 About
Pam…
Pam Leo is the
author of Connection Parenting - Parenting through Connection
instead of Coercion, through Love instead of Fear.
Connection Parenting focuses on meeting children's
biological and emotional need for connection and teaches
parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, and all those
involved with children how to replace coercion with connection
and bring more understanding, love, and joy to their
relationships with children of all ages.
 The
homeschooling mother of two now grown daughters and grandmother
of soon to be
four grandchildren, Pam has been working with families for over
thirty years as a child care provider, parent
educator, childbirth educator, doula, grief work facilitator
trainer, and parent mentor. An independent scholar in human
development, Pam developed the seven-session Connection
Parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children" in
1989. Pam has been teaching this series in Maine and New England
to traditional parents, non-traditional parents, divorcing and
single parents, teen parents, foster and adoptive parents,
incarcerated parents, parents in recovery from addiction, and
for hospice trainings for nearly twenty years, and now teaches
her series internationally through tele-classes as an instructor
of parent coaches for the Academy for Coaching Parents,
International.
In addition
to teaching classes and public speaking, Pam writes the
Empowered Parents column in Maine's Parent & Family paper.
Her parenting articles have also appeared in the
Empathic
Parenting Journal in Canada, Kindred Magazine
in Australia, and Pathways Magazine. Pam is a founding board
member of the
Alliance
for Transforming the Lives of Children, a
founding board member of BirthRoots Perinatal Resource Center,
and is a member of the Fall Institute faculty at The Center for
Grieving Children in Portland. |
