Our team of advisors, coaches and practitioners
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Noël Janis-Norton
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Noël Janis-Norton, founder and director of Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting and Teaching, is a learning and behaviour specialist with over 45 years' experience in Britain and the United States as a head teacher, special needs advisor, consultant, lecturer, parenting coach, speaker and author.
Noël is internationally known for her distinctive Calmer, Easier, Happier methods, which show parents how to improve family life and which guide teachers to bring out the best in their pupils.
Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting and Teaching resources are a refreshing mixture of common sense about children, extensive knowledge of child development and expertise in specific difficulties with learning and behaviour. For many years Noël has been fascinated by how to help children learn to do their best and be their best. Her parenting and teaching programmes were developed through study and research, and also through her own observations of exactly what parents and teachers do and how they do it, and what the results are, both short and long term.
‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting’ was published in the UK by Hodder and Stoughton in 2012 and was an instant bestseller on Amazon UK. It is published in the US by Penguin, and it has been translated into many languages, including French, Russian, Chinese and Italian.
‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Homework’ was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2013. This book teaches parents how to guide children to do their best at school and with homework and to enjoy learning.
‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys’ was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2015 and was also an Amazon UK bestseller. In this book Noël explains simple, effective strategies for addressing the unique challenges of raising motivated, cooperative and confident boys.
‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Screen Time’ was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2016. Noel offers much needed practical solutions that will help wean children and teens off their screen dependency.
Through her books and audiobooks, and through her seminars, courses, consultations and talks for parents and teachers, Noel has helped transform the lives of tens of thousands of families. As Director of the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting Centre and Teaching, she continues to work with families and to train teachers and parenting professionals in her highly effective methods. Her team of skilled, experienced parenting coaches and facilitators have helped many families whose children and teenagers were experiencing problems, ranging from mild to severe.
Noël is a regular speaker at conferences and has been featured on television and radio programmes and in newspaper and magazine articles. She was the 2011 spokesperson for National Family Week, and for several years she was the online parenting advisor for the charity Scope. For five years Noel was the parenting expert for Macaroni Kid (a popular website for parents in the US).
Noël has written two books for teachers, ‘In Step With Your Class’ and ‘Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn’. These books are filled with proven techniques that teachers can use to rapidly improve the learning, behaviour, motivation, confidence and social skills of their pupils. |
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Anne Peymirat
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Anne Peymirat is a certified Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting coach. She was trained at The New Learning Centre by Noel Janis-Norton and Gillian Edwards. She first conducted parenting skills classes in the UK . She then created Parentalité Conseil & Formation in Paris where she teaches the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting skills to parents.
Anne Peymirat is a mother of 3 children aged 2 to 10. She experienced the benefits of the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting approach with her own children. She was so impressed by the changes in her own family that she decided to train as a parenting coach with Noel and Gillian. She stopped her career as a management consultant with a large consultancy firm to become a parenting coach. |
As a mother of three she has hands-on and practical experience. She is enthusiastic about advising and training parents who face challenges with their children.
My web site is www.calmerparenting.fr / Email anne.peymirat@googlemail.com |
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Suzanne Ferera
I am a registered Occupational Therapist and Family Counsellor. I have worked in a variety of mental health settings over the past 25 years, with adults, children, teenagers and families.
I first came across the “Calmer, Easier, Happier, Parenting” approach when my first child was two years old and started to say “No” to everything. I had the good fortune to attend parenting skills classes at the New Learning Centre in London. What I learned in the course transformed the way my husband and I parented our children.
I became passionate about being able to help other families benefit from the “Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting” method in the same way that my family had benefitted.
I moved with my family to Vancouver, Canada in 2005. I now work as a Family Counsellor for the Vancouver Family Preservation and Reunification Services. This service provides intensive counselling, teaching of parenting skills and support to families who have child protection issues. I also have a private practice, in which I teach parenting skills to families, with or without their children, in their homes or by telephone or email. I have been told by the families that I work with that I have a gift for teaching parenting skills in a way that is inclusive, personal, and supportive.
I am a mother of three children, two of whom are now in their teens. Parents assume that the teen years are inevitably rocky. I am delighted to report that, thanks to these useful skills, I am enjoying my teens!
My web site is www.parentingsuccess.ca / Email suzanne@parentingsuccess.ca
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Jill Janis
I am fortunate that Noël is my sister. I watched as she developed the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting and Teaching programmes and was very impressed by the effectiveness of these methods. I trained in all aspects of her work, earning my certification in 1978.
As a member of Noël’s team in London, I worked my way up from teacher to become Deputy Director, responsible for curriculum development, staff well-being, outreach, administration and all aspects of running the centre. Together, Noël and I wrote a series of guides and course materials for parents and teachers. Much of that material was later incorporated into Noël’s books, published by Barrington Stoke.
In 1991 I founded The Family Learning Center in Arizona, USA, and for the past 20 years I have been using the “Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting and Teaching” methods in the United States and internationally.
I work with parents as a coach and facilitator and with teachers as a trainer and advisor. I tutor students of all ages (from nursery school through graduate school) with a wide range of learning and behaviour issues, including special needs.
The Family Learning Center offers parent consultations (in person or by telephone), family sessions (at the Center or in the client’s home), academic evaluations, tutoring and school observations. I continue to work with Noël, especially in California (Los Angeles and San Francisco).
As part of my commitment to helping young people achieve their potential, I volunteered with Youth at Risk, an international charity for troubled adolescents, and became a course facilitator on staff. I currently volunteer at Therapeutic Riding of Tucson (TROT), which provides equine-assisted therapy for children and adults with a range of disabilities.
I also teach the principles and strategies of organization to parents, students and teachers through my Helping Hands Organizing Service. One popular programme is “Organizing for Children and Teens” (room, schedule, backpack, binders, etc.) It has proven highly successful in motivating students and teaching them important life skills.
Before shifting my focus to education, I attended art college. I continue to use my fine arts training to create artwork embodying the high value I place on order, attention to detail and beautiful presentation. My teaching and my parent coaching reflect these ideals as well.
What Noël is for me: sister, trainer, mentor, employer, colleague - inspiration!
Please contact Jill Janis at calmerparentingaz@gmail.com for all enquiries.
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Rosalie Ajzensztejn
Rosalie became a certified Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting practitioner in 2011. Previously she worked for ten years for Parentline Plus, the largest parenting charity in the UK, as Team Manager of the North and South London 24-hour helpline. She counselled parents and trained and managed a large team.
Rosalie initiated “Walk and Talk” sessions (parenting advice in the open air). Parents find the informality, the exercise of walking and the relaxing effect of being in natural surroundings to be very beneficial.>
Her background is in teaching. In addition, she has written several children’s books as well as reading schemes for educational publishers such as Macmillans, Heinemanns, Nelsons and Oxford University Press. Rosalie has been a scriptwriter for “Sesame Street” and a contributor of stories for “Playschool” and “Listen With Mother.”
As a parent of four grown-up children, and recently a grandmother, she is particularly aware of the enormous pressures on parents today. She embraces the skills and tools of Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting, and especially appreciates the common sense and the friendly approach of Noel Janis Norton’s methodology.
Rosalie’s passion is helping parents to be the best they can be because she knows that this results in confident children who are able to fulfil their potential in all aspects of their lives. Rosalie wishes that as a younger parent she had known more of the skills she has learnt over the years!
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Robyn Spencer
Robyn qualified as a Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting coach and facilitator at the end of 2012. Previously she had worked for fifteen years as Head of Learning Support across the three schools (preschool & KS1, Junior School and Senior School) that form the University College School foundation. She managed a team whose brief was to identify the pupils who were experiencing difficulties with learning, such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, and to provide support, advice and guidance for the teachers, the pupils and their parents in order to overcome those difficulties.
Robyn’s background is in teaching at secondary level and in children’s publishing. In the 1980s she wrote and edited more than thirty books for Usborne Publishing, including a highly successful series of parenting guides, with titles such as Entertaining and Educating Babies and Toddlers, Entertaining and Educating Young Children and Help Your Child Learn to Read. She also produced the Better English and Facts of Life series, the latter of which won the Times Education Supplement award for children’s information book of the year.
Robyn is a qualified life coach and has trained in a technique for promoting creative and critical thinking, known as Philosophy for Children. Last year she also trained in a practice known as mindfulness which helps to cultivate awareness and presence of mind. All of these techniques have helped her to gain a deeper understanding of what effective learning looks like and what motivates people to develop their own capacity to learn.
She has three children, and when her oldest child was ten Robyn and her husband attended a parenting skills course run by Noel and Gillian. All three of her children are now confident, motivated, self-reliant young adults, and she attributes much of their success to the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting skills she learnt on that course. As one of six children herself, she now has eighteen nephews and nieces and twenty-seven great-nephews and nieces, so she has had plenty of opportunities on a personal as well as a professional level to observe the things that parents do that work, as well as the things that cause them trouble.
Alongside her work for Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting, Robyn has set up her own consultancy, Effective Learners London, which is based in Highgate and Crouch End. She offers advice and support to learners of all ages who wish to strengthen their “learning muscles”. She believes that developing the habits, attitudes and skills that best support learning is far more significant than innate intelligence in producing success both in education and in the broader skills of life.
Robyn loves the fact that the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting skills are so practical, so effective and so much fun to learn, and that, if you are willing to fully embrace them, you can see results so quickly!
www.effectivelearnerslondon.com / robyn@effectivelearnerslondon.com |
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Frédérique Marcel
I am a mother of two teenagers and live in Chatou, France.
I have been working as a primary school teacher for 25 years and came across the Calmer, Easier, Happier method thanks to Anne Peymirat, whose son was one of my pupils. I am a very strong supporter of this method which transformed my life, as a parent as well as a teacher.
I am very happy to be able to help both families and teachers in their everyday life, through a very sensible and effective method. |
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Priscilla Bacon
Priscilla is a fully qualified Child Psychotherapist who was trained by Noel to be a certified Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting Practitioner. She is passionate about parenting and currently works with children and families in state and independent schools, as well as in private practice.
Priscilla learned the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting skills when her daughter was two years old: “The knowledge I acquired helped my parenting to stay consistent and calm throughout a very challenging time. My daughter is now fifteen and it is fantastic to still have the parenting techniques up my sleeve, ready to be called on at any time.”
Priscilla is based in West London. She thrives on helping families to have positive relationships, as little stress as possible and just as importantly, a great deal of fun!
Passionate about Parenting - priscilla@priscillabacon.com |
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