"A Mi Manera" Setting Respectful Boundaries with Others While Parenting
The Workshop
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This Course will explore ways in which families can feel confident:
🌻 Advocating for our kids’ bodies, minds, & spirits respectfully in the face of criticism from grandparents, extended family, and other adults.
🌻 Navigating the cultural & societal pressures of how to raise children.
🌻 Preserving important relationships.
🌻 Supporting our kids in using their voice
It is for you if:
You struggle to know what to do or say when other adults in your child’s life act in ways with your children that go against your parenting values
You want your relationship with extended family members to be more aligned and consistent with nonviolent parenting
You find yourself upset or confused when others criticize the way you are choosing to parent and you’d like to learn how to advocate for your kids and support their learning in advocating for themselves
We hope this provides you with the strong foundation you need to set kind and firm boundaries with adults around the way you are parenting, so that you can parent A Tu Manera.
Your Instructor
Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand is a first generation non-Black Chicana mother to three biracial children ages 8, 3, and 1.
She is a descendant of Indigenous Tarahumara Rarámuri and Spanish lineages who has resided on occupied Tongva and Acjachemen land, also known as Orange County, CA, all of her life.
Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally, and internationally both in-person and online via the Latinx Parenting organization.
She founded this bilingual organization and movement intentionally rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families.
Formerly an early childhood teacher and 1:1 behavioral coach, Leslie has worked with children and families for over 13 years. She has a dual degree in Child Development & Family Studies as well as Family Life Education from CSULB, and attended the Masters in Social Work program at Cal State Fullerton before pausing to focus on her babies and the Latinx Parenting movement.
She is trained as a facilitator in various parent education curricula including Trauma-Informed Nonviolent Parenting, Positive Discipline, Supporting Fatherhood Involvement (SFI), Community Parent Education (C.O.P.E) and others. She has facilitated groups in both Spanish and English for hundreds of parents in schools, transitional homes, teen shelters, drug rehabilitation centers, and family resource centers throughout Orange County, CA.
Over the years, Leslie has long worked within mental health agencies in positions serving as Interim Director of Parent Education for the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Orange County, Youth & Professional Programs Manager for NAMI Orange County, and as a Consultant for the Dads Matter Program of Children's Bureau.