Well-Being & Strong Family Relationships
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Heartfulness4Kids is a unique, 6-week web-based positive mental health program, designed to help kids, teens and parents learn together how to become more self-aware and understanding of each other.
Video lessons are targeted and short, providing opportunities for families to practice well-being skills in the comfort of their own home.
Heartfulness4Kids brings families together to learn in a heart-centered way that makes everyone feel connected, heard, and loved.
Bio
Karen Desmeules, M Ed, Educator, Child Advocate & Parent Coach, created Heartfulness4Kids for parents seeking ways to address the unique challenges our children and teens are currently facing.
While in the role of Mental Health and Well-being Consultant, Karen developed a 4-month social-emotional program accessed by over 12,000 students.
Most recently, Karen co-created an 8-week parenting course offered for participants attending the online summit, Parenting Teens in Uncertain Times. She continues to coach and support parents looking to develop deeper relationships with their children.
Karen is passionate about working with family and school communities in order to help our children live more aware and heart-centered lives.
Karen Desmeules
Bio
Heartfulness4Kids is a uniquely designed program that helps families learn together how to be more aware, compassionate and understanding of each other.
Heartfulness4Kids brings families together to learn in a heart-centered way that makes everyone feel connected, heard, and loved.
Karen Desmeules
Your Program Creator and Facilitator
Testimonials from the Field
The course that has been created is structured, easy-to-follow, and breaks what may be seen as big concepts into small manageable amounts that can be learned and practiced a little bit at a time for optimal student learning.
Karen’s extensive training in Social Emotional Learning makes her uniquely skilled to offer such a rich and educational programme.
I remember so vividly the conversation you and your younger son modeled together in one of our classes. I was so inspired by it yet had so many questions! That seed was planted at just the right time though… It’s been a slow awakening but in my efforts to improve my communication skills I was better primed in my own personal growth to take on that next level of communication with my kids that you introduced in class.
The Program
Learn in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Learn alongside your child!
Press PLAY and you and your family will participate in a carefully created program, developed by a certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, former Mental Health and Well-Being Consultant and lifelong teacher.
- Daily 5-10 minute video lessons, 5 days a week, providing experiential skill-based activities for families to self-awareness skills.
- Two separate program tracks are included: one for teens and one for children.
- Material in this program is backed by science-based tools to develop positive mental health. Learning is sequential, purposeful and practiced.
Develop positive mental health together
Heartfulness Articles
Reflections as a Parent
Anxious. Tense. Impatient. Rewind the clock 10 years ago and the words above describe exactly how I felt as I went about many of my days, in my work and home life. At the time my boys were in elementary school – and although from the outside it appeared that we were a...
Reflections as an Educator
During my 20 years as an educator, and with this past year being a Mental Health and Well-Being Consultant, I have witnessed a profound change in the students we teach, as many children struggle to feel joy, a sense of purpose or connected to the world around them....
The Inspiration Behind the Program
Imagine… Imagine a child who is given the time and space to connect to their deepest selves on a daily basis. Imagine a child who possesses the skills they need to notice their thoughts and possible reactions. Imagine they can pause, choose and practice a well-being...