, parent-child, and employer/employee.

I hope you’ll check it out.

What Parents Are Saying About Colleen’s Webinars

“The webinar was very informative and practical. Colleen did a great job of presenting a complex theory on nervous system in a simple and clear way. The webinar will teach you how to regulate your nervous system so you are more present and less reactive with your child. It will give you several tools you can use daily that will help you be a better and more conscious parent.” -A.K.

“Colleen gave practical tools for resetting oneself to calm after getting triggered, and kids can use the tools too. I recommend this!”
-M.C., Mom of a 10 year old

“I recommend this, especially for all parents/guardians to watch together, so you can be on the same page with your strategies. Thanks Colleen!”
-Mom of 2 pre-teens

Will there be a recording?

I’ll be recording this webinar, and it will be available to participants who attend the live class, for confidentiality reasons.

Any questions, email me at colleen@colleenadrian.com.
I hope to see you at the event!