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Overview:
Overview:
Parenthood is not a straight path. It moves in cycles, seasons, and sudden turns. Children grow, routines shift, emotions rise and fall, and just when we think we have found our footing, the landscape changes again. Flow as a River was created for parents navigating these transitions; school changes, emotional thresholds, family reorganisation, or simply the quiet inner sense that “something is shifting.”
Inspired by the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, this eight-week on-demand journey invites you to meet change with steadiness, softness, and trust. Drawing on mindfulness practices such as the Pebble Meditation, loving-kindness, deep listening, and the teaching of Interbeing, you will learn how to stay present and grounded while life continues to move.
Through gentle teachings, guided meditations, reflections, and integrative practices, Flow as a River supports you in cultivating resilience, clarity, compassion, and freedom; not by resisting change, but by learning how to move with it.
Whether you are new to mindfulness or already familiar with Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, this course offers a spacious, nourishing path you can return to whenever life feels uncertain or demanding. Move at your own pace and rediscover how to meet transitions with more ease, wisdom, and connection.
Details:
Details:
Flow as a River is a self-paced online programme designed to support parents through times of transition, change, and emotional intensity with mindfulness and compassion.
Format: Weekly on-demand content including teaching videos, guided meditations, reflective exercises, and practical “on-the-go” mindfulness tools. All content is hosted on a private website, allowing you to move through the course at your own rhythm and revisit practices whenever needed.
Community: This course does not include a private group space. You are warmly invited to stay connected through my LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram channels, where I regularly share teachings, reflections, and practices. Many parents engage there, offering an informal sense of shared journey and support.
Suggested Start Date: You may begin at any time. If you appreciate structure, starting on a Monday or at the beginning of a month can help create a steady weekly rhythm and clear intention.
Open to All: While created with parents in mind, this programme is also open to carers, educators, grandparents, and anyone supporting children through change. The practices are adaptable and can be shared gently with children if you wish.
Structure:
Structure:
Each week you will receive:
A short teaching video inspired by wisdom traditions and contemporary mindfulness teachers. These sessions blend ancient insight with real-life parenting experience.
A guided meditation centred on heart-based mindfulness and emotional balance.
A reflection or journaling prompt to deepen your insights and develop self-awareness.
A creative or embodied practice to help you integrate the week’s theme into everyday family life.
Optional inspiration such as short readings, poems, or teachings to accompany your weekly rhythm.
This structure allows you to learn, pause, reflect, and integrate at your own pace, with no pressure and no sense of perfection required, only gentleness.
Weekly Program
Weekly Program
Week 1 – Flowing as a River & The Pebble Meditation
Week 1 – Flowing as a River & The Pebble Meditation
Begin the journey by grounding yourself in mindfulness and intention. You are introduced to Thich Nhat Hanh, the theme of flowing with change, and the Pebble Meditation; a foundational practice cultivating stability, freshness, solidity, and freedom.
Week 2 – Loving-Kindness
Week 2 – Loving-Kindness
Explore loving-kindness as a living practice in parenting. Through meditation and reflection, you learn how to nurture warmth toward yourself and your children, including practices such as writing a love letter and softening emotional reactivity.
Week 3 – Solidity: Resilience, Confidence & Reliability
Week 3 – Solidity: Resilience, Confidence & Reliability
Through the Mountain qualities, this week focuses on cultivating inner strength and emotional stability. You explore transforming anger, understanding the roots of conflict, and practising Beginning Anew, alongside a meditation inspired by the perspective of a five-year-old child.
Week 4 – Stillness: Calm, Clarity & Right Perception
Week 4 – Stillness: Calm, Clarity & Right Perception
At the halfway point, the focus turns to stillness and insight. Using water imagery and the 16 mindfulness breathing practices, you learn to work with habit energies, mental agitation, and misperceptions, cultivating calm and clarity instead.
Week 5 – Freedom: Space & Letting Go
Week 5 – Freedom: Space & Letting Go
This week introduces the quality of freedom through the element of space. A deep relaxation practice supports you in releasing constricting patterns and emotions, exploring Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching of freedom as a lived experience of Nirvana.
Week 6 – Consciousness & Seeds
Week 6 – Consciousness & Seeds
You explore the teachings of mind consciousness and store consciousness, habit energies, and the practice of “watering the good seeds.” A walking meditation and reflections help translate these teachings into everyday family life.
Week 7 – Loving Speech & Deep Listening
Week 7 – Loving Speech & Deep Listening
Two essential relational skills for parents. Through sound meditation and mindful communication practices, you learn how to listen and speak in ways that restore connection, even in moments of tension or misunderstanding.
Week 8 – Interbeing & Integration
Week 8 – Interbeing & Integration
The journey concludes with one of the most profound teachings of Buddhism: Interbeing. Through guided meditation, reflections, and Plum Village-inspired practices, you are invited to integrate the course and recognise the deep interconnectedness between you, your children, and the world around you.
Investment
Investment
£99 for the full 8-week programme
Includes:
All weekly teachings and guided meditations
Reflective exercises and integrative practices
Numerous downloadable print-outs and resources
Lifetime access to revisit the course whenever you need support through change
50% of all proceeds are donated to the Being Peace practice centre, supporting the development of a Plum Village retreat centre in the UK and helping ensure these teachings remain accessible for future generations.
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