Being At Your Best When Your Kids Are At Their Worst

Slow parenting' advocate Kim John Payne to appear in Toronto. Lecture and/ Workshop

Location: 250 Madison, Toronto Waldorf Academy

Lecture: 2-3:30 Ticket $15

What prevents us from being at our parental best?

Finding our own parenting voice.

Feeling seen and valued by the family.

Lecture & Workshop $25

Workshop 3:30-5pm

THE WORKSHOP: A DEEPER DIVE INTO PARENTING AND EMOTIONAL SELF REGULATION:

Making A Small Do-Able and Powerful Plan That Works

In this workshop explore...

How to shift taking it personally.

No more nagging.

Feeling the freedom to be direct and intense rather than frustrated and angry.

Breaking out of old unwanted emotionally triggered pattern.

Attuning to the early warning signs of escalation

Using what was great about our own childhood and tossing out the rest.

About Kim John Payne

Kim John Payne, M.ED, has been a school counselor, adult educator, consultant, researcher, educator and a private family counselor for twenty seven years. He regularly gives key-note addresses at international conferences for educators, parents, and therapists and runs workshops and training"s around the world. He has also consulted for educational associations in South Africa, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Thailand and China. Kim has worked extensively with the North American and UK Waldorf educational movements.

In addition to authoring the #1 Best Seller Simplicity Parenting . Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kid, published by Random House Penguin in 2009, he also authored The Games Children Play, (1996) published by Hawthorn Press ,The Soul of Discipline (2015 Random House/Penguin), co-authored Whole Child Sport How to Navigate Child & Youth Sports. and Being At Your best When Your Kids Are At Their Worst (Shambhala Press 2017). His books have been translated into 27 languages.

He has appeared frequently on television including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox; on radio with the BBC, Sirius/XM, CBC & NPR and in print including being featured in Time Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Parenting, Mothering, Times Union and the LA Times.