When: Mondays
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Dates: June 17-August 19
Cost: $400 for 10 weeks
*Parents only - no child care provided*
Regulated Parents in Action
Come move, play, and learn with us! In this hands-on parent training series, we will dive into strategies to help regulate our children through the power of our own self-regulation. We will provide education and experiential opportunities
to help us understand how to use ourselves and the parent-child relationship to regulate our children. Each week we
will cover a topic that incorporates the use of sensory regulation, mindfulness, and yoga to positively influence our regulation so that we can approach parenting from a place
of fullness and abundance rather than emptiness and burnout. Parents will have practical tools to incorporate right away into daily life.
When: Tuesdays
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Dates: June 18-August 20
Cost: $50 for 10 weeks
*Parents only - no child care provided*
Circle of Security® Parenting™ Group
The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened and helps us make sense of what our children are really asking from us. This is a 10-week course that utilizes video clips to present information about The Circle as well as examples of parents using The Circle with their children. Groups are a mix of watching video clips to learn new concepts and discussing and reflecting on our own experiences. This program is appropriate for all parents, those looking to learn a bit more, those who are struggling in their relationship with their child, as well as new parents, foster and adoptive parents!
Jen Bluske
OTR/L,Parent Coach, Director
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Jen is a parent coach, occupational therapist and founder of Thriving Parent's collective. She is also the director of Children's Therapy Network, a family-focused multi-disciplinary therapy clinic in Madison, WI. Jen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998 with a B.S. degree in Occupational Therapy. Following years of practice as an occupational therapy she began to focus more fully on the power of the parent-child relationship as the conduit for change in children's development and regulation. Following this passion, Jen became a Certified Parent Coach through the Jai Institute in 2023.
In her occupational therapy practice, Jen has worked in the school, home and private clinic setting as well as for programs such as Heart Start, Early Head Start, Birth to Three, and preschools.
She is now working directly with parents to support change for children through the parent-child relationship. Jen supports parents to find their own deeper understanding of their role and become a safe and stable base for their child's development, however uneven it may be. Through her work as well as experience of parenting two adopted children, Jen has sought extensive additional training in the areas of attachment, parent child regulation and trauma.
In her free time Jen is happiest when immersed in nature, is digging in the dirt with her plants or listening to live music. Jen’s goal in founding Thriving Parent's Collective is to create a space to put the focus on the parent, creating community, empowerment and resilience while on the rollercoaster of parenting.