LIVE WORKSHOPS + CONNECTION CIRCLES
The Parenting Pal Founding Season
The Parenting Pal Founding Season brings together three connected chapters of live workshops and Parenting Pal Connection Circles designed to help caregivers bring relationship-centered parenting into real everyday family life.
Each chapter begins with a practical workshop and continues with two smaller Connection Circles where we can slow down, explore the ideas more deeply, and talk about what they can actually look like at home.
You can join us for one experience, complete an entire chapter, combine two chapters, or move through the full Founding Season.
Support before judgment, one small shift at a time.
Three Chapters. Nine Live Experiences. One Connected Journey.
Each Founding Season chapter includes:
1 Live Workshop
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- A focused 90-minute learning experience with practical ideas and tools you can begin using at home.
2 Parenting Pal Connection Circles
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- Smaller 60-minute conversations designed to help caregivers reflect, ask questions, share experiences, and turn ideas into realistic next steps.
Choose the Way You’d Like to Participate
The 2027 Founding Season is designed to be flexible. Join for one workshop or Connection Circle, experience a complete three-part chapter, choose two chapters that feel most relevant to your family, or take part in the full Founding Season.
Individual Workshops — $49
Individual Connection Circles — $35
Complete Chapter — $99
Choose Any Two Chapters — $189
Complete Founding Season — $249
You do not have to participate in every event to belong here. Start where you are and choose the support that feels useful for your family.
Chapter One
Building the Foundation
Parenting Through Connection: The Five Shifts
Chapter Two
Communicating Through Everyday Challenges
Connected Communication
Chapter Three
Understanding Feelings and Needs
When Big Feelings Take Over
CHAPTER ONE
Building the Foundation
Begin with the core ideas that shape relationship-centered parenting. This chapter focuses on connection, understanding your child, and creating a strong foundation for the everyday moments that follow.
WORKSHOP
Parenting Through Connection: The Five Shifts
Parenting can feel very different when we stop looking for the perfect response and start building from a clear foundation.
In this workshop, we will explore five practical parenting shifts that can help caregivers strengthen connection while still providing the structure, guidance, and expectations children need.
This workshop lays the foundation for the Founding Season and introduces the relationship-centered approach that runs throughout The Parenting Pal.
Live Workshop • 90 Minutes
Connection Circle One
Connection Before Correction
Connection is not only something we use when things are going wrong. It is built in the everyday moments when children feel heard, noticed, included, and safe enough to communicate with us.
Together, we'll explore communication style, emotional safety, curiosity, listening before reacting, and ways to reconnect before redirecting when a hard moment does happen.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Connection Circle Two
See the Child in Front of You
Children do not all need the same thing from us—and even the same child may need something different from one moment to the next.
This Circle explores how slowing down, noticing patterns, and becoming curious about what is underneath behavior can help us respond more intentionally to the child in front of us.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Want the full Chapter One experience?
Join all three Chapter One experiences and save $20 compared with registering individually.
CHAPTER TWO
Communicating Through Everyday Challenges
Explore practical ways to communicate clearly while staying connected. This chapter focuses on navigating expectations, limits, responsibilities, and everyday family challenges with greater intention.
WORKSHOP
Connected Communication
The words we use matter—but connected communication is about more than finding the perfect phrase.
This workshop explores practical ways caregivers can communicate clearly, listen more intentionally, hold expectations, and help children understand what is needed without turning every challenge into a power struggle.
Live Workshop • 90 Minutes
Connection Circle Three
Structure Without the Power Struggle
Children need both connection and structure.
This Circle focuses on holding clear, steady expectations while reducing unnecessary battles over routines, responsibilities, limits, and everyday family life.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Connection Circle Four
Supporting Without Taking Over
Helping our children does not always mean doing more for them.
Together, we'll explore how caregivers can provide support while still making room for independence, problem-solving, responsibility, and growth.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Want the full Chapter Two experience?
Join all three Chapter Two experiences and save $20 compared with registering individually.
CHAPTER THREE
Understanding Feelings and Needs
Look beneath the behavior to better understand what children may be communicating through big feelings and difficult moments. This chapter focuses on responding with connection, support, and steady guidance.
WORKSHOP
When Big Feelings Take Over
Big feelings can quickly become hard moments for the entire family.
This workshop explores what may be happening underneath emotional reactions and how caregivers can respond with connection, safety, and structure without feeling responsible for making every difficult feeling disappear.
Live Workshop • 90 Minutes
Connection Circle Five
What Does My Child Actually Need?
Behavior tells us something—but figuring out what it is telling us is not always easy.
This Circle gives caregivers space to slow down and consider what may be underneath a child's behavior, what the child may need in that moment, and what support can realistically look like.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Connection Circle Six
Bringing Connection Home
The goal is not to leave the Founding Season with dozens of new things you feel pressured to do.
This final Circle is about identifying what matters most for your family, choosing realistic next steps, and bringing the ideas from the Founding Season into everyday life in a way that feels sustainable.
Parenting Pal Connection Circle • 60 Minutes
Want the full Chapter Three experience?
Join all three Chapter Three experiences and save $20 compared with registering individually.
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What You Can Expect
Practical, not perfect.
The goal is not to give you another parenting standard to live up to. It is to help you find realistic strategies that fit your family.
Connection and structure together.
Children can feel understood while adults still hold clear, steady expectations.
Conversation without judgment.
Connection Circles are designed to create space for reflection, questions, and shared learning—not comparison.
One small step at a time.
You do not have to change everything at once. A small shift can make a meaningful difference.
FAQs
Do I have to attend the entire Founding Season?
No. You can participate in an individual workshop or Connection Circle, complete one chapter, choose two chapters, or participate in the complete Founding Season.
Do I need to attend the workshop before the Connection Circles?
The workshop provides helpful context for the Circles within that chapter, so completing the full chapter provides the most connected experience. However, individual registration will also be available.
What are Parenting Pal Connection Circles?
Connection Circles are smaller live gatherings where caregivers can explore a focused parenting topic, reflect on their own family experiences, ask questions, and identify practical next steps.
Are the sessions therapy or clinical services?
No. The Parenting Pal provides parent education, mentoring, and practical relationship-centered support. Workshops and Connection Circles are not therapy, diagnosis, treatment, legal services, or special education advocacy.
Start Where You Are.
You don't need to have everything figured out before you begin.
Choose the workshop, chapter, or Founding Season experience that feels most useful for your family right now.
Together, let's help make today feel a little easier.
