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Updating Our Expectations To Meet The Child We Have

📅 Monday 22nd June
🕕 6:00–7:30pm BST (UK)
🌎 1:00–2:30pm EDT | 10:00–11:30am PDT
💻 Online via Zoom

We begin our next Beyond Labels Parenting Lab on Monday evening, and this is a final invitation for any parents who may wish to join us.

One thing Louis and I have noticed in our work with parents is that most aren’t lacking information. They’re overwhelmed by it.

That’s why we’re hosting an online Beyond Labels Parenting Lab for parents raising children who don’t fit the mould in some way, perhaps your child is sensitive, deeply feeling and neurodivergent. These are the children who often don’t fit the traditional parenting playbook.

Updating Our Expectations To Meet The Child We Have

While these children bring enormous richness to our lives, parenting can also be exhausting, isolating and overwhelming at times.

Many parents I work with are carrying so much behind the scenes: navigating school challenges, appointments, advocacy, emotional intensity, and the constant feeling of needing to stay alert.

What we often see is that beneath the stress and exhaustion are feelings that rarely get acknowledged, including grief for the parenting journey we imagined, and the reality we are learning to navigate. There’s often very little space to pause and process these experiences.

This next session will explore the emotional reality of parenting beyond expectation, including the identity shifts, uncertainty, grief and self-doubt that can emerge when parenting looks very different to what we imagined.

This gathering isn’t about fixing ourselves or our children, or learning another set of strategies and tools. It’s a reflective space for parents to slow down, connect, and explore what it means to meet our child with greater clarity.

The session is facilitated by Louis Weinstock, child and transpersonal psychotherapist, and myself, Dr Genevieve von Lob, clinical child psychologist. Between us, we’ve spent decades supporting children and families navigating sensitivity, neurodivergence, anxiety, trauma and emotional overwhelm.

📅 Monday 22 June
🕕 6pm UK time (90 minutes)
🌎 1:00–2:30pm EDT | 10:00–11:30am PDT
💻 Online via Zoom

We intentionally keep these gatherings small to allow for reflection and meaningful conversation. There are still places available, and we’d love to reach the parents who may benefit from this space before registration closes.

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.

If this resonates with you, you’d be very warmly welcomed.

Join the Next Parenting Lab 22nd June

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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