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Becoming a parent is one of the most magical experiences that humans go through, but it can also be extremely challenging. It brings the best and worst in us!
This course is meant to lay the foundations of a joyful and transformative experience for your new family life. It is meant to guide you through fundamental questions that are key in a healthier and more conscious family experience.
I don’t have all the answers, but together we will find many of them. The course is structured into five modules that explore the foundational education necessary to become a parent.
The course used the SMART parenting model, explores Self development & SelfCare, Money, Aware parenting, Relationships and community, and Time. These are the key five pillars of parental education and preparing not just for baby, but for becoming parents of a full human being the rest of their lives!
It spreads over 12 weeks.
From this course, you will gain a change of mindset, get support from great professionals (including life coaches, financial advisors, or business coaches), financial investments and time investments, and some patience, of course! This course is intended for people that are thinking of becoming parents and want to prepare early, as well as pregnant couples or mamas.
What to expect
There is NO other course like this in the world. Most courses focus on birth and breastfeeding preparation. This course prepares you for what will happen after the fourth trimester.
It is the course everyone wishes their parents had taken!
It is the course that will save your kids thousands of €€$$ in therapy.
It might even save you a lot of money in therapy.
The course is an intense 3-month course including weekly group coaching sessions as well as access to a growing community of aware and smart parents! It is not cheap but you will get a lot of value for your participation and most importantly long-lasting deep transformation.
The 1000 days of a persons life from conception to year 2 are the most critical days of life. What happened (or does not happen) will profoundly affect our lives. But by the time we figure things out as parents, the critical window has passed. I want to help future parents prepare early, so they can make the right choices when it matters the most.
You will feel incredibly equipped with knowledge, access to your precious intuition & inner wisdom.
You will get support from the Mamamaria community for your parenting journey.
Your bond with your child will be stronger, laying the ground of a stronger and healthier child.
You will realize the critical importance of the early (formative) years in the rest of our lives.
You will understand the importance of attachment styles and how they impact much of our lives.
You will have tools to work on your fears as a parent.
You will have a stronger capacity to accept what comes.
You will feel less alone and feel supported in this magical and unrepeatable moment of your lives.
You will be supported to stop the cycle of neglect or abuse you may have experienced when you were brought up (or was it brought down?)
You will understand child development so that you can respond with compassion to tears and tantrums, understand your child’s basic needs, and gain awareness of how to respond better in each situation or problem that arises with your child.
You will lay a very strong foundation of what kind of parent you want to be, what kind of support you need.
You will be able to deal better with whatever perils may come.
You will learn to prioritize self-care and the critical importance of loving and caring for yourself.
You will organize your time more efficiently.
You will have more money; you will spend more efficiently.
You will learn cutting edge information and extremely practical details about how to invest.
You will have a better role division with your partner.
You will deal how to best respond or ignore unsolicited or harmful advice from third parties, especially toxic family.
You will learn about Non-Violent Communication.
You will learn about healthy boundaries and how to set them in the family context.
Your relationship with money and of your future offspring will be improved.
Overview
Module 1
S=Self Development and Self Care
Why: Because research shows that we become our parents in parenting unless we work on ourselves actively. Sometimes in an attempt not to be them, we go to the other spectrum and mess up in different but equally damaging ways. Because many of us have wounded inner children that need to be healed so we can show up as adults in our parenting. Because the numbers around parental burn-out are extremely worrisome and going up, so self-care is core! Because we can determine a lot of what kind of parents we want to become or continue to be.
What the module will cover: (among other topics) working on unpacking what we have received from our parents, clearing resentments towards them and forgiveness, dreaming and working on the mindset of what kind of parents we want to become and basics and agreements around self-care for you and your partner.
Module 2
M=Money
Why: Many families struggle with money and having more will make life most of the times easier. Kids will rock your finances!! Thinking differently about money will change participants lives, give them more time with their kids, allow them to have more support or more money for self-care. Who doesn’t want that!??
What the module will cover: Here we will go into Money mindset considerations to have an abundant and responsible family life. How do we take ownership of our finances? How do we save money? How to make more money and start investing for the future? Our relationship with money is also passed down through generations so we also talk about how to have a money magnet family and not a money repellent one! Money IS also love.
My collaborator on the Money module will be Paul van der Kwast, an amazing and renown (and independent!) financial advicer who I hired myself and other people I know, and has made a huge impact already in my finances.
Module 3
A=Aware Parenting
Why: Because this is a parenting philosophy that has changed my life. Aware Parenting is an attachment-based and trauma-informed approach to parenting which does not use either punishments or rewards. It questions most traditional assumptions about raising children and proposes a new approach that cansignificantly improve relationships within a family and prevent behavior problems. Parents who follow this approach raise children who are cooperative, compassionate, competent, nonviolent, and drug free.
What the module will cover: All the basics of the Aware Parenting philosophy, including the big areas: Sleep, food, emotions, healing stress and trauma, etc.
Module 4
R=Relations (including Roles and responsibilities and community support)
Why: Because research shows that the relation suffers dramatically after the arrival of a baby. Because research shows that a lot of stress in new families comes from outside unsolicited advice and tensions with the rest of the family members. Because many caretakers feel very isolated and lonely. Because we don’t live in community anymore. Because your family might be far or is better that they are far.
What the module will cover: Roles and responsibilities, partners work (including family values and communication). We will build a community of support as it takes a village to raise a kid.
Module 5
T=Time
Why: Because time is the most precious assets we have but we often forget about this. Because when a baby arrives time shrinks and puts a lot of pressure in all areas of life.
What the module will cover: Time mindset. I bring invaluable teachings from several other renown coaches that I have learnt about ‘time’, both from a mindset point of view as well as fantastic tips and tricks to radically change the time you have and how you manage it.
Testimonials
I would recommend Maria without hesitation to friends. I would have full confidence that she would explore the issues they are facing and work with them on solutions that garnered real change like she did with our family.
The SMART Parenting program is definitely a must for couples who are about to become parents. I strongly recommend it.
She inspired me and gave me the tools I needed to become not only a better mom, but a better self.
The entire course and Maria's coaching sessions were mind-blowing! The SMART course helped me to be more at ease and better balance my life I have become much more aware about my own parenthood.
