If you're a parent who has a child or multiple children attending a Montessori school, you may be searching for understanding about how to bridge the gap between school and home. By making small adjustments at home, you can create remarkable results and dramatically enhance the continuity for children from home to school or school to home.

Goodbye, power struggles!

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Did you know that nature creates no waste? Last summer, I had to remind myself of this fact when I came across a magpie greedily devouring a carcass while on a walk.

Think about the magnitude of the concept of "no waste" for a moment. Profound isn't it? Even mind-boggling. It turns out that health for an ecosystem, including our relationship with ourselves,  boils down to a few age-old principles. If we're going to create and keep anything healthy, we have to take care of it!

Temperament: ten unique traits. Do you know your child's temperament?

Temperament is a lot like wrapping paper. The traits come in many colors and designs, in a multitude of hues and intensities. They are as different as the multitude of autumn leaves with varying tones and colors. Knowing our child’s unique temperament and the interaction of traits, parents are armed with a critical tool to parent more consciously and increase family ease and fun. The more skills in your tool belt, the more equipped you are for the curve balls that life throws your way! Here you'll learn key actions to [...]

Parent to parent, teacher to teacher, and home to school - the quality of these key relationships will profoundly impact a child's development. Parenting is one of the most challenging jobs there is and yet parents get little to no training. Here are some vital, positive parenting solutions relevant to every parent and helpful for every child.

This webinar,  Partnering Together for our Children, provides practical and positive parenting tips for how to partner on your child's behalf. This presentation gives a deeper understanding of how to honor each unique child and a framework to more [...]

Montessori says: "Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline." A young child's ability to exercise decisions in their environment whether at home or at school is something that needs to be practiced. Listening to their inner teacher is the foundation of empowerment and builds emotional intelligence.

As parents, how do we best help children to learn self-discipline while also honoring their freedom? We need to learn how to allow a child to guide their actions by their inner teacher within a framework that keeps them safe. How do we best accomplish this goal? 

“Upon entry I feel peace and acceptance! Congratulations on your beautiful new location.” —A “Love Note” left at the Heartmanity Center Grand OpeningHeartmanity opened its nearly 1,900 square feet center in the autumn of 2013 with a celebratory Open House. It was a remarkable event and a wonderful gathering of growth-minded people.

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Thank you for joining us for the Heartmanity Center's grand opening celebration!

We are so grateful to everyone for all your encouragement and support.Thank you for sharing our celebration with us! We had lots of fun with the great connections and such a fantastic turn-out along with raffle items, door prizes and yummy treats from our favorite chef, Sarah Knecht.

Heartmanity has a new home! We're so excited to share with you a fantastic office space in downtown Bozeman, with giant windows and a large room for conducting group programs and classes. This new Heartmanity Center will allow us to serve more people, start new programs that have been in the wings for several years, and support the community in a much bigger way.

You really can have a love life as sweet as you want it to be! But sweetness—whether in chocolate or a relationship—requires certain ingredients for success. Love is wonderful but love by itself is not enough to create a relationship that endures the challenges that life throws at us. For your relationship to last, it needs to be nurtured and tended to like the attentiveness of a prize rose gardener.

Check out these keys and begin making your relationship sweeter today.

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This webinar “Overcoming Bullying: Creating a Peaceful Classroom,” is a wonderful chance to learn solutions to a problem that burdens us all. It provides important basics for bully prevention. 

Dealing with bullying in the classroom is a multi-faceted challenge that requires understanding how we approach misbehavior ineffectively and unknowingly abet bullying in the classroom.

In this webinar, I address the psychology of the bully, the victim, and the bystander—as well as one of the biggest factors that perpetuate this national epidemic: the unmet needs that drive all “misbehavior” in [...]