We know that families and kids who are resilient do better when challenges present themselves, but how to build resilience? Today’s guest shares just that.
Kiran Gaind is a Certified Parent, Life and Leadership Coach and a certified teacher who shares with us today the 4-Pillar Method for Raising Resilience. She gives us tangible strategies to become more resilient as a mom, in a partnership, as a parent, and in our families.
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Show Notes and Transcript
Hey, hey friend! Welcome to Episode #23 of The Secrets of Supermom Show!
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Today our guest is Kiran Gaind, and we are talking about how to build resilience. Especially in the world as it is, resilience is critical for us as moms, us as parents, and also for our children to succeed and navigate challenges.
Today we talk about how to build resilience using her Resilient Success System 4-Pillar Method which combines connection, authenticity, responsiveness, and empathy together to build resilience individually and as a family.
Kiran is a Certified Parent, Life, and Leadership Coach, a certified teacher, and an organizational change agent. She was chosen as the first advisor of her Black Student Union at San Francisco’s Burton High School in 1999, before it was mainstream to work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion, and received her Masters in Organization Development in 2020, during the global pandemic. I can’t wait for you to hear from Kiran Gaind.
How to Build Resilience For Stronger Families
- Raising Resilience and why it is important (5:05)
- Why slowing down and being intentional as we re-emerge from the pandemic is critical (10:55)
- A trick to helping your kids be more confident (13:20)
- What resilience looks like during challenges (16:00)
- How to build resilience starting with YOU (17:05)
- The importance of connection, authenticity, responsiveness, and empathy (18:05)
- How to use a family mission statement (18:45)
- The importance of relationships and connection in families including a strategy that actually works to start sharing responsibilities equitably (20:46)
- The real mental load of moms (22:22)
- How to create a connection with your child in only 15-20 minutes (24:20)
- Using a weekly family meeting to create connection and foster an environment to build resilience (28:15)
Interested in finding out more about Kiran Gaind or Raising Resilience? You can find her…
Email: kiran@raisingresilience.com
Website: https://www.raisingresilience.com
IG Handle: @raisingresiliencewithkiran
Facebook: Raising Resilience: Creating Cultures of CARE
Kiran Gaind: Full Bio
Kiran Gaind has been a Certified Parent, Life, and Leadership Coach for 10 years, a certified teacher for over 20 years, and an organizational change agent and re-designer for 18 years. She has been a mom since 2009 (and always knew she wanted to be one since she was a little girl). She taught in, redesigned, and turned around urban, diverse k-12 schools for 12 years. She was chosen as the first advisor of her beloved student’s Black Student Union at San Francisco’s Burton High School in 1999 before it was mainstream to work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion.
She received her Masters in Organization Development in 2020, during a global pandemic.
She was published in the Huffington Post in 2015, Thrive Global in 2020, and is working on her first book and TED Talk.
Kiran teaches her Resilient Success System 4-Pillar Method at the well-respected Jewish Family and Children’s Services in Palo Alto, and gives parent education talks in the Bay Area and beyond to groups at schools, companies, community centers, and on zoom ranging from 10-500+ people, regularly. Speaking about Resilient Success for parents is her favorite thing to do (besides hearing all about her family’s day at the dinner table and taking her two pups for long walks along the Baylands trail).
This year has completely changed the game for busy parents. Kiran is leading a movement to teach parents the mindsets, research base, skills, sustainability, and justice orientation that will help them, their families, organizations, schools, and communities thrive now and throughout the 21st century by raising resilience and creating cultures of CARE. With the world and our communities hurting as they are, CARE is what is needed to heal, connect, transform, and reimagine a new world that works for everyone, by building resilient success systems at home, work, school, and in the community. Parents have the power to make real change in peoples’ lives and it is Kiran’s absolute honor to get to work with parents to support them, their families, organizations, schools, and communities to thrive.
Kiran draws from her own research, and the works of many other experts she has trained with and whose models she integrates, including Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Susan Stiffelman, Dr. Dan Siegel, Patty Wipfler of Hand in Hand Parenting, Positive Parenting, Parenting with Love and Logic, Bruce Feiler, Dr. Laura Markham, Glennon Doyle, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Ibram X. Kendi, Michelle Gale, John Kabat-Zinn, Dr. Madeline Levine, Denise Pope, Challenge Success, Lawrence Cohen, Charles Duhigg, Brenda Schulte, Christine Carter, Dr. Lisa Damour, Tara Mohr, Tara Brach, and many others. Kiran is a curious, lifelong learner who herself is constantly attending lectures, workshops, and conferences to keep abreast of the most current research and trends in psychology, coaching, parenting, diversity, equity, inclusion, education, and organization development fields.
