Breaking Past Patterns
Healing Your Parenting Relationships
Something peculiar happens when we become parents. We hold this new baby in our arms and suddenly we tap into our own experience of being parented. The ghosts and angels from our childhood come into our adult life. We might want to fix the things that we didn’t like, or repeat the things we did. But it can feel so difficult to untangle the past from the present.
This four-session course is designed to help you understand how your own experience of being parented impacts on your current parenting.
You will explore the messages you received as a child, think about why the parent-child relationship is so important, and learn how to parent in the way you want to, making conscious choices driven by your current values and not your past experiences.
You can do this course alone or with your partner/co-parent. You do not need to have had children to do this course, some people find it useful to reflect on what influences their ideas about parenting when planning a family.
By no means is this an exhaustive course on all of the different factors which influence our parenting (there are hundreds of thousands of books written on the topic!) Instead it is a course with bite sized chunks of some of the key ideas which come up in my clinical practice with parents. I hope you will find this is enough to get you thinking, start conversations, make some positive changes and maybe even resolve some old issues.
I suggest that you do not complete more than one session a week to allow time to process the information.
Each session will take a minimum of 1 hour to complete, but the pilot group found that they wanted to take longer to complete each session. Some completed it within 6 weeks, most allowed themselves more time.
The course is presented in bite size topics so you can dip in and out of it around family life.
Worksheets will require more focused attention so best to put aside an evening a week to think about these.
Let me know if you have any questions at all before purchase. If you need an additional discount don’t hesitate to ask.