The Co-Regulation Course
Supporting Families Through Connection, Nervous System Awareness & Secure Relationships — From Birth to Beyond the Nest.
Help parents and caregivers move beyond behaviour management and into true relational healing. This course gives you the tools, science, and embodied practices to support families from infancy through adolescence — including those navigating neurodivergence and complex needs.
Growing Emotional Intelligence Through Calm & Connection
Growing Emotional Intelligence Through Calm & Connection Learn how to support parents at any stage and their children through the science of psychology and wellbeing with easy to implement practices based on the polyvagal framework. This is a blended learning course with self-study and live online training. This training is suitable for supporting families with children at any age and toddler, teen and supporting neurodivergence modules are being added.
For Professionals Who Support Parents, Children & Families
This course is ideal for:
- Perinatal specialists
- Health professionals
- Doulas
- midwives & birth workers
- Parent supporters
- Early childhood educators
- Therapists & mental health practitioners
- Family support workers
- Neurodivergence-informed practitioners
If your role involves helping families make sense of emotions, behaviour, stress, overwhelm, or disconnection — this training is designed for you.
Why Co-Regulation Matters More Than Ever
Parents today are navigating more stress, less support, and higher expectations than any previous generation. Children — from babies to teenagers — are showing rising levels of anxiety, dysregulation, and emotional overwhelm.
Traditional behaviour-management strategies often fall short because they aim to control behaviour, rather than understand the nervous system underneath it.
Co-regulation offers a different path. It’s the process of helping another nervous system feel safe enough to settle, connect, and learn. It’s relational. It’s physiological. And it’s foundational to healthy development — in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. This course helps you teach parents how to become the safe, steady anchor their children need.
When parents have a calm nervous system themselves, they communicate better, are in touch with their own inner wisdom and have a healthier mind and body.
When You've Finished the Training:
By the end of this course, you will be able to help families:
- Build secure, attuned relationships grounded in nervous system understanding
- Navigate meltdowns, shutdowns, anxiety, or big feelings with compassion
- Respond to behaviour challenges through connection rather than control
- Support neurodivergent children with strategies that honour their sensory and emotional needs
- Strengthen resilience, emotional intelligence & self-regulation skills
- Create family environments where both parents and children feel understood, supported & connected
You’ll be able to guide parents from “How do I fix this behaviour?” to “How do I help my child feel safe?”
What You’ll Learn
The Polyvagal Framework
Understand the nervous system states that drive behaviour, emotion, and connection — and learn how to support families in recognising and shifting these states.
Building Resilience
Explore what resilience truly means, how it develops, and how caregivers can nurture it through responsive, attuned relationships.
Emotional Intelligence
Teach parents and children how to understand, express, and integrate emotions with confidence and compassion.
Attachment Theory
Build your ability to support secure parent–child bonds across developmental stages — from newborns to teens.
The Window of Tolerance
Learn how stress, overwhelm, and sensory input affect a child’s capacity to function — and how caregivers can expand their child’s window through regulation practices.
Mindful Moments & Movement
Practical tools for integrating somatic awareness, grounding techniques, and movement-based emotional regulation into family life.
Session Samples, Class Templates & Adaptable Teaching Plans
Instead of a fixed curriculum, you’ll receive flexible templates you can adapt to suit: babies toddlers school-aged children teenagers neurodivergent families group or 1:1 settings These samples help you confidently teach co-regulation in real-life sessions, workshops, or home visits.
Course Format
Part 1
Online Learning (Start Anytime) Self-paced video modules, readings, and guided reflections that build your knowledge and deepen your self-awareness.
Part 2
Two Live Online Training Days Participate in experiential learning, discussions, demonstrations, and embodied practices that bring the content to life.
Part 3
Four Weeks of Guided Self-Reflection Homework Integrate what you’ve learned through reflective journaling, practical exercises, and observation — building your capacity to model co-regulation in your professional work.
Next Live Training Dates
Start your self-paced online training today!
Attend 2 Live online training days to practice your skills
February 2026
Day 1 - Fri 27th
Day 2 - Sat 28th
June 2026
Day 1 - Sat 13th
Day 2 - Sat 20th
Why This Course works....
Co-regulation isn’t just a concept — it’s an experience. This training blends:
- Science + nervous system theory
- Practical tools parents can use immediately
- Warm, compassionate teaching
- Embodied practices that you learn to model yourself
- Adaptable resources for every developmental stage
Ready to Join Us?
If you’re ready to help families move from overwhelm to connection — and to leave behind shame-based, compliance-driven behaviour models — this course offers a new way forward.
Parenting in safety. In presence. In the powerful science of human connection.
You’re invited to join us. Help families rebuild calm, confidence, and closeness — from birth through the years far beyond the nest.
Course Curriculum
Anna Le Grange
Meet Our Founder
The Mindful Breastfeeding School was created in 2016 by Anna Le Grange
Anna has been a paediatric nurse with an interest in infant feeding for 25 years. In 2015 she became a Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), in 2017 a Mindfulness teacher and most recently a Positive Psychologist. Anna brings her passion for psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness into her lactation support work and teaches parents and professionals how they incorporate emotional well-being and relaxation tools into their own lactation practice.
Since 2016 The Mindful Breastfeeding School has trained over 400 Mindful Breastfeeding Practitioners around the world, to use the practices in their own healthcare settings and communities.
Anna regularly enjoys speaking about mindful breastfeeding and emotional wellbeing at events which have included WomanFest, ILactation, Gold Learning and more.
Anna is from the UK but currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband, 3 children and 2 dogs.
When she's not offering lactation support or training And loves nothing more than some beach yoga or a walk with her dogs.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
When are the Live Online Training Days?
When are the Live Online Training Days?
For this course you will attend 2 live training days to practice your co-regulation skills with others. You can attend your day 1 and day 2 days at anytime, they don't have to be completed together in the same month.
February 2026
Day 1 - Fri 27th
Day 2 - Sat 28th
June 2026
Day 1 - Sat 13th
Day 2 - Sat 20th
October 2026
Day 1 - Fri 16th
Day 2 - Sat 17th
How many hours will the training take me?
At the school of Mindful Beginnings we suggest 2 hours a week of self-directed learning as a minimum - So the course will take you 7 weeks plus the 2 live days. See the break down below.
Online video learning (self-directed) - 5 hours
Online live training days - 12 hours
Personal Reflections Assessment (self-directed) - Estimated 8 hours
Total: 25 hours
Can I attend the Live Days if I am in a different time zone to the UK
Yes, we have flexibility with the training times so please contact us at support@mindfulbeginnings.com to let us know where you live and we will gert back to your with possible training times for the live days.
Is the course accredited?
At present this is a certified course, meaning that when you have complete all 3 parts, you will receive a certificate. There is no expiry date to the certificate.
