Iben Sandahl

Iben Sandahl comes from Denmark and is an internationally-renowned public speaker, best-selling author, psychotherapist and educator. She has more than 20 years of experienced insight into child psychology and education, which in a most natural way anchor the Danish way of practicing parenthood. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Salon, El Païs, Reader’s Digest, Greater Good Science, Elle and many more - and her main mission is to help parents raise happy and confident children. She writes for Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/experts/iben-sandahl ) and leads an European Erasmus financed project on how to implement empathy in schools and institutions all over Europe.

A trusting and free people

Denmark ranks high in both happiness and divorces How come a tiny kingdom like Denmark situated in Scandinavia, famous for “The Little Mermaid” and…

Learning to Let Go

As parents, we spend the majority of our time and energy creating unbreakable bonds with our children as well as a stable foundation to…

Unresolved Ultimatums

We have all been there. We are tired, our kids are disobeying or not listening to us, and despite our best efforts, they continue…

The Idea of Praise

“You are the best”, “oh my – what you did was just brilliant”, “you are a genius” and “absolutely fantastic”. Words and sentences like…