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Aware Parenting Podcasts with Joss

In these Podcasts about Aware Parenting, I cover a variety of topics. The Aware Parenting Stories podcast explores the world of parenting through conversations with people who are passionate about parenting and supporting others to parent in this beautiful way.

The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast with Marion Rose explores Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. Together we cover many different aspects of these wonderful approaches and provide information and inspiration to support other families who are called to practise these together too.

Aware Parenting Stories

About the podcast
Each week I interview inspiring parents to discuss the joys and challenges of parenting that we all face in our families.

I talk to parenting experts and Aware Parenting Instructors to explore many aspects of raising children. People share their stories about parenting in this way, what they have loved and what they have found challenging and how parenting has supported them to heal their own childhood pain. The aim is to inspire us all on our parenting adventures, to build more connection and community and to support us all to offer more compassion to ourselves and our children.
Featured episode
Episode 69

Navigating Challenges with our Partner/Co-parent

This episode explores how the aspects and principles of Aware Parenting can support us to have better relationships with our partner/co-parent.  I talk about cultivating trust in our families and supporting our children at times of conflict and disconnection. I talk about how to reduce conflict and tools for bringing more empathy and connection between us and the other parent of our children.

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Aware Parenting Stories Podcast
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Episode 74

Creating a Family-Centred Life

In this episode my friend Helen Marshall shares her motherhood story and how she came to practising Aware Parenting when her children were teenagers. She shares how she has learnt to meet her own needs and take care of herself in parenthood.
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Episode 73

Healing Stress and Trauma with Loving Listening

What is trauma, what are some of the sources of stress for children and how do these experiences affect children? I share how our children’s bodies respond to stress and how expressing feelings with loving support is naturally healing.
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Episode 72

I'm Here and I'm Listening

In this episode Dr Marion Rose shares some wisdom from her new best-selling book I'm Here and I'm Listening: Empathic and empowering responses to needs, feelings, and behaviours with Aware Parenting.
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Episode 71

Facilitating Learning with Leah McDermott

This powerful conversation explores some of the damaging long-term effects of schooling and the pressure that children often face at school. We share many of the benefits we have seen of supporting children to learn in their own way & time at home.
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Episode 70

Healing Ourselves with Danni and Joss

Danni and I explore how we are invited time and time again in parenting to do our own inner work. We talk about why this is often so painful and difficult and share some of the ways we have supported ourselves with our healing journey.
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Episode 69

Navigating Challenges with our Partner/Co-parent

I explore how to navigate the challenging, messy moments we often have with our partner/co-parent, and how to bring more compassion and connection to our partnerships using the Aware Parenting framework.
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Episode 68

Thriving in the Holidays

In this episode Danni Willow and I explore how to bring the framework of aware parenting to the holiday times to bring more ease, joy and harmony to what can be a really challenging time.
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Episode 67

Aware Partnering in Parenthood

This conversation with Danni Willow explores how to navigate parenting together with the other parent of our child/ren and how to support conscious connection and respectful communication with our partner/co-parent.
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Episode 66

Empowering Mothers

In this episode, B from Core Floor Restore and I talk about how to support mothers to reconnect with their power and intuitive wisdom.
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Episode 62

The Power of Connection

Rafa Guadalupe shares how powerful aware parenting has been in supporting her to balance the juggle of modern parenting. She shares how small changes bringing aware parenting into the homes of busy parents can make a big difference
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Episode 64

The Power of Self-Connection in Fatherhood

In this episode, we talk about how to support fathers to bring more self-connection to their parenting journey, whilst they navigate the stresses and challenges of parenting without the support that we evolved to rely on.
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Episode 65

Raising Yourself

In this episode, Shelly Robinson shares the profound realisation she had early in parenting, that she was raising herself alongside raising her children.
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Suggest a topic or feature on a podcast

Are you passionate about Aware Parenting? Would you like to suggest a topic for me to discuss? Would you like to come on the podcast and have a conversation with me about what you love about parenting in this way and how you have overcome some of the challenges?
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The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast

About the podcast
Marion Rose and I are both really passionate about Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. This podcast explores many different aspects of these beautiful approaches and provides information and inspiration to support other families who are called to practise these together too.
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Episode 21

The Many Gifts of AwP & Natural Learning

We share the gifts, which include our children's self-connection, their freedom from the painful and enduring beliefs about ourselves that are set up in school through cultural conditioning, their freedom from coercion and control and the deep, mutual, unconditional love that is the defining feature of our relationships, throughout childhood and beyond.

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Episode 21

The Many Gifts of AwP & Natural Learning

In this episode we talk about the many gifts for our children and ourselves of choosing these ways of raising them, as we are both now at the end of the "schooling" process.
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Episode 20

Meeting needs

In this episode, we talk about meeting needs of both parents and children when practicing Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. We share about the effects of the culture on needs, and the creative ways we might need to utilise to support others.
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Episode 19

The Effect of School Trauma on our Callings

In this episode, we talk about how school trauma can affect our callings in the world, our work life and our ability to be who we were always meant to be and to contribute to the world.
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Episode 18

Making different choices

In this episode, we talk about the different choices we've made to be able to practice Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. All the way through, we acknowledge with gratitude all the ways we've received support and help, as well as the challenges.
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Episode 17

School Trauma Part 2

In this episode we discuss school trauma again. We talk about some of the visible and some of the invisible traumas that children experience at school, as well as the impact of the accumulated mini and major traumas that are part of each school day.
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Episode 16

School trauma

In this episode, we talk about school trauma - what it is, how it happens, and how institutionalised it is. We share about the fight/flight/freeze response and how Aware Parenting understands that we also have an innate healing response.
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Episode 15

Juggling Life

In this episode we discuss the challenges of juggling everything in life by ourselves when we are practising Aware Parenting and Natural Learning.
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Episode 14

Separation is unnatural

This episode title comes from a quote from Gabor Maté: "It is completely unnatural for kids to be separated from their parents for the whole day."
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Episode 13

Schooling the World

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we discuss the documentary "Schooling the World" by Carol Black. This incredibly powerful movie interviews the villagers of Hemis Shukpa-Chen and other Ladakhi people.
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Episode 12

History of Schooling

In this episode we talk about the history of schooling. Our conversation is based on an article of the same name written by Peter Gray, the Psychologist and research professor and author of "Freedom to Learn".
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Episode 11

Challenges

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we talk about the challenges we've experienced practicing the combination of these two philosophies, and the challenges we've observed mentees and friends going through.
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Episode 10

Support and Learning

In this episode we discuss number 11 of Aletha Solter’s Principles of Learning, which is as follows: Children learn best when they have a warm, supportive relationship with their parents and teachers.
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Getting started with Aware Parenting

Aware parenting free introductory course

FREE Introductory course

This free short video introduction to Aware Parenting Course covers the basics of Aware Parenting theory and explains the strategies and tools to start supporting your children in this beautiful way.

It is ideal for people who are new to this approach.

It covers listening to our children’s feelings, how to play to build connection and promote healing, how to support ourselves as parents and how to build deep, loving relationships in the family.

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Aware Parenting with Joss

I am so passionate about sharing this beautiful approach with parents. I believe that Aware Parenting is THE solution for so many of the challenges facing the world. - Joss Goulden, Aware Parenting Instructor
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