Criándome, Cuidándome Reparenting Ourselves Introductory Workshop
Reparenting Ourselves While Raising Our Children
Enroll in CourseOur children give us the opportunity to embody the kind of parents we wish we had had, not only as we raise them, but as we raise ourselves. Join us in learning the fundamentals of Reparenting and how it can help us heal and prevent us from projecting our wounds onto our children.
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What it means to "reparent" ourselves
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How reparenting ourselves can help heal past and generational trauma
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How cultural norms about gender and childhood impact the way we learn to handle our emotions when we’re children
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How reparenting can be a way to reprogram our brains and soothe our central nervous system
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How to overcome some of the challenges that arise when our children's behaviors uncover our wounds
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How to reconnect with our inner children and nurture them so that we can remain connected with and nurture our outer children
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.