Parenting for the Great Turning

Event Overview

Parenting for the Great Turning is a deeply interactive in-person group experience facilitated by Jo delAmor with a special kid’s program facilitated by Stephanie Meehan. Your children will be engaged in meaningful activities throughout the day that parallel the work we’ll be doing as adults. So, please bring your children!

This experience is designed to strengthen and transform our relationships to ourselves, our children and the world in which we are raising them.

Sunday, February 9, 2025

1-5pm

White Oak Farm & Education Center

William, OR

During our time together we’ll move through the spiral of the Work That Reconnects using content and original practices from Jo delAmor’s book Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: a Compassionate Guidebook for New Paradigm Parenting. It will be a tender space for being together as parents to acknowledge and feel into how intense, challenging, beautiful and mind blowing it is to be raising children in these times.

This powerful group work strengthens parental resilience, activates our commitment to working towards collective wellbeing and helps us cultivate a sense of community around our experience of parenting. Together we’ll conjure the clarity, courage and solidarity necessary to tune into what our kids really need and figure out how to provide that to them despite the challenges that our current times present.

About the Facilitators

Jo delAmor is a mom and a step-mom to two young adults (22 and 23 years old) who graduated high school in 2020, right in the midst of Covid lockdowns and school closures. She has also cared for and worked with hundreds of other people’s children of all ages in a wide variety of situations from longterm co-parenting community to public schools, from wilderness camps and preschools to in-home nannying over the last 25+ years.

Jo has been facilitating the Work That Reconnects since 2013 with a focus on dismantling oppression, transforming our cultural paradigm and supporting parents through these unprecedented and challenging times.

In her dedication to personal and cultural transformation as a catalyst for planetary healing, she has paid close attention to what this new generation needs at this pivotal time on planet Earth; charting what works, what doesn’t and what is being called forth from us as parents. She has woven the insights and practical tools she’s gathered through all of this experience into her practice of New Paradigm Parenting and her forthcoming book Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for New Paradigm Parenting

Stephanie Meehan is the mother of two currently living in the unceded lands of the Takubedeh people in what is now known as the Applegate valley of Southern Oregon.  As the oldest of six children, she began tending to littles very early on, and has continued to do so for most of her life as a childcare provider, running educational garden programs and working in various alternative schools across cultures in the United States, France and Chile.

Stephanie is trained in Coyote Mentoring, facilitating the Work that Reconnects and teaching Permaculture. She loves drawing from the three together to create spaces that help us humans – big and small – reconnect to ourselves, one another and the natural world. Stephanie is also trilingual and enjoys using language as a means of connection and inclusion.

Currently, Stephanie teaches at Earthwise Forest school where she weaves her passion for nature connection, love of handcrafts and art, dedication to the development of emotional intelligence and collaborative skills, and facilitating the discovery of each child’s unique gifts. She also lives and works at White Oak Farm, where she helps to support a children’s education program, a native plant nursery and the production of healthy organic produce for school cafeterias and food banks.