Breaking the Legacy

In spite of their best intentions, parents tend to repeat the very injuries they promise themselves they will never pass on. By understanding how emotional injuries are handed down, how to break the cycle and heal the damage, you can interrupt the painful pact of your legacy. The Parenting Process willl guide you through this transformation to create conscious parenting.

Based on the developmental themes of bonding, mirroring, and separation, The Parenting Process will teach you a different way of being with your children. Because the process is both experiential and cognitive, learning takes place from the inside out. Through lively discussions, thought-provoking questionnaires and experiential exercises, the workshop leads you through a discovery of your own childhood tender spots and emotional injuries. It helps you see how and when those injuries get triggered by your children and thus handed down in your families. The workshop then builds on that awareness to teach you real-world ways to work through your issues and develop healthier relationships with your kids.

What Parents will learn

• How to identify your parenting patterns and keep from handing down negative legacies to your children.
  
• How to develop effective parenting skills - including techniques for bonding, mirroring, separating, and limit setting.
  
• How to raise healthy kids in any family structure.
  
• How to reconcile different parenting styles in one family.
  
• How to develop healthy boundaries with your kids, resolve the struggle between intimacy and independence, and socialize your children without breaking their spirit.
  
• How to heal the injuries of your own childhood as you grow in The Parenting Process.

Who should take the parenting workshop

Anyone interested in building a warmer, deeper relationship with their children. Whether you're single, divorced, married, sharing custody, a legal guardian, or living in alternatively structured families, this workshop will help you better understand and improve your family's emotional well being.

Who should take the Professional Training Seminar

Any mental health professional, educator, child development specialist or family therapist interested in learning a new, proven method of applying human development and psychodynamic concepts in real-world parenting situations.

These workshops meet the qualifications for granting CEU hours for MFCCs and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

What professionals will learn

• How to diagnose relationship patterns and family legacies.
  
• How to interrupt the emotional injuries that interfere with bonding, mirroring, and separating.
  
• How to help families establish new relationship patterns using The Parenting Process model.
  
• How to teach this original method of conscious parenting.