Stephanie Bachmann Mattei
“If we want to change the world we shall start with the children.” -Gandhiji
In this interview I look forward to sharing about my parenting journey, the evolution of parenting, and some basic practical brain science.
I look forward, also, to laying out clearly why I believe conscious parenting is one of the most potentially powerful positive social change strategies.
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Stephanie was born and raised in Florence, Italy, where she earned her Bachelor in Languages and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Stephanie moved to the USA, when she married her husband. Together they are parenting their three self-educated children (biological and adopted).
Stephanie’s core intertwined themes in life are: spirituality, parenting and healing.
Stephanie, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, is passionate to share her understanding of NVC as a process to empower oneself and others to celebrate the humanity in one’s own being, and to encounter the humanity in the other person. In the words of Dr. Bruce Perry, “Being born human does not ensure being humane.”
Parenting is Stephanie’s niche. Parenting, being a major way of transmitting our unconscious wounds as well as our conditioning to social and cultural blueprints, becomes a powerful and far-reaching tool for social transformation.
Aware of the specific challenges and joys of raising an adopted child, Stephanie studied under Dr. Daniel Siegel and Dr. Bruce Perry to learn about the effects of trauma on the developing brain.
Finally, in Stephanie’s experience, parenting inevitably ends up being a call to integrate our unprocessed experiences and to bring healing to ourselves. To that respect, Stephanie loves tying NVC with mindfulness-based neuroscience to support self-understanding, healing and wholeness.
Stephanie co-leads the “Parent Peer Leadership Program” (PPLP) – a program of the Peaceful Families Peaceful World Project of the International Center for Nonviolent Communication and BayNVC. For more information about the PPLP please see: www.nvc-pplp.com.
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