The Experience

The Kind Parenting Workshop

A 10-Week Experience

📅Three cohorts: September 2026 — Tuesday & Thursday evenings (Rockville, MD) & Sunday afternoons (Virtual) | 10 spots per cohort

$1,500 for the full 10-week workshop · Private sessions from $275 · Launching in September 2026

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The Schedule

Choose your cohort

Each cohort meets once a week for 10 sessions over 11 weeks (with a one-week break in early October). In-person cohorts run 6:00–8:00 PM ET; the Sunday virtual cohort runs 4:00–6:00 PM ET. Choose Tuesday (starting Sept 8), Thursday (starting Sept 10), or Sunday (starting Sept 13).

Cohort 1

Tuesday Evenings

  • Day: Tuesdays
  • Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
  • Start date: September 8, 2026
  • End date: November 17, 2026
  • Sessions: 10 sessions over 11 weeks
  • No session the week of October 4 (break week)
  • Limited to 10 participants
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Cohort 2

Thursday Evenings

  • Day: Thursdays
  • Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
  • Start date: September 10, 2026
  • End date: November 19, 2026
  • Sessions: 10 sessions over 11 weeks
  • No session the week of October 4 (break week)
  • Limited to 10 participants
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Cohort 3

Sundays · Virtual

  • Format: Virtual (online via Zoom)
  • Day: Sundays
  • Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET
  • Start date: September 13, 2026
  • End date: November 22, 2026
  • Sessions: 10 sessions over 11 weeks
  • No session the week of October 4 (break week)
  • Limited to 10 participants
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All three cohorts cover the same 10-week curriculum. Choose whichever format and day work best for your schedule.

The Format

How it works

  • 8–10 sessions, 90 minutes each
  • 30 minutes of teaching + 60 minutes of hands-on activities, role play, and real story sharing
  • Weekday evenings — after-work friendly
  • Held in Rockville, MD — learn, laugh, and leave with real tools
  • Groups divided by age of child (toddlers, school-age, pre-teens/teens)
  • Intentionally limited to 10 participants per cohort — not a lecture, not a therapy group. A tight-knit community of parents who show up, learn together, and hold each other accountable.
  • Tuesday cohort starts Sept 8 (ends Nov 17) · Thursday cohort starts Sept 10 (ends Nov 19) · Sunday virtual cohort starts Sept 13 (ends Nov 22) · 10 sessions over 11 weeks (one-week break in October)

Investment

Pricing

10-Week Workshop

$1,500

Per person · Full 10-week commitment

10 weekly sessions · 20 hours of guided work · Max 10 participants

  • 10 weekly 2-hour group sessions (Tuesdays or Thursdays, 6–8 PM ET)
  • Experiential, practice-based learning — not lectures
  • Small group format (max 10 participants for quality)
  • Session 1: "Man in the Mirror" — a powerful starting point that sets the tone for your journey
  • Tools, frameworks, and real-time practice you'll use with your family immediately
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"As a previous patient of Gunjan, I can attest that working with her is always worth it. Her rigorous education and training combined with experience and a gift for listening make her an invaluable resource for anyone looking to grow. She helped me learn to speak to myself with compassion which helps me every single day as I face new challenges in motherhood, and is a skill I'll pass on to my child. Gunjan is truly amazing at what she does!"

— Angela R.

Not ready for the group workshop? Start with a private session.

Private Session

90 min$395
60 min$275

One-on-one with Gunjan — fully personalized to your family, before, during, or outside of the workshop cohort.

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15-Min Call · $69

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A quick conversation to see if the workshop or private sessions are right for your family.

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The Journey

Session themes

Ten weeks. Ten shifts. Each one a small revolution in how you show up for your kid.

1

Man in the Mirror

Your kids don't listen to your words. They copy your actions. Start with yourself.

Before we can change how our kids behave, we have to look honestly at what we're modeling. This session is about noticing your own patterns — not with shame, but with curiosity.

2

Learn to Be Happy

Self-neglect leads to unhappy parents, unhappy kids, unhappy families. Change that.

You cannot pour from an empty cup — and your kids feel it when you're running on fumes. This session helps you identify what actually refills you, and why prioritizing yourself is one of the most loving things you can do for your family.

3

Learn to Listen

Emotions are always valid. Practice validating your child before you react.

Most parent-child conflicts escalate because the child doesn't feel heard. This session teaches you the one skill — emotional validation — that can de-escalate almost any situation before it becomes a fight.

4

The Power of Repair

Relationships aren't ruined by conflict. They're ruined by the refusal to repair.

Every parent loses their temper. Every parent says something they regret. This session teaches you how to come back — how to repair with your child in a way that actually deepens trust instead of just smoothing it over.

5

Make Time for Fun

They really need you. Not the stressed version. The present one.

Connection doesn't require a vacation or a grand gesture. It requires 15 minutes of undivided, phone-down, fully-present time. This session shows you exactly how to build that — even on the hardest days.

6

Accept Them As They Are

You don't need perfect kids to be a good parent — and they don't need to match the image you imagined. Observe who they actually are.

The pressure to raise 'successful' children can make us lose sight of the child in front of us, and our kids feel it when they don't match the image we had for them — it quietly damages their self-worth. This session helps you separate your identity from your child's performance, see your child clearly, celebrate who they actually are, and release the version you imagined — parenting from a place of security, not anxiety.

7

Teaching Reliability

It's good to burden them sometimes. Good parenting is not just what you do for the kids but more importantly what you teach them to do for themselves.

Building self-reliance starts with letting your child carry small, age-appropriate loads — a chore, a homework routine, a consequence. This session helps you tell the difference between supporting and rescuing, so your child grows confident in their own capacity instead of waiting for you to step in.

8

Self-Regulation

Learn to see disrespect as dysregulation — not defiance.

When a child acts out, the question isn't 'how do I stop this behavior' — it's 'what is this behavior telling me?' This session teaches you to read your child's emotional state, regulate your own, and respond instead of react.

9

Parenting and Faith

Believe in your child's ability to adapt, fail, and grow. Let them.

Overprotection is rooted in fear. This session helps you build genuine trust in your child's resilience — and gives you the tools to step back without abandoning them, so they can develop real confidence.

10

Technology & Connection

Raise leaders, not followers. Help them own their digital world.

Screens aren't going away — but you can change your child's relationship with them. This session gives you a framework for setting boundaries around technology that your child will actually respect, because they understand why.

Every Session

This isn't a lecture. It's a practice.

Each 90-minute session is structured to move you — not just inform you. The first 30 minutes, Gunjan introduces a theme with research-backed insight and real clinical experience. Then the room opens up: you'll role-play real conversations you've been avoiding, share the moments you're not proud of (in a room where no one judges), swap what's actually working with other parents, and leave with one concrete tool to try that same week. No homework. No pressure. Just practice — and, yes, it can actually be fun.

30 min of expert teaching

Evidence-based, clinically informed

60 min hands-on

Role play, real stories, group practice

1 tool per session

Something you can use the next morning

The Manifesto

Workshop rules

You are a good parent just for showing up

No judgment — ever

What's shared in the room stays in the room

We laugh, we cry, and we grow together

"Special thanks to my kids and every client who has taught me something — this workshop exists because of you."

— Gunjan

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Gunjan Gotra, LCPC

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor | Maryland License #LC4794

Verified by Psychology Today

Kind Parenting workshops are educational and experiential in nature and do not constitute individual therapy or clinical treatment. For clinical support, please contact Gunjan directly.

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