Chime Postpartum & Chime for Parents Workshops: Diverse Postpartum & Parenting groups now enrolling!
My 'Chime Postpartum' and 'Chime for Parents' Education/Support Groups are now enrolling for April and May!
'Chime Postpartum' is a 9 week in-person group in Oakland in a lovely, clean living room space with french doors that lead out to a garden area and snacks and tea in the attached kitchen on Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt and is for mamas/parents and their babies who are 6 months or younger. It is held on Mondays from 10-12 with this next series beginning April 28th (skipping the week of Memorial Day). It's an ideal group for 2nd and 3rd time mamas/parents who want help with the adjustment to a larger family and the natural tension this creates or for any postpartum moms/parents who are more interested in gaining tools to manage their minds/hearts rather than the tools of baby care- (swaddling, breastfeeding, sleep-training or not, etc.).
'Chime for Parents' is a 6 week group for parents of any age kid or teen who want community and support as well as concrete tools to help reduce stress and increase effectiveness and greater ease in parenting. It will be led on Zoom again this time beginning May 6th on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:15pm.
In both groups I prioritize diversity so groups tend to be representative of the Bay Area and in both groups I teach my curriculum of mindfulness and other tools gained from many years of mindfulness practice, attending silent meditation retreats as well as from my training as a therapist and experience gained from 17+ years of working with children and families in the bay area. I'm sorry if someone taught you mindfulness in your past and just told you to focus on your breath and didn't help you connect mindfulness tools to the every day problems of your real life! I make mindfulness engaging, accessible, funny (yes really) and relevant to your life by sharing relatable anecdotes complete with true stories of my own parenting and life-lesson bloopers. Both groups offer sliding scale fees in order to be inclusive of all who are interested.