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📍 Next Beyond The Playbook Parenting Lab
🗓 Monday 14th September | 8:00–9:30pm BST
💻 Online via Zoom
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Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting with something close to my heart: creating spaces for parents raising sensitive, deeply feeling and neurodivergent children.
I called them Parenting Labs in the spirit of experimentation, curiosity and wasn’t quite sure what would emerge.
As parents gathered online last month, we spoke about the gap between expectation and reality, the difference between the parenting journey we imagined and the one we’re actually living. We spoke about grief of seeing our children struggle, of navigating schools, diagnoses and systems that don’t always understand them and of carrying responsibilities that many people around us don’t fully see.
And underneath all of it, there was a longing for community and to feel less alone.
What struck me most was that for ninety minutes, parents weren’t trying to fix anything or offer solutions. Instead, people listened and witnessed each other and at the end of one session, we asked everyone to share a word they were taking away.
The words that came back included:
Relief.
Being seen.
Hope.
Community.
Connection.
It reminded me of something I have been feeling for many years.
Many of the challenges families face today were never meant to be carried alone.
As a Clinical Psychologist, I have spent much of my twenty year career supporting children and families through NHS CAMHS, private practice and beyond. Again and again, I have seen families searching for support in systems that are often stretched beyond capacity. Professional support is important but increasingly I find myself asking a different question:
What would become possible if we rebuilt the village around families? The emergence of a new kind of village for this next era we are now stepping into. One that draws on the collective wisdom of parents, honours the uniqueness of every child, and creates spaces where healing, growth and connection can happen in community.
This has been a vision growing in me for twenty years.
Which brings me to some exciting news!
Going forward, I will be co-facilitating Parenting Labs with my husband, Matthew Green. Matthew and I have spoken about creating these kinds of spaces ever since we first met more than ten years ago.
Long before Parenting Labs existed, we have shared a dream of helping create more holistic ways of supporting children, parents and families through community, family retreats, collective healing and ultimately, the kinds of modern-day villages that so many are missing today.
Alongside being my husband and co-parent, Matthew is a journalist, author and Collective Healing Facilitator. After 14 years reporting internationally as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, his work evolved towards understanding trauma, resilience, healing and the ways individuals, families and communities navigate challenge and change.
A graduate of Thomas Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom Training and Collective Trauma Facilitator Training (CTFT), Matthew has spent many years exploring the connections between personal, ancestral and collective healing. He has extensive experience creating reflective group spaces where people can slow down, feel heard, connect more deeply and discover they are not alone. As co-creator of Parenting Labs, he brings warmth, curiosity and a deep appreciation for the role that relationships, community and collective wisdom can play in supporting parents and families.
It feels deeply meaningful that our paths are now coming together in this work and together, we have created Parenting Labs from a shared belief that parenting is not something we are meant to navigate alone.
We intend to create spaces where parents can bring the joys, uncertainties, fears, questions, grief, challenges and growth of parenting, knowing they will be met with compassion rather than judgement.
Because we believe meaningful change happens through relationship: with ourselves, our children and our communities.
As we approach the start of a new school year, we’re delighted to be opening the next Parenting Lab:
Monday 14th September 2026
8:00pm–9:30pm BST
A reflective online space for parents of sensitive, deeply feeling and neurodivergent children.
Whether you’re navigating school challenges, diagnoses, emotional intensity, uncertainty, advocacy fatigue or simply the complexity of raising a child who experiences the world differently, you’re warmly welcome.
This will be a small-group space intentionally designed to be calm, reflective, thoughtful, and emotionally safe.
There’s no pressure to speak or share. Some parents come simply to listen, reflect, and experience the relief of being in a space where they no longer feel judged or have to explain their choices.
This gathering is the first in a new series, with further Labs planned for:
Monday 28th September 2026 8:00pm–9:30pm BST
Monday 19th October 2026 8:00pm–9:30pm BST
Each gathering can be attended as a standalone experience or as part of the unfolding Parenting Labs journey.
If you’d like to learn more or reserve a place, you can do so here:
Join Parenting Lab on 14th September
I write the Resonant Parenting Project in between my work as a conscious parenting coach and looking after my eight-year-old daughter Matilda. Any support from readers through liking, sharing or subscribing helps make this work sustainable. Thank you!
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