Episode 12: Creating Connection & Harmony at Home and at School
Are you a parent, teacher and/or educator seeking to create more connection and harmony in your home or school?
In this week’s episode I had the pleasure of chatting with Lael Stone.
Lael is an author, speaker (she has an amazing TEDx talk that recently hit over 1 million views), educator, she is also the co-founder/co-creator of Woodline Primary in Victoria, Australia, and she is the co-host of The Aware Parenting Podcast.
In this beautiful, empowering and inspiring conversation we discuss how as parents and educators there are times we can rupture the relationship between us and our children and students. Lael beautifully shares her knowledge and experience on how we can repair these ruptures with connection, honesty, authenticity and responsibility. Which also models to our children and the children in our care, how to repair any ruptures in their own relationships in a healthy, supportive and truthful way.
As with all of the precious episodes, we also have a meaningful conversation about the need for us as parents and educators to turn inward, do the inner work, take responsibility for our own feelings, as well as getting curious about our own behaviours with self-compassion.
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you get what you need to out of all the wisdom and knowledge shared.
Where to Find Lael:
Website: Lael Stone and About Birth
Facebook: Lael Stone
Instagram: Lael Stone
Woodline Primary: https://www.woodlineprimary.com.au/
Podcast: The Aware Parenting Podcast
TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL09e8Tm9c
Resources Mentioned in the Episode:
Vagina by Naomi Wolf
Aletha Solter’s books on Aware Parenting
ABOUT LAEL:
As a champion of connection and creating harmony in families, Lael Stone is an educator, TEDx speaker, author, mother, and parenting counselor who has been working with families for over 18 years. As a Parenting Educator, she facilitates workshops and support groups that empower parents to create connections and stronger relationships with their children.
Lael spent 15 years working in childbirth education and postnatal care, working with couples through pregnancy, birth, and the first few years of parenting as a Doula, Calmbirth Practitioner, and Postnatal trauma Counsellor.She is the Creator and Director of the About Birth Online Education Program, a pioneering way to learn about birth and early parenting.
Lael also created The Connection Program that she implemented in secondary schools all over Victoria, which focused on pleasure-based sex education along with relationship and self-awareness initiatives.
She is also the co-creator of Woodline Primary School, an innovative new school based on emotional wellbeing and connection. Lael is the co-host of The Aware Parenting Podcast and a sought-after public speaker who talks candidly about her experiences and her great passion; creating wellness in families through connection and communication. As well as sitting on a few advisory boards and consulting with organisations around emotional awareness and trauma-informed practices, she has teamed up with The Resilience Project to deliver presentations around raising resilient children all over Australia in 2021/2022. Lael’s first book is due for release in September 2022
She is the mother of three big kids - who are teenagers and young adults and she is currently putting all her research into practice with them!