Valerie Tih Speaker I Coach I Facilitator I Podcast Host 🎙 ❤️
25 years of experience as a speaker, presenter and a facilitator of spiritual retreats and educational workshops & courses, both in-person & virtual. Based in Toronto, Canada
Passionate about helping parents gain awareness of parenting “blind spots” and to transform tough parenting moments into opportunities for transformation and empowerment. JoyFULL Coaching helps you exchange outdated parenting and teaching paradigms into research-based Positive Discipline frameworks based on the latest brain science, the Enneagram, and best practices.
The JoyFULL Home 2.0 Course:
walks parents around all 9 Enneagram points to grow the healthy capacities of each point in relation to parenting
helps parents discover who is showing up to parent..YOU? Or your habitual nature?
grows an Inner “Essence Parent” to reparent ourselves as we parent our child(ren)
helps parents discover their parenting “blind spots” and what blocks them from deeper Presence and connection with their family
Educational Background:
Riso-Hudson Certified with Honours @ The Enneagram Institute, Stone Ridge, NY.
IEA Accredited since 2022
Certified “Happiness Coach” graduate, a program taught by Dr. Robert Holden, one of the world’s most sought-after experts in the field of positive psychology and wellbeing.
Special interest in choosing love over fear, neuroscience and change, and in theories on cooperation. Studied with many parenting experts, including Dr. Dan Seigel, Jane Nelsen, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, and Alyson Schafer
Psychology and Art Therapy Degrees at the University of Western Ontario. Worked with troubled youth at a drop-in centre and also as a live-in mentor at a group home for abused teens, assisting them in achieving successful independent living.
Graduated with honours from the Bachelor of Education program at OISE at the University of Toronto and is a Golden Key Society member.
Passions:
Valerie loves traveling and learning about the world. She fell in love with teaching while working overseas as a teacher and teacher trainer in Thailand and South Korea for 8 years. She taught at a private elementary school in Toronto and now, as a Parent Coach, assists families wanting more joy and peace in their homes.
Valerie believes deeply in giving back and taking action towards making the world a more loving place. She and her husband Dave Tih co-founded Step Up in 2007 to empower tsunami-affected children living in poverty in Sri Lanka. They opened a school in Habaraduwa village on the southern tip of Sri Lanka in 2014. They raised funds to send a Sri Lankan graduate to medical school in Belarus.
Valerie and her husband have 2 boys and her youngest has Down syndrome. Valerie initiated a New Parent Outreach Program through the Down Syndrome Association of Toronto to provide emotional support to parents who receive a Down syndrome diagnosis either prenatally or postnatally. She enjoys advocating for people with disabilities and has done a series of webinars on disability topics for Partners for Planning. You can see her talk on The Art of Resilience here: https://vimeo.com/267272269
Valerie is passionate about building community, spreading kindness, and choosing joy.