TeleClasses based on Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control, Volume 2

by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW

Current classes are taught by Bethany Griffin

Beyond Consequences Volume 2 - Self-Discovery Course: How Knowledge of Yourself Helps You Understand Your Child

Workshop Description: This 7-week Self-discovery course, based on Volume 2 of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control, covers 10 ways we can dive deeper into who we are as parents. Looking closely at these areas of understanding ourselves helps us to really see where we are as parents and what we can realistically change to help bring healing to our children.

Each class is conducted over a teleconference phone line and is 90 minutes long. Each class also incorporates an in-depth power point presentation conducted by your facilitator through an online virtual classroom. Personal homework is given after each class to further your understanding of the concepts covered. In addition, each student has access to a private forum for on-going weekly discussions with fellow students and your Beyond Consequences Certified Instructor Bethany Griffin.

Adoptive, foster, and biological families welcome!

Week 1: Research on Trauma and Understanding Survival
After we introduce ourselves to the group, our class will head right into the material, gaining a clear understanding of the correlation between attachment disorders and trauma. This will help us to see how our children became the people they are and how we got to this point in our parenting journey. Also, what do we know about the brain? How does early trauma affect the developing human brain?

Week 2: What is Love-based Parenting?
Many parents are trying hard to parent their child in a positive way. But when we talk about the "new view", what are we talking about exactly? How is that different from traditional parenting? As a group, we will take a look at several different real life scenarios to see what love-based parenting would look like in those situations.

Week 3: Our Parenting Programs and The Brain
The way we were parented has a huge impact on how we parent our own children today. What were our own families of origin like? Did we receive positive blueprints based on unconditional love, or, like most people, did we receive mixed messages of what love is supposed to be? What is neuroplasticity and why does that give us hope for our children and ourselves?

Week 4: Expectations and Personality Types
So many of the negative feedback loops that we get sucked into as parents are simply based on our various expectations (whether conscious or unconsciou) going unmet. What forms the expectations we have for our children? Are all negative behaviors rooted in trauma or are some of them simply personality differences? How can understanding your personality type help you become a better parent, more able to meet your children's needs?

Week 5: Window of Stress Tolerance and Attachment Styles
We all want to become parents with more available emotional space? What can we do to create a permanent more open WOST for ourselves and for our children? Also, what is the correlation between my child's attachment style and my own?

Week 6: Self-Care
Parenting a child with severe behaviors can be extremely exhausting in almost every way. We need to learn to take better care of ourselves and learn to model to our children what it means to value ourselves. What can we change about our own lifestyle to help reduce our overall stress levels and become more healthy parents?

Week 7: Tying It All Together and Moving Forward
How can all this information help us to build stronger relationships with our children? What can we do from this point on to keep our families moving in a healing direction?

Prerequisite: Knowledge of the principles taught in BCLC Volume 1 (but it is not a prerequisite that you have taken the Level 1 course from the Consciously Parenting Project). If you are reading Volume 2 or are thinking about reading it, then likely you are ready for this class.
Maximum Participants: 8
Price: $85
What you will need: A copy of BCLC Volume 1, access to a phone and a computer, and the willingness to make things different for your family.

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