Move from reactive to resilient. Join us for a gentle evening in Sligo to understand your reactions and find your parenting calm.

There are a growing number of parents who want to move away from traditional control-based parenting strategies and instead raise their children with connection, empathy and understanding. However, our children often have different ideas leading to daily conflict and power struggles. They seem to know exactly how to get under our skin and push our buttons. Suddenly we are reverting to threats or bribes or we find ourselves losing our patience and exploding at our kids. Children often become our mirrors. They can expose patterns and emotional wounds that may have remained hidden for decades.

This evening workshop helps parents understand why they react the way they do in the first place. This programme supports parents in developing the awareness, regulation, and self-understanding required to meet both themselves and their children with greater compassion, capacity, and connection.

Who This Is For

This evening is designed for parents of toddlers to teens who want to understand why they become so reactive in the heat of the moment. It is for you if you:

Want a deeper connection with your children.

Feel emotionally activated or overwhelmed at times.

Are parenting neurodivergent children.

Are interested in personal growth and healing.

Understand that changing your child is not the goal.

Are willing to explore your own patterns and conditioning.

Want practical tools as well as deeper transformational work.

By the end of this workshop, you will leave with increased self-awareness and practical tools to experience:

More Capacity & Patience: Feel less overwhelm, experience more steadiness, and enjoy faster recovery after difficult moments.

Greater Self-Awareness: Understand your reactive moments, emotional patterns, projections, and inherited family stories.

More Regulation: Discover practical tools for nervous system support so you can recognize emotional activation earlier and stay present during challenges.

Better Connection: Reduce conflict and power struggles by improving daily communication and understanding your child’s unique nervous system.

Spend an evening connecting with parents on the same path as you. You'll leave feeling understood, re-energised, and equipped with the ideas and motivation to tackle the daily ups and downs of parenting.

Meet Your Hosts

Sanna Atherton is an InnerShift Facilitator and somatic coach with over 25 years’ experience in health, wellbeing and mind–body practices. She helps professional women move beyond stress and automatic patterns so they can feel more present, connected and at ease within themselves and their families.

" I truly believe the work I did with Sanna changed the relationship I have with my son. Healing myself changed how I show up as a mother and self-regulation has brought more peace, even when life feels chaotic." Amy, UK

Pamela Quiery is a certified Hand in Hand Parenting Coach and a practitioner-in-training of Dr. Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry approach. Having worked with parents for almost a decade, Pamela brings deep understanding and compassion to the intense daily work of parenting - a perspective rooted in her own lived experience of navigating the beautiful, hard reality of being a mum.

“The active listening, deep attunement, and wise perspective Pamela offers is such a gift. She is able to gently guide me back to my own knowing source, presence, breath—the place where everything opens. No more trying to figure something out, not about explaining or solving, just listening and sensing and bringing me back to right here, now.” - Litia, USA

Notes for the Evening:

Please wear comfortable clothing you can easily relax in. You may wish to bring water and a notebook or journal for self-reflection.

Spaces are limited to keep the environment cozy and intimate. Tickets are non-refundable but fully transferable to another parent if your plans change.

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