What happened at Tribal Hearts 2017?

Sarah Ockwell-Smith, Author and Gentle Parenting Expert
Gentle Discipline – How to Raise Co-Operative, Polite and Helpful Children
In this two hour workshop, Sarah Ockwell-Smith – author of ‘ToddlerCalm’, ‘The Gentle Parenting Book’ and the new release ‘The Gentle Discipline Book’, will help parents to understand how to raise happy, confident and ‘well behaved’ children. Parents will learn why common discipline methods are ineffective and potentially damaging, how the brain develops and what behaviour parents should expect at each age and how to apply this scientific understanding to establish respectful and most importantly effective discipline techniques.
The Seven Secrets of Better Baby and Toddler Sleep Without Tears
In this one hour session, Sarah Ockwell-Smith – author of the bestselling ‘The Gentle Sleep Book’, will help parents to understand the seven secrets to better baby and toddler sleep. Some of these secrets are based on popular wisdom and instinct that is lost to modern society, others are based on cutting edge science. These secrets will help parents to work with, not against, their child to help achieve more rest for the whole family.
Hand in hand parenting aim to support parents with the insights, skills and tools
necessary to build the meaningful connections that parents and children need to thrive.
We are thrilled to be offering 4 insightful workshops to help parents work through more
specific parenting struggles with trained hand in hand instructors.
Listening Partnerships for Parents
Parenting is challenging and emotional work and we all deserve good support as parents. The way to make longstanding change in the way we parent is through getting support for ourselves first. We’ll be sharing this life changing tool for managing your emotions and increasing your connection with other adults, so that you can be more available to your kids.
Helping siblings get along
Siblings love each other and want to get along well but sometimes other feelings get in the way of this. Get some strategies to boost connection to prevent squabbling. Find out how to handle sibling fights and what to do about sharing and fairness.
Staying Connected with Older Children
As your children grow it can feel hard to keep the closeness you shared when they were littler and cuddlier. And their behaviour can bring various concerns. But our older kids’ connection with us is just as vital as ever. Learn how to connect in a way that they can be receptive to.
Helping your aggressive child
Aggression is a cry for help, but one that can bring up so many feelings for us. Discover what children are really communicating through aggression and how to prevent them needing to signal through difficult behaviours.