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About Essential Parenting

Essential Parenting is an insight-based and practice-oriented parent education program that optimizes the developmental potential of both children and their parents. Essential Parenting classes will empower you to open beyond judgments and reactivity and return you to your innately wise, intuitive, and loving heart. In doing so, we support our children in becoming more fully themselves, creating a ripple effect of wholeness, confidence, and well-being in our communities and on our planet. Get Started.

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“One of things I love most is that he doesn't teach like an 'expert.' His teaching continues to be humble and inquisitive, not a set of rules and guidelines coming from above, but an open-hearted, and disciplined approach. Chris teaches us what questions to be engaged in, and how to engage in them, rather than a set of rigid parameters to follow. Seeing him with his Sons and knowing them inspires me to be a better father. I send every parent I know to his work.” — Shereef Bishay, Founder Bettermeans.com, father of two

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