Joan Armon, Ph.D.
Joan is passionate about coaching parents, step-parents, and caregivers of young children. She’s delighted to offer Holistic Parent Coaching based upon her own parenting and grandparenting experiences. She builds on her love for children, admiration for parents, and knowledge of current parenting research as she offers coaching to a wider circle of parents.
A deep understanding of parents, parenting, and children’s physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and ethical development is grounded in her Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Policy, and Curriculum and Instruction degrees. She has advised diverse families and children as the director of a daycare and preschool and as an elementary classroom teacher.
Additionally, Joan served as a teacher coach and as a university professor for nineteen years focused on children’s listening, speaking, reading, and writing development and instruction. For delicious, outdoor learning, she also taught regenerative agriculture classes that brought college students, elementary school children, and organic farmers together to grow and eat healthy foods in Denver and southern Colorado.
Training in Cognitive Coaching and Nonviolent Communication informs Joan’s insightful coaching. She listens compassionately and celebrates parents’ successes while addressing parenting challenges through artful coaching. Joan collaborates with parents to generate and finetune childrearing strategies according to parents’ values and aspirations. She is honored to coach parents toward their aims for healthy and happy families.
Robert draws upon the work of Christopher Alexander and others to design indoor and outdoor spaces for children according to their interests and needs. He has been an architect for the past 50 years, designing residences and commercial buildings in the Vail Valley, the Denver area, and throughout Colorado and six other states where he is licensed. His Master of Architecture degree focused on sacred geometry in the natural and built worlds, which he continues to integrate into home and commercial design. See his professional building portfolios at: www.armonarchitect.com, www.geometryoflife.com
Joan and Robert have two children and six grandchildren, each with wonderfully distinctive personalities and talents. Over the years, they’ve delighted in cooking, drawing, reading, gardening, fishing, camping, hiking, and spending time together.
Robert Armon, M.Arch.
Robert Armon, M.Arch.
Robert draws upon the work of Christopher Alexander and others to design indoor and outdoor spaces for children according to their interests and needs. He has been an architect for the past 50 years, designing residences and commercial buildings in the Vail Valley, the Denver area, and throughout Colorado and six other states where he is licensed. His Master of Architecture degree focused on sacred geometry in the natural and built worlds, which he continues to integrate into home and commercial design. See his professional building portfolios at: www.armonarchitect.com, www.geometryoflife.com
Joan and Robert have two children and six grandchildren, each with wonderfully distinctive personalities and talents. Over the years, they’ve delighted in cooking, drawing, reading, gardening, fishing, camping, hiking, and spending time together.
Through Holistic Parent Coaching, Joan provides a refuge for parents, step-parents, and caregivers to:
- Express pride about their effective parenting;
- Describe frustrations about their less-than-effective parenting;
- Identify successful parenting experiences to build upon as well as challenges that call for meaningful changes;
- Collaborate to plan and implement immediate and long-term parenting based on family values, beliefs, traditions, and aspirations;
- Apply Science-based and Wisdom Approaches;
- Celebrate change toward family harmony.
Just as a vibrant poppy thrives on sunlight to unfold petals revealing inner beauty, so each child thrives on care and love to develop inner brilliance in physical, emotional, cognitive, and ethical dimensions.
JOAN ARMON, PHD – HOLISTIC PARENT COACHING
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
The complexities, fast pace, and disconnections from family and other communities leave parents, step-parents, and care-givers without the supportive people and places they need. Too often, there’s no one to talk to about childrearing with its joys, challenges, and best ways to parent.
Illustration by Robert Armon
What Can You Expect at a Session?
Illustration by Robert Armon
