Parenting Circle: When You Grow, Your Parenting Changes – Showing Up as Your Best Self for Your Children – with Ritika Verma
Parenting Circle @ The OTR Academy Club
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Parenting Circle @ The OTR Academy Club
The purpose of Parenting Circle @ The OTR Academy Club is to empower our community of parents to share and learn new coping skills, develop new resources and tools, reframe challenges and create a safe space to come together in small group settings – to connect with other parents, share parenting challenges, support each other by sharing experiences, resources, and practices, to exercise self-care and wellbeing practices together.
This is a space where a community is forged – together we co-create solutions and celebrate positive change no matter how small. Each participant is responsible for their own learning through active participation and sharing: to explore solutions together and help each other deal with parenting challenges in the digital age – supporting each other to better prepare our children/child to meet an increasingly uncertain New Future.
Our goal is to integrate child-centred conversations, self-awareness and inner work into these circles, while staying true to our mission of fostering genuine family wellbeing beyond mere parenting techniques. This is a space for the community by the community – facilitated by wellbeing practitioners, parenting coaches and professionals – those who are passionate about nurturing healthy, positive parent–child relationships and the development of future-ready children.
You've read the parenting books.
You know exactly what you should do.
And in the moment with your child, it still falls apart.
What if the problem isn't your technique. It's what the moment is showing you about yourself?
Explore with Ritika, from Ritika Seeds, what our children are mirroring back to us: so you can choose how you respond and connect differently with your child.
Across 3 sessions we'll look at how our own fear, expectations, beliefs show up with our children.
Session 1: I know better. I still yelled.
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time: 8:30AM - 9:30AM
Mode: In-person @ Think Psychological Services
Session 2: I need him to make the right choices. But he won't listen.
Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2026
Time: 12PM - 1PM
Mode: Online via Zoom
Session 3: If he doesn't work hard now, he'll get left behind. But I'm the only one who seems worried.
Date: Wednesday, 25 November 2026
Time: 12PM - 1PM
Mode: Online via Zoom
Ritika Verma
Founder of Ritika Seeds | Certified Life Coach and Parenting Coach
Ritika Verma is a certified Life Coach and Parenting Coach, and the founder of Ritika Seeds, a practice rooted in the belief that our children can be some of our greatest mirrors for personal growth.
Ritika spent nearly two decades as a strategist studying human behaviour and working with global brands including Unilever, LEGO, GSK, Coca-Cola, Bose and Lenovo.
Becoming a parent turned that curiosity inward. Through her own experiences of parenting, she began to see how everyday moments with our children - the yelling, worrying, controlling, expectations and guilt - can reveal our own fears, beliefs and patterns.
Today, she brings together her experience in human behaviour, coaching, deep inner work and her own lived experience as a mother of two to help parents understand what their children are bringing up in them - so they can grow themselves and show up with greater awareness, choice and connection for their children.
About the OTR Academy Club
The OTR Academy Club is created as a branded community space of the OTR Academy where wellbeing practitioners, volunteers and the public can continue personal and professional growth with holistic wellbeing as the overarching theme — through ongoing events, peer support circles, and workshops. The structure is flexible, allowing for multiple thematic circles (e.g., for parents, teachers, career, etc), and emphasizes shared learning, applications, and the development of practical wellbeing skills. We want to create an environment where each group has a clear structure and a safe space for both practice and peer learning.
Our circles revolve around four main themes:
DEVELOP: Personal development through understanding ourselves — our strengths and blind spots — in order to continue growing with clarity and purpose.
CONNECT: Mastering the science and art of communicating with compassion so that we thrive in the relationships that matter.
LEAD: Level up leadership skill sets with focus on leading with purpose and connection in the age of AI.
BELONG: Bringing community and collaboration to the forefront by sharing access to a large network of professional mentors, social impact leaders, mental health practitioners and experts.
Our purpose is to inspire individuals in their personal and professional development journeys and foster deeper connections. Through deep sharing and guided reflections, attendees will learn how to thrive through stories, tools and strategies, as we work together and support each other as a community in our move towards a holistic transformation.