Help your clients replace inherited patterns of fear with a parenting approach rooted in compassion. Grounded in neuroscience, this course equips them to cultivate emotional safety, empathy, and resilience—shaping not only their parenting, but the person their child becomes.
Next cohort of the HeartMinded Parenting training starts on August 28th, 2026. For more information please email us: mail@silviacasabianca.com or call: (239) 322-4977.
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What you’ll learn:
- How we learn. HeartMinded Parenting aims to model the principles it teaches. There won’t be lecturing. The course follows an inductive method and applies transformative learning to make the learning not only personally meaningful, but a healing experience.
- Why we need to tackle parenting. Parenting practices usually come from the intergenerational transmission of practices and beliefs. We need to address the resistance that comes from changing something that is part of our deepest frames of mind.
- Inductive discipline. We dedicate most of the time to discussing the importance of raising children who, besides having good self-esteem and self-compassion, are sensitive to how their actions affect others. Martin Hoffman has taught extensively on how to do this.
- The roots of behavior. Behavior is just a language. As children grow, they don’t yet have other ways to communicate their emotions. If parents make it all about correcting behavior, compliance, or performance, the child won’t be able to fully develop a compassionate, moral self guided by an ethics of care — which is what the world needs now more than ever.
- Neuroscience explains what’s going on in the brain from birth onward. Parenting plays an essential role in making sure fear isn’t the rule in a child’s brain, because fear inhibits precisely the qualities parents would love to see in their child: generosity, the capacity to support others, and altruistic acts.
- How can HeartMinded Parenting prevent the blockage of care? Parents can become exhausted when they get into a tug-of-war with a non-compliant child, to the point that their capacity to care becomes blocked. The class will discuss the need to address the family of the child brought to the counseling room — otherwise, the family system won’t be able to support the progress made in therapy. Counseling can prevent the blockage of care by including interventions with the client’s whole family.
Don’t hesitate to contact us to participate in the course that starts on August 28th or to set up further dates for your organization.
Who can participate? This course that starts on August 28th is set for weekly sessions to complete 12 hours of training. It’s approved by the Dept, of Mental Health, Clinical Social Work and Marriage and Family therapy for 12 CEUs in Florida. Max number of participants is 8. $250 with a discount for groups.
Dr. Silvia Casabianca has been training parents for over 30 years!
HeartMinded Parenting — raising children to evolve into compassionate citizens takes both love and wisdom.
Imagine a world where we deeply care for ourselves, others, and the planet. That world is not a utopia — it is a biological possibility. Neuroscience teaches us that we are born with the capacity for affective empathy. But feeling what another feels does not translate into action on its own. It requires something more: the courage to turn toward suffering — our own and others’ — rather than look away, and the wisdom to understand what a person truly needs (Dr. Paul Gilbert).
These are the qualities we want children to develop. But we cannot guide children toward what we have not found in ourselves. Before we can help a child love themselves and feel genuine concern for others, we must be willing to reflect on our own lives — to become aware of where and how we carry our own wounds. That is where HeartMinded Parenting begins: not with the child, but with the adult who raises them.”
After three decades working with families, I’ve developed a comprehensive approach to parenting that integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, inductive discipline, trauma-informed care, and transformative learning. This parenting modality isn’t about techniques to force the child into compliance and change of behavior—it’s about understanding what needs are expressed through behavior, how children’s brains develop cognitive empathy and how we can nurture that capacity from the beginning.
What we explore:
- How the science of the brain can be applied to cultivating cognitive empathy and compassion in children and families (Outcome expected? Less fear, less conflict, better relational skills)
- How reflective practice helps us recognize ingrained patterns and beliefs that block empathic presence (Elevated awareness of how we are adopting parenting practices that didn’t work for us!)
- How inductive discipline builds moral reasoning (so that children learn to guide their behavior by the do-no-harm principle rather than by avoiding punishment or seeking of rewards) — and why this matters for raising principled, compassionate human beings with an ethics of care who will go into the world capable of supporting others,
- How to read behavior as a language expressing the child’s emotional needs
- How to foster cooperation over competition
- How self-compassion and active listening transform family relationships
- How emotion regulation — for caregivers and children alike — keeps us from being hijacked by the fight-or-flight response, so we can access the brain’s affiliative capacities
- How moral development requires developing an ethics of care and how raising children by applying punishment/reward does not contribute to moral development, a principled life around the golden principle.
The curriculum is student-centered and flexible. It adapts to the learning needs of either the families or the counselors in training (12 Florida CEUs – Cebroker 50-625)
Interactive. Practical. Grounded in research and decades of clinical experience.
Interested?
Call (239) 948-9444 or email mail@silviacasabianca.com
Let’s talk about what your training needs are, and how we can set up a Heartminded training.
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