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THE PARENTING JOURNEY

From Reacting to Responding.
From Control to Connection.
From Raising a Child to Developing a Human Being.

A 12-week guided parent-development journey for parents who want to understand their child more deeply, strengthen their relationship, and help their child gradually develop confidence, responsibility and independence.

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UNDERSTAND → CONNECT → GUIDE → GROW

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12 Weeks • Live Online • Small Cohort • Guided Practice

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LQ PARENTING JOURNEY

THE PROGRAM FORMAT

  • Duration: 12 weekends (Sunday/Saturday) 

  • Live session: 120 minutes/week

  • Format: Live online

  • Cohort: Small-group learning

  • Group size: Approximately 12–15 parents

  • Practice: Weekly home experiments

  • Support: Structured reflection and learning resources

  • Price: INR 9600/- only

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Father and Daughter

Facilitator: Deepak Singh Bisht

Lead Learning Partner, Life Quotient

PARENTING DOESN'T CHANGE THROUGH INFORMATION ALONE.

You may already know that you should:

Listen more.
Stay calm.
Set boundaries.
Limit screen time.

Spend quality time together.

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But knowing what to do and being able to do it in a difficult moment are two different things.

Because real parenting happens when:

  • Your child refuses to study.

  • The phone becomes a daily battle.

  • Your teenager stops talking.

  • You repeat yourself again and again.

  • A simple conversation becomes an argument.

  • You lose your patience—and later wonder:

  • “How could I have handled that differently?”

The LQ Parenting Journey helps you move from knowing about parenting to practising a different way of parenting.

THIS IS A JOURNEY. NOT ANOTHER PARENTING COURSE.

Over 12 weeks, you will learn to:

 

DISCOVER

Understand your own parenting patterns, triggers and expectations.

 

UNDERSTAND

Look beyond behaviour and understand what may be happening underneath.

 

CONNECT

Build stronger conversations, trust and emotional connection.

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GUIDE

Create boundaries that develop responsibility rather than dependence.

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GROW

Turn everyday parenting situations into opportunities for capability.

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TRANSFORM

Integrate these practices into your everyday family life.

THE LQ PARENTING FRAMEWORK™

From Correction to Connection

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You will explore how behaviour, emotions, communication, boundaries, learning, relationships and independence are connected.

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UNDERSTAND → CONNECT → GUIDE → GROW

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Everything in the Journey comes back to four questions.

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01 — UNDERSTAND

What is happening?

Before correcting behaviour, learn to observe, question and understand.

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02 — CONNECT

How can I protect the relationship?

Create the emotional safety that makes meaningful communication possible.

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03 — GUIDE

What does my child need to learn?

Move from controlling behaviour to developing responsibility.

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04 — GROW

What capability can develop here?

Use everyday experiences to build independence, resilience and life capability.

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Help your child gradually develop confidence, emotional capability, responsibility, resilience and independence.

WHAT HAPPENS OVER 12 WEEKS?

PHASE 1 — DISCOVER

Weeks 1–2

ME AS A PARENT
Understand your parenting story, expectations, triggers and automatic reactions.
You'll explore:

  • Your parenting patterns

  • Your triggers

  • Expectations of your child

  • Your childhood experiences

  • The parent you want to become


Signature practice:
The Parenting Mirror

PHASE 2 — UNDERSTAND

Weeks 3–5

SEE THE CHILD BEHIND THE BEHAVIOUR
Learn to look beyond what your child is doing and explore what may be happening underneath.
You'll explore:

  • Behaviour

  • Emotions

  • Needs

  • Motivation

  • Development

  • Learning

  • Social environment

  • Digital environment


Signature practices:
Behaviour Detective
The Behaviour Iceberg
Reframe Race

The shift:
“My child is being difficult.”
becomes
“What might be making this difficult?”

PHASE 3 — CONNECT

Weeks 6–7
 
BUILD THE RELATIONSHIP BEFORE TRYING TO CHANGE THE BEHAVIOUR
Develop practical skills for listening, conversation and emotional connection.
You'll practise:

  • Listening without immediately giving advice

  • Acknowledging emotions

  • Asking better questions

  • Having difficult conversations

  • Repairing moments of disconnection


Signature practices:
Say This / Not That
The Listening Challenge
The LQ Conversation
ACKNOWLEDGE → EXPLORE → RESPOND

PHASE 4 — GUIDE

Weeks 8–9
FROM CONTROL TO GUIDANCE
Learn how to create boundaries while gradually transferring responsibility to your child.
You'll explore:

  • Expectations

  • Choices

  • Consequences

  • Routines

  • Screen boundaries

  • Homework

  • Responsibilities

  • Conflict


Signature practices:
Control or Guidance?
Boundary Builder

THE LQ BOUNDARY FORMULA
EXPECTATION → REASON → CHOICE → CONSEQUENCE → REFLECTION

PHASE 5 — GROW

Weeks 10–11
WHAT KIND OF HUMAN ARE WE RAISING?
Move beyond today's behaviour and consider the capabilities your child will need for life.
You'll explore:

  • Confidence

  • Responsibility

  • Resilience

  • Communication

  • Decision-making

  • Self-management

  • Independence

  • Emotional capability

 
Signature practices:
The Responsibility Ladder
Future Adult Game
Problem → Capability
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The question changes from:
“What do I want my child to do?”
to:
“Who is my child becoming?”

PHASE 6 — TRANSFORM

WEEK 12
BRING IT ALL TOGETHER
The final week is about integration.
You'll reflect on:

  • What have I discovered about myself?

  • What do I understand differently about my child?

  • What has changed in our conversations?

  • Which parenting patterns have shifted?

  • What responsibility can my child now take?

  • What do I want to continue practising?


You'll create your:
PERSONAL PARENTING DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A practical plan for continuing your journey beyond the program.

THIS IS HOW THE LEARNING WORKS

We don't want you to sit for 12 weeks listening to someone talk about parenting.

 

Every week follows a simple cycle:

 

EXPERIENCE

Start with a real parenting situation.

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REFLECT

Notice your own response.

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UNDERSTAND

Explore what may be happening.

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PRACTISE

Try a different response.

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EXPERIMENT

Take it into your home.

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REFLECT

Notice what happened.

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GROW

Adapt your approach.

 

LEARN → REFLECT → PRACTISE → APPLY → REVIEW → GROW

BRING YOUR REAL PARENTING QUESTIONS

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The Journey isn't built around imaginary parenting problems.

We work with situations that parents actually face.

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“My child doesn't listen.”- Explore communication, connection and responsibility.

 

“My child spends too much time on screens.” -Explore boundaries, autonomy and self-regulation.

 

“My child doesn't want to study.” -Explore motivation, learning and independence.

 

“My teenager doesn't talk to me.” -Explore trust, listening and connection.

 

“My child gets angry very quickly.” -Explore emotions, triggers and communication.

 

“I keep losing my patience.”- Explore your own triggers and responses.

 

YOUR REAL LIFE BECOMES PART OF THE LEARNING.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU IF...

You want to:

✓ Understand your child more deeply

✓ Improve your communication

✓ Break recurring conflict patterns

✓ Handle difficult parenting moments differently

✓ Create healthier boundaries

✓ Support your child's independence

✓ Move beyond punishment and control

✓ Become more intentional as a parent

✓ Practise rather than simply consume parenting advice

Most importantly:

You are willing to look at your own parenting with curiosity.

WHO IS THIS PROGRAM NOT FOR?

LQ Parenting is an educational parent-development program.

It is not:

  • Psychological assessment

  • Psychotherapy

  • Psychiatric treatment

  • Medical care

  • Crisis intervention

  • Diagnosis of children

  • Treatment of mental-health or developmental conditions

Where a concern requires specialist support, we encourage parents to seek appropriately qualified professional help.

CHILD SAFETY COMES FIRST.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

BEFORE THE JOURNEY

Parent Intake & Reflection
Understand your current parenting concerns, priorities and goals.

Parent–Child Connection Check
A structured reflection to identify areas worth exploring.

DURING THE JOURNEY

12 Live Facilitated Sessions
Weekly 90-minute interactive sessions.

Participant Workbook
Reflection exercises, activities and practical tools.

Weekly Home Experiments
Small practices designed to be used in real family situations.
Parenting Tools
Including:

  • Parenting Trigger Map

  • Behaviour Detective

  • Behaviour Iceberg

  • LQ Conversation Tool

  • Boundary Builder

  • Responsibility Ladder

  • Problem → Capability Tool

  • LQ Parenting Response Card


Guided Reflection
Structured opportunities to notice what is changing.

AFTER THE JOURNEY

Personal Parenting Development Plan
Your next steps for continuing the work.
30-Day Continuation Practice
A simple structure for carrying the learning forward.

Completion Recognition
A certificate/recognition of completion where offered by the cohort.

LQ Parenting Community Membership 
Lifetime membership for shared learning, updates and research. 
 
YOUR LQ PARENTING RESPONSE CARD
One tool you'll return to again and again.
WHEN MY CHILD TRIGGERS ME...
PAUSE- What am I feeling?
UNDERSTAND- What's happening underneath?
CONNECT-How can I help my child feel heard?
GUIDE - What does my child need to learn?
GROW- What capability can develop here?

Built from years of working with children, parents and educators.

Deepak Singh Bisht

Deepak Singh Bisht
Founder & Lead Learning Partner, Life Quotient

Deepak's journey in education began in 2007 and has included working with students, parents, teachers, schools and education organisations across India.

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Educator Learning session
Educator professional development session

  • 15+ years Experience in Learning and Parenting

  • 150+ schools across India Facilitated

  • 60,000+ Students Enabled

  • 5,000+ Parents Empowered

  • 5,000+ Educators Trained

  • Teach for India Fellow

  • Reliance Foundation Award for Teachers

  • CENTA Teacher's Olympiad Winner

​​YOUR CHILD DOESN'T NEED A PERFECT PARENT.

Your child needs a parent who is willing to understand, connect, guide and grow.

Start your parenting journey with Life Quotient.

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Attendees at a parenting workshop masterclass

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is this a parenting course?
Not in the traditional sense. The Journey is a guided parent-development experience combining learning, reflection, discussion, practice and real-life experimentation.

How is this different from the LQ Parenting Workshop?
The workshop is an introduction to the LQ approach. The Journey goes much deeper. The workshop helps you experience the framework. The Journey gives you 12 weeks to practise and integrate it.

Do I need to attend the workshop before joining?
No. The workshop is recommended as an introduction, but it is not a prerequisite unless a particular cohort specifies otherwise.

Will we discuss our own parenting situations?
Yes. Real-life situations are an important part of the learning. However, parents are never required to disclose anything they are uncomfortable sharing.

Is this therapy?
No. LQ Parenting is an educational parent-development program and does not provide psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical care or clinical diagnosis.

What age group is this for?
The framework can be adapted across childhood and adolescence. Specific cohorts may be organised around particular age groups depending on participant needs.

Will my child attend the sessions?
The core Journey is designed for parents. Some future or specialised programs may include parent–child sessions where appropriate.

What if my child has a significant emotional or behavioural concern?
The LQ Parenting Journey can help parents understand everyday parenting challenges, but it is not a substitute for specialist care.
Where appropriate, we will encourage parents to seek support from a suitably qualified professional.

What happens after 12 weeks?
You leave with a personal parenting development plan and a 30-day continuation practice.
Eligible participants may also continue through LQ Parent Circle™ and future advanced learning experiences.

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