Parenting Expert Val Mullally MA is an international Keynote Speaker, and  accredited Coach  (Association for Coaching) and Reflective Practice Facilitator. She is author of  ‘Stop the Yelling –  Nine Steps To Calmer, Happier Parenting’,  ‘Behave  – What To Do When Your Child Won’t’,  ‘Parenting Positively: Parenting Skills’ (published by Barnardos & Family Support Agency, 2007) and ‘Baby And Toddler On Board – Mindful Parenting when a Second Baby Joins The Family’.

Val’s latest book, co-authored with Tanja Jensen, is releasing early 2024: ‘Beneath the Behaviour – understanding and parenting your sensory sensitive child’.

Val is also a course presenter – both face-to face and online, offering topics regarding relational skills for organisations and parenting courses.

Her focus is supporting parents and professionals to develop meaningful connection and communication with children, to respond helpfully when  behaviour might be challenging, and to encourage and nurture children’s self-esteem and emotional well-being. Her latest book is the first in a series, and explores the issue of raising a child who experiences sensory sensitivity.

She contributes regularly to radio and to press, and has been on television, speaking about Parenting issues. She is also resident Parenting Expert for My Kidstime.

Val believes that when children thrive, families thrive and when families thrive, societies thrive. One of her ambitions is to research how parents can nurture children’s spirituality.

She is is one of the international team who developed the Imago ‘Connected Parents, Thriving Kids’ Parenting Program.

Val’s background is in Education. She worked for many years in Southern Africa and is an experienced school principal, teacher and trainer in Early Education. Val works with Parents, Parent Coaches, Parent and Toddler Groups, Pre-Schools, Creches and Schools.  She has worked with Barnardos,  Cuidiu, Edgehill College, Focus Ireland, La Leche League, IRD Duhallow, HSE, Dublin City Childcare,  Dublin South County Childcare, Wesley College, Wicklow County Childcare, and County Libraries in Carlow, Kildare, Meath and Wexford.

She now lives in her traditional Irish cottage in County Cork, Ireland, and loves to paint, garden and enjoys country walks with her husband and border collie. Val wishes she’d known what she knows now, when her kids were young, and has three grandchildren who continue to fine-tune her understanding of Mindful Parenting.

Connect with Val on e-mail: val@valmullally.com 

tel:+353 (0)877609355 

on Twitter: @ValMullally and on Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/Koemba

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5 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Val: 

1. Val has always loved writing and won several National Writing awards as a child.

2. As a teen, Val was nicknamed the ‘Bird Girl’. Even the local police brought injured birds to her, that she nursed back to health. Some of the amazing African birds she hand-raised included a swallow, a Jacana and a Lilac Breasted Roller.

3. Val loves gardening and has become a firm advocate for the ‘no dig’ approach.

4. Val’s favourite indulgences are  a good book, Twitter, a candle-lit bubble bath and dark chocolate. (But not all at the same time!)

5. When Val has a break, she loves to build a Wasjig. These ‘backwards’ jigsaws really are a puzzle. Val says the challenge of these, and the fun detail in the pictures, is the perfect get-away-from-it-all activity.