NeuroMovement®
Parent Coaching
Shifting from Fixing to Connecting
"To be most helpful to your child, whatever you do with them needs to foster and empower their own spontaneous ability to perceive differences."
— Anat Baniel
Empowering Parents to Empower Their Child
Raising special children requires special parents. I support parents by empowering them to empower their child through the use of the “Nine Essentials”. These neuroplasticity principles help us to connect better and get out of our habitual way of doing things. They help us become present to what is and what is possible, upgrading our learning process. They are powerful tools to help the parent and the child to perceive differences more easily—which is the foundation for any kind of learning. Anat Baniel describes what these principles are in her book Kids Beyond Limits—a book I highly recommend. It’s available in print and audio.
Most of the parents I work with understand the Nine Essentials conceptually, yet they sometimes find it hard to apply these principles in real-life situations with their child. To bridge this gap, I offer individualized coaching for parents. Together, we explore how to use the Essentials in daily activities and interactions—making them practical, personal, and meaningful. These sessions provide hands-on guidance and space to practice using the tools, and are available both online and in person.
Learn more about the Nine Essentials.
Coaching Sessions
In the coaching session I will guide you through real time explorations where you can safely experiment with different ways of acting and interacting, connecting and communicating with your child. You will feel the differences in your body. You will see the differences in your child’s response. Through these explorations, you will gain a lot of experience that will enable you to effectively guide your child as you help them in their learning process. Coming from your own experience rather than from ideas and theory is a lot more impactful! You will know what it takes and have more empathy with your child.
In the explorations I will invite you to slow down, to help your child slow down. I will offer you variations to try, to help you bring variation into what you do with your child. Variation is essential for learning, it allows you to compare and figure out what works best. Slow and Variation (two of the Nine Essentials) help both, you and your child, to sense differences, notice subtle changes, and discover new options.
What I offer
I like to do the coaching sessions as a mini-intensive of 4 sessions completed within one to two weeks.
Each session lasts 45–60 minutes and can include parent–child sessions as well as parent-only sessions.
Sessions are typically held on Zoom—which allows me to join your in your home environment. Can be in-person if preferred.
Testimonial
“We have been relishing the amazing developmental changes that have occurred over the past couple weeks! E. is walking (toddling) much farther distances and very independently now. She is self initiating variations of movements both gross motor and fine motor. She is exploring new sounds and attempts for speaking, even down to her laugh has changed and has a very adorable fluctuation in it now depending upon the level of excitement. Her receptive language has increased and many other areas of cognition that are too many to pin point in an email - but we have been so pleased and continue to apply the 9 essentials with her in our interactions.”
— Nathen T. (daughter age 2, developmental delays)
A beautiful shift occurred after only four coaching sessions with the father: the daughter, who had always gravitated more toward her mother, began feeling equally at ease with both parents. This change gave the family a new sense of balance and flexibility in how they shared childcare and work while both working from home.