About the course

This 10-part practical online course has been designed for all parents and carers who wish to learn how to develop psychologically healthy, resilient and thriving families. Over the course of 6 hours of downloadable material to be listened to in your own time, you will develop more confidence to make the best job in the world fun, light and full of joy by learning how to:    

  • Deal with your own anxiety and guilt       
  • Help your child who is being bullied – or who is the bully       
  • Uncover your child’s innate confidence       
  • Navigate conflict in your home by sharing the iheart instruction manual for creating a resilient family    

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Session 1: What if we already have everything we need inside?

    • PRINT: How do you feel when you are your best self

    • PRINT: Session 1 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 1: What if we already have everything we need inside?

  • 3

    Session 2: What covers up wellbeing?

    • PRINT: What have I attached my wellbeing to?

    • PRINT: Session 2 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 2: What covers up wellbeing?

    • READ: Michael describes his realisation that he was attaching his wellbeing to his family’s wellbeing and how this led him to seeing that this was not serving or helping anybody

    • WATCH: Jacqui shares her experience attaching her wellbeing to her son getting ready for school on time
  • 4

    Session 3: Getting to know your psychological system

    • PRINT: Session 3 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 3: Getting to know your psychological system

    • WATCH: Alarm bells go off for Tess: Letting go of her attachment allowed her daughter to learn from her own innate wisdom

    • WATCH: Vanessa describes struggling with her child who has severe allergies

    • READ: Helen reflects on her attachment to her son’s mental health/ wellbeing

  • 5

    Session 4: Getting to know your psychological GPS

    • PRINT: How do you feel when you are not in your wellbeing

    • PRINT: Session 4 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 4: Getting to know your psychological GPS

    • WATCH: Gracie (age 19 ) powerfully described how the iheart learning helped her with chronic stress and anxiety

    • WATCH: Stacey questions whether her daughter’s exams really steal her peace of mind?
  • 6

    Session 5: Help I feel insecure, anxious, worried and full of guilt!

    • PRINT: Above and below the iceberg

    • PRINT: Session 5 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 5: Help I feel insecure, anxious, worried and full of guilt!

    • READ: Patricia offers a powerful sharing of how a long standing attachment to fear of cancer/ death began to fall away

    • WATCH: Vanessa describes her revelation of discovering that she could experience ‘a perfect day’ of parenting even when her children were far from perfect.

    • Challenging (poking holes) in your outsources/ attachments - Terry introduces some great questions to help facilitate insight when an outsource/ attachment feels very embedded, engrained and hard to shift

    • Insight Questions
  • 7

    Session 6: Navigating conflict in the home

    • PRINT: Do we all see the same reality?

    • PRINT: Session 6 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 6: Navigating conflict in the home

    • WATCH: Sonia explores whether a mother and daughter can disagree and still be friends?

    • WATCH: Babs describes dealing with difficult behaviour and head strong children
  • 8

    Session 7: My child is being bullied/my child is bullying other children

    • PRINT: Session 7 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 7: My child is being bullied/my child is bullying other children

    • WATCH: Alfie on Anger

    • WATCH: Vanessa describes a moment of sibling rivalry that led to despair, but finally ended up with a powerful insight

  • 9

    Session 8: Labels are for jars--uncovering innate confidence

    • PRINT: Session 8 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 8: Labels are for jars--uncovering innate confidence

    • READ: Nora describes a powerful insight she had around her children creating mess in the house
  • 10

    Session 9: How to deal with addictive/compulsive behaviours

    • PRINT: Session 9 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 9: How to deal with addictive/compulsive behaviours

    • WATCH: Babs describes struggling with her child’s ‘addiction’ to screens
  • 11

    Session 10: Common questions and answers

    • PRINT: Session 10 Notes Page

    • WATCH: Session 10: Common questions and answers

    • WATCH: Babs describes sharing this learning with your children

    • READ: Jo describes how learning about her psychological workings revealed a deep rooted attachment that gave her insight into her relationship with her son.

    • WATCH: Paul explains how he and his wife dealt with their sons’ ‘challenging’ behaviours as they grew up and found their feet in the world

    • PRINT: iheart Parents Instruction Manual