Begins Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025

Mindfulness and the Art of Imperfect Parenting

A 5 week online course • 7:30-9:00 pm CST

Designed to help you slow down, savour the joys, and transform the way you relate to parenting challenges and stress.

Perfect parents don’t exist–we all struggle and make mistakes. Despite the many joys of being a parent, we also experience a flood of other feelings like anger, frustration, anxiety, guilt, overwhelm, and loneliness . . . sound familiar?

This 5-week course is designed to help you slow down, build compassionate awareness and transform the way you relate to parenting challenges and stress. Join us as we explore mindfulness, meditation, and practices rooted in insights from both science and Zen Buddhism to cultivate more calm, presence, and balance in our lives as parents. Caregivers of children of all ages are welcome, and no past experience in meditation is required.

Teachers

Karleen Machanda

Kathy Dull

This course blends lessons from modern research with timeless Buddhist wisdom to help us navigate Imperfect Parenting through:

  • Finding calm in stressful moments

  • Increasing awareness of our patterns of reactivity

  • Cultivating emotional resilience, kindness, and compassion

  • Attending to feelings and needs with openness and curiosity

  • Embracing ourselves and our children without judgement

  • Integrating mindfulness and meditation into our daily, busy family lives

If you are a ZLMC Member you can sign up for the course for the member fee.

  • Program Fee: $165

  • Member Fee: $135