Susan Stiffelman, MFT
Workshop: Parenting with Presence
Susan Stiffelman, (also known as the Huffington Post’s weekly “Parent Coach” advice columnist) is dedicated to helping parents raise joyful, resilient kids without meltdowns, power struggles, or the various thieves of joy that can interfere with a parent’s ability to enjoy the journey of parenthood. She is the author of the bestselling book, Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm, and Connected and the brand new book, Parenting With Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids (An Eckhart Tolle Edition.)
Susan is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child therapist, a credentialed teacher, an educational therapist and a highly respected public speaker. Her parenting approach focuses on helping parents build deep connection with their children, managing their reactions (regardless of how their kids are behaving) so that they can be the calm Captain of the ship they naturally cooperate with, confide in, and respect.
Susan Stiffelman embodies a unique blend of professional therapist, teacher, beloved auntie and down to earth mom. Her first book, Parenting Without Power Struggles is based on her work with thousands of parents and children, from celebrities to everyday moms and pops. Her newest book, Parenting With Presence guides readers through a variety of insights and exercises to help them use the challenges of parenting to grow and transform.
In both of her books, Susan delivers practical, user-friendly parenting strategies that have been used with children from toddlers through young adults. While she draws on her professional training and experience, her approach to raising kids falls into step with the spiritually-based understanding of people like Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie.
Susan is an adventurer: A world traveler from a very young age, she took her then fifteen-year old son on a two and a half month trip to Uganda, Tanzania, Australia and New Zealand to help him discover his place as a global citizen. The trip included volunteering at the community outreach compound of former Black Panther Pete O’Neil, visiting Masai tribes, and spending time at village schools in both Africa and Maori establishments in New Zealand.
She’s a passionate learner: At seventeen, she taught herself Hindi; when she ran out of people with whom she could practice her conversational skills, began calling people named “Singh” out of the phone book.
She’s a dedicated teacher: From working as a private teacher for a family whose travels allowed her to create lessons from real life experiences all over the world to homeschooling her son for the first years of his education, she is an innovative educator who is able to teach new material in ways that are easily absorbed and understood.
And finally, Susan is deeply committed to enjoying her life, living with gratitude, passion and enjoyment. She has had a regular meditation practice since she was seventeen years old, and has always made the nourishment of her heart and soul as a number one priority.
To contact Susan directly please visit her website: http://susanstiffelman.com/or email her at osusannaji@gmail.com