Wendy McDonnell
Hons. B.Sc., Master Family Communications Coach
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family communication and relationships Expert
Wendy McDonnell Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Family Communication, Mediation
- Career Focus
- Radio Show Host and Producer, Parent Class Facilitator, Life Coach
- Affiliation
- Certified Coaches Alliance, Toastmasters, Hospice Wellington, Community Justice Initiatives, CFRU Guelph's Community and Campus Radio Station
Wendy McDonnell, helps parents create trusting, open relationships with their kids and their partners through her weekly radio show Family Matters, workshops, and coaching. She homeschools with her four spirited children (ages 5-13 years) and her husband. Wendy participates in and assists Family Camps and Leadership Programs to understand, live, and share parenting practices that encourage families to live with compassion, connection and peace. You can also find her spinning tricks with her hula hoop, walking in the woods, and curled up reading a good book alone or with her family.
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What is your objective? (Communication is more than words)
I remember the year I felt eager to try out some new communication skills I was learning. I trusted they would help lessen confusion and help me to get more of what I wanted out of my relationships. When I spoke to one person I knew for many years, I was confused because my new skills seemed to help to end that relationship. I thought I was trying to resolve a conflict. I believed these skills didn’t work or I didn’t do them right. So I tried again around the same time when I spoke to my dying mother. These new skills helped us to deepen our connection and mutual understanding.
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Curiosity Transforms Fear
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein Watch a child examine a bug for the first time. What do you see? Wide eyes looking closely, touching, tasting, and asking “what’s that?” or “what does it do?” Curiosity is an emotion growing ...
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7 Simple Steps on How to Say Sorry and Why You Don't Want to Ignore Mistakes
It’s not easy to admit when you said or did something that didn’t work out the way you hoped. What do you do with your feelings of remorse or disappointment? How do you feel when you make a mistake or when others make mistakes? Your beliefs about mistakes can tell a lot about what you believe ...
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Conflict Exploration
Most people dread arguments, power struggles, and the silent treatment. Exploring and resolving differences are skills as important as the 3Rs and the skills least likely to be talked about. Avoiding pain doesn’t make it go away. Instead , when we explore conflict, we paradoxically experience ...
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Emotional Intelligence and Toddlers
This week, I received a couple of questions about toddlers who hit and bite from parents wondering how to teach their youngsters about emotional intelligence. I also received similar questions about teens which I will cover in next week’s blog. I was drawn to the toddler questions when my ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Wendy McDonnell
"..nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic." Gerald Jampolsky
"The path to enlightenment is not a path at all, it's actually a metaphor for the time it takes for you to allow yourself to be happy with who you already are, where you're already at, and what you already have - no matter what...The "no matter what" part is big." (http://www.tut.com/resources/notes/)
"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?" Jane Nelson
"How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them." Alfie Kohn
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." Ralph Nichols
"We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world." Jill Bolte Taylor
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" Albert Einstein
"Parenting is not about fixing your child, but about waking up to this amazing moment with her. Doing inquiry, validating, listening and empowering, are not tools for change; they are their own joy." Naomi Aldort
"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." Alan Keightley
"No one can say the job of bringing up children is easy. There are no perfect rules that will work or are even correct for all children." unknown
Contacting Wendy McDonnell
Wendy McDonnell, Hons.B.Sc., MFCC
Master Family Communications Coach
email: wendy (at) compassionatesolutions (dot) ca
Articles: http://compassionatesolutions.ca/category/articles/
Family Matters Radio Show: http://compassionatesolutions.ca/category/radio-shows/
Parent Classes: http://compassionatesolutions.ca/events/
How to get started
Visit www.CompassionateSolutions.ca for more information about:
- Family Matters Radio every Sunday morning 8-9 am Easte
- Workshops on the topics of "Setting Authentic Limits" and "the good, the bad, and the awkward...communicating with your family and friends"
- Your complimentary consultation for Life Coaching to see if we're a good fit to work with each other.