Balancing Stress While Deepening Family Connection and Communication

A new course that empowers you with tools you need to raise happy, healthy, and resilient children.

• Learn in the moment techniques to manage feelings of overwhelm and anxiety and build resilience

• Support your children to express and manage their emotions in a healthy way

• Create more productive conversations with family members with less upset

• Connect to your intuitive guidance so you can make decisions with greater ease and intelligence

Designed for parents of children of all ages

• 4-hours of online video content divided into 15 microlearning sessions

• 6 HeartMath techniques with downloadable audio guides of each technique

• Tips and stories from ten parents who use HeartMath everyday with their families

• Skill-building activities for parents and children

• Forum for parents to connect and share

• Lifetime access to all program materials

Table of Contents

Part One: Cultivating Safety and Connection

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

• Chapter 2: From Depletion to Renewal

• Chapter 3: The Heart-Focused Breathing™ Technique

• Chapter 4: From Self-Judgement to Self-Compassion

• Chapter 5: How do you cultivate safety and connection in your family?

Part Two: Building Emotional Awareness and Regulation

• Chapter 6: Stress, Emotional Awareness and Co-regulation

• Chapter 7: Managing Intense Emotions

• Chapter 8: The Quick Coherence® Technique

Part Three: De-escalating Conflict with Coherent Communication

• Chapter 9: Coherent Communication™

• Chapter 10: Deepening Communication for Conflict Resolution

• Chapter 11: Side Doors and Back Doors

Part Four: Expanding Your Intuitive Self

• Chapter 12: Finding Your Authentic Parenting Style

• Chapter 13: The Freeze Frame® Technique

• Chapter 14: The Intuitive Self

• Chapter 15: Opportunities for Personal Growth

Includes Additional Age-Specific Supplemental Videos

• Tips for Calming an Infant

• Tips for Calming a Toddler

• Tips for Calming a School-Aged Child

• Tips for Calming a Teen

• Tips for Conflict Resolution With a School-Aged Child

• Tips for Conflict Resolution With a Teen

• Tips for Conflict Resolution Between Siblings

“As a parent, you want to give your children the best possible start in life. But parenting can be challenging, especially in today’s fast-paced and stressful world. That’s why we’re excited to introduce you to HeartMath for Parents, a new course that will empower you with the tools you need to raise happy, healthy, and resilient children.”

Instructors:

Dr. Jorina Elbers, M.D., M.S., is a pediatric neurologist with a master’s degree from Stanford University. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Stanford, and is now Program Director for the Trauma Recovery Project at the HeartMath Institute. She has been married for over 13 years and has 2 sons.

Michele Coleman is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of New Mexico. She is the parent of 3 adopted children and 1 biological child.

Featured Parents

Ten parents share how they have applied these tools to help you translate the techniques from this program into real life situations with your family.