Building Social-Emotional Resilience 

Parenting can be hard—especially when stress runs high and behavior feels out of control. This 8-module course introduces a science-backed, relationship-first approach to reducing power struggles, easing stress, and nurturing your child’s emotional growth.

Through the Mariposa Method, you’ll learn how to move beyond traditional discipline and build a calmer, more connected relationship with your child—one grounded in empathy, communication, and resilience.

Course Details

The Mariposa Method to Helping Children Reach Their Full Potential

Instructors: Jenny Barrett and Dr. Anne Townsend

Description: In this course, participants will learn Mariposa’s social-emotional learning method to reduce stress and build resilience in both children and adults.

Module 1: Provides an explanation of power struggles or tension in relationships with your children as well as the role of stress on the brain and learning and behavior. We explore the limitations of standard approaches to discipline, and the research on how emotional resilience develops. 

Modules 2-7: Teaches Mariposa’s method for helping adults build emotional resilience in their children, reduce their own stress and reduce challenging behaviors.  Specifically, participants learn how to:

• Understand and communicate the child’s feelings and perspective in order to create a stronger connection, help your child feel understood, and thereby lower their stress responses, and build self awareness.
• Communicate authentically your own feelings and needs in a way that is more likely to be heard, strengthen connection and reduce your own stress and build your child's social awareness.   
• Work together to address problems and collaborate to meet your own needs and your child's needs. 
• Reinforce positive behaviors in such a way as to increase the likelihood that your children develop self-motivation and increase positive behaviors and perseverance.   
• Establish order and control in a manner that actually leads to increased self control and less challenging behaviors.

Final Module: From Insight to Impact

Reflect on your growth, revisit key strategies, and make a plan for bringing this work into your daily practice—because lasting change starts with intention.

What You’ll Gain

In this course you'll learn how to:

• Understand what’s really behind your child’s behavior, and respond in ways that calm, connect, and build trust.
• Communicate needs and feelings without escalating conflict.
• Encourage cooperation and positive behavior that lasts, without bribes or punishments.
• Set boundaries that promote self-control, not just obedience.
• Strengthen your relationship with your child while reducing your own stress.

Join us!

The true cost for us to deliver and maintain this training is high, but we want to reach you.  If the cost is prohibitive, and you would like to request scholarship funds, complete this form.