Support Groups for Parents

NON-COERCIVE, COLLABORATIVE PARENTING SUPPORT GROUP HELD ON ZOOM 

ABOUT THE SUPPORT GROUP:

This is an eight week support group for parents who are firmly on the path of non-authoritarian, collaborative parenting. It's ok if you are in deep struggle with this path! We just ask that you already have a grip on the basics and have been at this for a period of time. 

This group will offer specific practices and information on the non-coercive, collaborative parenting philosophy, and offer parents a chance to explore their own blocks, confusion, excitement, wins, and stuck places. There will be time to self-reflect through journal writing, sharing, and hearing from others who are engaged deeply with their children on this parenting path. 

We will also introduce a form of support called Peer Counseling, where parents learn to be supports for each other, listen, tune into their feelings, and work on the triggers that cause suffering.

This is a chance to meet other like-minded people, to come out of isolation, and to dive deeper into your inner healing world. 

HOW WE WILL SUPPORT YOU:

This support group will give attention to your stuck places, your deep questions, your problems and feelings, and the isolation that comes with trying to change your mindset as a parent.

We will celebrate your wins, your courage, and the amazing fact that you are willing to grow. Also, and this is HUGE: we are excited to connect you with other parents who are on this healing path and trying to be closer with their children in a new way! This support group is designed to create a community that can encourage each other through time!

THE DETAILS:

• Maximum of 9 parents per group

• weekly on Sundays at 7pm EST

• materials needed include

• Start Date: TBA

• Cost: TBA

ABOUT RYTHEA:

“I have been an all-in non-coercive, conscious parent for 7 years. I have been a trauma therapist for 28 years! My daughter is 12 years old and has been on the journey with me and my partner in developing collaborative, mutually respectful, play-based ways of relating and being close. It has felt scary, unknown, and often lonely to treat my child as an equal, to see her as someone whose opinions, desires, and needs are equal to mine, to empower her voice, her knowing, and her choices. BUT the joy, love, and closeness I have with my daughter is unmistakable. My partner and I have been able to help her work through divorce trauma while staying connected to her family, her creativity, her friends, her feelings(!), and her wonderful essential self. Parenting has only gotten better, more fun, and easier through this collaborative, relationship-focused approach.  And it has been transformative for our family.”