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An unprecedented opportunity to discover the proven parenting tools, practices and strategies to evolve your communication, deepen your connection–and bring out the very best in you and your child.
The moment your child is born, a host of changes are set in motion that will change your life forever. Most of them are extraordinary; as you hold your baby, you’re filled with awe at the miracle of life and joy–anticipating the incredible journey ahead.
And then years down the road–as you see your children graduate college or get married–you marvel at the journey you’ve been through, and the ways you’ve supported the beautiful adult they have become.
However, when you become a parent, you are also signing up for countless challenges and power struggles with your children (who may not always appear grateful for your efforts).
Parents often react in anger, frustration and guilt–and in the process, lose their connection with their hearts and spirits. In response, kids often resist, act out or withdraw even further. This is true whether your child is 3-years-old or 33-years-old!
Your own regular spiritual practice–along with your good intentions to parent consciously, with mindful awareness–may feel eclipsed by the daily struggles of your parenting routine. Your toddler has a meltdown every night before bed. Your 8-year-old won’t turn off the iPad. Your teenager is turning to bad influences. Your adult child suffers through unemployment.
Sure, you love your kids and would do anything for them. But you are also human, and there are many times when parents feel confused and overwhelmed.
Losing your center is normal–but if it happens with greater frequency and intensity, it is a sign that you are ready to examine your preexisting parenting beliefs and behaviors–and discover a new, transformative path!
With the Parenting as a Spiritual Path course, you will learn powerful insights and techniques for embracing the symbiosis of spirituality with parenting–and discover how it is an amazing catalyst for your own growth and evolution, as well as for your children.
Remember the emergency protocol in an aircraft? You must first put on your own oxygen mask before placing it on your child. Similarly, you first need to learn how to bring awareness and mindfulness practices into your own life, so that you have the necessary skills available for raising joyful, resilient authentic children.
Through the Parenting as a Spiritual Path course, you’ll join a global community of conscious parents and discover down-to-earth, spirit-focused techniques for raising kids who are more present and connected with their highest potentials–without the power struggles, tantrums, negotiations and other thieves of happiness that rob mothers and fathers of their ability to enjoy the sacred journey of parenthood.
Experience the transformative power of staying
calm, conscious and connected with your children –
guiding them to become more present, resourceful
and heart-centered adults.
To transform your preexisting parenting patterns, it is essential to examine them with mindful awareness, non-judgmental curiosity and loving kindness.
When you bring a heart and spirit connection to your parenting life, you will discover you are more proactive and less reactive. When you manage your own reactions from a place of calm clarity, you give your child what they need most from you: a parent who reliably holds the role of a consistent, loving guide in their lives.
Parents are meant to function as their child’s best source of support, comfort and direction. Even though children are spiritual equals, they still need to feel that their parents are in charge–to lean on through the ups and the downs. But when children sense that their parents’ ability to be centered and confident is inconsistent or unsteady, they begin looking to their friends for more connection and direction.
So when you learn to stay grounded with clear intention–regardless of how your kids are behaving–you position yourself as the calm parent your children respect and want to cooperate with. In strengthening your sacred connection, your kids naturally want to relate with you.
When you learn how to identify the particular triggers that cause you to lose your cool, you can begin taking manageable steps toward becoming the best version of your parenting self. Rather than scripting what you should say when things go wrong, you’ll learn specific ways to intuitively parent effectively–even in the heat of the moment. As you continue to offer children the loving and sane guidance they so desperately need, you continue to be the primary one they desire to share their worries and joys with.
From homework and bedtime to screen time and chores, the Parenting as a Spiritual Path course will help you apply heart and spirit to practical parenting situations. You will also learn how to keep frustration from turning into aggression, so your children develop the resilience they will need to navigate real life as confident, well-adjusted adults.
The more confident and centered you feel in your parenting abilities, the more you will enjoy your role and your time with your kids. Both you and your children will discover how to best share your unique gifts with the world–and shine as brightly as possible!
In the process, you’ll learn to have faith that the Universe gave you the perfect child to help you grow, evolve and become a more conscious, loving being.
Susan Stiffelman is a globally-recognized authority on conscious parenting. She brings the insights of a psychotherapist together with the wisdom from her committed, spiritual journey–incorporating “in-the-trenches” experiences from her own parenting and work with thousands of children, teens and adults. You’ll find her a wise and illuminating guide into the next level of your own parenting skills.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
Each weekly LIVE teaching and training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to embrace Parenting as a Spiritual Path. Your child will experience a transformed parent who is more present, grounded and engaged–as well as light-hearted and fun.
And you’ll discover how to be a strong, centered, clear parent–expressing love consistently–while also navigating challenging dynamics and boundary-setting with greater ease.
The following sessions are generally on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm US Pacific time.
Session 1 (June 26th)
The Collision of Your Spiritual World and Real-Life Parenting
For most, a key aspect of being "spiritual" is maintaining a sense of peace and equilibrium–however, raising kids is often anything but peaceful. It’s easy for your soul-powered ideals to collide with the realities of day-to-day life as a parent. You may lose your cool, bribe and threaten–even when you love your kids with all your heart.
- Learn how to take an honest look at your expectations for combining your spiritual path with parenting–and embrace loving kindness toward yourself when exploring the ways in which the daily realities differ from these aspirations.
- Discover techniques for embracing non-judgmental curiosity to effectively assess where you are in your own parenting journey.
- Uncover parenting patterns you inherited (and continue to this day), and learn specific ways to parent effectively–even in the heat of the moment.
- Identify the particular triggers that cause you to lose your center, and begin taking manageable steps toward becoming the best version of your parenting self.
- Discover the power of responding mindfully, instead of reacting.
- Create a clear vision of how you would like your parenting skills–and your connection to your children–to be transformed by the end of this course.
Session 2 (July 3rd)
Effective Tools for “Captaining the Ship”
Children need someone to be in charge; it comforts them to know that their parent can handle the “storms” of growing up as the calm Captain of their ship–without leaping over the rails when the going gets tough. While your children are divine and spiritual beings in their own right, they still need their parent to fully inhabit the role of being the one in charge.
- Find out why it’s crucial to embrace hierarchical structures with love and awareness.
- Learn a simple way for determining whether you’re in charge as the “Captain,” arguing or negotiating like “Two Lawyers” or threatening as the “Dictator.”
- Find out how to be the Captain of your child’s ship–confidently managing the calm AND stormy seas of raising kids, instead of controlling through bribes and threats.
- Discover how to come alongside, rather than at your child–to foster receptivity and cooperation.
- Uncover techniques for staying calm, cool, connected–and confidently in charge–even when your children push your buttons.
Session 3 (July 19)
The Child You Have is the Very One You Need for Your Growth and Evolution
If you want to get a gauge on your spiritual practice, take a look at how you react when your daughter spills red juice on your new sofa, or your son refuses to turn off his laptop at 1:00 A.M. on a school night. You don’t have to compartmentalize the realities of parenting to further your spirituality. In fact, the very child you have is likely to offer you the perfect opportunities to grow and evolve.
- Learn about the “Snapshot Child”–and how to override the expectations you have for how your child should behave–in order to create a more harmonious family life.
- Explore how you treat your children – and yourself – when your child’s behavior is a mismatch with how you wish they would act or be.
- Discover how to celebrate the child you have, as is–mindfully moving through disappointment when necessary.
- Learn to embrace even the difficult moments as opportunities to learn and move through old issues.
- Connect to the ways parenting can be a blessed, divine experience–and catalyst for your greatest spiritual growth and evolution.
Session 4 (July 23rd)
Frustration as a Catalyst for Growth
Childhood is filled with frustrating moments. Your son would rather stay in bed than hustle to get out the door for school, or your daughter had her heart set on a friend coming over to play–but plans fell through. Rather than fixing your children’s upsets, what they really need are parents who can guide them to move through life’s inevitable disappointments–so they can grow into resilient adults. And while you’re helping your kids cope with frustration, you have the opportunity to learn ways to move through your own challenges.
- Explore what comes up for you when your children are sad, hurt, angry–or simply don’t like you very much.
- Learn how to help a child move from frustration to acceptance, rather than aggression.
- Develop mindful practices for staying present and grounded in the midst of a child’s emotional and/or physical “storm.”
- Discover techniques for helping your child experience and move through sadness and grief when life doesn’t go his or her way
Session 5 (July 31st)
Raising Conscious, Caring, Connected Kids
Most of us want to provide our children with the resources we may have not had when we set out on our own life path. While you can’t accompany your children throughout their adult lives, you can equip them with powerful tools and skills that will help them to avoid some of the pitfalls that could cause them to lose their way.
- Learn mindfulness strategies that are child and teen-friendly.
- Teach children to question thoughts and beliefs that foster stress, depression and anxiety.
- Learn to model positive behaviors, such as living with gratitude.
- Help children manage digital media–from content quality to time spent.
- Engage children in outdoor activities to combat Nature Deficit Disorder.
- Provide guidance so children learn to untangle complicated peer relationships.
- Discover techniques to help children develop true empathy and compassion.
- Teach children to listen, communicate in healthy ways and engage in difficult conversations.
Session 6 (August 7th)
Feeling the Love:Fostering Deep Connection with Your Child
Your heart opens when you feel seen, cherished and enjoyed–and the same is true for your children. One of the most precious gifts parenting gives you, is the chance to widen and deepen your capacity for love. As you learn to be more fully and frequently present and heart-centered in the interactions you have with your children, you provide them–and yourself–with profound experiences of love and joy.
- Learn how to fortify genuine and deep attachment with your child, regardless of his or her age, interests or temperament.
- Foster a sacred connection with your child, while creating a more harmonious family life and environment.
- Identify fragile elements and strengthen natural closeness with your child.
- Stay present to ways you sabotage moments of true connection.
- Heal patterns and limitations you may bring from insecurities and woundedness from your own childhood.
Session 7 (August 14th)
Being Fully Present for the Ride
It’s easy to get “lost to the list” as you move through your parenting day–focusing on the basics like getting your kids dressed and making sure homework is finished. But childhood is but a brief window of time–during which you get the chance to influence and love your children before they head off into their own separate lives. It’s important to remember how quickly the time passes, and to make the most of even the simple interactions and experiences that so deeply nourish you and your children.
- Learn to be present in the moment–for the good, the bad, and even the ugly.
- Find out how to set intentions that allow you to continue growing–and growing up.
- Discover the importance of making time and simply letting go to enjoy the sweet, unplanned moments of magic.
- Explore parenting as a mindful practice. From homework and bedtime to screen time and chores, you’ll learn new ideas for bringing spirit-centered awareness into practical parenting situations.
The Parenting as a Spiritual Path Bonus Collection
In addition to Susan’s already outstanding 7-week training, you’ll also receive these powerful bonuses that are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Parenting with Presence Summit
A Full Package of Downloadable MP3 Interviews with 24 Pioneers
Get lifetime access to the cutting-edge insights, strategies, tips and powerful practices that will empower you to end the parenting power struggles and bring joy, understanding and love to relationship with your children.
Featured Experts:
PLUS these Summit Bonuses: 
Soul Powered Parenting
Audio Training with Chris Attwood and Susan Stiffelman
So many of us have beautiful ideals for our parenting but when the rubber meets the road, it can be hard to bridge our aspirations into tangible action. How do we parent in a way that is powerfully connected to our ideals while grounded in solid day to day habits? How does our parenting become “soul-powered”? In this illuminating dialogue, Susan and Chris explore these issues and help you take your parenting to the next level.
Chris Attwood is co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose. He is an expert in the field of human consciousness and is also deeply grounded in the practical world of business.
Over the past 30 years, Chris has been CEO or a senior executive of fifteen companies including a secondary dealer in government securities, a software developer, several magazines, and one of the leading consulting and training companies in the world.
Over the past ten years he has become one of the leading trainers and authors in the transformational industry, having created programs such as the Enlightened Millionaire Program, co-founded The Passion Test Daily magazine and the Transformational Magazine Network, and putting together some of the major strategic alliances in this industry. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, which includes over 100 of the top speakers, trainers and authors in the world.
Chris is committed to the experience and expression of the unlimited potential of the heart and mind. It is this dedication that weaves throughout his courses and workshops.
Higher Love: Learning to Love What’s Difficult in Your Child
Live Dialogue with Peggy O’Neill and Susan
In this powerful live dialogue, Susan talks with Peggy O’Neill about parenting a “challenging” child. Whether the child is challenged or you are challenged dealing with your child, Peggy will provide powerful tools and skills to help you move through the difficulties with greater understanding, ease and love. Having triumphed over many challenges of being a “little person,” (standing 3’8”), Peggy has developed an expertise in celebrating her uniqueness, and teaches others to do the same, as well as to celebrate differences in others; two sides of the same coin, says Peggy. She believes differences and difficulties are here not to make us suffer, but to help us evolve into “bigger, better” human beings. Join us and see how dealing with a “challenging” child can elevate you into an even ‘higher love.’
From the soaring height of 3’8”, Peggy O’Neill has captivated audiences for over 10 years with her poignant message of triumphing over challenges, personal empowerment, and celebrating diversity. She will surely elevate your spirit with her zealous optimism, humorous disposition and encouraging demeanor.
Coming from the field of psychotherapy, Peggy inspires and enlightens the minds and hearts of people from all walks of life. Working with both groups and individuals, she uses insight, captivating storytelling, powerful questions and humor to support us all in breaking free from whatever holds us back, and from being truly magnificent, as we were all born to be. Peggy is the author of two books: Walking Tall and Little Squarehead, as well as the creator of many other “Empowerment Tools.”
What Thought-Leaders are Saying About Susan Stiffelman...
“Susan Stiffelman shows parents how to create healthy, loving relationships with children, while helping them develop the resilience and authenticity that will serve them throughout their lives.”
–Arianna Huffington, Founder of Huffingtonpost.com
“Susan Stiffelman is full of heart and soul but firmly grounded in commonsense understanding. She makes parenting easier by bringing much needed support and guidance to help parents stay deeply connected to their kids.”
–John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
“Susan Stiffelman has created a wonderful parenting guide that offers practical methods for raising children, while nurturing their hearts and spirits. I’m confident that it will help parents and their children experience greater happiness in life.”
–Marci Shimoff, NY Times best-selling author,
Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason
“[Susan] provides wise and creative ways for parents to skillfully support their children to develop their unique talents and gifts in such a way that you both will experience a rich, satisfying relationship for a lifetime.”
–Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith,
Founder of Agape International Spiritual Center
Join the Global Community
The Parenting as a Spiritual Path course is not only the most advanced form of online training currently available–it’s also a thriving global community of learning and implementation.
Join your fellow parents from across the world in the live interactive conference calls or in the custom online community–to support and learn from each other while you hone your skills to be the most conscious parent you can be.
This international community is also at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This emerging planetary movement is rooted in an open heart and stands for the principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute LIVE Class Sessions with Susan Stiffelman
Experience a rare opportunity to mentor and learn with one of the world’s leading parenting coaches from the comfort of your own home. Each live class session helps you create the specific skills and abilities to step into more joyful, successful, conscious parenting. Most classes are on Wednesday at 5:00 pm US Pacific.
Seven Audio Recordings of Each Class Session
After each live class, the audio will be available to you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way you’ll never have to worry about missing a session and you can listen anytime and anywhere on your iPod, in your car and at your convenience.
Seven PDF Transcripts of Each Class Session
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
Seven 'Key Teaching' PDFs for Each Class Session
In addition to the high quality MP3s and transcripts, you’ll also receive a full summary PDF of the key teaching points from each session. This way, if you are ever too busy to listen to the entire 90 minute class, you can review the most important insights and integrate them into your life quickly.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
Following each class session there will be a live 30-minute interactive practice session, where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
After each lesson you will then have the option to do related exercises and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Custom Online Community
Our exclusive, custom-built online community is the perfect place to continue your learning after each class. Here you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students and get access to additional resources to take your learning experience to an even deeper level.
"Parenting as a Spiritual Path" BONUS Collection (Total Value $297)
- Soul Powered Parenting with Chris Attwood and Susan
- Higher Love: Learning to Love What’s Difficult in Your Child
Live Dialogue with Peggy O’Neill and Susan
We at The Shift Network feel deeply honored that Susan Stiffelman has chosen to partner with us on this exclusive LIVE online training. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a master coach who draws upon time-tested wisdom that’s impacted thousands of lives–and connect with a global community of like minds and hearts who are doing this important and transformative work.
Through this powerful LIVE online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals–which would cost thousands of dollars). But you’ll also be able to benefit from Susan’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home–at your own pace!
If you are serious about becoming the best parent you can be–you owe it to yourself, your loved ones and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training with Susan Stiffelman.
If you’re ready to take your parenting to a new level and have fun doing it, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed!
More praise for Susan Stiffelman...
“Susan is one of the most gifted and insightful family therapists I have ever come across, and my only regret is that I didn’t find her sooner...”
–Laurie David, author of The Family Dinner and co-producer of An Inconvenient Truth
“Susan’s work is brilliant....guidance for helping right-brained kids grow up feeling great about themselves...”
–Thom Hartmann, author of Healing ADD and The Einstein Gene
“Today’s parents are hungry to learn new strategies for raising their children with respect and understanding, yet they’ve been difficult to find until now. [Susan] gently guides parents into the uncharted waters of positive discipline, based on a loving relationship rather than punishment and rewards...”
–Lysa Parker, Co-Founder, Attachment Parenting International,
Co-Author, Attached at the Heart
“[Susan] offers incredibly important and powerful tools for anyone who has relationships with children. Her methods work. As a preschool teacher and director for over 30 years, I learned more problem-solving tools...than I have in all my years of trial and error. Using Susan’s methods, children are more cooperative, lowering my stress level significantly...”
–Shari Latta, Director, Children’s Creative Workshop
“Susan has the unique ability to immediately develop a rapport with her audience in which she creates an atmosphere where parents felt comfortable to ask very personal questions. Participants came away with common sense, concrete strategies that they could easily incorporate into their own parenting. We felt so fortunate to have had
her back in Kansas City for the second time!”
–Susan Hurst, MA, Director, Family Life Education/Adolescent Specialist/C.H.A.I., Jewish Family Services, Overland Park, KS
“...Susan Stiffelman offers a ton of useful phrases and analogies for how to communicate productively. Her phrases are valuable tools for the parenting toolbox. I love the way she shares real situations about children and parents that she works with...”
–Jennifer Krauss, Mother
“[Susan] has helped me shift my parenting style profoundly, resulting in more harmony in the home...It is a must for all parents who want to parent, as Captain of the ship, from a place of deep love and connection versus control and manipulation...”
–June Louks, Mother of 4 and author of Rawumptions Recipes
“[Susan’s] talk was excellent: thought-provoking and challenging to the “traditional” view of treating the symptom of bad behavior versus the underlying cause. I was truly impressed with [her] knowledge, as well as [her] skill in creating a safe atmosphere in which parents could talk openly about their concerns. Brava!”
–Len Leatherwood, PTA Council Coordinator, Beverly Hills, CA
“Susan Stiffelman has a remarkable ability to explain the importance of being in charge, while remaining connected to your child. Her ideas are easy to implement and come from a deep understanding of the parent/child relationship.”
–Josie Breger, Counselor, New Roads School, Los Angeles, CA
About Susan Stiffelman
Susan Stiffelman, is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, an educational therapist and a highly regarded parenting coach. She is also the Huffington Post’s weekly “Parent Coach” advice columnist. As you’ll hear during these sessions, Susan embodies a unique blend of psychotherapist, teacher, beloved auntie and down to earth mom.
Her book, Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected is based on her work with thousands of parents and children–from celebrities to everyday moms and pops.
Susan offers solid, rubber-meets-the-road advice that has been thoroughly tested on kids of all ages. Her approach focuses on helping parents manage their reactions regardless of how their kids are behaving–so they can position themselves as the calm, confident “captain of the ship” that children cooperate with, confide in, are comforted by and genuinely respect.
And finally, Susan is deeply committed to enjoying her life, living with appreciation and having fun. She has had a regular meditation practice since she was 17-years-old, and has always made the nourishment of her heart and soul the number one priority.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California, and your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference, and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers, and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive–so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on our Shift Movement–that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships–giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! If you find that the course is not meeting your needs, please visit our support site and submit a request at support.theshiftnetwork.com so that we can address your concerns. We offer a satisfaction guarantee for a full two weeks so that you can try out the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is before the start of the third class on Dec 31st, 1969. Submit refund requests at support.theshiftnetwork.com with the subject "Refund request".
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
Q: What are the benefits of telling my friends to join the program?
A: You can sign up as an Affiliate of The Shift Network and receive 20% for anyone that you introduce who registers for the virtual event. If you bring five friends into the event, you can cover your own! Register at theshiftnetwork.com/affiliate and you’ll receive a promotional link to use.
