Workshops
The Head, Heart, & Hands of Peaceful Parenting
Iris gives an overview of peaceful parenting principles and practices for parents and caregivers to embody. A great primer for those beginning their untigering journey from power-over to power-sharing relationships with children. Includes reflection questions for deeper integration.
Identifying & Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Iris and Jessica Lin (@jessbeyondthebody) discuss their own stories of ongoing healing and practices that have been helpful along the way. This intergenerational work spans across generations as we are invited to do the work of healing for ourselves, our children, and even the generations before us. By embracing our full humanity with compassion and finding wholistic pathways that are meaningful and resonant with our unique selves, we can begin to change the narrative for our families.
Redefining Success Workshop
In this workshop, Iris discusses how to shift away from a tiger parenting mindset that defines success by high achievement, academic rigor, and “excellence” towards an untigering mindset that values connection, competence, choice, and consent. You will be guided through unpacking your beliefs about success, how you came to them, and how you can change them for yourself and for the next generation!
Exploring Unschooling: A Virtual Learning Lab
This Exploring Unschooling Virtual Learning Lab is a beautiful collaborative effort between Iris and Domari Dickinson. In this 2-hour workshop, you will gain an understanding of what unschooling is (and what it isn’t!), hear our personal stories about how we got started, and receive insights to the pressing questions about what unschooling actually looks like in the day-to-day.
Unschooling Your Mind: 5 Mindset Shifts for Liberated Learning
Learn about the paradigm shifts that will help you in your deschooling and unschooling process. We will challenge the schoolish beliefs about education and reframe learning as integrated, innate, intrinsic, interest-driven, and individualized.
Unschooling for ALL Types of Families: Reimagining Education, Family Life & Community
Join me for this inspiring conversation where Iris talks with Yolanda Williams (Parenting Decolonized) and Domari Dickinson (Positive & Purposeful Parenting) about their unschooling and deschooling journey and how this unschooling practice can be more accessible considering our intersections with privilege and the lack thereof.
Unschooling Ourselves: Living in Authenticity & Alignment
Unschooling is about us learning to live in authenticity and alignment with who we are and our values instead of following someone else’s expectations, living someone else’s dreams, or pursuing someone else’s definition of success. Hear Toni Liu share about her personal unschooling journey of leaving behind a career in medicine to become a life coach and global nomad.
Staying Connected: Handling Screen Times with Partnership Rather Than Power
Iris helps parents sift through their fears and beliefs about screens, debunking some myths while providing peaceful parenting practices to help stay C.O.N.N.E.C.T.E.D. to your children: Connection, Observation, Neutrality, Needs, Engagement, Control of Yourself & Environment, Teamwork, Empowerment, and Dynamic Relationship. If you’re experiencing anxiety and power struggles over screens, this workshop is for you!
Parenting & Unschooling the Teen Years
Do you have teenagers or children who are about to become teens? Worried about how to navigate this potentially turbulent stage and maintain communication and trust? Iris encourages parents to empower their teenagers by building connection, choice, and competence so this season can be one that you enjoy instead of dread!
