Family Separation Clinic
Family Separation Clinic

Therapeutic Parenting Listen and Learning Online Circle

Tue 29 Nov 2022 19:00 - 21:00 GMT

Online, Zoom

Therapeutic Parenting Listen and Learning Online Circle

Tue 29 Nov 2022 19:00 - 21:00 GMT

Online, Zoom

Description

The restoration of health, for rejected parents, begins with an understanding of what has happened internally and how that has become entangled with the child’s own splitting reactions. When parents are able to map this splitting across the family system, their own reactive splitting can integrate and they can begin the work of developing the healthy mirror needed by the child.

Parents who have healed reactive splitting can then learn to apply the skills of therapeutic parenting. This is an approach to parenting children who are suffering from attachment disorder due to being emotionally and psychologically harmed. Alienated children with therapeutic parents are shown, in evaluation, to be able to recover quickly from the underlying harms which have caused their rejecting behaviours.


The topic for this session will be:

Writing to your alienated child

For several generations, around the world, children's relationships in divorce and separation have been reduced to what is called 'letter box contact' a restriction which is based upon limited letter writing from parent to child. This limited connection to a parent can cause you to feel as if you are writing into a black hole as month after month, you search for something to say.

What do you say in the face of such disconnection, when you cannot know what your child is feeling, when you cannot share how you are feeling for fear of causing your child to disconnect further or for longer.

During this Listening Circle we will look at ways of writing to your child which enable the deepest connection between you to be held in mind and conveyed to your child, we will consider language and its power and different ways of presenting meaningful words which will connect with the healthy child who is hidden behind the false self.

Listening and Learning Circles are about sharing what works as well as discussing and finding answers to questions, if you have a letter writing style that works, bring it along to share. Together, the pain of letterbox contact can be reduced and managed and I will show you the evidence of how and why you should keep writing, with words from children, now recovered, whose only life line for a time, was the letters they received from a parent they had rejected.



This is a bi monthly drop in group which can be attended regularly or just as a one-off. The circles will be facilitated by psychotherapist Karen Woodall until the Christmas period of this year. Each session will focus on a particular element of therapeutic parenting for children with attachment difficulties due to divorce and separation and will comprise of 45 minute input and then an hour and 15 minutes of group discussion. Participants can attend to listen and learn and to share and receive knowledge. The basic requirement is simply curiosity about helping alienated children. The cost of each session is £40.00 including sales tax (family members can join for the cost of one place).

Please note:

A link to the event will be emailed to you, separately. This may not be sent until a few hours before the session is due to begin. If you have not received the link, please check your spam folders. If you are still unable to find the email, please contact parenting@familyseparationclinic.co.uk

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