A Two-Day Intensive Workshop

 

This two-day workshop is designed for infant mental health and early childhood specialists. Participants learn about Mindful Parenting Groups, an innovative, relationship-focused, development-driven approach to the prevention of psychopathology and child maltreatment in early childhood. These experiential groups bring together infants, toddlers or preschoolers, along with their parents, for the express purpose of promoting childhood attachment security through increasing parental reflective functioning. Qualified by the California Institute of Mental Health as a Community-Defined Evidence model for prevention and early intervention, Mindful Parenting Groups emphasize mindful observation, flexible responsiveness, and reflection as practices that enhance the quality of parent-child relationships. Level 1 Training is a prerequisite for participating in Level 2 Training (which includes participation as a facilitator-in-training in an 18-week Mindful Parenting Demonstration Group and concurrent weekly group supervision).

 

 

Diane Reynolds, MFT is Co-Executive Director of Center for Reflective Parenting and Founder of the Mindful Parenting Group model, created in 2001. Ms. Reynolds has since published and spoken widely on her work with Mindful Parenting Groups, and has received funding from private foundations as well as the Department of Mental Health to support ongoing facilitator training, education, and evaluatory research. She is currently in private practice in Santa Monica, serving families and young children.

Friday and Saturday, 9 AM – 4 PM (8:30 AM – 9 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast)

CE Credits: 12