Who is she?
Specialties
Learn about the author’s background, her published works, and interests, how to participate in her seminars and workshops about Heartminded parenting or where to purchase her books
Dr. Silvia Casabianca graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Rosario, in Bogotá, Colombia in 1972. She has a MA in Art Psychotherapy from Concordia University (Montreal, CA), and a Doctorate in Education from Nova SE University (United States).
As a mental health counselor, Dr. Casabianca has explored family dynamics, parenting approaches, and the effects of Western parenting practices and pedagogies. Looking at the current state of the world, she has been motivated to explore how to stimulate empathy in children.
Heartminded Parenting
In her Heartminded parenting seminars, Dr. Casabianca integrates knowledge from different developmental models (Freud, Piaget, Erikson, Hoffman, Kholberg, Gilligan) to explain how developing the capacity to love follows a sequence in which, given ideal conditions, we move from self-love to relate to others with an ethics of care.
She has been exploring how counselors and parents could embrace and adopt parenting modalities that stimulate the child’s innate empathy, which is an essential ingredient of compassion and love. Her proposal is based on the anatomy and biochemistry of love (Helen FIsher), and current neuroscience of emotional regulation.
Educating in love and not in fear
Since 1993, Dr. Casabianca has invested hours working with parents, adolescents, children, educators and counselors, exploring how inductive discipline helps children develop empathy, improve their relationships within the family and with peers, reduce bulling, and develop the courage and the wisdom Dr. Paul Gilbert consider essential to practice compassion.
Regain Body Wisdom…A multidimensional view of the human body
Heartminded: Conscious Evolution from Fear to Solidarity
Available also in Spanish, these books can be bought at Lulu Press and at Amazon.