Workshops & Trainings
Vanessa Chamberlain, ma
A MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE CHILDHOOD WELLNESS PROJECT
Across the world, our nation, and our neighborhood communities, anxiousness and other stress-related symptoms are at an all-time high. Present day statistics - for both children and adults alike - could frighten us and create even greater levels of panic and hopelessness. Or, they could inspire us to take the opportunity before us and change this current reality! Together, as Guardians of Childhood, we can ensure our children are provided the environments needed to break free of toxic stress and reclaim healthy, wholesome lifestyles. The choice is up to us!
We are honored to bring you these workshop + training offerings! Join us for the Guardians of Childhood Orientation and one or more workshops designed to support you, whether you are a parent, grandparent, caregiver and/or professional. As we champion the WILD of Childhood together, we build the wholesome environments our children need to heal and to thrive!
What you will experience:
- Rich + meaningful connections with others
- Space + time to focus on your own health + wellbeing
- Empowerment to mindfully parent, teach and support others according to your inherent wisdom
- Genuine excitement about DISCIPLINING the children in your care
- Renewed confidence in your role as a Guardian of Childhood!
- The JOY of bringing the W.I.L.D back to Childhood!
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Coming Autumn '24
Connection: the essence of communication
Coming Autumn '24!
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602.432.3707
Do you know that the Disconnection Crisis is at an ALL-TIME high in the year 2024? While the Crisis affects both children and adults, by nature, children are dependent on the adults in their lives to model, inspire, and ensure connection. So, how do we, adults, model, inspire, and ensure connection if we are experiencing disconnection ourselves?
THIS WORKSHOP EXPLORES:
- What connection means
- Why there are even more barriers to connection in the last 3 decades, and what common barriers are
- How to connect more effectively to oneself, others, and the natural world
- How connecting, first and foremost, to oneself, vastly improves our ability to communicate more productively, genuinely, and assertively
- What the differences are among passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive forms of communication and how to recognize our own tendencies so we may transform unhealthy, ineffective communication
- Why self-awareness and emotional intelligence (EI) are vital to healthy communication and how to develop and increase self-awareness and EI in ourselves and our loved ones!
FACILITATOR: VANESSA CHAMBERLAIN, MA
HEALING THE PARENT + GRANDPARENT WITHIN: a contemplative journey
Coming Autumn '24!
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Come + Explore the full spectrum of emotions that accompanies being a parent and/or grandparent, and the healing power of love, faith, and forgiveness. Through guided meditation, sharing, reflection, affirmation, and blessing, we will discover how healing ourselves helps us to heal our relationships with the children and grandchildren we love.
Note: Please bring a journal for contemplative practice.
FACILITATOR: VANESSA CHAMBERLAIN, MA
guardians of childhood discipline
Coming Autumn '24!
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THIS WORKSHOP OFFERS FOUNDATIONAL TOOLS FOR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, CAREGIVERS - AND PROFESSIONALS - SEEKING TO IMPLEMENT ROOT-BASED DISCIPLINE AND RESTORE WHOLESOMENESS
Are you witnessing any of the following symptoms/behaviors in your children, or other children about whom you care?
· Temper tantrums · Inability to calm/self-regulate · Bargaining/Testing
· Inattention · Hyperactivity/Impulsivity (frenetic energies)
· Aggressiveness · Difficulty waking/falling asleep
· Unkind words/actions · Oppositional/Defiant · Unfriendly/Uncooperative · Lack of Confidence/Self-esteem · Lack of Initiative/Lack of Will
· Inability to show compassion and empathy (to others, or to self)
· Low frustration tolerance (easily give up and/or fly into raging behavior)
· Withdrawal/Isolation/Apathy · Hurtful toward self and/or others
· Inability to experience joy · Overwhelming fear, worry, anxiety, panic
If you’ve answered YES to any of the above, we invite you to join with others as we explore how Guardians of Childhood Discipline can improve your capacity to address the roots of these symptoms/behaviors and, ultimately, transform the lives of those you love!
Today, many parents (and other caregivers, including grandparents, teachers, and guardians) often report feeling overwhelmed, insecure and powerless when it comes to disciplining their children. Given so many outside factors drowning out parents’ inherent wisdom, as well as concerns about what others say parents “should” be doing to address challenging behaviors, parents often feel confused, and fearful, about what to actually do! In this workshop, participants will explore the Meaning + Purpose of Holistic Discipline, and the #11 Guideposts offered for successful implementation. Parents will come away empowered with a renewed sense of calm, clarity and freedom to actualize what they truly desire for themselves and their loved ones.
FACILITATOR: VANESSA CHAMBERLAIN, MA
January '25 Featured Workshop
HEALING THE WHOLE FAMILY: CREATING HEALING RHYTHMS, RITUALS + RITES OF PASSAGE FOR ALL AGES
FEATURED JANUARY 2025 WORKSHOP
STAY TUNED! DETAILS COMING SOON!
Mesa, AZ
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602.432.3707
Come and be inspired with practical ideas to help you create everyday sanctuaries and safe havens with the children and youths in your life. Through presentation, stories, songs, and reflections, Shea will guide you toward simple changes you can make to bring a greater sense of peace, joy, and healing to your home and family. Learn how to nurture and support the young people in your life while you nurture and support yourself.
FACILITATOR: SHEA DARIAN, M.DIV.
Shea Darian, M.div.
Shea Darian is an award-winning author, grief and family educator, and spiritual care provider. Shea’s books include the Waldorf parenting favorite Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day and Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change that recently won Nautilus and IPPY awards for best new titles in Grief/Loss and Psychology/Mental Health. Learn more about Shea at DoingGrief.com
Upcoming Workshops & Trainings
where do the children play? 21st century solutions to the disappearance of play
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a journey from the virtual into the w.i.l.d ... wonder, innocence, laughter + daringness
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parenting as a united front
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Professional Development
GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD orientation + COMMUNITY CALL-TO-ACTION
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Increase childhood health and holistic well-being (social, emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual) among the children You love! You will gain greater awareness regarding the impact of 21st century factors on our children, young adults and communities + increase Your capacity to restore the W.I.L.D* in childhood! *wonder, innocence, laughter, daringness
GUARDIANS AT THE HELM: CREATING A SAFE HARBOR
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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This workshop will empower and inspire you to take the Helm! While children (including young adults) may behaviorally resist and rail against wholesome change and boundary setting, our children look to us to create healthy environments for them. And, they readily provide us an abundance of symptomatic and behavioral clues when environments (and specific activities) are toxic to them. If we choose to heed these signs, we may begin a healing journey without blaming the messenger. Without assigning blame to our children's intended, and overriding message, we may gain a greater understanding of our role at the helm and the immense power we have to create anew.
JOIN US FOR THIS DAYTIME WORKSHOP TO LEARN:
- What it means to take the Helm
- Why - and how - our children are calling out to us to create safe harbors ... more than at any other time in history
- How to weather the storm as we create new boundaries and adopt healthy, wholesome norms for our children
- Why it is vital to fortify ourselves, first
- How to specifically nurture ourselves in mind, body & spirit on a daily basis
- Why this workshop/professional development training is so beneficial for childhood advocates, including parents grandparents, extended adult family & friends, educators, and other youth-serving professionals - and - how coming together, as Guardians of Childhood fosters safety for our children
NOTE: READ OUR GUARDIANS AT THE HELM BLOG POST FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TAKING THE HELM AND GAIN HELPFUL TIPS!
FACILITATOR: VANESSA CHAMBERLAIN, MA
from the absence of meaning to the presence of purpose: HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS TO YOUTH DISCONNECTION
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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The Landscape of Childhood has changed dramatically throughout the last century. This workshop offers participants an opportunity to:
- Explore the #4 D's contributing to OUR NATIONAL YOUTH (ages 0-24) DISCONNECTION CRISIS
- Identify Signs + Symptoms of Disconnection + Discover What You Can Do to Foster Healing
- Transform Entertainment-Oriented Childhood into Enlightenment-Oriented
- Join with other parents + professionals as we come to understand our children's behaviors in a whole new light!
Benefits for You!
previous workshop + training participants report:
- Greater awareness regarding the impact of 21st century factors on children, young adults, and our communities
- Increased motivation to practice, parent, and teach according to one's inherent wisdom
- Increased ability to address challenges through implementing root-based solutions versus quick-fix, or punitive measures
- Increased experience of social-emotional safety among adults and the children for whom they care
- Greater satisfaction with role (i.e. parent, teacher, program administrator)
- Increased reliance on holistic, wholesome, wisdom-driven values and conclusions about the meaning of behaviors/symptoms, rather than reliance on status quo norms and/or reductionist labeling
- Increased capacity to understand how adult stress, mood, and energy impacts others and how to make changes accordingly
- Greater levels of responsibility and accountability among adults, and, the children for whom they care
- Increased compassion, understanding, joy, forgiveness, lightheartedness and willingness to promote the W.I.L.D of Childhood
- Increased wellbeing (social, emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual) among adults and the children for whom they care
Guardians of Childhood
- Explore Holistic Wellness for Guardians of Childhood: Fortify + Nurture Yourself!
- Expand Your capacity to DISCIPLINE + restore the W.I.L.D* in childhood!
- Transform Entertainment-oriented Childhood into Enlightenment-oriented
- Receive essential tools to sustain Yourself, and the Children & Young Adults for whom you care