Who we are

 

Founder Mira Watson has worked with children and parents in a variety of capacities, to synthesize the discoveries of what worked and what is necessary to promote healing and growth within families.

 

Right at the beginning of doing special needs teaching Mira discovered that when she observed children without evaluating or analyzing, they got better and made leaps in their academic abilities. This was independent of whatever clinical labels such as ADD, dyslexic, hyperactive etc. they had been given. When seen, felt and believed in, the children did things they and their parents had been told they couldn’t. Observation without judgement has formed the basis of her method since.

 

After many years of special needs teaching, Mira went on to research the effects of parent’s behaviour on cognitive development in Mexican street children. There she began to discover the direct link between how parents answered children, how much attention they paid them, and how the children’s brains developed, as measured by cognitive ability.

 

She went on to deepen this understanding of the individual’s brain in relation to the emotions through doing craniosacral therapy with individuals, and later, children, babies and parents in the UK, Europe, USA and Bali.

 

It was through her craniosacral work with families that she began to see the links between parental emotional patterns and children’s issues and brain development. This lead her to the importance of emotional regulation and attuned relationship in giving children a connection with their own identity at the emotional, mental and phsyical levels.

 

When the parents are disconnected in themselves, the children tend to have related emotional and developmental issues. Mira realized that parents often lack the basic skills in connecting with their children because they are not properly in touch with themselves, and she developed a simple set of tools to remedy the situation. The simple tools of “transformational parenting” combine body awareness, feeling sensations and reconnecting with the psyche or self so that the conditioned patterns of behaviour can be bypassed to allow our natural intelligence to come through. They help parents to perceive directly what is going on with a child, and encourage an authentic present moment response to meet those needs. Fortunately this is something anyone can do, and is quite simple to get the hang of, if you are open. The results are instantly felt in the children. And parents are transformed and empowered in the process because things at home improve and get easier.

 

Mira’s current work is the result of working with & studying numerous healing, bodywork and consciousness practices (including many years of vipassana meditation), as well as jungian archetypal analysis. She did an assistantship in consciousness work with Thomas Huebl in 2006, and its this pure approach to awareness and presence that underpins her work. She has qualifications in ITEC Massage, Anatomy and Physiology, craniosacral therapy (CST), mind-body-emotion therapy, EFT, crystal healing, Yoga teacher training, Dance, and a variety of other health oriented disciplines. Her university qualifications include a BA in Social Anthropology from King’s College, Cambridge, and MSc. in Development Studies at SOAS, London. Mira is British/German, can conduct sessions in fluent English, German or Spanish. Mira was born in 1971 and loves being alive.