When kids and close others respond to us with contempt, it can be devastating–on our immune systems and on our mental health. It can also be hard to believe that underneath the contempt live important emotions that can to be named and held with care.

Contempt can be a hugely important tool for a child living in a world where they are largely powerless. And it can be immensely triggering for us, as vulnerable people, to receive contempt, and so we need good strategies to wonder about, think about, and ask about what’s going on as it’s happening, in order to allow the interactions we have with our children and grandchildren to end in a different place, and to have our relationships be strengthened rather than weakened.

It is both difficult and essentially important to look at the ways that our habits of thought and the stories that we hold onto about the kids we love interrupt the emergent evolution of our connection with them. Resonance and relational neuroscience give us the tools and information we need to locate these patterns and transform them. 

This course invites parents, grandparents, and caregivers into the kind of relationship many have dreamed of but haven’t known how to find: one rooted not in control or cooperation, but in presence, curiosity, and mutual becoming. Together we will learn how to bring resonance into our parenting and grandparenting, so that we can support our kin in their development of secure attachment and joyful emergence.

• In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
• In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
• Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.

Early bird price: $100 until February 5, 2026
Regular Price: $150