Lu Hanessian is the author of acclaimed book “Let the Baby Drive” (2004), “Joyride” (2010), a veteran journalist, former NBC network anchor (“Real Life”) and Discovery Health Channel host of “Make Room for Baby,” award-winning columnist, parent educator and national speaker. For five years, she hosted The Science Show, syndicated in 110 countries. www.letthebabydrive.com
Lu is the founder of WYSH Wear Your Spirit for Humanity, LLC. www.wearyourspirit.com and Parent2ParentU, a new online parenting series of integrative tele-classes and webinars for the 21st century parents. Visit www.parent2parentu.com for details.
Over the past two decades, her area of interest and study has focused on family systems, attachment, resistance and conflict, and our own capacity for change. As a parent educator, she takes an integrative approach which focuses on relationship and connection. “When we parent and teach prescriptively and reactively,” she says, “we can lose sight of the person behind the behavior, see gifts as liabilities, suppress natural curiosity and intuition, and miss out on the empathy and connection that literally grows our children’s minds, brains and teaches them to thrive in relationship, learning and in life.”
During the past three years, her interest and studies in neuroscience as they relate to connection, engagement and motivation in education and parenting have been integrated into her workshops and writing, as she explores the effect of “inspired, engaged and connected” parenting and teaching from a interpersonal perspective.
To that end, she is currently in the Integrative Program in Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) studying with Dr. Daniel Siegel through his Mindsight Institute, and is excited about the profound and far-reaching applications of IPNB to parenting and education in the 21st century.
Lu is passionate about pioneering multi-media programs, books, and courses that help to inspire, empower and support us to “keep the light on” so we cultivate and live with deeper empathy and authentic connection--to teach and parent it forward for a better world. She is the grateful mother of two boys, 8 and 11.
