As multicultural parents in America, we often struggle to hold onto our cultural wealth and wisdom, while healing from intergenerational pain. Our own parents may tell us how we are parenting our kids wrong, while we get messages from the dominant culture that our traditional methods are harmful or primitive. Parenting is hard enough without the pressure of contradictory expectations! Ed Center is a Pacific Islander parenting educator who works with multicultural families to navigate family challenges in ways that validate our traditions and interrupt harmful cycles. Participants will gain concrete tools to honor the cultural values, identify triggers, and heal past wounds. This allows us to nurture healthier family dynamics and relationships.
 

Ed Center was a kid with big feelings and challenging behaviors. He drove his parents and teachers bonkers. Now he helps grown-ups understand and support these kids. Ed founded The Village Well, an organization that helps parents and educators find more calm, joy, and connection. Ed is Triple P™ certified parenting coach and educator who specializes in working with families of color. His goal is to help people to tap into cultural wisdom while interrupting intergenerational pain. Ed is a queer brown dad who has worked in education for 30 years. He and his husband built their family through foster adoption. The child of a Filipino American mom and White American dad, Ed grew up in Hawai’i, and feels at home there, in the Philippines, in San Francisco, and wherever he smells good barbecue.

Register for the webinar: https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_geLNNd0uSL-Au_SjD5S2OQ

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Sponsored by the UCSF AANHPI Coalition.