Transforming Families with Aware Parenting

'I highly recommend Rebecca's workshops. She is an incredibly gifted and teacher and her warm energy creates a peaceful and loving atmosphere during the workshop. It made me feel very safe and accepted. I also love Rebecca's examples from her own family life - very genuine and authentic. I feel so grateful for the opportunity to participate in this workshop. I've learned a lot! Karolina, mum to 2 children.

This workshop delves deeply into children's natural ability to heal stress and trauma that they have been exposed to, from something as small as a visit to the dentist to more serious traumas such as severe accidents or medical trauma etc. Crying, raging and laugher can transform children’s behaviour.

It takes place over 2 days 26th and 27th Sepetmber 9:00am-12:30pm.

What Parents Will Gain From This Workshop

By the end of this workshop, parents will have a new understanding of children’s behaviour and powerful tools to support emotional healing.

You will learn how to:

• Understand what children’s crying, raging, and laughter are really communicating

• Recognise the hidden effects of stress and trauma on behaviour, sleep, and learning

• Respond to big emotions without punishments, rewards, or shutting feelings down

• Create the emotional safety children need to release stress and restore homeostasis

• Support children after difficult experiences such as medical procedures, separations, accidents, or everyday stresses

• Feel more confident and calm when your child has big feelings

Many parents discover that when children are supported to release stress safely, they often show improvements in:

• Behaviour

• Sleep

• Emotional resilience

• Cooperation

• Confidence

Instead of feeling overwhelmed by big emotions, you’ll begin to see them as part of a healthy healing process.

Workshop Description

Children naturally know how to heal from stress if we understand how to support them.

From everyday experiences like visits to the dentist or starting school, to more significant events such as illness, accidents, or medical procedures, children accumulate stress in their nervous systems. When this stress isn’t released, it can show up as challenging behaviour, anxiety, sleep difficulties, hyperactivity, learning struggles, or emotional withdrawal.

In this practical and insightful workshop, we will explore how children’s natural stress-release mechanisms: crying, raging, play, and laughter to help restore emotional balance and support resilience.

You will learn how to recognise when behaviour is actually a sign that a child is trying to heal, and how to respond in ways that support emotional recovery rather than suppress feelings.

Drawing on the Aware Parenting approach and Rebecca’s many years of experience working with children, families, and schools, this workshop offers compassionate, evidence-informed guidance and practical tools you can use straight away.

Participants often leave feeling relieved, inspired, and empowered, with a deeper understanding of children and a more peaceful approach to parenting.

The session includes teaching, small-group reflection exercises, and time for questions in a warm, supportive environment.

About Rebecca Sheikh

Rebecca Sheikh is a certified Level 2 Aware Parenting teacher, and her passion lies in helping parents find ways to discipline without the use of punishments or rewards. She taught as primary school teacher for 17 years before having her first child. She is now the mother of two children (ages 12 and 9). She completed an MA in Counselling in Education at The Tavistock Institute in London and has done a Foundation Course in Nonviolent Communication. She also has an Oncology Certified Nurse qualification in Gentle Sleep Methods and has completed the Hand in hand Parenting Professional Intensive. She is currently doing her counselling skills and will be working towards BACP accreditation and training to be a sandplay therapist. Rebecca leads staff meetings in schools to help teachers look at alternatives to punishments and rewards, leads Attachment Play workshops and offers consultations to support parents with the Aware Parenting approach. More recently she is involved in setting up a gentle play group and gentle parent and child groups. Rebecca also works on the executive council of The International Attachment Network.

** Please note you need to attend a Level 2 instructors workshop from your country of residence to qualify for the certification. If there isn't one then you may attend one from another country.

** Please ensure you have a quiet space to take part in this workshop.

For any questions or concessions email Rebecca at flourishingchildhood@gmail.com

What participants said from the previous workshops.

'This workshop provided me with precious tools to my parenting journey. Rebecca held a beautiful space over both days. She's a great communicator and the knowledge she shared has changed the way I understand a lot of my child's behaviour. The structure of the workshop made it really fun to be a part of. It was a space where parents and people who work with children from all over the world met, shared experiences whilst learning new meanings behind children's behaviours and gentle and respectful ways of approaching them.' Ana

'I recently attended Rebecca's 2 day 'Transforming families through Aware Parenting' Course and enjoyed it immensely. Rebecca is very knowledgeable but also great at presenting the information in a fun and interesting way. I gained so much, thanks Rebecca!' Christine

'Aware parenting concepts and principles are practical and make a lot of sense. they emphasise on establishing respectful and connected relationships with our children recognising our children as human beings who have their own thoughts and feelings that are to be respected. Rebecca effectively explains the concepts in a fun and understandable way giving live examples. which makes her workshops real and practical. My life has completely changed after our recent workshop I with no doubt recommend Flourishing Childhood.' Pontcho

'This has been the most fruitful experience concerning parenting in all my life. I have tried so many interventions but this supases all! I'm happy to say this is the start of a new chapter in my life. healing my own traumas through play: I'm allowed to be myself again. I'm blown away already! looking forward to getting certified in the years to come. this is a journey on its own and I embrace it fully! thank you to everyone for the love. ' Lihle