As a mother, educator, trained Birth Story Listener and certified Hand In Hand Parenting instructor…
I am passionate about identifying opportunities for building connection. With both my personal experience as a mother and my long-time work supporting children and families utilizing the tools of connection through Hand-in-Hand Parenting, I help families thrive.
Learning to be in relationship with our child is a journey! By bringing a grounded approach to the big job of parenting, I help parents learn and utilize powerful listening tools to use with their children as they grow from babies to adolescents.
My parenting work through using the Hand in Hand approach is based on these assumptions:
-When children feel connected, they learn readily, love easily, and become caring leaders among their peers. A healthy parent-child connection enables a child to fully access their intelligence and ability.
-When parents feel connected with their children and with other parents, they have greater success at solving problems at the heart of family and community life. Parenting becomes more fun, and more rewarding.
-When children’s behavior goes “off track,” they are asking for closeness, connection and understanding. Parents can use the tools of Special Time, Playlistening, Setting Limits or Staylistening to rebuild the connection with their children. The child offloads stress, reconnects, and can then make thoughtful decisions and learn from their experience.
-When emotional stress sends parents' behavior "off track," they need the support of a listener who appreciates how much they care and how hard they try. Parents need the safety to offload feelings that interfere with their ability to guide their children with love and sensible limits, kindly held.
“Listening to feelings can mend deep rifts between parent and child.
Listening to children with love relieves their hearts, and most often, clears their behavior as well.”
I support parents through:
One-on-one Guidance
Share, reflect upon and get support for your experience in parenting.
Learn valuable parenting tools that help your child’s behavior and strengthens your connection
Group Classes and Workshops
virtual (worldwide) and in-person (Los Angeles) available
Support Groups
virtual (worldwide) and in-person (Los Angeles) available
Past Parent Experiences
“It is amazing to be able to reach out to someone like Magdalena who lives on the other side of the world and be heard and connect with such humanity even without meeting in person. She has a gift for really making someone feel heard and held even by telephone which is quite something!”
“It was important to me to find connection with other parents. I found out that I wasn’t the only boat sailing in these uncharted waters, but that we’re a fleet of boats heading in the same direction and dealing with the same weather conditions. Now I have tools for being with my children that are even helping me at work!”
“This should be offered to those parents thinking about having children. I loved the tools and techniques. Otherwise I would be limited to the mistakes of my parents. I needed this before getting pregnant!”
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