Joya Birns, Waldorf Educator, and Cindy Brooks, MFT, are co-authors of Parenting with Spirit, a guide to family discipline inspired by insights from the Waldorf world and from the fields of psychology and neuroscience. They have been co-leading parent circles and parenting workshops in northern California since 2004. For more information see www.inspiredfamilylife.com.
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