a Personal note:
Why I Created This Workshop
February of 2020 Changed Everything
When two boys came into my home in February 2020, just weeks before the world shut down, I quickly learned that parenting children through hurt often means confronting our own.Parenting children through hurt often means confronting our own.
I Thought I Was Helping
Like many parents, I carried guilt, fear, expectations, and old wounds into situations that had nothing to do with me, and everything to do with the child standing in front of me.
I thought I was helping. Sometimes I was carrying things that weren't mine to carry
The Conversation I Needed
This workshop is the conversation I wish someone had offered me when I first started.
Practical.
Honest.
Encouraging.
A place where parents can feel less alone.
I didn't need more parenting advice. I needed I needed to feel less alone.
Why I Teach This
Lived Experience
Professional Coaching Training
Years Supporting Families and Youth
What This Workshop Is and What it Isn't
- Foster parent since 2020
- Adoptive parent
- Raising children impacted by loss, trauma, disrupted attachments, and major life transitions
The ideas shared in this workshop are rooted in real-life parenting experiences, not theory alone.
- Certified Coach (CTACC)
- Trained through an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited coaching program
- Experienced facilitating conversations that help people increase self-awareness, identify patterns, and create meaningful change
My role is not to diagnose, evaluate, or provide therapy. My role is to help parents think differently, reflect more deeply, and move forward intentionally.
- More than 15 years working with children, teens, parents, and families
- Experience in youth development, mentoring, coaching, leadership, and parent support
Over the years, I have had thousands of conversations with young people, parents, caregivers, and leaders navigating difficult situations.
This workshop is not therapy.
It is not clinical training.
It is not a replacement for trauma-informed models such as TBRI or agency-provided caregiver education.
It is a conversation about the experiences we bring into parenting, the ways our own hurt can influence our responses, and how we can show up more intentionally for the children we love.
Foster, adoptive, kinship, and overwhelmed parents are welcome.
coachshawn@shawnhop.com