Parenting workshops and videos
Holding up a healthy mirror: Becoming a therapeutic parent to alienated children
online course with Karen Woodall
3 x 2 hours: Dec 2021
Alienated children can be helped when one of their parents is able to understand their experience and in response, hold up a healthy mirror. When the holding of this mirror is consistent, the child who has suffered from induced psychological splitting can experience an integrated sense of self which assists in recovery.
Induced psychological splitting in children of divorce and separation: A depth approach to understanding and helping alienated children
Available to view online soon
In this intensive webinar, Karen Woodall will lead you through a depth understanding of what psychological splitting means and what it does to children who are induced to use it as a defence. Unpacking the psychologically split state of mind in children, demonstrates that behaviours which seem irrational on the surface, are actually a normal defensive response to a highly abnormal situation.
Therapeutic parenting for alienated children: what it is, why it matters, how it helps
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Therapeutic parenting is a high nurture, attuned style of parenting which assists children who have suffered early developmental trauma, to build healthy attachments.
Adapting parenting styles when your children are demonstrating signs of alienation, is a crucial strategy to support their resilience and recovery.
Reconnections: recovering older alienated children
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Working on the principle that the rejected parent holds the split off and denied aspect of self that is necessary to give a sense of integration, this seminar is for parents of older children and is focused upon therapeutic parenting skills and understanding. Working with the principles of assisting children with disorganised attachments, this seminar will walk you through the key skills of therapeutic parenting which are adapted for this group of children.
Restoring wholeness with Elyse Killoran, Havening Techniques® practitioner
Available to view online soon
Delivered via The Lighthouse Project, Elyse is looking forward to introducing us to a brain-based therapy that "resets" neural networks and supports the re-integration of the body and the brain. The Lighthouse Project, is designed to bring as much help to families affected by relational trauma in divorce and separation as possible, all at low cost. Some services will be delivered via the gift economy where the recipient decides what they will pay for the service.
Understanding the alienated child: a guide for parents and practitioners
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This session is suitable for parents and practitioners, and offers an introduction to understanding alienated children which will cover the dynamics that cause alienation, the different ways of conceptualising the problem, detailed analysis of the attachment disruption that the problem causes, and an introduction to how to respond effectively to that in parenting or practice with alienated children
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