Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive

Antonella Sansone is a mother, clinical psychologist, researcher, mindfulness teacher/facilitator and author. Her work with expectant and new parents and infants in UK and Italy, empirical studies of African indigenous cultures and inspiring motherhood have led to the writing of this book and the design of a PhD drawing on it. She has been granted the International Excellence Award from Central Queensland University in Australia.

Toward a New Paradigm of Human Development and Health; 1 Wisdom: the path to unleashing human nature and wellbeing; 2 The human work of art; 3 Integrating primal wisdom with modern Western Worldview; 4 Raising children towards wisdom; 5 The art and science of mindfulness; 6 Transformation of human traits and being; 7 Connection and Empathy: Enhancing Pre and Perinatal Healthcare Professionals' Interpersonal Skills; 8 ;Why maternal and paternal mental health and wellbeing matter; 9 Acknowledging the Intersubjective Reality; 10 A mindfulness relationship-based model to support maternal mental health and the mother-baby relationship in pregnancy and beyond birth; 11 Visioning the future; Afterword