Kim John Payne, M.Ed.
Calming the Family System
The past years have been particularly difficult. For many of our clients, life has been especially unpredictable and has prized open up previously smaller emotional fault lines.
An increasingly common characteristic of families that reach out for help is that their family system is overwhelmed by the very fast pace of life and the often unachievable expectations that many parents now try to meet.
Emotional or “soul fever” is running high.
How can we, as therapists support a client in this very common situation, cool and calm their family’s lives? We need an approach that helps the whole family constellation find calm.
Now is the time to support parents to calm their family system.
We can help parents make sensible changes that feel natural, doable, organic, and enduring. There’s a therapeutic art to bringing parents to the point where they can begin to simplify and balance and still maintain regular family life.
To hear a parent comment, “I feel like I have got my child back,” can often lead to a quiet voice inside a therapist that responds, “And that is why I do this work.”
- In this Touchpoints live session, you’ll learn about
- Supporting your clients who have children in their care with a non-pathologizing model
- How to come alongside a parent and guide their instinct for change
- Leading parents to take small do-able steps
- Helping parents feel more balanced and centered
- The “Quirk Spectrum” and how to help parents guide children away from problematic or disruptive behaviors
- Working with children when their amygdala has been hijacked and we start to see behavioral issues and disorders begin to emerge
Meet your presenter
Kim John Payne, M.Ed.
A consultant and trainer to over 230 U.S. independent and public schools, Kim John Payne, M.Ed., has been a school counselor, adult educator, consultant, researcher, educator, and private family counselor for 27 years. Kim has served as Director of the Collaborative Counseling Program at Antioch University New England and he is the Director of the Simplicity Project. He regularly gives key-note addresses at international conferences for educators, parents, and therapists and runs workshops and trainings around the world. Kim is also the author of the #1 bestselling book Simplicity Parenting©: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kid
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