Wild Creature Parenting
An online masterclass with Maggie Dent and Steve Biddulph.
Join us live 8pm (Sydney time), Monday 4th November... or watch whenever suits you.
Sign up now and get lifetime access to the replay and additional resources!
For many of us living on planet Earth right now, life feels hard, and it can be difficult to parent optimistically with the day-to-day challenges we’re facing as individuals and globally.
Our children and teens are bearing the full brunt of this and it’s not for nothing that they are being labelled ‘the anxious generation’*. The good news is that modern neuroscience is showing us where we have been going wrong. It’s also showing us a better way, and it’s something we can all access because it lives right inside us.
If your child or teenager struggles with anxiety, (or if you do too), then this masterclass is for you.
In this very special online event, we are gathering the elders to guide us in parenting through these challenging times. Queen of common sense Maggie Dent is joined by the world’s top-selling parenting author, retired psychologist Steve Biddulph, to help us all reclaim ‘the part of us that knows’.
In his new book, Wild Creature Mind, Steve explores the latest research on our brain, which shows that we have two minds. One is our normal mind which ‘overthinks, rattles about and gets defensive’. The other is our Wild Creature Mind and this is our more complex, intuitive, empathetic and insightful mind.
Steve explains that our modern, busy society has caused a disconnect between our two minds and basically we are living life with half a brain. Using simple methods, however, we can help our kids, teens and ourselves reconnect to our ‘animal mind’ and in the process overcome anxiety, develop good boundaries and heal to become whole again.
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In this masterclass, Maggie and Steve will explore:
→ Myths about the brain and why we’re changing our mind about how we operate
→ How your ‘other mind’ or inner compass works and communicates with you
→ Whether we’ve got it wrong when it comes to anxiety
→ Learning how to find and guard your boundaries (and teaching your kids to do the same)
→ Why everything starts with the body, and how to use body signals to move through anxiety, grief, rage or fear
→ Growing our babies’ wild creature minds
→ Teaching your kids and teens to move beyond naming emotions to learn to be with them
→ What to do with stuck feelings
→ How to help your children process big things, like trauma and grief
→ Exercises for listening to your Wild Creature Mind
With warmth, curiosity and open-mindedness Maggie and Steve will draw from the deep well of their wisdom as elders and practitioners to guide your family in transforming anxiety and living a fierce, unconditionally loving life.
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Join Us
Join us live from 8pm (Sydney time) on Monday, 4th November ...or watch this on your device whenever suits you.
The live session will run for approximately 1.5 hours. A video recording will be available for anyone who cannot join us live. An
audio-only version will also be available for those who prefer to listen on-the-go.
Once you sign up you will receive access to the participant area where you'll
find the special link to join the webinar via Zoom, plus all the additional
resources.
Free gifts included...
Everyone who registers will receive two free audio tracks from Maggie. Created for her by Ute Coleman from Sound Relaxation Margaret River, Cosmos is a ‘sound bath’ style relaxation featuring no voiceover to relax the brain waves for adults and kids over 10. And Maggie's guided voice track, Dare to Dream is a creative visualisation for the whole family that enables you to manifest a clear dream, goal or intention that you’d like to create in your life.
Plus...
As a handy reference, you'll also receive a PDF handout with notes and links to further information and resources.
Your Hosts
Maggie Dent
Maggie Dent is one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators, with a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience – as well as being an undisputed 'boy champion'. Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling, and working in palliative care/funeral services and suicide prevention. She is a dedicated advocate to quietly changing lives in our families and communities. She is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother.
Maggie is the author of 10 major books, including her new 2024 release, Help Me Help My Teen, 2022's Girlhood: Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard, the bestselling Mothering Our Boys and the 2020 release From Boys to Men. She has hosted six seasons of the award-winning ABC podcast, Parental As Anything and in 2021 released a book of the same name. Maggie is also host of The Good Enough Dad podcast.
Steve Biddulph
Steve Biddulph has been a psychologist and educator for over 40 years. He is this century’s top-selling parenting author, with simple and accessible books in six million homes and 32 languages. His books include The Secret of Happy Children, Raising Boys, The New Manhood, Raising Girls in the Twenty-First Century and 10 Things Girls Need Most. Steve has toured with his live shows worldwide since the 1990s, teaching about more affectionate ways of parenting, and a more life-affirming style of masculinity.
Steve and his wife Shaaron funded the creation of the SIEVX refugee memorial on the lakeshore in Canberra, involving 300 schools and communities and over a thousand young artists. Now retired, he is involved in supporting activist mental health in the climate and environment movements, and in campaigns to lower the voting age so that younger people have a say in their own fate. Steve was voted Australian Father of the Year in 2000 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his work in adolescent mental health. He is a father of two grown-up children and lives in Tasmania.
*Referring to The Anxious Generation, the 2024 book by Jonathan Haidt
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