Saturday seminar: Standing up from the kneeling position

Standing up from the kneeling position: From appeasement and fear to confident communication with your alienated child
With Karen Woodall

Saturday 31 October 2026

This seminar will be delivered on Zoom between 17:00 and 19:00 UK Time.

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Cost £50.00 (including replay access for one month)

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About this seminar 

When your child rejects you, fear can begin to govern the relationship, and you become frightened of saying the wrong thing. You rewrite messages, over-explain, apologise, tolerate behaviour you would once have challenged, and find yourself constantly wondering, 'what if this makes my child reject me even more?' Slowly, without realising it, you can lose the psychological sense of yourself as a parent as well as losing your physical relationship with your child. Coming back from that place can feel impossible because the relationship has been narrowed into a bind in which you are always doing wrong whatever you try to do. 

This practical two-hour seminar is about learning how to stand up again. We will explore how to move from appeasement and fear towards calm, confident parenting: setting boundaries without retaliation, responding to hostility without becoming defensive, communicating without pleading, and remaining emotionally available without chasing your child. 

Standing up does not mean becoming angry, withdrawing your love or giving up. It means learning to be loving without begging, available without chasing, compassionate without accepting abuse, and confident without becoming controlling. This is Lighthouse Keeping in practice: recovering your own psychological position while keeping the relationship open for your child. Because your child cannot recover whilst you are on your knees in the relationship, your child can only receive when you are standing in the light showing them where they belong. 

This is two-hour Saturday Seminar with Karen Woodall is based on the new Lighthouse Keeping Relational Repair Pathway from the Family Separation Clinic. If you want to learn how to help and heal your alienated child, without spending your whole life on your knees hoping that something will change, this seminar is for you.

NB: This seminar is applicable regardless of whether or not you are currently seeing, or in communication with your child.

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About Karen Woodall
This series is delivered by Karen Woodall and is based on her successful work with alienated children over fifteen years. Drawing upon her psychotherapeutic experience as well as her research and direct work with alienated children in recovery, Karen offers you a unique insight into the world that the alienated child inhabits whilst helping you to understand how to build a path for the child to walk upon to return to you. Beyond that, Karen will assist you to understand the alienated child in recovery and their unique needs for longer term therapeutic parenting which helps them to integrate all of the lost parts of self. The wealth of knowledge and experience of direct work with families to help them to integrate and recover from this serious trauma that Karen offers, makes this series an experiential, warm and effective opportunity to create your own positive outcomes for your alienated child(ren). Karen's new parenting handbook, The Journey of the Alienated Children, will be published later in 2026.