Reskillience

The Parenting Episode with Devon Harris

Mar 24, 2024

Explore Aware Parenting with expert Devon Harris as she shares insights on non-punitive discipline, community care, and societal impact. Discover the healing power of playful connection, resilient family dynamics, and rethinking education for the future. Embrace sustainable parenting and explore different types of giftedness beyond intellectual abilities.

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Devon Harris

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Aware Parenting promotes compassion and non-punitive discipline for children's emotional growth.

Community support, including listening partners and women's circles, is vital in nurturing children.

Alternative schooling approaches emphasizing play and innovation can counteract mainstream limitations.

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Resilience Podcast Overview

The podcast discusses the importance of developing skills and resilience in facing challenges in modern systems. It emphasizes the power of repetition in nature and storytelling as a way to strengthen bonds and shared meaning. The episode explores the role of traditional storytelling in maintaining cultural heritage and the benefits of embracing repetition for internalized progress.

Introduction

3min

Exploring Aware Parenting with Devon Harris

3min

Parenting Beyond Children: Nurturing Self and Society

18min

Building Family Resilience Through Conscious Parenting

7min

The Healing Power of Playful Connection

20min

Rethinking Education and Parenting for the Future

6min

Exploring Giftedness and Sustainable Parenting

4min

Are you keen to join the dots between parenting and activism? Want to grow a beautiful parallel paradigm in and through and with the yoof?

I’m not a parent, but I am someone who believes that our “impact” starts at home; that the work of our times begins with ourselves and the beings in our orbit.

So I reached out to one of the greatest women I know who also happens to be a parenthood black belt. Her name is Devon Harris and she’s here to school us in Aware Parenting, which is a thrillingly disruptive alternative to parenting-as-usual.

Devon is a parenting coach, consultant and mother who helps just as many kiddos as she does adult people, because the Aware Parenting approach is relevant to everybody – especially, as I discovered, to our petulant civilisation that’s stuck somewhere been the terrible twos and teenage angst.

We talk about compassion and non-punitive discipline, power reversal games and listening partners, community childcare and schools as feedlots.

I loved this conversation and feel great about bringing it to Reskillience – and grateful to Devon for being such a wise and hilarious guest. Syd, Devon’s kid, was also hanging out as we recorded so you’ll have the pleasure of hearing from him too. So, without further ado, here’s Devon Harris to show us just how radically rewarding raising children can be.

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