🌸 Brains in Bloom

Join me for a 3-week series, LIVE on Zoom

9AM-10:30 Pacific, Mondays, September 28, October 5 + 12

This workshop is all about the neurobiology of behavior—we’ll create a flexible map for making sense of stuck spots and finding paths to easing intensity.

Here’s what you can expect:

Over 3 weekly sessions, we’ll tour the nervous system and really understand how our physiology and emotions get wired together.

First, I’ll encourage you to become the expert in your child’s behavior and invite your curiosity and new connections around their motivations and needs that might be fueling them.

Next, we’ll bridge those insights toward making sense of baffling behaviors, including when they show up, what amplifies or settles them, and what those behaviors may be communicating.

Before we wrap, I’ll share a bunch of resources for expanding your toolbox, shifting how you respond, and teaching your kids about their own brains—so you and they have more options for meeting needs that feel so insistent.

Bring your burning questions about confusing kid behaviors and Ask Me Anything!

1. What is your child’s behavior telling you?

2. What helps them, and you, stay more regulated and less overwhelmed?

3. How do you find a sense of connection—especially in tough moments?

4. What non-verbal cues and clues does your child give about their challenges, energy, or needs?

We can understand BIG behaviors by looking under the surface—to see what’s happening in the body, mind and nervous system—so you can move beyond rewards and consequences, toward more regulation and connection.

Here’s our format:

• (3) 90-min small group sessions via Zoom

• A flexible, portable shift in perspective to help diffuse intensity

• Ways to boost compassion and empathy—even in the midst of stress

• Awareness of your own regulation needs in tough moments

• Discussion of relational, emotional, and regulation aspects of behavior

• Q+A every session, so you can adapt the info to your family

• Multi-media resources ti support different learning styles

This workshop series WILL BE recorded. One stellar benefit of joining us live is a chance for Q+A each time we meet to start personalizing this info and practice decoding your child’s biggest behaviors. Price is per family—so your partner, co-parent, or an involved grandparent can join us at no extra cost.

Important note about this series:

This is Part I (Neurobiology of Behavior) of the 10-week parent course I teach on Raising Kids With Big, Baffling Behaviors. It provides a lovely foundation for responding differently and updating expectations within the context of brain-body development—which can be awesome for school advocacy, integrating a new diagnosis (like ADHD, Autism, anxiety, or PDA traits), and shifting your own response in stressful moments.

Part II (Brain & Body Based Strategies to Change Baffling Behaviors AND Stress Coping for Busy Parents) spans 6-7 weeks, dates TBD, based on parent interest; Part I will be a prerequisite.

This course was created by Robyn Gobbel, host of The Baffling Behaviors Show podcast; I’m teaching it under license to do so, and will joyfully tailor the series for families attending.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations before September 21 (7 days ahead) will receive a refund minus a $30 non-refundable deposit. Cancellations between September 21-25 will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations September 26 or after are not eligible for refund. Two options: Inquire about transferring enrollment to another attendee, or using the course fee toward a 1:1 session w/ MereAnn. You will still receive the recording if you’re not able to attend live.

Please reach out with any questions before you enroll and review my Terms + Conditions and Anti-Oppression Action Plan.