Parenting on the ARC

ATTACHMENT, RELATIONSHIP, CONNECTION

A holistic, trauma-informed and psycho-educational workshop for first time parents delivered over 3 weekly sessions.

Our workshop explores three main parenting themes over a 2-week period. Each 3-hour workshop is focused on creating a meaningful attachment, relationship, and connection with your baby. Our goal is to empower first-time parents, particularly those who have experienced childhood trauma, and support them to build skills, develop confidence, and raise happy, resilient kids.

Currently, our workshops are best suited to groups of 8-12 participants. Babies and children under 3 are welcome to attend with their parents. Partners of the attending parent are welcome at no extra cost.

Parenting on the ARC: About

Workshop Details for Organisations

AN OVERVIEW OF ARC FOR PRACTITIONERS

WHAT is ARC?

Our workshops are based on the teachings of Dr. Gabor Mate and the trauma-aware research into early parenting by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Our focus is on helping parents build a positive attachment, a good relationship, and a strong connection with their child by providing evidenced-based information and skills in an interactive and reflective, safe environment.

Through our professional experience, we have identified a gap in psychological information for first-time parents who have experienced their own childhood trauma. Many of the parents we have worked with have not had access to psycho-educational knowledge, support, information, and skills around becoming a parent. Our workshops include:

Parenting Styles
Attachment Relationships
Types of Attachment
Nervous System Regulation (self-soothing and self-care)
Brain Anatomy and the impact of the amygdala and pre-frontal cortex on our behaviours
Complex PTSD – the symptoms
Trauma ‘Triggers’ versus ‘Glimmers’
Dissociation and Dysregulation as a parent and how this affects the child/ren
Take home information packs

Our workshops are direct, brief, easily applicable, and easy to understand. Participants are encouraged to participate and interact with the content. All our workshops are delivered in a safe, respectful, trauma-informed environment, with just a hint of humour.

WHO is ARC for?

Our workshops are ideally suited to:

First-time parents
Parents with limited supports
Parents who have a background of trauma (DV, mental health, abuse, disability)
Parents who are overwhelmed with a new baby, parenting
Pregnant women wanting to better prepare for the baby’s arrival
Parents wanting some more strategies, skills, and information around self-care, self-soothing, and positive modelling for themselves
Parents wanting a better relationship, or to repair the relationship with their child/ren

HOW is ARC delivered:

We run 3-hour workshops, over a 2-week period (6 hours of content in total) on a weekday. Our groups will be between 8-12 participants. We include resources and take-home notes for all participants.

Price: $425 per person (babies and children under 2 welcome)

We can provide an additional child-sitting service for bookings of 8 participants or more, with a qualified early childhood teacher at $200 per workshop.

Parenting on the ARC: About