Voyage In Parenting

Program ©

The Voyage In Parenting (VIP) Class is a non-traditional parenting class offered in-person and virtually. This class encompasses traditional childrearing skills but has a robust intention to encompass structured ethical and moral renegade philosophical and psychological ideologies from distinguished mental health and wellbeing practitioners. It provides a conduit which allows participants to explore parenting from a macro/micro, socio-historical, and person-centered perspective.

This class is not only a corrective-response to what appears to be a degenerated state of parenting in recent decades, but also a multi-class environment that takes place over the course of several weeks and garners a corrective-experience to enhance participants ability to address the results of their own parenting experience (i.e. how they were/are raised) as a vehicle to enhance who they are as parents. Subject matter addressed within these classes are, but not limited to the impact of trauma, violence and abuse, confidential personal history, nutrition, finances, spirituality, semantics, psychiatric issues, addiction, human development, social connections, and much more.

Curriculum Overview

“My History and Present State of My Parenting Style” (Exploring Me)

• Childhood of the parent.
• Identification of participants self-reported strengths and weaknesses as a parent.

“Parenting Strategies 1”
(Exploring Parenting Skillsets)

• Parenting styles.
• Transactional analysis.
• Home-based interventions. Social-emotional and intellectual environment of the home.
  

“Human Development and Parenting” (Understanding how we may have got to this point.)

• Psychiatric disorders.
• The impact of violence.
• Human development.
• Lingering learned behaviors.
  

“Parenting through FOOD”
(A look at behavioral modification through food intake.)

• Basic food science and behavior.

“Parenting Strategies 2”
(Exploring Parenting Skillsets)

• Empathetic Apathy and boundaries.
• Intrapersonal intelligence and self-love.
  
• Semantics and linguistic intelligence.
  
• Personal accountability.
  

“Money, Power, and Parenting.”

• Financial discipline.
  

“Advanced Spiritual Ideas of Parenting”

• Raising yourself, first.
• Children are not property.
  

“The Power of THE SEARCH: Too prideful to admit they want to know more about who they come from; as a means to put answers to the question marks in their lives.”

• Missing information and unresolved issues.
• The state of brokenness, chasms, and voids.
• Rescuing our parents.
  

“Cultivating, and Responding to Sibling Dynamics.”

• Sibling dynamics and parent encouragement/intervention.
  

Wellbeing, Enlightenment, Soul Development & Self-Discovery

The W.E.S.S. Model