My experience of the 2013 Global Summit of the Nurtured Heart Approach®

In late June of this year, with the blessing of my husband, I took my 8-week-pregnant self to Albuquerque, NM with my mom (a fellow NHA® Certified Trainer) to bask in a several-day smorgasbord of presentations about the Nurtured Heart Approach®.  Beyond the jam-packed information sessions, keynotes, and other presentations, one of my primary tasks was to handle random nausea and to vomit as infrequently and discreetly as possible.  I could not have been in a more loving and understanding group of people, though!

Presentation topics ranged from using NHA® in schools, with parents of preschoolers, finding a community niche for an NHA® business (and logistics of launching said business), combining NHA® with family budgeting, NHA® with foster/adopted populations, NHA® and attachment, neurobiology of NHA®, NHA's pathway to becoming evidenced-based, and so so so many more!  I was salivating when I first looked at the list, and now I'm salivating looking at the pile of notes and resources I came away from the Summit cherishing.

It is so exciting to see how this approach is branching and weaving into new territories every day.  Not surprising, though-- at its core, NHA® has a strong element of the yogic term "namaste," or honoring the soul of another with reverence.  When I am in tune with the NHA® and am acting out its tenets, the phrase "my heart sees your heart" comes to mind.  At this Global Summit (as was the case in every other NHA® training/event I've been to), many hearts were seeing many other hearts, fully and openly.  I have never been in quite such a nourishing community as this, and many fellow Trainers share that sentiment. 

Since the Summit, I have (until recently) still been wrestling with the effects of "morning" (read: "all day") sickness and other pregnancy treats, but I have also been gestating ideas for two different books and other ways to bring NHA® to my community.  I can't even believe I just typed that (never in my LIFE would I have thought to write a real live actual BOOK), but such is the power of the NHA® in convincing me of my own capabilities and supporting every little inching out of my comfort zone!

I'll post more as it comes to me, but I'll wrap up by adding a couple photos of me with two of my biggest inspirations in this whole endeavor.  To the left is Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach®, founder of the Children's Success Foundation, international speaker and author of many books about harnessing and igniting inner greatness and success.

Pictured below is his partner-in-crime, Lisa Bravo, writer of the original companion workbook to Howard's "Transforming the Difficult Child" book and co-trainer at NHA® events around the world.  She also conducts in-home and office-based parent coaching using the NHA® in her Arizona-based private practice.  

 They are truly brilliant examples of approachability, transformation, and encouragement, and I am so honored to know them!

Learn more about Howard at www.childrenssuccessfoundation.com, and about Lisa at www.parentworx.com!