Workshop Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Understand what to expect during the transition to parenthood
• Describe child development in the first year
• Create strategies to co-parent with your partner
• Learn ways to improve communication
• Demonstrate how to strengthen friendship, intimacy and conflict regulation skills
• Recognize the signs of postpartum mood, anxiety, and adjustment disorders and be aware of support or treatment options
Workshop Goals:
Class outline:
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Understand what to expect during the transition to parenthood
• Describe child development in the first year
• Create strategies to co-parent with your partner
• Learn ways to improve communication
• Demonstrate how to strengthen friendship, intimacy and conflict regulation skills
• Recognize the signs of postpartum mood, anxiety, and adjustment disorders and be aware of support or treatment options
Workshop Goals:
- Learn how to maintain relationship satisfaction after having a baby
- Reduce relationship hostility and increase affection
- Promote positive parent-baby interactions
- Promote quality involvement for both parents
- Reduce the incidence or severity of postpartum mood disorders
Class outline:
- Moving through time together: the transition to parenthood
- Building love maps: knowing each other
- Share fondness and admiration
- Turn towards: build an emotional bank account
- Maintain the positive perspective
- Ritualize the daily stress reducing conversation
- Flooding, self-soothing and taking breaks
- Recognize the four warning signs of relationship meltdown
- Practice the four steps of constructive problem solving
- Honor mothers and fathers
- Recognize the importance of fathers
- Understand the baby blues, postpartum mood disorders, and other mental health issues
- Connect with your children
- Preserve intimacy and romance
- Create shared meaning and values