Thank you thank you for your beautiful podcasts. The right one and topic just seem to show up in my life at the right moment! I just loved the chat with Linde, it was beautiful and just hit home in many ways. Hearing your voice also has a lovely grounding and calming energy, so thank you!-

Something deeply resonated with me from the beginning after listening to Joss's podcast and hearing her passion for both Aware Parenting and natural learning. I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to have Joss support me. Joss has supported me through specific parenting concerns I needed advice on, as well as delving into my own personal stories and reparenting journey. I can't speak highly enough of Joss and everything she has done to support me and my family on our journey so far. She is warm, kind, compassionate and patient. Her capacity to hold space for me has been amazing to experience. She is a wealth of knowledge and her passion for both Aware Parenting and natural leaning is so clear. Thank you Joss for all you are and have done, it's truely appreciated.

I’m going to do Joss Goulden’s aware parenting with teenagers course. As her friend and colleague and fellow Aware Parenting instructor, I have witnessed her relationship with her teenagers, and I am always in such awe and wonderment of the relationship she has co-created with them. I see how she lives and breathes Aware Parenting with her teens and embodies the teachings of the Aware Parenting approach with such depth and beauty. However long we have been practising Aware Parenting for, I think we can always learn more and dive deeper and refresh on things we already know. I recommend Joss's course so highly to anyone and everyone, whether you’ve been practising Aware Parenting for 20 years as I have, or whether you are brand-new to it.

I thoroughly enjoy Joss’ teenagers course. Her competence, clarity and kindness are ever present. I find myself feeling into a sense of deep relaxation and ease that I imagine is abundantly available to her own teenage children. A deeply loving, fun and laughter filled experience.

"I’ve loved Aware Parenting for helping me understand my children’s needs and to support them feeling and expressing themselves in the world. Now that they’re all tweens and teens I’m so grateful that Joss Goulden has created the Aware Parenting Teenagers Course. Parenting this age group can feel like a lot to navigate and I’m so glad I have support and company and practical advice to lean into!"

Thank you for the space and support. It was so helpful to reconnect with my deep longing for connection with my kids below my frustration and annoyance. I felt a shift internally.  I just listened, touched his arm, validated and agreed...  It was the nicest, deepest, most ‘real’ conversation I’ve had with him in years! Thank you so much for holding the space for me, which I’m quite sure enabled that shift in our dynamic. Thank you so much.

Then I really wanted to share this with you: Tonight my 14 year old, was doing his usual thing alone in his room. But when was going to bed he came to say goodnight and gave me a hug (usually just says goodnight from the hallway) and mentioned something sad.  I felt the sadness in his body as he hugged me, he was close to tears. I held him and listened and he cried as he told me about a sad story he’d read on instagram. We then had a lovely deep conversation about this issue, he cried a bit more, about this story and it’s impact and his fears.

My relationship with my 15 yo has improved so much. The power struggle had been developing and I lost touch with how much I love her. I really have paid attention to the connection. Strengthening that connection has made such an improvement! It was all still there right under the surface and it is so beautiful.

I am so glad that I am a part of Joss's Aware Parenting Teenager Course. Having support and community is so important on our journey and I just LOVE Joss's support. I love her empathy, her presence, care and love but also her amazing wisdom and experience.  I am so grateful to have her support and this community to fall back to when I want or need to. I know I will be received with care and love with whatever is there for me and that is so nourishing and valuable to have.  If you are thinking of joining or working with Joss, I highly recommend it.

Parenting and the teenage years are not always easy to navigate, for me it is so reassuring to know that Joss is there to reach out to when I have questions coming up or would love to receive reassurance or hear her experience.

Being part of a community, hearing you are not the only one with the same challenges and feelings leaves me feeling less alone. There is an unseen bond between the parents that are part of this course, I really value and appreciate this connection as well. It is like having each other’s back.

Listening to them is my superpower now, thanks to you and aware parenting.  We chat more often now, almost everyday. I hope all parents out there will have the courage just to listen more to their kids

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the workshop last week. I left feeling so inspired and confident about the next steps for my family. Your knowledge and understanding of aware parenting is extraordinary and I learnt so so much from you. Thank you for sharing in this way. I also loved the handouts and the reflections that you provided and I have found myself thinking deeply about many of these things since the workshop. I am really looking forward to the next one, so please let me know when it going to be available. Thank you so much

I attended Joss’ workshop ‘Aware Parenting and Natural Learning. I found her to be incredibly compassionate, understanding, clear and concise when it came to sharing specific content around Aware Parenting and her on personal experience with the schooling system, and how this contributed to her decision to home school/ natural learn. She also discussed the Aware Parenting principles of learning in great detail. I really enjoyed hearing Joss explain the different types of learning, how children learn best and how this is very deeply connected with the Aware Parenting philosophy. Joss opened up the conversation at the end so that everyone could share and discuss their concerns and questions around home learning.

Throughout the workshop she linked personal experiences to Aware Parenting theory and how this has supported her and her children over the years of natural learning. She gave examples of when Aware Parenting was supportive in creating co-op’s with other parents, understanding the different ways children learn, moving away from punishments and rewards and how to incorporate democratic parenting and learning. Joss spoke about her experiences openly and courageously. She gave incredibly supportive feedback, suggests and ideas for everyone to take away and begin unpacking for themselves.

It was such a wonderful workshop I have asked Joss to run another one online again so that more parents who are also thinking of natural learning/home schooling can hear this very important knowledge and wisdom.

Thank you so much for your workshop yesterday. I gained so much. Your journey with your children is really inspiring and I could really hear your passion for natural learning woven through the workshop.