I developed and published an online communication course for parents to help them restore/maintain connection with their children. Wow!
As a neurodivergent human, who struggles with executive dysfunction, I needed to remember what a huge undertaking that was for me. And how I successfully pulled it off despite the challenges. I’m super proud of myself.
Someone posted in a group I’m in about what was the last big undertaking/leap we’ve done in our business, and my course, Healing Our Families: Healing the Parent-Child Relationship came to mind. I honestly don’t often think about how much work it was. I’m always thinking about how many families know about the course.
But thinking about it in this way got me excited about it all over again. It’s such a great and helpful course. More families need to know about it. And this year, I’m taking it to another level!
I forgot that was my intention when I originally created it.
Publishing my course, Healing Our Families: Healing the Parent-Child Relationship was actually just step 1 in a much bigger plan. It just took so much time and effort that I forgot. The plan was always much bigger.
So now that it’s on my mind again, let me share my dream with you….
💡 This year, I see myself doing in person trainings for parents. Me in a room of parents working through my course, live. Maybe on a parent night at schools. For a special short term series for parents offered at churches. During the day at local libraries. Or I’m one of many workshop presenters at a larger conference like the Black Women’s Expo or something similar. I see myself teaching, and parents break into small groups and we all come together to support each other in an interactive group setting, with me facilitating. This vision excites me. This is the kind of “work” I’d love to be paid well to do and that I’d be willing to travel for. This is the type of speaking I love. Interactive. Group. Collaborative. My goal is to be a paid speaker, doing this work by Q2 (April 1st ideally). If you have opportunities, or are looking for what I offer, please message me.
💡 I see my course on computers in schools (some schools have parent resource rooms and computers parents can use during the day). I see them sitting and work through my course to help them develop better communication skills to bring more love, peace, understanding, and support to their children.
💡 I see my course used as a resource for parents in mediation and dealing with child custody.
💡 I see my course being used to prepare parents who have temporarily lost custody of their children, who are transitioning toward getting their children back.
💡 I see my course as part of training for home daycare providers, caregivers working with children, and foster parents.
💡 I see my course on computers in the public libraries offering parents the opportunity to sit with headphones and learn how to communicate with their children.
I’ve been told a million times that I don’t need to know the how, I just need to know the what and the why.
My course is the what. I created an online course for parents that teaches healthy communication skills. It not only teaches what to say, but also what not to say, and how our body language speaks volumes. My course also has journal reflection questions so that parents/caregivers can get a better understanding of how they are currently communicating, where their style came from, and decide if it’s healthy to continue communicating in the ways they do.
My why is because I believe that essentially our world is made of families. And if we want to heal our world, it starts with families. Because when you heal families, you heal communities. And when you heal communities, you heal cities. And when you heal cities, you heal states, provinces, and regions. And when you heal those, you heal countries. And when we heal countries, we heal our world.
I want to add my ripple to healing the world. And I believe that my Healing Our Families series of courses are a huge part of that. So I want to expand my course beyond helping a few families who find out about me through social media. (And I’m so grateful to help them, too. Every family counts and matters to me.)
AND I want to reach MILLIONS of families. Whether it’s through my online course on #Udemy, or through multiple cities purchasing licensing to use my course for various agencies, I want to have a big impact.
I want opportunities, ideas, and resources to develop my course so it can reach the masses. I believe it’s worthy. And I have more courses in the series that I’ve yet to publish.
Anyway…. if you have any ways that you can support (even if it is to hold space for me to see these visions become a reality), please share a supportive comment. I’m getting excited again and that’s a beautiful thing.
Thank you for reading and seeing the vision with me.
Blessings,
Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist
