About The Program
As parents most of us struggle with balancing a medley of emotions ranging from joy, awe, and fulfillment to anxiety, confusion, frustration and anger. Children bring us a lot of happiness but mixed with it comes a lot of the negative stuff that we do not have time for. Unfortunately, the practice of pushing those unwanted emotions under the carpet causes those very emotions to become barriers in communication with our children, resulting in a breakdown in the parent-child relationship.
We make parenting more complex than it is meant to be. Parenting at its core is meant to be an intuitive process where parents evolve while raising their children. Parenting is meant to be like meditation, looking inward while journeying outward.
This 5-week short and practical course has been put together after a decade of working with over hundreds of parents and children. We have devised a formula so simple that you will find it effortless to follow through having a profoundly positive impact on your relationship with your child.
Parenting can be simple if we know how to keep it that way!
Who is it for?
This 5 Week Program is meant for every parent who:
- At some time or the other has lost their cool to an extent that they regretted it afterwards
- finds themselves directing their anger towards their kids
- finds their child responding with anger towards them
- feels that they want more peace and harmony in the family
- wishes there was a magic wand to make things less stressful at home
About the Mentor
Sunaina Vohra is a Co-Active Coach, Certified Master Life Coach, Master NLP Coach, and Certified Parent Coach and has been working with children and adults since 2010.
Through her consultancy, Athena Life Coaching, Sunaina combines her coaching skills with her experience as a mother to create transformational programs for children, teenagers and parents. Athena Life Coaching’s mission is: Contributing to world peace and harmony by creating it at the atomic level of one family at a time.
Originally from India, Sunaina currently lives in Dubai, UAE with her husband and two children.
Sunaina is a Youth & Parent Coach and helps pre-teens, teens and parents to create positive transformations in themselves, more understanding and open communication in their relationships thereby creating love and harmony in the family.
Sunaina believes that if we can create peace and harmony at the family level, we could eradicate a lot of the unrest and war we see around us. If we could teach our children to be more tolerant, calm, focused, disciplined, to relax more, to have a charitable nature, to receive but also learn how to share and give, we could create young leaders who could take the world into an era of peace, harmony and love.
Program Structure
Week 1: Origins of Anger
We will focus on the core reasons why anger shows up frequently while you are parenting your child. What are the issues that move you away from being the calm and relaxed parent you want to be but are unable to.
Week 2: Family Environment
Ways to ensure that the family environment supports the goals you have for your child while keeping you in a relaxed and calm state. Parents whilst having expectations from their child also need to understand how to best support them in fulfilling those.
Week 3: Understanding our Triggers
Becoming conscious of the buttons your child can press that makes you lose your cool and sky-rocket your anger. Realise how easy it is that once you know what your triggers are you can easily eliminate them.
Week 4: Mind-body connection
Understanding how anger shows up in your body and what you can do to calm yourself. Anger manifests in a physical form and the sooner you get in touch with the various sensations in your body you will realise how seamless it will become to move from anger to calm.
Week 5: Replacing Anger with Joy
A sure shot strategy to replace anger and frustration in parenting with joy and gratitude. Every emotion can be replaced with a positive one and anger is no exception, using the magical wand of gratitude.
What Participants Say
Pallavi
Mother of 12 year old boy
After just a couple of sessions, I realized that the expectations I had from my son were just not realistic. We as grownups are not perfect so we can’t expect perfection from our kids. However, we can set examples and keep the expectations real and achievable. Thank you Sunaina! I have improved so much in this short period and my partner and son have noticed it.
Kavita
Mother of two young girls
I must say this Sunaina, I have seen very few people like you. Thank you so much!! Yesterday while watching your video from the program I was taking some notes and my little daughter came to me and asked, “Is this your teacher?” I must say you are a great teacher who taught me a lot of good things about parenting and I love you for that!
Farah
Parent of 9 year old boy living in a nuclear family
I could not resist to pen down how I am feeling just after your second session. Your words have added flavor to my motherhood and giggles to my home. My 9 year old son is wondering what has happened to his mother, seeing changes in me. And he is also behaving and doing things according to my desire! In these few days he keeps asking me, “Mumma I am a good boy na?” The little heart unaware that he is always good, it is his mother who is improving. I cannot express in words what is the role of this program in my parenting. Thank you so much Sunaina!
Samantha
Mother to two teenagers
Sunaina I am still in the midst of the program but the healing process that has begun is already having a calming effect on me. My yelling, my anger, my exhaustion was causing all the trouble. I know that if I am cured, I can bring love and peace to my family. I cannot thank you enough Sunaina for this program. Keep filling the world with love and peace, more power to you!
Radhika
Mother of teen girl
Well we have a long road ahead to walk but glad we have made a start somewhere! And you have made us realise that expectations however big or small are a burden on our little child’s shoulder and ultimately if we don’t realise our mistakes they would succumb and be unable to bear the burden! And that would be the end of the road hoping for a good relationship with our child. Many thanks to you Sunaina that I have come back to the track and now everything seems possible!
Reema
Mother of 8 year old boy and 12 year old girl
To be very honest, I was surprised that I did not get angry at my 8 year old today. There were very few situations in which the old me would have got red hot but I stayed calm. I was so happy with myself, and it was a surprise to my husband the way I reacted. Thank you Sunaina! Your words worked wonders for me. I always wish and pray that my children say that they have the best mum when they grow up, I can see the path clearly now even before finishing the complete program!
Hena
Mother of twins boy and girl
I will be honest and tell you that I did start getting angry today on the usual stuff at my kids, but what was different was that I caught myself right at the brink of it. I took a deep breath and made sure that I kept the intensity and consequences of my anger in check, that is, I did not become a red-hot volcano with molten anger inside. Instead I only reprimanded my son from the surface level when needed, without letting the anger take control of me. Result? He said sorry right away and gave me a long, tight hug out of nowhere.
Jyoti
Mother of 11 year old girl
My experience with my daughter was really surprising. This morning she got up late and was late for her morning run. But I did not feel like shouting at her and instead was calm and said that sometimes it happens. Don’t worry we can go now. Suddenly she was fully energized and started to run. She told me, “Mama it is already late let us not waste any time.” I was really surprised and accompanied her for the run. Usually when I scold her she becomes really moody but today she happily and full of energy went for the run. I hardly feel angry because the mistakes done by my daughter are so small that I feel it is better to correct rather than shout at her. While doing my tasks, I tried to remember my anger from pre-program times for the same mistakes. What a big change! Really a miracle!!
Gayathri
Mother of 6 year old boy
It was really an awesome program! I learnt a lot. Just observing my mind and body and emotions is an amazing experience. You are an amazing mentor. I am very fortunate to be part of this lovely parenting community. Thanks a lot!
FAQs
Will an online program be the same as an in-person experience?
What if I miss a session?
We are lucky to be in an age of technology where even if you miss a live session you will have access to the recordings for the duration of the program.
Would the sessions be interactive?
Yes you will get many opportunities to interact both with the program mentor and also other participants during the LIVE call and also in the Private Facebook Group.
Would we be able to interact in some way after the sessions as well?
Thanks to Facebook we will invite all of you to a private FB group where you can share your learning from the programs, any blocks that you might face and your victories along the way so that we can celebrate together. We hope that you will participate actively and find value in this complimentary service.