Life Intelligence Parenting Course - for Calm, Connected and Confident Parenting.
A seven step process to help transform your parenting journey and nurture a fulfilling family life that you dream of in all of life's complexities with greater wisdom, resilience, and joy.
Are you tired of:
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed by the daily demands of parenting?
Constant power struggles and battles with your children/young people?
Conflicts arising and feeling guilty and ineffective afterwards?
Wishing you understood your child's behavior better?
Feeling like you're constantly reacting instead of responding thoughtfully?
The nagging worry that you're not being the parent you truly want to be?
You're not alone, as every parent/carer faces challenges. So what if you had a clear roadmap, along with effective and powerful tools, and unwavering support to navigate family life with more ease, confidence, and connection?
The seven steps to transformation: A seven-step journey towards becoming the empowered, connected and compassionate parent you long to be. This process is designed to help grow your LQ parenting practices: applicable for a life long healthy approach to the ongoing journey. Session 1: Empathising: Building awareness, connection and radical acceptance. Session 2: Investigating: Uncovering core beliefs and patterns. Session 3: Innovating: Setting boundaries and making conscious commitments. Session 4: Activating: Shifting from reactive to responsive parenting. Session 5: Navigating: Planning and celebrating small wins. Session 6: Integrating: Defining your vision and addressing obstacles. Session 7: Growing: Sustaining progress and resourcing yourself.
This is a 7 -session, deeply immersive online experience shared with other parents in small groups.
It is designed to take you on a journey of self-awareness and equip you with a universal toolkit.
Grounded in proven psychological frameworks like Positive Intelligence, Embodied Systems Coaching and Mindfulness.
By focussing on your values as a parent or carer you can apply the principles in all circumstances.
This is not just another set of parenting tips to learn, but a deep dive into your core values that you will use to navigate your parenting journey and will give an ongoing set of guiding principles you can use in each phase of parenting.
Suitable for those wishing to become parents, are actively parenting or have adult chilren.
Here's What You'll Discover:
Cultivate Your Inner Calm: Learn powerful mindfulness techniques to stay present and respond thoughtfully, even in the most challenging situations.
Transform Your Inner Critics (Saboteurs): Identify and neutralize the negative thought patterns that undermine your parenting confidence and create unnecessary stress.
Understand Yourself More Deeply as a Parent/Carer: Explore your core beliefs, triggers, and relationship patterns to break free from unhelpful cycles.
Nurture Strong Sustaining Bonds: Develop powerful empathy and communication to foster deeper connection and trust with your children.
Practice Healthy Boundaries with Confidence: Learn practical strategies for setting limits and saying "no" while maintaining connection and respect.
Navigate Challenges with Grace and Grit: Understand common behavioral patterns (like the Drama Triangle) and learn how to shift towards more centered and effective responses.
Create Your Vision for a Thriving Family Life: Define your core values and principles as a parent to help guide your actions with the intention to co-create the family you envision.
Invest in Your Family's Future - And Your Own Well-being. I am deeply concerned about wealth inequality, and I want to make the course affordable and accessible.
The Course fee is £300 - £600 sliding scale. Based on a self assessed wealth and income criteria. (What I mean by this is more fully explained in the enrollment process). Each tier has limited places. Monthly instalments are an option. There is a bursary fund available, which you can apply for when you sign up.
Limited Places: Places per group are limited to 8 so that you can get the depth and personal attnetion you deserve. You can get on the waiting list if the current limited number of courses are full, or you are not ready or able to join this time. I only run one or two groups at a time, to give you my best service.
Imagine: Feeling more in control, more connected, and more joyful as a parent. This course provides you with the proven tools and unwavering support for you in making that vision a reality.
Start date for the next group: [TBC] at [times]
Still not sure, want to find out more? Join me on a free interactive presentation On [date TBC] at [timesTBC] online by zoom. Book your place here to find out more about the course and Q&A's.
7 Live, Interactive Online Sessions (2 hours each): Led by Ianto Doyle, an experienced facilitator dedicated to empowering parents. With guest facilitators.
Be a part of a small group of up to 8 people: Limited places for quality experience and attention to depth of sharing in a held and confidential space. You are 90% more likely to finish the course and get the most out of it when participating in a course in a small group.
Three personal check-ins: With the facilitator of 20 minutes. To help you keep momentum, engagement and solve problems.
If you need extra support: I understand sometimes parenting can be very challenging. You can book coaching sessions with Ianto (or another LQ Coach) before, during or after the course.
Comprehensive Course Workbook (PDF): Packed with exercises, reflections summaries and further reading to deepen your learning.
Actionable Home Study Activities: Optional practical exercises to integrate the concepts covered on the course, into your daily parenting. Only 10-20 minutes daily practices (which you can mostly do in your usual routines) along with 30-60 minutes weekly home study.
Valuable Resource Library: Links to insightful articles, websites, books and further learning materials.
Staying Connected:After the LQ course, join an opt into support group of parents and carers with facilitated online sessions taking place once a month for ongoing connection.
About Life Intelligence (LQ). Unlock your inherent potential to not just navigate life, but to truly thrive in every facet of parenting and of life!
This holistic approach recognizes that our true well-being and effectiveness stem from the integrated development of multiple intelligences: emotional, relational, intuitive, practical, embodied, nature based and cognitive intelligences to name a few.
By fostering deep self-awareness, and aligning with your core values to help guide intentional choice making, the course will help you to develop inner resources to navigate your journey of parenting.
Our courses and coaching are designed to help you cultivate this integrated Life Intelligence, leading to a more fulfilling and impactful life for yourself, your family and all aspects of your life.
Imagine a home filled with more understanding, less conflict, and more skilful communication. With deeper values-driven and purposeful parenting.
Stop Struggling. Start Thriving.
Grounded in Proven Methods, Designed for Real Life: This course integrates powerful, evidence-based frameworks that have helped countless individuals achieve greater self-awareness and positive change:
Positive Intelligence (PQ): Learn to identify and weaken your inner "saboteurs" while strengthening your "Sage" wisdom powers of empathy, curiosity, and calm action. https://www.positiveintelligence.com
Embodied Systems Coaching: Working systemically, identifying issues inside people, in personal relationships, in work situations and in the wider community and natural world. https://jennymackewn.com/
Mindfulness: Cultivate presence and awareness to respond to situations with intention and awareness rather than automatic reactions.
Spiral Dynamics Model: Describes the development of individuals, organizations, and societies through stages, each with its own set of beliefs, values, and behaviors. https://www.spiral-dynamics.com/about_sd.htm
Discover simple yet profound methods and practices for cultivating curiosity in relation to stressful thoughts and helping to access more peaceful grounded behaviours. .
Practical Strategies: Acquire tangible skills for active listening, assertive communication, and setting healthy boundaries.
How to be Authoritative: Lead from kind authority rather than being over permissive or over authoritarian.
Still not sure, want to find out more? Join me on a free interactive presentation on [date TBC] at [timesTBC] online by zoom. Book your place here to find out more about the course and Q&A's.
Invest just 2 to 3 hours a week to create lasting change: Yes, life is very full and busy when you are parenting and that's why each session is focussed and packed with practical insights you can apply immediately. The home study activities are designed to fit into your daily routine, offering optional daily small but powerful steps towards significant changes. This small investment of time and focus will free up more energy to have more of what you want and less of what you don't want. A little and often, woven into your life (rather than an extra demand) leads to greater success.
Start Seeing Positive Shifts Sooner Than You Think: Even in the early sessions, you'll learn valuable tools and gain awareness that can lead to immediate shifts in how you approach challenging parenting moments and generate more positive moments. By using simple and manageable step-by-step improvements each week, encouraged by sharing the journey in a small intimate group, and facilitated check-ins to help keep you on track.
More than parenting You will also notice the benefits cascading out into all aspects of your life. With friends, wider family and colleagues.
About Ianto Hello, I'm Ianto Doyle.
I am passionate about helping parents like you, to navigate the complexities of raising children with more joy and less stress. I am a 64 year old father of two children, a daughter and son now 30 and 27 years old who are both thriving.
Both as a parent and through my work I have experience of mainstream education, homeschooling and alternative education.My work with children and young people has been wide and varied over the last 4 decades, including:
Co-founding and managing JourneymanUK (for 16 years) until recently, a youth mentoring charity. As part of my work with JourneymanUK, I co designed and ran mentor trainings and an online course for parents, carers and professionals called ‘Understanding Young Men’. The Journey, a school-based course as a part of the PSHE curriculum. Mentor trainer, local group leader, large camps leader.
I co-founded Pathways to Ventures- a CIC working with young people and adults. Including working with large groups of international students and one to one mentoring.
I currently offer one-to-one Embodied Systems Coaching for parents and carers of young people of all ages and genders. I am trained in a variety of therapeutic ways of working.
I am a Positive Intelligence Coach.
I set up and ran a men's support group 18 years ago through The Mankind Project UK&Ire.
Community Artist. In rural Wales working with young people.
I believe that with helpful tools, guidance and effective support, every parent and carer can create a fulfilling, meaningful and connected family life even in the most challenging circumstances.
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Who is this course for? Parents of children of all ages who are looking for a core values approach, practical tools and a deeper understanding of themselves and their children.
I am planning to have children. Get ahead by preparing yourself in advance.
My children are adults can it help me? Yes indeed, we never stop being parents the way we do it changes. The principles in the course are relevant and valuable in this case, too.
How is the course delivered? Live online interactive sessions via Zoom.
What if I can't make a live session? You will receive a live recording of the session.
How much time will the home study take? Approximately 10-20 minutes daily practices you can do in your everyday life and 30-60 minutes study and reflections weekly. It is discretionary how much you do (you can of course do more), a little bit often will give you the best results.
What is your teaching style? Interactive, supportive and practical. We learn best by engaging with the content in directly personally meaningful ways. We will use a variety of modalities including: written, drawing, movement, music, contemplations, mindfulness, visualisations.
Why small groups? By sharing the journey and our experiences, we learn from each other too. The completion rate for a solo self study course is about 3 - 15 %. When you are a part of a facilitated group you are 500% more likely to complete a course. The small group will support you, help with deeper dives, encourage accountability and shared learning. The 3 personal check-ins with you during the course will help you keep on track and address issues.
What Happens after the course? You can join an optional ongoing monthly support group, to integrate and develop further.
Can I do it with my partner? Yes, it's great and more effective for both of you to share the journey and stay aligned. If you can’t do it together, then do share your journey with your partner if possible.
What people say
'authentic, straightforward, challenging and deeply caring'
"no one compares to Ianto in terms of his ability to read what is really going on for you, help you cut to the chase and get to a path forwards. His intuition, intellect and insight is unrivalled. Try him, I 100% guarantee it will be a game changer. "