How Do We Grow Emotional Awareness?
Together.
About Satori Kid Club
Satori Kid Club is a mindful, holistic educational brand that teaches social and emotional intelligence skills through stories and simple tools practiced together by grown-ups and children.
Rooted in the belief that emotional growth happens through growing awareness together rather than correction, Satori Kid Club focuses on helping children and grown- ups explore the beliefs and feelings beneath big emotions, instead of simply trying to fix behavior.
Through story-based learning, reflective practices, and shared experiences, Satori Kid Club supports grown - ups with the development of emotional awareness, resilience, and deeper connection with their children over time in homes, classrooms, and caregiving spaces.
Our Guiding Principle:
The Parallel Journey™
The Parallel Journey™ is a dual-growth process where both adult and child build stronger relationships through working together to build emotional intelligence and self-awareness skills.
All this means is that we actively participate in practicing the same skills our children are learning. This is how we learn to co-regulate together and build stronger foundations for communication over time.
We believe stronger relationships are built through self-awareness. Self-awareness begins with learning how to process feelings, which is the first step to better communication. Better communication builds stronger relationships.
Our Method:
The Satori Shift™
The Satori Shift™ is a gentle, five‑step process that helps children and grown‑ups learn how to process big feelings together.
Through the steps — Notice, Connect, Listen, Validate, Choose — families move from reactive moments to mindful communication, building emotional safety and self‑awareness along the way.
Rooted in developmental neuroscience and somatic awareness, this process turns everyday challenges into opportunities for growth. It’s the heart of how we practice The Parallel Journey™ — learning emotional regulation side by side, together.
What makes a Satori Kid™?
A Satori Kid is a child who understands and knows their truest nature through learning to understand and embrace their inner world with awareness, curiosity, and care.
Rather than being defined by behavior alone, a Satori Kid™ is encouraged to notice what they are feeling, listen to what those feelings may be communicating, and develop simple skills to respond with growing confidence and self-awareness. Emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and reflection are practiced as learnable skills, not personality traits.
Through repeated practice with supportive grown-ups, a Satori Kid learns that big feelings are not something to fear or fix, but something to understand. Over time, this builds emotional resilience, stronger communication, and a sense of safety within themselves and their relationships.
Becoming a Satori Kid™ is not about being calm all the time or getting emotions “right.” It is about learning, practicing, and growing emotional awareness over time, with guidance, patience, and shared understanding.
What makes a Satori
Grown -Up™?
A Satori Grown‑Up is a caring adult who is learning to meet their own inner world with the same awareness, curiosity, and compassion they hope to nurture in their child.
Rather than striving for perfect responses or constant calm, a Satori Grown‑Up™ practices noticing their feelings, connecting with what those feelings are signaling, and choosing responses that support emotional safety — for themselves and for their child. Emotional intelligence becomes a shared practice, not a prerequisite.
A Satori Grown‑Up understands that big feelings are not misbehavior or personal failure. They are invitations into deeper connection. By slowing down, listening inward, and validating both their own experience and their child’s, they model the heart of The Parallel Journey™ — learning and growing side by side.
Over time, this gentle practice builds self‑awareness, strengthens communication, and fosters a relationship rooted in trust, empathy, and mutual understanding.
Being a Satori Grown‑Up™ is not about getting emotions “right.” It is about showing up with intention, practicing again and again, and choosing connection over control as both grown‑up and child learn to process big feelings together.
What is The Growth Garden™
The little space where Satori Kid Club learning comes to life.
A Growth Garden is a little space where children and grown-ups learn to process BIG feelings. It can be a cozy corner, a place at the kitchen table, or even a spot outside. What makes it a Growth Garden is its purpose: creating a familiar space where both grown-up and child can safely explore feelings, practice helpful skills, and grow emotional awareness.
Unlike a calm-down corner used only after something goes wrong, a Growth Garden is primarily visited during calm moments. This gives both of you time to become familiar with its stories, tools, and practices before you need them during a difficult one.
The Growth Garden is at the heart of learning with Satori Kid Club. Every Little Stories for BIG Feelings™ book, article, printable, and practice is created to support the growth that happens there. Stories help begin important conversations, tools give you something practical to try, and reflection helps you understand what you are discovering about yourself, the child in your life, and your relationship.
The child in your life may be your child, grandchild, student, or a child in your care. Growth Gardens can support many kinds of relationships. What matters is that the relationship grows stronger through practicing together.
The Growth Garden belongs to both of you. Sometimes you may use a tool together, while other times the child or grown-up may use the space separately. This is The Parallel Journey™ in practice. You may experience the same moment differently and need different forms of support, but you continue learning about yourselves while walking alongside one another. By practicing primarily during calm moments, you build familiarity that both of you can return to when BIG feelings arise.
You do not need every story or tool before you begin. Start with one little space and the free Growth Garden Starter Kit. When you sign up, you join the Club and immediately unlock the Member Tool Shed, our growing library of free resources.
- Each Tuesday, you will receive one new tool to add to your Growth Garden.
- Each Friday, I will send you a reflection article to help you understand the purpose behind the practice and use it to grow within your relationship.
Your free sign-up unlocks the full resource library Member Tool Shed.
Want to understand the idea more deeply? Learn why a proactive space matters or learn how to create your Growth Garden.
About the Creator of
Satori Kid Club
Angela Thibault is a Relational Growth Specialist, author, illustrator, and creator of Satori Kid Club, The Parallel Journey™, and The Satori Shift™. She is also the author of Myla Learns Wings Over My Heart, the first book in the Little Stories for BIG Feelings™ story-based learning system.
Guided by The Parallel Journey™, Angela helps children and grown-ups build stronger relationships by learning to process feelings together. Her work blends emotional insight, embodied awareness, and practical tools that transform everyday emotional moments into opportunities for greater self-awareness, better communication, and deeper connection.
As a mother of two grown children, Angela's work is grounded in lived experience and a deep commitment to helping families develop the emotional awareness skills that strengthen relationships across generations.